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SBXVII · 02-18-2011, 10:33 AM

Someone posted Sally's article at another message board and all I kept seeing was the fans bashing the owners. Maybe I'm the 1 in a million who is not taking sides with the players. I can tell you the game was just a good prior to the CBA and it will be just as good with out one in the future, but I'm sure that won't happen.

Personally if the players don't like making their $400,000 + a year "playing" a game then they can utilize their education that was either payed for or they payed for making only a fraction of what they are making now. The other option is to simply walk away and play for the UFL or Canada. If the fans are all about the players then the fans will follow the players to where ever they go. If the fans are about the team then the fans will stay and watch the scrubs. Honestly I kinda enjoyed the first Lockout with the scrubs playing. As long as the talent level is even across the board then all teams have an even chance and the play on the field is fun to watch because they are of the same caliber.

It's one thing if the employees (players) are making 8 or 9 dollars and hour and are screaming that they can't make a living and need more money. It's quite another thing to have millionairs fighting for more millions. Maybe, since as someone else has said "the NFL has gotten too big for it's britches", the NFL should look at what the average cost is to keep and run a stadium a long with marketing. Then have the bigger markets put a % of their income into a fund to help the smaller markets so their $$$ are equal to what the larger markets are using. Then the rest of the money can be split in half. The owners get their half to do what they want with it ie; pocketing it or purchasing practice bubbles or uniforms or equipement or paying the non essential employees. The other half is to be used on player salaries.

I think with the millions flying around the NFLPA should be able to find a decent health insurance co. and have all the players use it to lower their costs and have each player pay for their own insurance.... as any normal business does. As far as retirement .... I really don't feel sorry for anyone making millions simply squandering their money. They have every opportunity to put money into an IRA or investment so they will have retirement money after football. People want to bring up the older players and although they didn't make as much money they too had the same opportunities to save or invest their money. Plus after their average 10 to 15 yrs playing I'm sure most went out and got another job at 30 or 40 yrs old in order to work on a retirement or atleast they should have.

02-18-2011, 10:33 AM	#99
SBXVII Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 7,766	Re: Ongoing CBA discussions Someone posted Sally's article at another message board and all I kept seeing was the fans bashing the owners. Maybe I'm the 1 in a million who is not taking sides with the players. I can tell you the game was just a good prior to the CBA and it will be just as good with out one in the future, but I'm sure that won't happen. Personally if the players don't like making their $400,000 + a year "playing" a game then they can utilize their education that was either payed for or they payed for making only a fraction of what they are making now. The other option is to simply walk away and play for the UFL or Canada. If the fans are all about the players then the fans will follow the players to where ever they go. If the fans are about the team then the fans will stay and watch the scrubs. Honestly I kinda enjoyed the first Lockout with the scrubs playing. As long as the talent level is even across the board then all teams have an even chance and the play on the field is fun to watch because they are of the same caliber. It's one thing if the employees (players) are making 8 or 9 dollars and hour and are screaming that they can't make a living and need more money. It's quite another thing to have millionairs fighting for more millions. Maybe, since as someone else has said "the NFL has gotten too big for it's britches", the NFL should look at what the average cost is to keep and run a stadium a long with marketing. Then have the bigger markets put a % of their income into a fund to help the smaller markets so their $$$ are equal to what the larger markets are using. Then the rest of the money can be split in half. The owners get their half to do what they want with it ie; pocketing it or purchasing practice bubbles or uniforms or equipement or paying the non essential employees. The other half is to be used on player salaries. I think with the millions flying around the NFLPA should be able to find a decent health insurance co. and have all the players use it to lower their costs and have each player pay for their own insurance.... as any normal business does. As far as retirement .... I really don't feel sorry for anyone making millions simply squandering their money. They have every opportunity to put money into an IRA or investment so they will have retirement money after football. People want to bring up the older players and although they didn't make as much money they too had the same opportunities to save or invest their money. Plus after their average 10 to 15 yrs playing I'm sure most went out and got another job at 30 or 40 yrs old in order to work on a retirement or atleast they should have.