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Originally Posted by NC_Skins
Most big businesses answer to stock holders so they have the obligation to maximize profits. These aren't small business owners scraping pennies to make good, they are raking in money hand over fist and *gasp*...wanting more.
At the end of the day, the product on the field are why people shell out that money. That product happens to be people that put their health on the line every week to entertain the masses. (much like old gladiators) I want the money going to those guys, not the assholes that sit in the owners box.
If they really want to "maximize profits" like you claim, then they wouldn't be handing out record breaking contracts like they did to Seymour, Haynesworth, and Asomugha.
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I don't think gladiators were driving golden chariots (but maybe they were)
The product on the field is a result of a unique cooperation between the owners and players for the last 20 years.
As for where the money goes, I would rather both sides take a cut and give it back to the fans, but since that ain't happening, whether the players get that billion, or the owners get that billion, seems to me they ought to find a way to work it out. To paint it as all on the owners or the players is ridiculously simplistic, and in the end it falls on both sides.
As Andrew Brandt's article said very well, this is all about a lack of trust between the two sides. I believe all the other topics are just symptoms springing from that basic fact.