BennyBledsoe
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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the owners caused this mess by agreeing to the deal they could not stomach
you don't think players can prepare the same way?
gonna be interesting what some of you will have to say about brady when he starts to speak up on behalf of the players.........
Another reason the NFL isn't rushing to a new CBA is the "American Needle" case, expected to be decided in court this year. The case has the possibility (though low) of strengthening the NFL's antitrust position, eliminating decertification as a viable strategy.
I disagree on your opinion of Upshaw. I think he did a good job, and it was the malignment of him by others leading up to 2006 which actually led to the problems.
For years Upshaw understood the long-term picture which led to steady growth and prosperity for both teams and players from 1993-2006. In 2006 players (mostly agents actually I think) got greedy and decided to go for every last penny they could get, and started threatening Upshaw's position, accusing him of not standing up to the owners enough. So Upshaw did the only possible thing for his personal situation and demanded concessions from the owners. Since Tagliabue had already bought his plane ticket to the retirement village, there was no way the owners could stand firm.
And for the last couple of years the strategy worked for the players, the cap went up at a much higher rate. They traded long-term stability and wealth for immediate profit. Now the time has come to clean up the resulting mess. (Remind you of the economy as a whole?)
Yes. Exactly. They are preparing for a year without statium income. That's what BradyFTW said.
Again, agree. And since they found they cannot stomach the deal, they will do the next deal differently. Learning from past mistakes is one of the reasons why they are business savvy enough to afford teams.
Nope. As BradyFTW said, the owners have multiple sources of income and except for a very few NFL players who have endorsements, the players not only have none, they are famous for not managing money properly.
Not just football players, workers in general are not smart. When conditions are intolerable, when workers are just as well off without their job as they are with it, strikes are powerful things and the united stand of workers is immovable.
Football players don't fit this. They have nothing in common with coal miners, 19th century millworkers, etc.
In 1972 I worked in the auto industry, in the Scout plant of International Harvester in Fort Wayne. The workers went on strike. They planned for it by demanding more overtime, building a strike fund. The owners planned for it by letting workers work all the overtime they wanted, stockpiling Scouts.
I was on salary, working in Engineering, and kept my job through the strike.
When the strike came, the strikers had enough money to last a couple months, some more, most less. The company had vehicles to last three months in stock. The workers struck, the company locked out. When stockpiles of Scouts got low, the company negotiated with the now desperate workers. They all got a raise, about what the company offered to begin with (we basically ended up with what Ford-GM-Chrysler-AMC got).
The company lost nothing, in fact had higher earnings due to no salaries. The workers lost two+ months pay. Some were hit hard with medical bills.
No, workers cannot prepare as well as owners.