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Goodbye NFL Season?

I thought it was well known the owners have been doing that for a long time. Did they not ask for the same thing baseball has for protection but got turned down?


XFL anybody? 🙂
 
Wreckage said:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6033492



"Collusion" could lead to some serious legal implications. I imagine the onwers are just going to say #$%^ em and impose a lock out. :thumbsdown:
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Yes, I side with the billionaire owners in a non-competitive cartel that screw municipalities and states out of hundreds of millions of dollars and chews up and spits out players after destroying their bodies.

Fuck the players! Who cares that their talent is the thing that actually brings in the billions of dollars 🙄
 
Yeah, a union full of players is so much worse than a cartel full of owners who collude to make sure that none of them lose money...
 
In a fight between billionaires and millionaires we the poor folk get screwed. I'm not siding with either of them (from what I have read so far they both make some good points). I just want my games!
 
Wreckage said:
In a fight between billionaires and millionaires we the poor folk get screwed. I'm not siding with either of them (from what I have read so far they both make some good points). I just want my games!
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agree totally with you. both sides are at fault and stand to lose a lot of fans if\when they go through with the lock out. look how long baseball suffered over the last strike they had. football is more popular and will suffer badly
 
hclarkjr said:
agree totally with you. both sides are at fault and stand to lose a lot of fans if\when they go through with the lock out. look how long baseball suffered over the last strike they had. football is more popular and will suffer badly
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Well the Redskins have been on a performance strike for almost 20 years and they still have fans
 
hclarkjr said:
agree totally with you. both sides are at fault and stand to lose a lot of fans if\when they go through with the lock out. look how long baseball suffered over the last strike they had. football is more popular and will suffer badly
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Football will be screwed more than any other sport because of a few reasons.

- College Football is just as fun to watch.
- Football seasons are short, so a shortened season would be boring - see the '99 NBA season.
- Short season lead to expensive tickets - people already have a hard time justifying the cost now.
 
Wreckage said:
In a fight between billionaires and millionaires we the poor folk get screwed. I'm not siding with either of them (from what I have read so far they both make some good points). I just want my games!
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Not really. It's a fight between billionaires and players who make 6 figures, but only average 3 year careers. The VAST majority of players don't get those huge, multimillion dollar contracts and signing bonuses.
 
dougp said:
- College Football is just as fun to watch.
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Disagree with that. Strongly. College football is a completely different game. Matches are often horribly lopsided with the best teams having 1 loss at most by the end of the season. Players aren't nearly as fast and make dumb mistakes a lot more often since they're still learning.

On top of that, college football games can take a long time to finish since they stop the clock after every first down as the game is winding down. The last few minutes of game time can take forever.

Finally, and this has been mentioned a zillion times before, the BCS system is completely stupid. Without a proper playoff bracket, college football is at best a diversion on Saturdays while you wait for the big boys to play on Sunday, unless you are a die-hard fan of a particular school. Imagine if the NFL just stuck the Patriots and the Falcons in the Super Bowl based entirely on their regular season records without making them play any other teams to get there. Meanwhile the Jets would be in the Hungry Hungry Hippos Bowl or something.
 
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AstroManLuca said:
Finally, and this has been mentioned a zillion times before, the BCS system is completely stupid. Without a proper playoff bracket, college football is at best a diversion on Saturdays while you wait for the big boys to play on Sunday, unless you are a die-hard fan of a particular school.
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I know tons of people who could give a shit about the NFL... until "their" team makes into the playoffs and they turn into football fanatics.
 
Wreckage said:
In a fight between billionaires and millionaires we the poor folk get screwed. I'm not siding with either of them (from what I have read so far they both make some good points). I just want my games!
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i do think that more should be done to take care of the players since they can't put money away for when they stop playing. i guess thinking about the future is hard eh?

I think a strike would be a bad idea for them.
 
waggy said:
i do think that more should be done to take care of the players since they can't put money away for when they stop playing. i guess thinking about the future is hard eh?

I think a strike would be a bad idea for them.
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the players aren't going on strike.
 
surfsatwerk said:
I know tons of people who could give a shit about the NFL... until "their" team makes into the playoffs and they turn into football fanatics.
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There are still tons more NFL fans than there are college FB fans. It does help that NFL games are always televised in their local markets, whereas that's not always the case for college football. Even the BCS National Championship was on ESPN instead of broadcast TV. It got good ratings but the fact that they're willing to put it on cable proves that there are fewer people interested in college football.
 
Time to bring it back Vince!

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