upstater1
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What is a respectable rate when most people aren't even getting Cost of Living increases. Yet the players are expecting about a 6.5% increase a year in the salary cap and many 2nd contracts increase in significantly?
Why do the owners have to take care of the players after they retire? What happened to personal responsibility? The owners shell out tons of money to provide all sorts of services to the players already. If the players are too stupid to use them, how is that the owner's fault?
A 3 year, league minimum deal will GROSS 1.185 million. That's more money than most people in the US make in a 15 year stretch. Why can't these people be expected to put money aside for after football? Especially when the average career is only 3.2 years?
If/when the league starts playing games without a CBA, I really hope that the owners force the players to pay for their own health insurance and force contributions to the player pensions and such. A dose of humility for some of the guys could do wonders.
And, in the country, people in the highest brackets are experiencing double digit income and wealth increase while income is stagnant at the lowest reaches.
I seriously doubt we can use a word like "respectable" in these discussions.