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Once again we are on the verge of another league facing a catastophic event due soley to its own greed.

Robert Kraft claims a new CBA isnt considering a team such as his who is paying its stadium funding thus he shouldnt share equally with a team that based on its location cant generate as much radio and stadium revenue
yet he feels its ok that he get the same tv money because he's apart of the NFL.

Jerry Jones feels that it wont force teams to be competitive and ofcourse the players want 60% instead of the 56% being offered by the owners.

So because of this the NFL which since the institution of the current CBA has become the model Pro League...surpassing the NBA long ago overtaking MLB.

Competitive balance is at its zenith each year "every" team believes it can win the SB and short of a few teams its hard to disargee.

So if some reports are true, the league will never again will enjoy this sucess.

Players will never again see the money they currently make owners will not have the sweethart tv & stadium deals.

In terms of immediate impact with so many teams having to cut players that are more then productive because they are up against the cap, where will these players find work(if teams are in such trouble that they are cutting their own stars how can they afford another teams star?)

Ps
The biggest loser of all may be Terrell Ownes :)
 
Well anything that causes TO to lose does deserve some serious consideration. One thing that does need to be pointed out is that we are still AT LEAST a year away from a lockout. I also am holding out hope that a deal will get done soon (there is an emergency meeting scheduled for Friday) since I think both sides have taken notice of what has happened to other leagues that haven't been able to come up with labor deals.
 
If they dont resolve this, they arent as smart as they think. Like everything that gets too big, they get knocked down, how far is up to them. I was already fed up with alot of things teh NFL does, but this is the icing on the cake. Fans are sick of whinin millionaires. I am anyway.

If they did get lockout or strike, what I would love is that when they came back, at least the 1st game in all NFL cities not a sole showed up for games and noone watched on TV, wouldnt happen, but it should, it would send a message that the game isnt more important than the fans.
 
rickeyrunsover said:
If they dont resolve this, they arent as smart as they think. Like everything that gets too big, they get knocked down, how far is up to them. I was already fed up with alot of things teh NFL does, but this is the icing on the cake. Fans are sick of whinin millionaires. I am anyway.

If they did get lockout or strike, what I would love is that when they came back, at least the 1st game in all NFL cities not a sole showed up for games and noone watched on TV, wouldnt happen, but it should, it would send a message that the game isnt more important than the fans.
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Well said.
 
I can not fathom the owners and the players blowing this whole thing as badly as they appear to have.

They have a cach cow. Only a total idiot could lose money as an owner of an NFL team.

I think the players are the ones getting the raw end of the deal. Owners of big market teams (Redskins, Cowboys etc.) are hiding money from the players and trying to redefine what is and is not football revenue.

Let's see...your league is widely thought of as the best run league on the planet, you are printing money, ratings are pretty good, there is competative balance and you have captured the imagination of the North American sports fan...and your willing to blow it all away because you can't figure out the best way to share a few billion dollars.

Considering you've been doing all the right things for 20 years I guess it is time for the pigs to come to the trough and screw it up for everyone else...

...bunch of idiots.
 
unifiedtheory said:
I can not fathom the owners and the players blowing this whole thing as badly as they appear to have.

They have a cach cow. Only a total idiot could lose money as an owner of an NFL team.

I think the players are the ones getting the raw end of the deal. Owners of big market teams (Redskins, Cowboys etc.) are hiding money from the players and trying to redefine what is and is not football revenue.

Let's see...your league is widely thought of as the best run league on the planet, you are printing money, ratings are pretty good, there is competative balance and you have captured the imagination of the North American sports fan...and your willing to blow it all away because you can't figure out the best way to share a few billion dollars.

Considering you've been doing all the right things for 20 years I guess it is time for the pigs to come to the trough and screw it up for everyone else...

...bunch of idiots.
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Its not even a few billion. They stated in the article they are only arguing over 50 million a year. The owners are billionaires and they are arguing over 50 mil?? Idiots.
 
nfl best run? its the best run if one side controls everything. its not as good as everyone makes it out to be
 
outtawack311 said:
Its not even a few billion. They stated in the article they are only arguing over 50 million a year. The owners are billionaires and they are arguing over 50 mil?? Idiots.
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True. but it is also true with the players. Think about it, the owners already agreed to increase the revenue to players from designated revenues to total gross revenues, that is a huge increase in revenues allocated to the players. Think that 4% is what did you say 50 million, think about what the added allocation amounts to. Stop fighting players come down and the owners go up, meet in the middle at 58% and stop being so farking greedy.
 
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