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Well, the owners have risked an awful lot to get out of the deal, so it would seem obvious they find it unfair. What basis are you using to determine it is fair?



The owners created the deal and agreed to it, and both sides were making huge money off of it, that to me establishes it as fair and NOTHING from the owners has demonstrated otherwise. The onus is on the owners to show it isn't because they initiated the lock-out, they haven't done so. your position is simple, whatever the owners say is the way it is, can't argue with that because it is pure bias. My position is based upon the owners actions, yours is based upon their feelings.
 
You are simply wrong. Acting as if you are an expert while being wrong does not change that. You are stating that the Bill of Rights created rights for the government rather than the people.

Uh, no. I'm stating that the constitutional authority for eminent domain originates in the 5th amendment, as the Supreme Court decided in U.S. v. Carmack in 1946, that the 5th amendment "is a tacit recognition of a preexisting power to take private property for public use, rather than a grant of new power." As I clearly stated in a previous post, the presumption of the government's power of eminent domain in the British colonies at that time dates back to the magna carta.

(...and with that citation, I've already provided more tangible supporting evidence for my position than you have in this whole thread.)

Semantics, however, you prove my point here.

Taking away a business from its owner and putting it under control of the state would be consistent with Communist philosophy. We are talking about the principle, not saying that the act would make the government Communist, and further using that distinction to show how ridiculous your point of view is.

In a communist country, the business and its owner would already be under the control of the state. Communists don't take control of property via eminent domain, they do it through permanent revolution, and under communist philosophy, doing so is not "taking" anything by rather "restoring" it to the People.

Your lack of understanding of Communism aside, we've established that the principle of taking a business from its owner and putting it to public use has been a part of American governance since day 1, and recognized in the constitution, so if its "consistent with the Communist philsophy," than so were the framers, comrade.



So they didnt make an argument in the controversial Supreme Court case?

Yes it was, that was actually the basis for the ruling.


That is not correct.

Go read Felo v. New London, and then follow the citation back to HHA v. Midkiff, which the majority opinion used to decide that the courts have no standing to overturn compensated exercise of eminent domain "where the exercise of the eminent domain power is rationally related to a conceivable public purpose," and that the "city's determination is entitled to deference."

The very discussion of taking away the NFL teams from their owners because the fans are unhappy there is a labor dispute indicates that.


You are applying it to this case by using examples that are not comparable.

So you are arguing they could do it while arguing there is no basis. Wow.

That is not part of eminent domain. Eminent domain does not allow the Government to take from one entity and give to another. Yet another flaw in your thinking here.

I really don't get how you can pretend to understand the Supreme Court's recent decision in Kelo v. New London, and then directly contradict it like this.

New London appropriated the land and sold it to a developer. That is taking from one entity to give to another, and the fact that so doing does not fall outside the Court's definition of "public use" is considered the primary precedent set by Kelo v. New London.

Of course you must insult because you do not have an argument. It makes you look like a tool by the way.
Of course thiswhole statement is based upon your ignorance in the statement above.

I'm not the one making errors in everything I say.
Please show me where you looked up that the Bills of Rights gave Rights to the Government and not the people.
Please show me where you looked up the Eminant Domain allows the Government to whimsically transfer ownership of companies.

I'll ignore the lame straw man argument of your tortured misrepresentation of my argument in your rhetorical questions, and just point out that I've repeatedly offered evidence where needed, which is something you have yet to do once. Go back through your posts: all you've done is loudly declaim your superior knowledge in more emphatic and aggressive terms, without once ever offering anything to back these rapid assertions up. Talk about looking like a tool.

Well that is proven wrong because you have not, and your argument is horrendous.

Proven wrong? Please show me ONE place where you've PROVEN or even ARGUED anything, as opposed to just restating your initial claim in a more agressive tone.

You finally got one right. The problem is YOUR definiton of Eminant Domain if it were correct would result in the creation of a Communist State.
You have proven yourself wrong once again by recognizing that Eminant Domain is not a Communist philosophy, however you wish to apply it in a manner that would occur in the emergence of a Communist State in America.
Thank God you know nothing about this.

So you're saying that if the US government did something it's done many, many times throughout US history -- like it did with railroad companies when it saw fit, with utility providers, and with land in Connecticut to sell to a developer of shopping malls -- is something that would only occur in the emergence of a Communist State?

Do really believe this nonsense, or are you just trying to bluff your way through your embarrassment?
 
I think if you take a step back you would realize that the players actions also seemed to lack much urgency to get a deal done.
They asked for financials, were given them, and refused to accept them without even looking at them. They rejected an offer of independently audited financials. Many feel there plan from Day 1 has been to litigate.
Agree or disagree, but both sides are to blame for the ridiculously poor effort to negotiate.
You seem to be basing your entire opinion on who forced who's hand.
Did the owners force the players hand by preparing for a lockout? Did the players force the owners hand by filing suit? Did the owners force the players hand by opting out? Did the players force the owners hand by refusing to accept any deal except one that the owners were so hesitant to sign that they needed an opt out in one year?
Neither of us can pretend to know enough about the behind the scenes workings to know that.
That is my primar objection with your stance. You appear to have decided the facts you couldn't possibly know, determined guilt, and are fitting everything else into it.



Your take on this is pure BS, the owners are to this date still trying to achieve a lock-out, not a deal, and they never offered full financials and you have spent days and days arguing they shouldn't, sop don't pretend they did and you were arguing they shouldn't simply out of principle.

I decided whose side i was on based upon the owners actions, creating deals that paid them for no product, deals that paid them MORE for no product, and negotiating in the worst faith-they screwed off in arbitration and waited until the players had minutes to decide whether to use their only card to bring an offer to the table. The owners wanted and still want to lock the players out, and are actually arguing that the players should be forced to stay in a union that has to deal with them, I guarantee you would never argue that any other union should be forced to stay together against their members will but are only doing so in this instance because it's the owners position.
 
Monopolies are not Communist.
They have an AntiTrust exemption because a competitive sports league really cannot exist without one.
There is not a conspiracy in their exemption, the exemption is there because the law was not intended to be applied to entities such as professional sports leagues.
I don't get why you think they are evil because they are exempt from a law that was written for circumstances that do not include professional sports leagues.
You do know what Communism is right? And that corporations who could become Monopolies wouldnt even exist in a Communist state?

The owners act as one entity that equally shares revenues regardless of the effort individual owners invest in their franchises, that's what makes them a communist model. The anti-trust exemption is no more valid for sports than for any other entity and I have no idea where you come up with the idea that they should be exempt. It's hysterically funny that the free marketeers are the ones who want monopoly and oppose a free market for sports.


You apparently don't know what communism is and haven't been able to make any coherent argument that the NFL owners aren't using a communist model for sharing revenues other than claiming they should be exempt from anti-trust statutes, which doesn't address it and only excuses it.
 
Arguing against the radical pro-player position does not make me pro-owner.
What have I said that was pro-owner?
Pro-owner COMPARED TO 'the owners are greedy filthy pigs' is actually the middle of the road.



Status quo is a "radical pro player position? lmao

Your argument is and has been that whatever the owners do is alright and whatever they claim is reality, it's impossible to argue that because you simply take their side regardless of their behavior, which has been disgraceful and which you conveniently ignore.
 
That is bs.
You rip the owners, but don't blame Kraft by pretending he is on your side and was forced to go along with the crowd. Come on.



So Kraft was banned from negotiations?


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Actually I blamed Kraft for going along with the owners and I absolutely believe he was kept on the sidelines because owners knew he would deal. Prior to this i have never bashed Kraft and have always been grateful to him for keeping the Patriots here. Feel free to produce any evidence you have of me taking shots at him prior to this issue as that would support your claim. You won't because you can't. Apparently you believe that if someone ever criticizes an owner that means they always thought they were sh.t.


Do you really believe Kraft didn't want to be part of negotiations?
 
Still waiting for any of the pro owner crowd to show how a revenue sharing system that splits the moneypie equally between owners regardless of effort or investment in their franchises isn't a communist model.


While you guys are at it you can also tell us how you believe individuals should be forced to stay in a union.



Take your time, I won't be able to respond for awhile anyways and you are going to need it.
 
Human nature doesn't have anything to do with it, the owners want more and the players were fine with things as they are.

The issue was whether or not players were to be considered as greedy as the owners. This is primarily a question about human nature.

That being said, it is perfectly reasonable to look at what's gone on the last few years in order to better classify greediness for these parties. By all accounts the players made off quite well in the last agreement: money to the players jumped big time; net profit to owners has apparently declined. (For validation of this last point, we only have the owners claims since the players have indicated absolutely no interest in any claims of an independent auditor for verification.) Based on this, I would expect that the players would continue happily along with what they're getting and the owners would want to change the deal. Surprise! (Actually, no surprise.) - this is exactly what the situation is.

Therefore, I find it very hard to ascertain greediness on either party's part from this particular circumstance. The players could be very greedy and want no change because they're doing quite well. The owners could be not greedy at all and want a "fairer" deal from their perspective. So, I go back to general human nature and posit that, overall, people are about as greedy as people are. Your results may vary.
 
The owners created the deal and agreed to it, and both sides were making huge money off of it, that to me establishes it as fair and NOTHING from the owners has demonstrated otherwise.

Indeed, I would be shocked if you changed your position on this. You apparently don't even see a different position as reasonable. This is very consistent with how you've shared your opinion on a number of issues.
 
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"is a tacit recognition of a preexisting power to take private property for public use, rather than a grant of new power." As I clearly stated in a previous post, the presumption of the government's power of eminent domain in the British colonies at that time dates back to the magna carta.

Here you completely contadict your previous position that the 5th Amendment established the right of the Government to take personal property and prove my point that the 5th Amendment instead establishes the necessity to justly compensate when this occurs.
You have proven yourself wrong with your own words.
There is no need for me to respond to the rest of your drivel, because it is just a step along the way to the eventuality of you again citing an issue that proves you wrong as proof you are right.
Why would I continue to discuss this with you when your approach is to insult me then admit I am right while pretending that proof makes you right.
 
Still waiting for any of the pro owner crowd to show how a revenue sharing system that splits the moneypie equally between owners regardless of effort or investment in their franchises isn't a communist model.


While you guys are at it you can also tell us how you believe individuals should be forced to stay in a union.



Take your time, I won't be able to respond for awhile anyways and you are going to need it.

The money pie isn't being split equally between owners regardless of effort or investment, genius. Dan Snyder's revenue is nearly twice and operating income is quadruple that of the most teams on the bottom half of the value scale. What the league did in 2006 was redistribute a small portion of the have's revenue to the have nots. What the union did was commit extortion.

Nobody is forcing anybody to stay in a union. The union decertified prior to the expiration of the CBA and according to their beloved SSA of 1993 that allows the league to contend IT IS a sham decertification intended solely to force court involvement and create leverage. Had they waited until the CBA expired they could have decertified all they wanted to...just couldn't file an anti trust lawsuit then until September...and they would have lost any hope of retaining Judge Doty as their binky. Once they decertified the league had no choice but to lock out because otherwise they would be operating in violation of anti trust...

I know you now believe that anti trust only benefits owners and should be eliminated to punish them for making a savvy business deal heading into a potential work stoppage. The thing they didn't do 5 years ago when the union held a gun to their heads and threatened no more cap unless the owners - who were making changes to their own revenue sharing model so that the have nots could keep pace paying for all the bling and baby mama's - gave them the same % of a larger pie. Only the truth is it has benefitted players for many years now because they get 60% of a TV contract that has grown to over $4B because of the collective value of the product. Absent that leverage and the opportunity for parity that the salary cap afforded, only players who would be getting the big bucks would be working for Snyder or Jones. And Kraft wouldn't have even attempted to buy a laughingstock franchise and maintain in in NE.

You should head back home to KFFL if it still exists... Your lone wolf :attention: act is wearing pretty thin here.
 
The owners created the deal and agreed to it, and both sides were making huge money off of it,
They only agreed to it with an opt out provision. How do you know both sides were making 'huge money' and even if so, how does that address the fairness of the split?


that to me establishes it as fair and NOTHING from the owners has demonstrated otherwise.
They opted out of it, and took the associated risks. THAT is proof.

The onus is on the owners to show it isn't because they initiated the lock-out,
No it isnt. They have a right to negotiate how they see fit. The fact that they were the ones unhappy with the status quo puts no 'burden of proof' on them to show you why they are.

they haven't done so. your position is simple, whatever the owners say is the way it is, can't argue with that because it is pure bias.
Quite the contrary. Although you keep restating my opinion from what it is to what you want to argue against, my opinoin is not that the owners are right, it is that they have the right to negotiate however they see fit. Suely you can comprehend that difference cant you?

My position is based upon the owners actions, yours is based upon their feelings.
Quite the opposite. The owners actions clearly indicate they were unhappy with the current deal. How can you even attempt to argue otherwise? You feel they should be content becuase you think they are making money and you have decided it should be enough, with zero facts.
I am stating they are the entities on one side of the table is free to negotiate how they see fit, you are saying you feel they should be happy with what they have and suck it up.
Please explain how their actions indicate they are happy with the deal but just want to screw around.
 
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Status quo is a "radical pro player position? lmao

Your argument is and has been that whatever the owners do is alright and whatever they claim is reality, it's impossible to argue that because you simply take their side regardless of their behavior, which has been disgraceful and which you conveniently ignore.


It is impossible to argue because you are making up what my argument is.
I have not said any of what you are saying.
I am taking the owners side against the ridiculous position that they should kneel down, thank the players for their existence and except whatever the players chose to give them or be stripped of their ownership. I take the side against suggestions that business should make stupid business decisions.
You on the other hand, with absolutely zero facts of how much they are making under the current deal have judged them wrong, greedy and liars. Who is impossible to argue with?
 
Actually I blamed Kraft for going along with the owners and I absolutely believe he was kept on the sidelines because owners knew he would deal. Prior to this i have never bashed Kraft and have always been grateful to him for keeping the Patriots here. Feel free to produce any evidence you have of me taking shots at him prior to this issue as that would support your claim. You won't because you can't. Apparently you believe that if someone ever criticizes an owner that means they always thought they were sh.t.


Do you really believe Kraft didn't want to be part of negotiations?
I dont need to show you trashing Kraft in the past to 'support my claim' because my claim is that when it becomes personal by adding Krafts name to the argument you separate him from what you consider the scumbag, greedy bastards by making up a belief that he dissented with their approach when there is simply no evidence. Kraft was part of the negotiations every step except when he was away on a business trip that he felt was critical.
What evidencde do you have that the other owners black-balled him?
 
Still waiting for any of the pro owner crowd to show how a revenue sharing system that splits the moneypie equally between owners regardless of effort or investment in their franchises isn't a communist model.
I'm not pro-owner, I am pro common sense, but Ill answer.
Do you understand what Communism is? Under a Communist regime, all production, and means of production is controlled and 'owned' by the government. The workers or 'employees of the company' are paid dirt poor wages and work under often inhumane conditions.
The NFL doesnt resemble this in any way.
An Anti-trust exemption, in place because AnitTrust laws were never intended for a situation such as a competitive professional sports league does not make it Communist.
Communist states dont have to deal with leveling a playing field among teams so they can be competitive and give the fans a quality product.


While you guys are at it you can also tell us how you believe individuals should be forced to stay in a union.
Who said that?
If they only decertified as a ploy to be able to file a lawsuit in order to recertify later, then that is inappropriate. But I'm not sure why you think anyone says they must remain a union.
Based on your first question it would seem you wish them not be allowed to collectively bargain, wish the antitrust exemption repealed, the draft abolished, the CBA abandoned and the richest teams to get the best players. I dont know how that makes things better.



Take your time, I won't be able to respond for awhile anyways and you are going to need it.
It took about 1 minute.
 
Your take on this is pure BS, the owners are to this date still trying to achieve a lock-out, not a deal, and they never offered full financials and you have spent days and days arguing they shouldn't, sop don't pretend they did and you were arguing they shouldn't simply out of principle.
The financials they offered were not even looked at, per Rooney, so who knows what was on them, it appears it didnt matter.
They also offered an independent auditor to review, analyze and report on the books, and that was rejected.
I agree they shouldn't because it would set any negotiations back many months, but that doesnt change the fact the did. Do you really think me saying they shouldn't conflicts with the fact they did?

I decided whose side i was on based upon the owners actions, creating deals that paid them for no product, deals that paid them MORE for no product, and negotiating in the worst faith-they screwed off in arbitration and waited until the players had minutes to decide whether to use their only card to bring an offer to the table.
That is wrong. The negotiated lockout insurance into the TV deal, and felt it was in their right. The special master agreed with them, so to say it was bad faith is ignorant. They had substantial reason to need to protect themselves, and substantial reason to believe they were allowed to.
The players could have agreed to an extension of the deadline, so they were not under a 'minutes to decide' situation.
If you defend the lawsuit as the players only card while do you feel the lock out, the owners only card, to be an evil move?


The owners wanted and still want to lock the players out,
Why would they want that? It helps nothing. It is their alternative to continuing the old deal which they are unhappy with. Their choices were
1) Buckle to the unions demands
2) Continue a deal they feel is bad
3) Do neither, which requires a lockout.
I think you misunderstand lock-out. Locking out is what they must do to prevent themselve from being stuck with the deal in place.


and are actually arguing that the players should be forced to stay in a union that has to deal with them,
You misunderstand here too. If the players want to act like a union then they cannot decertify to pretend they are not a union, gain the benefits of not being a union, then reunionize when it suits them. That is common sense, not forcing anyone to do something.

I guarantee you would never argue that any other union should be forced to stay together against their members will but are only doing so in this instance because it's the owners position.
I would absolutely argue that a union that decertifies because they will receive better treatment uncollectively as a ploy to simply gain that advantage then recertify is wrong.
It isnt a matter of whether they want to operate collectively or not, its a matter of it decertification is a sham to get around the issue and benefit them as a group that has every intention to operate collectively once they gain the advantage they have to pretend to disband to get. Whether thats the case or not, we can't know for sure, but you are being very naive in this post.
 
I jump around to respond to the posts of those who disagree, my take is simple, both sides are making huge money and the owners created this situation because they want to make a whole lot more. If people want to stick to those simple facts that's fine with me, however both are indisputable so they move on to what owners can and can't do and what is american and not american and what a good commie dictator i would make even though the system they are actually supporting is a communist model that dictates where players can and cannot make their living, if they are allowed to make it at all.
But those are not simple and indisputable facts.
You do not know
-What the owners make
-What share of after expense revenues go to players and owners
-IF profits are rising or falling
-If expenses are rising or falling
-If the owners financial health improved or declined as a result of the last CBA
-Whether the last CBA actually resulted in the same, better or worse results for each side
and many other things vital to the determination of whether 'both sides are making huge money' not to mention the equity of the split, whether it is moving in one direction or the other, whether the current deal is 'fair' based upon historical splits, whether unanticipated changes have occured, whether the last deal was a concession just to keep peace with the opt out being the key to agreeing to a bad deal, and many other things.
The opinion that you call indisoutable is based on knowing none of the facts. How can you not expect anything you say after that to be flawed?
 
The money pie isn't being split equally between owners regardless of effort or investment, genius. Dan Snyder's revenue is nearly twice and operating income is quadruple that of the most teams on the bottom half of the value scale. What the league did in 2006 was redistribute a small portion of the have's revenue to the have nots. What the union did was commit extortion.

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Really? The TV revenues aren't split equally among the 32 teams?


I never said operating expenses weren't different, and that is your argument here, the TV deals, which are the bulk of the owners take are equally shared, that's communist.

lmao at your "extortion" comment, jonathan kraft apparently extorted the owners because he created that deal.
 
I dont need to show you trashing Kraft in the past to 'support my claim' because my claim is that when it becomes personal by adding Krafts name to the argument you separate him from what you consider the scumbag, greedy bastards by making up a belief that he dissented with their approach when there is simply no evidence. Kraft was part of the negotiations every step except when he was away on a business trip that he felt was critical.
What evidencde do you have that the other owners black-balled him?


Yes you do, however i guess i can now claim that everything you have said about the players applies to Brady, he really screwed the owners as that appearrs to be the standard you are using.



If you believe the Kraft's didn't want to be part of the negotiations then imo you're crazy. Kraft is one of the power brokers in the NFL and he wasn't even around for the negotiations, i seriously doubt it was because he didn't want to be.


Once again i never said the owners "blackballed" him but because you can't make any decent argument in the owners defense i guess you have no choice but to try and twist words and manipulate the argument.
 
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