Brady'sButtBoy
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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that there needs to be an auction to help former players (from the 60's and 70's) and that said auction is called a success while raising only $125,00? Where are the present day players on this issue? Busy counting their millions I guess. It's a hideous thought that today's players wouldn't get together and pony up just one half of one percent of their pay for just a year in tribute to the men who helped bring the NFL to prominence via the Super Bowl era.
The cap's above the $100mil mark meaning 53 players are averaging $2mil or better per year - a figure that exceeds the lifetime earnings of many, many of the guys from the 60's and 70's for their entire careers - even if they had a long one.
One half of one percent of the 32 team's players salaries/bonuses for one year would be around $32mil - an amount probably far greater than Kramer's organization has dreams to ever collect. Heck, how about just .25% for one year - that would be more than 100 times the amount raised by this recent auction. Even for the bottom barrel guys making $750K, 1/4 percent would only be $1700! Not much to pay back the dudes who built the foundation for an extremely wealthy group of modern day players.
I'll lose a lot respect for our Patriots players if they don't see this effort and do more than whatever already's being done.
http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9997538
The cap's above the $100mil mark meaning 53 players are averaging $2mil or better per year - a figure that exceeds the lifetime earnings of many, many of the guys from the 60's and 70's for their entire careers - even if they had a long one.
One half of one percent of the 32 team's players salaries/bonuses for one year would be around $32mil - an amount probably far greater than Kramer's organization has dreams to ever collect. Heck, how about just .25% for one year - that would be more than 100 times the amount raised by this recent auction. Even for the bottom barrel guys making $750K, 1/4 percent would only be $1700! Not much to pay back the dudes who built the foundation for an extremely wealthy group of modern day players.
I'll lose a lot respect for our Patriots players if they don't see this effort and do more than whatever already's being done.
http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9997538
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