So, the NFL wants the players to be the new taxpayers, oh, and sorry fans of Buffalo or Jacksonville or whatever market, when we said “future of the game” we didn’t mean you, because the league may very well subsidize a stadium in LA and then move someone there.

Such is life.

not really

NFLPA: OK, show us proof.

Owners: How about you just take our word for it and we will only ask for $1 billion more instead of $2 billion.

NFLPA: Pass.

fin

I would enjoy an explanation. all I seem to get is rhetoric from one side or the other and never seems to include a list of facts.

Such is life.

here’s the gist, keeping in mind that I’m some self important fucktard without all the actual information, taking leaps, some logical, some not.

Owners want to make a whole bunch more money, and have plans to do so, spearheaded by the biggest of the big boys, as the littler teams don’t actually generate much revenue past the TV money, certainly not relative to Dallas, Washington, Pittsburgh, etc.

Players get a percentage of the money the NFL makes (with a big fat chunk taken off the top first). The owners not only want that chunk to get bigger, they actually want what the players make to become a set cost (and they want it set at or about 32% of league revenue from last year). They no longer want to give the players an escalating amount of money when they make more money.

That plan allows the big time owners (jones, snyder, kraft) to make more and more money for themselves, and not have to share with the other owners, or get hassled to do so. And it makes it easier to plan.

But if player salaries are a fixed cost based on now, and the players can’t rebargain for a percentage, then the NFL’s planned growth will not benefit the players, or retired players, or anybody else. Just the NFL.

That’s approximately the gist. If anybody knows more than me, or where I’m wrong, please feel free to say so.

Let’s wait for results of the referendum before getting too excited.

so vast I can’t even start explaining it to you without talking for 10 minutes. A lot. More than a billion dollars, and going forward more than billions of dollars.

I would enjoy an explanation. all I seem to get is rhetoric from one side or the other and never seems to include a list of facts.

Holy shit where is Battlin’ Billy Smith? This is HUGE news.

Tavares, Okposo, Grabner, Streit, Moulson and Nino FTW!

Drink less water during the day and that can happen.

Goldschlager.

Drink less water during the day and that can happen.

It’s hockey. There’s your disclaimer.

Oh and cut season ticket prices by at least 15%.

Why should they? The market dictates price, if they’re forced to lower them due to demand they will…the NFL doesn’t need your specific business of attending a game, someone else will

and make pie fall out of the sky. And when I peepee, I want to peepee gold.

so vast I can’t even start explaining it to you without talking for 10 minutes. A lot. More than a billion dollars, and going forward more than billions of dollars.

doesn’t he also hate it at Oakland? Where’s the Oakland fan? He hated it there, right? And he likes Rob Ryan, right?

Sorry I am late to this one…

No he doesn’t hate it here. When his contract was first voided, everyone rushed to say he was done in Oakland. He was the first to say he is just a free agent and could re-sign in Oakland.

Having said that…he’s not coming back.

Is anybody currently siding with management?

About 2/3 of the commenters on PFT are siding with management.

/PFT comment section is the worst of the worst

or, we don;t like guys whose names end with the same letter it started with

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America?

But purely from a practical standpoint, fans of the Packers and every other franchise from a small or medium-sized market should want the NFL to maintain the status quo, or as close to the status quo as possible.

That’s what the players wanted, the owners are looking for a change

My dad. He watches alot of Fox News though

He should really be watching the Royals, Lisk. Especially since Hosmer is up.