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The NFL draft is "Unamerican"

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http://time.com/money/3838694/nfl-draft-unfair-unamerican-labor-market/

Might be the best article written in the history of man. Good points all around. 10/10 would read again

[h=2]In a society with a free and open labor market, shouldn't employees be able to choose where they work rather than be forced to work for the company that drafted them?[/h]Football fans seem to like the idea of the NFL draft. (This year’s starts on Thursday evening at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre and will continue into the weekend.)
It gives them hope. Each year, the teams with the worst records get to draft young new players with (theoretically) the most talent, meaning that a bad team (theoretically) won’t forever be bad. What’s more, because the draft is supposed to promote parity and good competition, in which any team can pull out a victory on Any Given Sunday, it helps generate sustained fan interest with each coming year—and every game day during the season and playoffs.
Yet many researchers have pointed out that drafts do not achieve competitive balance, especially not in a sport like football that requires so many players on the field. (Losing teams are “rewarded” with only one legitimately great prospect in each draft.) Think about it: If high draft picks are all that is needed to turn a bad team around, how does one explain the Jacksonville Jaguars?
In any event, there is another argument to be made concerning pro sports drafts. There’s a line of thinking that says drafts are simply not fair—to the players, first and foremost—that they violate that the concept of a free labor market, and that they are therefore essentially un-American.
On the eve of the NFL draft two years ago, not one but two well-researched, well-thought-out stories published within days of each other were entitled “Abolish the NFL Draft.” The Reason.com postnoted, “The sports draft is an anomaly of the American labor market.” After all, “In most industries new hires are free to seek employment wherever there’s an opening.” Yet an aspiring employee who wants to play in the NFL is able to negotiate a contract with only the team that has drafted him.
As the far more irreverent “Abolish the NFL Draft” post published atSports on Earth put it, “If the human resources department of your company came up with the idea of a draft, they’d be fired on the spot.” Without the draft—described as an “industry-wide system that prevents potential employers and employees from freely selecting each other”—”pro football will start to look like the real world,” in which firms and potential employees would court each other and all parties would have the freedom to make choices.
As things currently stand, draftees have no such freedom to decide where they want to work. They also face tons of other restrictions, including how old they must be before they’re eligible to be drafted (i.e., be hired for what they do and earn money), and how much money they can earn due to NFL collective bargaining agreements severely limiting the salaries of young players. College football is routinely described as a “free farm system” and an “unpaid farm system” for the NFL, in that young players who aspire to professional football careers have no choice but to work (yes, it’s work) without compensation until they’re deemed old enough to be drafted.
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They can abolish the draft when they abolish affirmative action
 
I love the draft. I would hate the NFL to turn into the NBA and have crews of guys choosing where they are going. No thanks! Long live the draft!! I wouldn't mind a lottery at top 5 or top 10 so teams don't tank hard like the Colts did and we should have.
 
Give me a break. Can't Time study vital issues like 90 million Americans out of the work force or the country's spiraling debt?
 
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Without a draft you would only have a few good teams
 
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LOL! Yeah let them all play where they want and see what happens... im just ****ing mad i spent 5 minutes of my life reading that...
 
Sounds awesome ... Let's **** can the salary cap too. Same reason.

Mr. Ross, buy us a dynasty!
 
alls these guys can choose where they work, don't sign the contract and go to the arena football league
 
They don't have to play in those cities I mean they could retire and not make alot of money because they don't want to work and or live in Cincy or Cleveland.
 
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Typical geek trying to seem cool by showing he has 'knowledge' of sports. Move along, nothing to see here....
 
They're not "forced to work for the company that drafted them" the company is the nfl and it's there choice to choose to work for them, so they go where there employer arranges for them to go, just like any employment structure...

This is obviously for competitive balance and to maximize the entertainment value for the league and fans.. Otherwise you have a situation like the mlb where a player on one team makes nearly as much as another teams entire roster... I love the draft. It's fun, it works, this article and its buzzwords almost seem laughable
 
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