NFLPA tells agents to plan for work stoppage

[Bronn]

6 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

In the end, it's just the fans that get hurt. The players will get more money, the owners will still get gobs of revenue by jacking up ticket prices and other revenue streams. We get more expensive tickets, more expensive memorabilia and possibly an even less interesting version of the game.

 

Now if the fans would strike...

Capitalism 101 tbqh.

[Hotsauce]

5 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

In the end, it's just the fans that get hurt. The players will get more money, the owners will still get gobs of revenue by jacking up ticket prices and other revenue streams. We get more expensive tickets, more expensive memorabilia and possibly an even less interesting version of the game.

 

Now if the fans would strike...

I think the closet thing to any sort of fan strike may have been the kneeling ordeal.  No it wasn’t some major scandal with tons of backlash. But its the last (and maybe only) situation where you had fans turning against the NFL. 

[LinvilleGorge]

16 minutes ago, Hotsauce said:

I think the closet thing to any sort of fan strike may have been the kneeling ordeal.  No it wasn’t some major scandal with tons of backlash. But its the last (and maybe only) situation where you had fans turning against the NFL. 

This. America LOVES football. Some fans may get turned off by this or that briefly, but the vast majority end up crawling back eventually.

[L-TownCat]

This is how Baseball turned me into a bitter jaded ex-fan that throws shade at any opportunity I get.

...fuggin baseball strike... got damnit.

[raz]

1 hour ago, top dawg said:

Few fans, if any, will give replacement players much validity. I am old enough to remember the scabs, and it wasn't really pretty. 

understatement of the year.  

[pantherclaw]

48 minutes ago, L-TownCat said:

This is how Baseball turned me into a bitter jaded ex-fan that throws shade at any opportunity I get.

...fuggin baseball strike... got damnit.

I remember baseball striking more often than not when I was a kid. It turned me off from professional baseball for life.

[trueblade]

Could be ideal timing for the XFL.

[bigdog10]

The NFLPA is kidding themselves if they think they can get the majority of the players behind an elongated strike.  Like it or not the owners have the leverage.  They are all billionaires and many of them have other revenue generating ventures  

There is is too much money at stake for the players. Guys who have trained their entire lives are not going to let a year of their prime waste away over things that likely won’t impact them in 5-7 years anyway (unless they are taking up the fight of long term player insurance). 

There will be a lockout and it will last the majority of the offseason and then a deal will be made prior to training camp in June or July, at the latest midway through August. 

[WarHeel]

[Sasquatch]

I watched the AAF. I'll watch replacements if they're televised. I'll watch the XFL too. 

 

[panthers55]

If the NFL and Players association thinks that a year away from football won't turn fans away, look what it did to baseball. I found other things to do and never returned as a fan. If the NFL does the same , lots of folks will just move on. As prices for tickets escalates football  folks just aren't going to keep showing up. Baseball saw a decline in attendance in 2018 for the first time since 1995, the year after the strike.  It was more than weather it was escalating ticket prices  

[kungfoodude]

2 hours ago, Bronn said:

I realize as much. I think it was my way of saying that it could fold and I wouldn't care, and that I think I'm slowly outgrowing football.

Also, I think it'll be an obsolete sport in my lifetime anyway. I think the money goes into another form of the  industry, perhaps virtual, which will eventually be obsolete as well.

I think society as a whole is realizing we have bigger problems, and better/more constructive outlets of escapism/entertainment available to us. More people are seeing professional sports for the capitalist giants they have become, and are turning away from them.

At least I hope so, on all of the above.

I don't think we are realizing we have bigger problems. There are just cheaper holes to throw money into for our escapes. 

I hope you are right that there is this realization, I just don't have any faith that is the case.

[kungfoodude]

I can back up the few that abandoned baseball during the strike periods of the 90's. Never looked back and hate the sport. 

[LinvilleGorge]

11 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I don't think we are realizing we have bigger problems. There are just cheaper holes to throw money into for our escapes. 

I hope you are right that there is this realization, I just don't have any faith that is the case.

There's zero chance that's the case. On the flipside, I actually hold the opposite opinion. I think that by and large sports are a great relatively benign outlet for our inherent tribalistic tendencies. I see WAY too many people treating politics like sports fandom these days with blind allegiances.