So by lockout you mean no NFL in 2011? These pencil pushing rich boy fat *** *******s need to put their wallet aside to salvage the NFL. They are rich as **** anyway. Whats the difference between a couple million dollars for them?
But if you read the rest of the article the league receives less in 2012 and over the years will pay it back. Advantage owners but doesn't provide them with 4 billion outright.Yeah right.....the only thing the rich crave more than the money they have is the money they can make, and they don't care about losing it with a potential lockout.....they'll still be making money if there is NO FOOTBALL....read this:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/02/leagues-lockout-fund-will-dwarf-player-reserves/
From the article:
“After DirecTV committed to paying the NFL $1 billion per year under a contract extension inked in March 2009, Peter King of SI.com explained that the league will receive that money in 2011, even if there's no football. ---- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since then, the NFL has negotiated extensions with FOX, CBS, and NBC through 2013. We're told that in each of those deals -- and in the Monday Night Football contract with ESPN that already went through 2013 -- the league gets to keep all television money in 2011, even if there are no televised games.---- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Based on our rough estimations, this gives the NFL a strike fund for 2011 in the neighborhood of $4 billion. BILLION!!!!!!!
As of September 2008, the players were believed to have a strike fund of $128 million. (Fighting coffers are a little unbalanced, no???)
With no player costs, NFL owners will actually make more money in 2011 by not playing football.” YES....you read that right!!!!
Nice to be filthy rich & hold all the strings, huh????
But if you read the rest of the article the league receives less in 2012 and over the years will pay it back. Advantage owners but doesn't provide them with 4 billion outright.
Plus, future revenues will be down because they will lose alot of fans, particularily in the global area where they are trying to build a fanbase.
The reason the NHL is having trouble recovering is because their douchebag Commisioner decided to sign a TV deal with a network (Versus) nobody watches, or even has on their lineup. And to make matters worse, just this last offseason Comcast (owner of Versus) wanted to jack up the rate of the channel in order to allow DirecTV to air it (think of it as a stinger back in regards to the NFL Network arguments)...well DirecTV said they weren't going to pay the higher cost to air it, thus they stopped carrying it. More NHL viewers lost.I am inclined to think that nothing will be accomplished until after the cap is lifted. Then they have the entire year to resolve the agrrement. I am willing to bet that they come to an agreement prior to a lockout.
Although the NHL smalls in comparison, there is a great lesson to be learned there for the pro sports leagues. The NHL is still swimming upstream from their lockout and I am not sure they will ever completely recover. The NFL owners and league don't want to damage what has become one of the biggest revenue generating enterprises globally.
Just remember one thing, yes they can cut a player and not have a acceleration to the cap hit, but they still have to pay out his guarantee's and other stuff. The local radio guys and Tampa were going over all of it yesterday. It is not like they can just walk away from a player, the positive is they don't have to worry about a cap hit for a guy that is not there.
There won't be a lock out, both sides have way to much to lose! They are already starting to look bad enough in the eyes of the fans and we pay the bills! Think of it you have mega billionaires that want more money and millionaires that want more!
So what's gonna happen when there is an upcapped year and everyone gets paid, but then everyone reaches an agreement and a cap is put back in place? Are they just going to sign one year deals or what?