2. If this is reduced to 50/50 then that would effect the Salary Cap Max.

3. If 9 Billion was brought in 4.8 for Players, and 4.2 for Owners (its 131 mil per 32 teams and about 2.8 mil per player out of 1696)

So if 4.8 is the Players union split, why does Owners/Team negotiate Salaries?

What happens to whats left out of that? I saw a figure that Avg. NFL Salary was 1.5 mil. Basketball was like 5. Baseball 2. Hockey 1.7.

So really it Avg is 1.5, but Players get almost double that, Where is all that $$$??

This number i found in a search Highest paid team was Raiders with 152 mil then Dallas 146 and KC at the bottom at 83. Remember there is a bottom to the Cap also.

That adds up to 3.6 Billion. So where is the other 1.2 Billion?

Cowboys Operations expenses where 143 million – what does that mean? Exec Salaries? Parking attendants? Players? (http://xtmonline.com/2010/09/14/any-given-sunday-nfl-owners-compete-for-its-future/)

Seems like bigger market teams want a bigger cut of the pie. So is the break down for Owners 1/32 of the pie?

Also where does the Bonuses come from for SB winners and Pro Bowl winning team?

Let the players start paying for their own trainers, coaches, equipment, support personnel, travel, and all the other expenses and you MAY have an argument. The players do not pay for anything at the moment and are taking 50% of the revenue. In 2009, the salary cap per team was $127 million dollars. That means that 53 roster players split that up. If it were 63 players, it would still be more than $2M per player with no sunk cost on their part.

The owners either invested lifetimes (like the Rooneys) or millions (like Snyder) to acquire and build a team. If you had $800M to invest, would you settle for $20M in profit (Packers made $20M in profit in 2009). That is 5%. The owners could place that in ANY bank in the US and pull 5%. They could, most likely, easily get 10% in the stock market. Why should they own an NFL team if they are going to hand their profit to the players?

They have to make some money as owners, especially guys like the Rooneys who do not have outside sources of income. The Steelers are their business.

Lastly, Jerry Jones and the NFL covered all but $325M of the cost of his stadium. The players get that state of the art field, great training facilities, medical facilities, and all the extras. Now, Jones should hand them all the money too.

It is a load of crap.

Here is a cutout from an article on Sportsline. Also says they are going to meet this week.

***You guys need to put up a disclaimer on every CBA post stating your pro-union bias or start leaving your biases out of your reporting a bit. *****

Bring me the facts.

Let me draw conclusions on my own.

Don’t tell me what you think in the title.

You’re probably the last surviving “voice of reason” still alive in this league.

The Jones’ and the Richardsons of this league are threatening to destroy the success that you and the rest of the original old-timers built.

Remember, there are nearly 1700 players splitting half the pie, but only 32 owners.
Last year’s revenues topped 8 Billion dollars.
Do the math.

The owners aren’t hurting anywhere near as bad as they want us to believe – if they’re even hurting at all.

They won’t open their books for one simple reason.
They’re hiding something – probably massive profits.

When two groups meet, it is not unusual for the initial meetings to be brief, especially when one side brings a written proposal to the table. You have to get back, go through that proposal line by line to ensure there is not something hidden or that you do not give a concession sitting in that meeting that you may need to use as a bargaining chip later. Opening the books would be a nightmare. It gives union negotiators the opportunity to “suggest” cuts or skim money from other areas to push them into the unions favor.

The owners have to get the unions contract, step back, meet as a group, and go through it so they proceed in the same direction and do not agree to things. There may be issues the NFL really does not care that much about that they will argue for just to use them as bargaining chips later to get items they strongly desire, like a rookie cap.

This is a boxing match. The first few rounds are both opponents feeling each other out, gauging strengths and weaknesses, and trying to assess where the other plans to strike.

There’s a reason nobody with a brain takes a ‘percentage of the profits’ in Hollywood. You take a percentage of the gross, it’s much harder to game.

I hope the owners lock the players out. In fact, I hope they hire replacement players.

I am not sure what is reasonable about workers demanding 50% of all money earned. Maybe I will shoot my CEO an Email this morning demanding more money just like the NFLPA. I mean since it is so reasonable and all.

He looks like a kid taking a trantrum for not getting his way

I’m sorry but that’s just an insane comment.

Mortensen and Schefter can be counted on for one thing, to screw things up even more than they already are.

It’s like hot dogs. Everyone loves eating hot dogs, but no one wants to see how they’re made. The process is ugly, but it works, and the result is what matters.

unions are insane, employees demanding 50 percent of all profits with none of the risk of investment, here in the real world u get fired if you walk into your boss’s office and demand half of the profits.

i have a great idea, find someone who is starting a business, apply for a job and then ask for half of the profits. if the world worked this way nobody would start businesses they would be better served as employees