Owners are nothing but pigs at the trough

[ncbobcat]

Mike Lupica had some harsh words towards the owners and J Richardson on The Sports Reporters this a.m. He said fans should without a doubt side with players. He even jabbed at JR for inventing the PSL concept.

Sounds like this guy is very anti-owner or very pro-player. PSLs are good to an extent in that they are mine and will be so until I sell them. The things I hate about it is the pay system (always too early) and having to buy preseason tickets. PSLs do not keep 'average Joe' from going to games. I went to just about every game I wanted to before buying PSLs. Street tickets are usually plentiful. Two, taxpayers didn't take it in the rear paying for something they might not care about (see TW Arena/Bobcats).

The players make a good living. If they blow through their money, that's on them. Nobody said they shouldn't finish school either if they declare as underclassmen. If they can't get a job after they hang up the cleats because they failed to finish school, again that's on them.

[MadHatter]

The owners opted out of the deal, not the players.

Player salaries are going down not up.

Players will be working more

Your understanding of the current situation is sophmoruc at best.

The owners agreed to a very one sided deal 5 years ago to keep football going. This is not a deal that could continue.

The players salaries are NOT going down. In actuality, the salary cap will increase. The % of the pie will decrease, but the entire pie is increasing.

Players do not have the financial investment or risk....yet they want the financial rewards.

[Happy Panther]

Your understanding of the current situation is sophmoruc at best.

The owners agreed to a very one sided deal 5 years ago to keep football going. This is not a deal that could continue.

Nice spelling

Of course it could continue. Profits and asset values have been increasing for 20 years. The NFL is in the best situation it has been in ever

The players salaries are NOT going down. In actuality, the salary cap will increase. The % of the pie will decrease, but the entire pie is increasing.

Players do not have the financial investment or risk....yet they want the financial rewards.

I read the salary cap will go down next year

Anyway of course they expect financial rewards. NFL players are not replaceable.

Please stop comparing NFL players to first year geography majors from UNCG. Its retarded

[Happy Panther]

edit: I read team payrolls will go down, not the salary cap.

[Davidson Deac II]

Mike Lupica had some harsh words towards the owners and J Richardson on The Sports Reporters this a.m. He said fans should without a doubt side with players. He even jabbed at JR for inventing the PSL concept.

Amazed that Lupica knows who JR is since he doesn't reside in the Northeast and doesn't own the Cowboys.

It would be wrong for me to side with one side or the other. I don't really know enough of the inner workings to really know whats going on. I have trouble siding with any group that contains Jerry Jones or Snyder, but I also have trouble siding with any group that contains Alex Haynesworth or any of the myriad other players who think that millions per year are not enough.

[twylyght]

The NFLPA is trying to put their own money into the veteran's fund.

Think about it

The NFLPA is trying to get owners to pay for their healthcare well beyond their employment with the league when any other person has to invoke COBRA from the outset. Players pay dues to their league and have deep divisions in their own ranks as to who should put resources towards legacy players.

http://fourthandgoalunites.com/2010/06/22/the-nflpa-%E2%80%9Clegacy-fund%E2%80%9D-resolution/

We even have legacy players calling out the NFLPA alongside the NFL with respect to ongoing care. Even the heavily leaning NFLPA celebrity Jim Brown has spoken to both organizations in the same breath on several issues like this:

http://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jim_brown_says_nfl_nflpa_needs_to_do_more_about_concussions/3243452

If you think the squabbles of the current CBA are a pittance compared to the whole pie, how do you think this compares?

[twylyght]

Did you just replace my hearsay from a substantiated article with hearsay you made up?

You want me to find an article that I say doesn't exist? How about you disprove me with actual evidence proving a positive.

While we're on it, this is actually the best article that I've seen summing things up (even if it is from Pete Prisco) and it still can't even bring to light anything official from the owner's side of the bargaining table

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/14766134/lockout-primer-players-minds-on-money-and-plenty-of-it

[SorthNarolina]

http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/2011/03/03/nfl-lockout-owners-are-nothing-but-pigs-at-the-trough/?cxntfid=blogs_jeff_schultz_blog

OINK OINK OINK!!

That's the most redonkulous comparison I've seen in this whole CBA thing.

Comparing the the average NFL salary to a person making 50,000 dollars. Holy Crap.

Are the NFL players having their salaries cut by 20%? Is going from 50 to 40 thousand as big of a life changing moment as going from 5 to 4 million?