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View Poll Results: Who do you blame for the CBA mess? | |||
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24 | 26.67% |
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24 | 26.67% |
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42 | 46.67% |
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#211 |
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
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Thank You, Sean.
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
It's a good start. I'm starting to feel that this gets done now and not into the summer as I originally feared. (sent from phone)
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
Things are definitely sounding encouraging
DeMaurice Smith: “We’re not going to let you down” | ProFootballTalk Roger Goodell: “Talking is better than litigating” | ProFootballTalk |
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
Big deal either way. It is like they are just doing this to add to the suspense so people will be ever so thankful that they got a deal done. I saythis because it is inevitable that a deal is going to be hammered out. Neither side can afford a lockout in the long run. The day of reckoning is going to come sooner or later though, as inflation is going to slowly kill of the dollar and raise prices on everything. Salaries and ticket prices need to come down or the NFL is going to price itself out of existence. An eighteen game season isn't going to help that much either.
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
Tedy Bruschi was right it seems...well, if there's an agreement by mid-March he'll have been right. He said back in January it would come down to the last day and there would either be a last minute extension or a one-two week lockout
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
I know I come off as being cynical, but the bottom line is money for both sides, as well as the future of the NFL. With the economy in the tank and the dollar in doubt, a lockout would give the fans an extra incentive to take a hike. If the dollar does take a dive, the last thing folks are going to be worrying about is the NFL. And if they do lockout, any diehard fan is going to be very hardpressed to justify spending a dime on the NFL.
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
Ever since the NFL became certified it has always been my belief the "fan" should in some way have a seat at the negotiating table.
Public ownership of teams is an issue I don't see gaining much traction. Brian Frederick: Fans' List of Demands for New NFL Labor Agreement
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See many european soccer clubs/teams for examples. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
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Not coincidentally, franchise values also continue to rise. Located in a city of just 102,000 people, the Packers have an estimated worth of $1 billion.
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#222 |
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Re: Ongoing CBA discussions
Funny thing about those financial bubbles - they are far easier to see in hindsight.
The ongoing NFL-NFLPA dispute is simple really. The owners overspent on unnecessary stadiums, and now they want the players to work more for less pay to help pay down the debt. That's your entire labor dispute in one sentence. The NFL produces three things: stadium debt, intellectual property, and bureaucracy. None of these things should be confused with "free market" values. The league is a prime example of what happens when you mix politically influential egos with easy credit and a media environment that largely promotes economic ignorance. You have the perfect boom business. But the networks face their own economic challenges, and unless you can guarantee that Fox, ESPN, CBS, et al., will be stronger in the future than they are now, then you can't say with any confidence the NFL will survive and thrive indefinitely. The league is built on consumption, and when you adopt that model, eventually you'll eat yourself out of your $1.3 billion house and home. Found this from Forbes. The Most Valuable Teams In Sports - Forbes.com
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Albert Breer Filed to NFL.com: Confirming that International Investment Bank has been retained by the NFLPA to review any financials released by NFL. Additionally, according to a source, NFL has not released any additional financial info yet. This, for the PA, is to be ready for that. ... ... And on top of that, an auditor who the union has used for years arrived at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service at 3 p.m. 3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply One would hope that this means that the NFL and PA have agreed on some way of "opening the books" |
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or not:
AlbertBreer Fujita on financials: "What's shared with us is not sufficient. It's more or less just a snapshot." Bank helps players use info they DO have 1 minute ago Even if I agreed with the players about the books, which I don't, I see a lot of "attitude" in this quote that irritates me. I still can't for the life of me understand why they can't reach an agreement along these lines: The PA gives the owners a list 10 teams that they'd like to see the books of. The owners select 5 of those and redact personal information so the books aren't team specific, and then give those books to PA's auditing firm. There just has to be a way to get around both sides fears... |
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