I hate the idea of an 18 game season [/QUOTEl ]
So you like the 20 game one they have now, with the fans paying for 4 games that don't count?
but I would go along with the players agreeing to it in return for a steady share of revenues without a ceiling. I can even see the players agreeing to a lesser % of net profits as long as that ceiling isn't imposed.
If the GB financials are even close to what the reality of profit and loss then it should have shown that while teams may be "making money" the percentage of revenue to net profit is really too low for the money invested. And GB is one of the better run teams at the top of the league in merchandising etc
The owners and players are partners in the league because the owners need the players consent to impose the restrictions they do to run the league the way they want, e.g...free agency, tags, a salary cap, and the draft.
Partners???? The players be partners with the owners the day they start ponying the millions of dollars of risk capital that most of these owners have done. They day they start paying for the care and maintenance of the facilities they work at. THEN they will be partners. Right now what they have is a shared interest in the welfare of the business that they are both in. Well they SHOULD have a shared interest in the welfare.
What pisses me off is that I was in 2 serious strikes in my lifetime. Work stoppages that I believed in at that time. This whole thing has been about 2 sides fighting about how much obscene amounts of money each side can squeeze from each other. The very fact that there are reports that after making AT LEAST $400,000 the last year, many players need money and feared that $60,000 wouldn't be enough to tide them over IS OBSCENE - MOST AMERICANS don't make in a YEAR, what these players don't think is enough to tide them over for a short term.
Well a pox on BOTH THEIR HOUSES Sorry Townsie, the more I think about it the more I get pissed at the mutual GREED.
I think the owners should realize they have pushed it as far as they should and go to the table because they are completely screwed if the players win in Appeals Court, at that point the owners would have no leverage at all in negotiations and would have to pray for The Supremes to bail them out.
That might be true, T, but right now I'm feel ornery and I'd like the owners to do what the judge ordered. Lift the lockout and impose a set of rules that is more favorable to them than the last offer. Why not. Its not like there is a "union" to negotiate with. Now its supply and demand.....and for MOST of the players THAT would mean LESS money not more.