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Goodbye NFL Season?

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They should just pass a "continuing resolution" to extend the current agreement 1 year until the next one is worked out.

If there is a strike, it is lose/lose/lose.
 
AstroManLuca said:
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.
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whoa whoa whoa! hold on there, Kemosabe.

not unless your local NFL team managed to sell-out a home game.

:colbert:
 
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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I agree. I also agree with the owners who don't think rookies should be getting millions before they even touch the ball. Cut rookie salaries to the bone and spend the money on a pension/health care package.

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zinfamous said:
whoa whoa whoa! hold on there, Kemosabe.

not unless your local NFL team managed to sell-out a home game.
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:cough: Detroit :cough:

I think media blackouts after taxpayers paid $$$ for a stadium should be illegal.
 
Wreckage said:
I agree. I also agree with the owners who don't think rookies should be getting millions before they even touch the ball. Cut rookie salaries to the bone and spend the money on a pension/health care package.
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You're really dumb enough to believe that it's an either/or proposition?
 
Seriously, the NFL owners see that millions of Americans have lost their high paying jobs and now have lower paying jobs. They feel they will have more of the fans on their side this time around.

As has been proven, what other Americans earn seems to be a determining factor in what you earn, subject to special circumstances.
As middle class wages come down, than upper middle class wages come down, and only the very top actually increase.
 
crack down on player salaries and let the owners fund their own buildings, fair trade all around.
 
lupi said:
crack down on player salaries and let the owners fund their own buildings, fair trade all around.
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NFL players have the lowest average salaries of the four major US sports (football, basketball, baseball, and hockey). Despite their shorter careers. Despite it being the most profitable sport in the country. And despite the fact that they want to extend the season by two games.

I can understand wanting to cut back on rookie salaries (teams waste so much on unproven guys), but I'm not sure where else it would be fair to cut player salaries.
 
preslove said:
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 🙄
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Actually its the work of businessmen that brings in billions of dollars. The football players are (for the most part) only good at one thing, playing football. If it werent for professional leagues set up by businessmen they would have to take real jobs in the off season just to make ends meet. It was businessmen who realized the awesome potential for ridiculous money making in pro sports, not the athletes. And I dont just mean the League either, but lawyers and agents and promoters and misc. corporate types who had already perfected making money elsewhere.

In fact if you really think about it, its kinda fucking stupid that people who play a game could make so much god damn money. The players would never even have dreamed of such things without the vision of the businessmen. Now they act like spoiled cunts, which is what happens when you give someone money they havent actually earned. See Also: Paris Hilton.

And if the current pro sports organizations ever shut down, they wont be started up anew without the direction and guidance of businessmen. The people who played or would have played will go back to their menial jobs and just play on the weekends for local leagues, like they used to do before all this bullshit got started.

If you paid careful attention you will notice I was not congratulating the businessmen. I was blaming them for all the problems, because good or bad, they were always the ones in charge, not the players, or the fans.
 
shortylickens said:
Actually its the work of businessmen that brings in billions of dollars. The football players are (for the most part) only good at one thing, playing football. If it werent for professional leagues set up by businessmen they would have to take real jobs in the off season just to make ends meet. It was businessmen who realized the awesome potential for ridiculous money making in pro sports, not the athletes. And I dont just mean the League either, but lawyers and agents and promoters and misc. corporate types who had already perfected making money elsewhere.

In fact if you really think about it, its kinda fucking stupid that people who play a game could make so much god damn money. The players would never even have dreamed of such things without the vision of the businessmen. Now they act like spoiled cunts, which is what happens when you give someone money they havent actually earned. See Also: Paris Hilton.

And if the current pro sports organizations ever shut down, they wont be started up anew without the direction and guidance of businessmen. The people who played or would have played will go back to their menial jobs and just play on the weekends for local leagues, like they used to do before all this bullshit got started.

If you paid careful attention you will notice I was not congratulating the businessmen. I was blaming them for all the problems, because good or bad, they were always the ones in charge, not the players, or the fans.
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No, without world class talent, there would be no world class football. We would just watch college. Plus, the "businessmen" have formed a monopolistic cartel that has successfully colluded to prevent any owner from losing money.

It's very hard for an american big 3 pro sports team owner to lose money because they have no competition and their leagues fix the rules for them. Contrast this with European leagues that kick out underperforming teams and invite in new teams from lower level leagues. THAT is an actual free market. Ours is a fucked up, rigged system, and only idiots side with the owners.
 
AstroManLuca said:
NFL players have the lowest average salaries of the four major US sports (football, basketball, baseball, and hockey). Despite their shorter careers. Despite it being the most profitable sport in the country. And despite the fact that they want to extend the season by two games.

I can understand wanting to cut back on rookie salaries (teams waste so much on unproven guys), but I'm not sure where else it would be fair to cut player salaries.
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adjust for size of teams and number of games played and then see how their average salary compares.
 
preslove said:
No, without world class talent, there would be no world class football. We would just watch college. Plus, the "businessmen" have formed a monopolistic cartel that has successfully colluded to prevent any owner from losing money.

It's very hard for an american big 3 pro sports team owner to lose money because they have no competition and their leagues fix the rules for them. Contrast this with European leagues that kick out underperforming teams and invite in new teams from lower level leagues. THAT is an actual free market. Ours is a fucked up, rigged system, and only idiots side with the owners.
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Thats very nice and completely ignores what I am saying. The athletes are NOT the ones making this a billion dollar empire. Its the businessmen. If all the pro athletes quit today the business would find a whole new batch of guys and start it all up again within a year.
Everything else you said just reinforces my point.
 
Patranus said:
They should just pass a "continuing resolution" to extend the current agreement 1 year until the next one is worked out.

If there is a strike, it is lose/lose/lose.
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Actually following the Michael Scott conflict resolution example it is lose/lose/win for me. I save that ridiculous amount of money I spend every year to buy the DTV football package. 😉
 
So what happens if they do go on strike ?? Will the networks pick up CFL or some other variation to televise in the NFL's absence ??

LoL @ the XFL's return. Who knows *shrug*
 
AstroManLuca said:
Oh yeah. The Vikings have sold out every home game since 1998. But not everyone is that lucky.
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Denver Broncos have sold out every home game for 41 seasons (with the last non-sellout being in 1969). The longest such streak in the NFL.

They also have the highest local television ratings of any NFL city during that time frame.

I think its funny when people don't know this, and are surprised by it
 
AMDZen said:
Denver Broncos have sold out every home game for 41 seasons (with the last non-sellout being in 1969). The longest such streak in the NFL.

They also have the highest local television ratings of any NFL city during that time frame.

I think its funny when people don't know this, and are surprised by it
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Packers.
 
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