NFL 2011 Off Season Thread

[Evil Vito]

Originally Posted by Hanso Two Way Street

Technically yes. But from what I can gather, the owners have all of the bargaining power in this situation...and they feel the players are asking for too much.

The owners who sit in the luxury suites have the power already and will still be filthy rich whether there is football or not. Whereas the players who are the ones busting their asses and risking injury each and every week are the ones backed into the corner, especially the guys about to hit free agency and who will be unemployed until this is resolved. Sure, a lot of players will still be well off without paychecks, but they aren't making anywhere close to the amount the owners make.

If/when this gets settled, the owners will still get the better end of the deal by a huge margin. I doubt most (but not all) of them care that football is important to a lot of people in this country...so they have little reason to cave in to the players.

[Snowden]

Originally Posted by Big Vito 22 Technically yes. But from what I can gather, the owners have all of the bargaining power in this situation...and they feel the players are asking for too much. The owners who sit in the luxury suites have the power already and will still be filthy rich whether there is football or not. Whereas the players who are the ones busting their asses and risking injury each and every week are the ones backed into the corner, especially the guys about to hit free agency and who will be unemployed until this is resolved. Sure, a lot of players will still be well off without paychecks, but they aren't making anywhere close to the amount the owners make. If/when this gets settled, the owners will still get the better end of the deal by a huge margin. I doubt most (but not all) of them care that football is important to a lot of people in this country...so they have little reason to cave in to the players.

I dunno man, the revenue split the players proposed was just silly if you think about it. 50/50 sounds good on the outset, but the owners are fronting the majority of the costs (pretty much all the overhead really), so they should be getting a larger piece of the pie, relative to the players who are paying very little out of pocket to "maintain" the league.