CBA -- What exactly happens.

I watched a whole hockey game yesterday. I plan on watching a whole hockey game today.

Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks.

What I get from all this CBA stuff or whatever the abbreviation is - is that the larger market owners want to basically keep ALL of their revenue for their own teams, instead of having to dispurse a certain precentage out to cover what the smaller market teams cannot make. Add into having a salary cap equal for all teams, you have supposedly an equal playing field. If this contract doesn't go through, then our team, along with other teams, will basically be in danger of being "disbanned" so to speak. However, after a crappy '06 season, we'd be able to spend as much as we want to get the players we want.....and would be able to keep them longer, because we could pay them to stay without having to worry with a salary cap. Basically, for the most part, we'd revert back to how it was in the '80's. I kind of have mixed emotions with it: I wouldn't mind things being like they were in the 80's assuming that we could build a team that could be potiential contenders every year (like we did back then.) We would have more assurance that we could keep the same group of players around for most of their careers. I might be completely wrong, but that is what I get out of this whole deal and the big market owners aren't going to sign any contract extension for a salary cap if they feel that eventually they'll be in the driver's sit to spend whatever they want to get whomever they want.

However, if you can belive it, the NFL is soon going to be taken over as the #1 sport by....NASCAR! IF you can belive that. Nascar is currently the #2 behind the NFL and gaining ground rapidly.

I've heard this as well. But #1 in terms of what? Attendance? TV deals and ratings? Nobody's coming close the NFL's $3.7 billion deal, I'm pretty sure of that. While NASCAR has over 100,000 people in the seats in just about every race, there are way more NFL games all together. I'd be interested to see how it breaks down proportionately.

I love what Bill Maher said about NASCAR -- you can't convince me that people don't watch NASCAR in hopes of witnessing a devastating multi-car crash. Otherwise, you're just watching traffic.

NASCAR is NOT a sport...unless you count competitions like chess and bowling as "sports".


It is a sport once an accident of significant proportions occurs, then all the beer-swilling ball cap donned fans hollar out, "They blowed up reeeeeeaaaaaalllll good". This is a similar to the effect seen in NHL where a certain percentage attend the game in hopes a fight will break out and total chaos erupts. People are paying the ticket price for the potential of bodily injury and destruction of property.

Non Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks.


you think joe gibbs is a redneck ?

I've heard this as well. But #1 in terms of what? Attendance? TV deals and ratings? Nobody's coming close the NFL's $3.7 billion deal, I'm pretty sure of that. While NASCAR has over 100,000 people in the seats in just about every race, there are way more NFL games all together. I'd be interested to see how it breaks down proportionately.





yea, i have this arguement all the time with my brother-in-law. he always uses that "more attendance" arguement but as i tell him if you count the attendance from every football stadium during sunday games vs. attendance at nascars biggest track, nfl wins in a land slide. heck, washington averages something like 94,000 alone.

you think joe gibbs is a redneck ?

No more so than Dan Snyder is a Defensive Lineman.

No more so than Dan Snyder is a Defensive Lineman.



you never know, snyder could be one hell of a good d-lineman. he's very short, so that would give him an advantage in getting lower than his apponent.:Smoker:

Say what you want about NASCRAP but it is catching up with baseball and passed hockey. How often do you see hockey and baseball stickers in the back window of cars and trucks? Granted it will never touch football but will challenge the other sports.