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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.I just hope Goodell's email server is secure.....I love football as a sport, but the NFL as a business/league is the most shady and corrupt in American sports imo.
Yes, except that it's not possible to undermine something which doesn't exist...One might say it undermines the integrity of the game.
I just hope Goodell's email server is secure.....
Doesn't make sense for a $11b enterprise to squirrel away ~$120m.
The basic financial model of the NFL is that two parties, the owners and the players, work together to create revenue. That total revenue is split between them. The more revenue there is, the more money they both make. Every few years, they sit down to negotiate about who gets how much, but that's just an argument about pennies on the dollar. The basic structure of the NFL is this partnership between the two. The fans are the people they are both getting the money from; we are their target.
The most basic imbalance in this relationship is that the owners also profit when the value of their franchise increases, thus providing them (in recent years) a greater benefit than the players from NFL success. That's always struck me as the achilles heel in the relationship, as resentment over that is going to eat at the players.
It's complicated for sure.
You can make the argument that the owners deserve more of the revenue pie as they are the ones fronting the cash for operating costs.
I'm not advocating it but it's understandable.
The problem is that there is too much greed to have trust.
Yep...concussions, CTE, hiding revenue, appeal hearings, insane punishments all foster a lack of trust.Yes, and the owners are the ones who bought in to the business; it is the basic capitalist model, and thus largely unassailable lest one risk waking up the Defenders of 'Merica.
On the other hand, the concussion issue may sway this a bit; which party is literally putting their future on the line with every snap of the ball? The owners from having one more swig of champagne in the luxury box, or the players on the field? CTE isn't just a loss of memory and health, it is about literally being tortured every waking minute of life. We still are in denial about its implications.
...which would be a role below when he first startedMaybe the NFL owners should deduct the $120 million from Goodell's salary, then they would be getting "good value".....
Any organization can only poke the bear so many times before there is major backlash by its employees...
I don't think the players resent that the value of franchises increase.The basic financial model of the NFL is that two parties, the owners and the players, work together to create revenue. That total revenue is split between them. The more revenue there is, the more money they both make. Every few years, they sit down to negotiate about who gets how much, but that's just an argument about pennies on the dollar. The basic structure of the NFL is this partnership between the two. The fans are the people they are both getting the money from; we are their target.
The most basic imbalance in this relationship is that the owners also profit when the value of their franchise increases, thus providing them (in recent years) a greater benefit than the players from NFL success. That's always struck me as the achilles heel in the relationship, as resentment over that is going to eat at the players.
I don't think the players resent that the value of franchises increase.
But they are enemies fighting over every crumb not partners working together to grow the pie.
In theory they should be in practice it's not even close.
Because the league is corrupt and keeps screwing the players?How would we know? We are only privy to awareness of at most 10% of the interactions between the parties.
The owners need to fire him. He's the commissioner and therefore responsible for the conduct of his office.Maybe the NFL owners should deduct the $120 million from Goodell's salary, then they would be getting "good value".....
Any organization can only poke the bear so many times before there is major backlash by its employees...
Tagliabue sees Goodell’s laser focus on profit and his combative stance toward players as key parts of the problem. "If they see you making decisions only in economic terms, they start to understand that and question what you’re all about," he said. "There’s a huge intangible value in peace. There’s a huge intangible value in having allies." As for his relationship with his protégé, Tagliabue says, "We haven’t talked much since I left. It’s been his decision. Bountygate didn’t help." In our conversation, Tagliabue seemed disappointed, and a bit sad, about the sorry state of the game he ran for seventeen years.
Maybe the NFL owners should deduct the $120 million from Goodell's salary, then they would be getting "good value".....
Any organization can only poke the bear so many times before there is major backlash by its employees...