Roger Goodell: Football's Future If the Players Win

[Jackofalltrades]

There will be a new CBA, disaster will be delayed.

[BlanksKarma]

I think the players have allowed the union lawyers talk them into a situation, that frankly will kill the game. If there's no draft and all players are free agents and there's no longer revenue sharing, teams like the Bills, Bengals, Jaguars wouldn't even be able to field a team.

I would guess after a decade of this, the NFL would go from 32 teams to around 20. There would also be the unfortunate side effect of not having a limit on your roster size. Some power owners Jones, Sneider that could buy up talent, just to keep them from going to a rival team.

[RHCPanther]

It's ridiculous to think that the players are attacking the draft as anything more than a negotiating ploy. The players have no problems with extending the previous CBA and the owners could have made a reasonable offer that the players would have accepted. But they dragged it out with the ridiculous assertions about the economic viability of the game. I can understand why the dream of having more teams and expanding to London and wherever else is making the owners giddy. I'd say keep it as it is and enjoy the league for what it is.

[SevenSixes]

I see this as great news.

Using the lockout as a negotiating tactic has been seriously damaged and potentially eliminated as a tool the owners can use to beat up the players for concessions. 2010 rules will most likely apply until the NFLPA and the NFL get back to a CBA. We will have a 2011 season and there is considerable influence to get the owners back to the negotiating table.

As for all the "chicken littles" running around this board with doom, it's like saying that there would be no more NFL football because the owners "ceased football operations" in March. No sane thinking person would come to that conclusion and to think that the NFL will become MLB because the lockout is lifted is preposterous as well.

[carolinarolls]

moved

[Tom]

It's too bad all the teams aren't community owned like the Packers. Then we never would have gotten into this mess.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2011/01/those-non-profit-packers.html

[paulSM]

Did he really just say what I think he said?

Imbecile. Is this really what the players want?

To destroy the game to make sure they get some extra cash in their wallets?

This has nothing to do with actually not wanting a draft. it has to do with anti-trust. the draft violates anti-trust law, and it's one of the reasons the players got the injunction and would win the court batte. The players don't want to win, they want to settle. Winning would destroy the game, and they know it. They are trying to force the owners to bargain with the Brady team, and they probably will.

[riddel]

Wow, someone has been saying this all along. I wonder who that was....

And for the record this IS exactly what the players are after and plan on getting. You can kiss about 4 teams goodbye within 5 years of this happening and you can forget the panthers ever contending again because JR just won't outspend Jones, Kraft etal.

Hey dipshit......the NFL owners opted out of the CBA and locked out the players.....if Richardson is too sta...sta...sta...stupid to see the writing on the wall, then shame on him.

[jpniner]

i love watching people that will vote straight ticket republican all their lives argue against deregulating the nfl.

uh, this isn't deregulation and the NFL isn't set up as a true "Free market". For one thing, a Free market doesn't have Unions using Coercion to alter market forces and a truly free market sports league wouldn't have team owner but League owners instead.

In the end, money doesn't grow on trees and the NFLPA will destroy the NFL via their greed and Coercion to get what is not theres in a down economy.

While consumers looking at rising food and Energy cost start spending less on the NFL product.

[riddel]

uh, this isn't deregulation and the NFL isn't set up as a true "Free market". For one thing, a Free market doesn't have Unions using Coercion to alter market forces and a truly free market sports league wouldn't have team owner but League owners instead.

In the end, money doesn't grow on trees and the NFLPA will destroy the NFL via their greed and Coercion to get what is not theres in a down economy.

While consumers looking at rising food and Energy cost start spending less on the NFL product.

OTB

Open The Books.

[Fiz]

uh, this isn't deregulation and the NFL isn't set up as a true "Free market". For one thing, a Free market doesn't have Unions using Coercion to alter market forces and a truly free market sports league wouldn't have team owner but League owners instead.

things that "alter market forces," econ 101, are things like salary cap, a draft, profit sharing, shared stadium financing, trades, and franchise tags.

Who do you think wants those? Who do they benefit the most?

[jpniner]

btw, under a so called "Free Market" that merely means the Govt. isn't using its Coercion powers to Regulate.

Private entities, such as the NFL, can setup their Product(NFL Football) and how it operates, freely as they choose. The problem they then run into is Anti-Trust laws applying to them, but not the Thug Union who it should also apply to.

[Fiz]

ahahahahahaha oh my god i cant do this anymore

[carolinarolls]

I thought there was no such thing as NFLPA anymore.

Also, the owners are going to lose largely due to the amount of taxes the players pay and the economical impact home games have for their respective cities.

They are no longer in control of businesses that they own.

This is a bad day for capitalism and and even worse day will be if this decision is upheld.