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Before anyone predicts the demise of the Colts, just remember - they will be opening a new state of the art stadium courtesy of the good people who eat out and pay taxes in the state of Indiana. So they won't exactly be a have not any longer. They would still suffer to some extent though because Irsay doesn't have any other source of income beyond team ownership and they remain a small market team geographically.
What would eventually happen is franchise values would drop dramatically once not part of a collective, especially in the second teir, and owners without deep pockets and exceptional marketing opportunities and the skill to develop them would end up selling to the Paul Allen level billionaires of the world in the union's hope that some of that wealth would then be funneled to players. Basically you would end up with a league teeming with Daniel Snyder clone owners just frantically outbidding each other for talent. And unless the Krafts want to run/underwrite that kind of business, we would be adversely impacted eventually too.
Right now it's borderline which system would favor us, but that is primarily because of the inability to reach concensus on revenue sharing and the definition of revenue. But long term it's not. The Krafts want the predictability and bankability (relative stability of investment) as well as the opportunity to succeed by out performing and out managing the competition rather than being forced to outspend it that the capped and collectively bargained NFL has provided.
What would eventually happen is franchise values would drop dramatically once not part of a collective, especially in the second teir, and owners without deep pockets and exceptional marketing opportunities and the skill to develop them would end up selling to the Paul Allen level billionaires of the world in the union's hope that some of that wealth would then be funneled to players. Basically you would end up with a league teeming with Daniel Snyder clone owners just frantically outbidding each other for talent. And unless the Krafts want to run/underwrite that kind of business, we would be adversely impacted eventually too.
Right now it's borderline which system would favor us, but that is primarily because of the inability to reach concensus on revenue sharing and the definition of revenue. But long term it's not. The Krafts want the predictability and bankability (relative stability of investment) as well as the opportunity to succeed by out performing and out managing the competition rather than being forced to outspend it that the capped and collectively bargained NFL has provided.