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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.It's not the owners who want to "kill the game." It's the players who do because they believe that they should be getting 90% of the money and the owners should only be getting 10%. What these players fail to realize is how much debt some of these owners have incurred to pamper their sorry arses.
Every single one of them should watch the movie "MAJOR LEAGUE" and see what life COULD be like. With sub-standard equipment and stuff..
Personally, the players are taking too much as it is.
Also, the idea that you can't go back to the salary cap after it's gone is BS. They sure can. Just the same way they did when it was introduced.
I'll be honest, if the players insist on keeping the money breakdown the same, then the owners should insist that the medical expenses be shared by the players. That, at the end of the year, the total medical expenses paid out gets tallied and then broken down across each team and that money come out of the player's week 17 paycheck.
I would also charge the players for the security and parking.
The Players have gotten ridiculous in their demands and they need to know that without the owners, there are no stadiums for them to play in. There are not multi-year contracts with the TV stations that pour in more than 50% of the revenue for the league.
Now, I am not saying that the owners are blameless here. They aren't as they gave too much to Upshaw the last time around without the players giving up anything. Well, now it's time to pay the piper. Nothing is free. And that's something the players and owners both need to realize.
This is serious stuff.. I cant believe the owners want to kill this game... But that is the road they are taking... I know its early yet , and people can joke all you want.. Im not sure so many people will be so quick to come back to the best game going right now.. Football is more huge now than it was 20 plus years ago when they almost kill the sport... I guess Kraft will be fine with the Patriot place , but he will have empty stadium and that ticket waiting list will be quickly whitlle down.. a lock out is the death nail, no football in 2011 is bad for everyone involved..
Now will it get to it, I hope not , alot of posturing is going on.. Its gloom now, but the 11th hour is not here yet , and hopefullly cooler heads will pervail... But 2011 and no football is bad, and hope it does not get to it...
I have an out of the box, off the wall idea that could explain why a lockout might be the owners intent..
1) The owners know everyone loses in a lockout. They lose. They players lose. The fans lose. But the players lose the most.
2) One of the issues that the owners have is the skyrocketing expenses. Not just the players salaries, but other things as well.
3) The owners, while they don't make money, also don't have to pay out hundred of thousands of dollars in utilities, food, beverages, etc...
I don't think they do. Why would they kill their investment?This is serious stuff.. I cant believe the owners want to kill this game...
Aw, come on, man. Logic and common sense will KILL this thread.Didn't Gene Upshaw pass away a few years ago. Oh, didn't realize this was a story about DeMaurice Smith since Upshaw had the same doomsday talk four years ago. It is all posturing. I give a lockout about 0.0005% chance of happening.
We went through this whole thing four years ago. In February, there were talks of the cap going away and never coming back and a strike. Come March a deal was struck. A deal might not be struck this time before March, but there is little chance that a work stoppage will happen. Wait until this free agency starts and more teams take advantage of no cap floor than no cap ceiling and veteran players get dumped and no big free agent deals emerge.
Aw, come on, man. Logic and common sense will KILL this thread.
Something is seriously out of whack with income/outgo if the owners do feel they must give up a year of income.
The article says that all the broadcast partners pay during a lockout. I hadn't heard that before. If true, makes it even easier to see that the owners are sitting pretty in this situation.