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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

your entire post is whats laughable. the owners pay the players millions of dollars, YEARS IN ADVANCE, for work not yet performed. The owners also get billion dollar loans to pay for stadiums, hoping fans will come in and pay to see the team play. the owners take on enormous financial risk.

What exactly in my post do you find laughable? Were you not able to comprehend it?

They pay players years in advance? Here I was thinking they gave them annual salaries and voluntary signing bonuses. It's not the players fault that teams compete for their services. No team is obligated to pay signing bonuses.

Most stadiums are financed in part by tax payers not to mention the fact that the NFL is a cash cow. The days of owners struggling are over and they hardly have to do much to get loans or fans to attend games. That isn't to say some owners don't face market place pressures but then again that's because their teams don't win.