NFL lockout

[Blaze1up]

Deadline is March 3rd and I don't see a deal getting done anytime soon if this is the current path.

“We signed a [expletive] deal last time and we’re going to stick together and take back our league and [expletive] do something about it,” Richardson said, as reported by Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports.

That has been interpreted as a clear indication that Richardson and some other owners want to break the NFLPA and get players to give greater concessions. The owners are currently holding firm on a request to have an additional $1 billion in expenses be removed from the pool of shared revenue.

Currently, the NFL grosses approximately $9 billion annually. Of that, $1 billion is given to the owners off the top for expenses. After that, the remaining $8 billion is split with 60 percent ($4.8 billion) going to the players and 40 percent (another $3.2 billion for a total of $4.2 billion) going to owners.

Under the owners’ proposal, the first $2 billion would go to them. The owners have tried to sell that idea by saying the money would go toward reinvestment in the game to help grow the overall amount of money that is shared.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-richardsonmanning021311

 

[Blaze1up]

The NFL also collects another $4 billion off the NFL Network which players get no part of.

I'm hearing it's a 90% chance of a lockout. Nothings been agreed on.

 

[walksalone]

Does it make me a bad person that if the lock out happens, I wouldn't really miss the NFL...

 

[mmmtodd]

Does it make me a bad person that if the lock out happens, I wouldn't really miss the NFL...

nope, not at all.

im actually looking forward to the Players Union dissolving then suing the sh#t out of the NFL. gonna make one hell of a case.

a case that could potentially trickle down to the NCAA football level, especially with full focus on NCAA football for a year or two without NFL competition. Seriously, think about it. A union dissolving, then the class action...been watching the news lately? It has the potential to be epic.

and at first, i felt bad for Huskers and others that may not get drafted and sit the lockout without the ability to sign a free agent contract...but in the end, f#*k them. thats life. the last 10 years Ive seen ups and downs, and Im okay.

 

[walksalone]

I should also qualify my previous statement by saying i'm also a Raiders fan.

So essentially I haven't seen football in 8 years anyway.

 

[mmmtodd]

pro football never really took a grasp on me team wise. i was a raiders/packers/bears fan growing up. now im pretty much bears. the reaper of an owner, coupled with me going to my knees when we hired callahan, effectively ended my relationship with them. the end of the ahman green era in green bay ended that one. bears have always been there (got an uncle with an 85 ring, used to like other teams to just not like his), and i love hating the current quarterback. i really dont care much about the nfl at all, other than the redzone channel coupled with my fantasy football team. thats the only thing i will miss.

 

[walksalone]

pro football never really took a grasp on me team wise. i was a raiders/packers/bears fan growing up. now im pretty much bears. the reaper of an owner, coupled with me going to my knees when we hired callahan, effectively ended my relationship with them. the end of the ahman green era in green bay ended that one. bears have always been there (got an uncle with an 85 ring, used to like other teams to just not like his), and i love hating the current quarterback. i really dont care much about the nfl at all, other than the redzone channel coupled with my fantasy football team. thats the only thing i will miss.

Yeah, those of us Raiders and Husker fans are the only people that Callahan has screwed twice.

 

[mmmtodd]

i explicitly remember cheering when the raiders unloaded him. little did i know...

that was a bad year. i'd probably still be a raiders fan had it worked out differently.

 

[walksalone]

i explicitly remember cheering when the raiders unloaded him. little did i know...

that was a bad year. i'd probably still be a raiders fan had it worked out differently.

The second they said they hired him, I knew we were Texas

 

[mmmtodd]

The NFL also collects another $4 billion off the NFL Network which players get no part of.

I'm hearing it's a 90% chance of a lockout. Nothings been agreed on.

they will recieve the television money, but will have to repay it, with interest, the year after if there are no games. its simply a lifeline.

ive also read in several places that the TV contract money alone that is paid out to each team covers players salaries for every franchise under the salary cap. that means everything else is gravy for the league and owners. are players overpaid? sure. but the NFL isnt hurting. something like a $900 million pot has been set aside for owners/teams to dip into in situations like this. I hate that all these old players are getting sh#t, dying, etc., and there is a token fund, set up by the NFLPA, that supports them, kind of. They are both greedy as heck. But the players, well, they grease the machine in the end. We shall see how big their balls are.

 

[fro daddy]

There are some things that need restructured. The health plans and insurance for "vested" players as well as the wage scale. However, the players are the greedy ones as far as I am concerned. Yes the owners make money, they also invest ALOT of money, to #1 purchase the team, run the orginization and cover all the bills involved and #2 to pay that team. Players come and go. Infact they are a dime a dozen. 100's new in every year and 100's out old every year. For every Manning & Brady, there was a Young, Elway, Montana, Aikmen, Marino, Farve, Kosar, Fouts, Bradshaw, Staubach, Simms, Kelly, Moon, Griese, Namath, Dawson, Starr, Tarkenton and Unitas before them. And I am positive I am forgetting about plenty of others. Point is, when the team sucks, and the fan support sucks and ticket sales are awful, the owners are the ones left holding the bill on over $100 million in just players payroll every year. They are the only ones with risk involved and the only ones spending money. How much of that outlandish contract of J. Russells did he have to front? What did it cost him? Nothing he is a nobody who did nothing. But he is a nobody who did nothing that has over $50 Million of someone elses money.

I dont give two craps about the whole their body took damage arguement. They are not slaves. They are not forced into this life. They choose to do it and they make a DARN good living playing the game. I know plenty of old mechanics, farmers & others in manual labor who wake up as old men, cant hardly move, have had a number of surgeries on hips, backs, knees and elbows. My dad is 59 and has arthritus. Busted knuckles, bad shoulders and elbows. Has had knee surguries all from his two jobs he has had. Farming and a semi and tractor mechanic. He is still working and probably will till the day he dies. Because he has too. Like most americans, he works for wages that are a small percentage of NLF players. I am pretty sure most of these guys make more in a week of training camp then i make in a year. Take your millions, have fun and STFU.

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