First, we have a demand for 10-years of financials. That was an outrageous, horses’-ass demand that no reasonable businessman should have to provide. When you sell a business you’re usually giving three and never more than five. Heck, even the IRS, except for deliberate, serious fraud, only looks at the last three years.

Plus, ten-year-old financial information is worthless. Seriously, the environment, management and the CBA provisions that drive the number-one cost — player salaries — have changed so dramatically, that it’s pointless. It’s like trying to make applesauce out of bananas.

Second, they already get (every freaking year) all the revenue information for the clubs. They already get, every year, the information from the Packers who release publicly. Using the Packers as a model, you don’t even need a rocket-scientist for an accountant to see the obvious trends in profitability when one of the best managed teams in the NFL can barely turn a profit, and not even a significant one. Everyone, not ideologically driven, can watch the Packers go from a reasonably profitable organization (for one worth close to a billion dollars) to one that produced one percent profit on worth.

Just one freaking percent on worth! Compare that to a five-year T-Bill, the safest possible investment you can get, is paying 2.11%! And you don’t have to work, deal with idiot agents, dog-killing QBs, or the contempt of millions of people because they magically think that you’ll always win, despite the fact sport leagues are zero-sum endeavors. Just clip coupons and rake in the cash.

And the Packers are in good shape when it comes to things like stadiums, sponsorships and merchandising. Look at teams that need new stadiums — 49ers, Raiders, Saints, Vikings… They couldn’t possibly afford them under the current deal. They’d never make enough money to pay them off without cutting roster salaries, thus giving people a third-rate team for decades as their franchise can’t compete in the FA market and constantly lose their good players.

And, third, never did the NFLPA* (from all I’ve read) ever actually move off of any of their positions. When one side refuses to move, it’s not a negotiation, it’s a demand for surrender and a prequel to a litigation or pre-determined rejection of anything but complete surrender. Whereas the NFL moved, moved again, and moved again.

Sorry, but the inmates can’t run the asylum 100%.

Leave a BLANK headline and article and we will know that the space was for a Jay Feeley comment…….it’ll be better reading

Thks

If he calls you, let it go to voicemail. If he texts you, delete it without reading.

I am BEGGING you – no more Jay Feeley headlines or stories.

Well said. Maybe they’d listen to a petition from millions fans all over the world, maybe.

Really? Maybe you haven’t heard but there is no CBA, it’s over, expired.

Enough said, Jay! Get back to solitary practice kicking field goals at the high school.

You might know football but you don’t know how to read, if the ruling is in favor of the players then the lockout is over so the owners can’t let this carry into the season because the players will be getting paid and the owners will go out and pay for FA’s.

The best thing for the fans that want football is to have the ruling go in favor of the players.

When individual players start earning more money than several franchises take in, you’ve got a recipe for a broke, dead league down the road! You’ve got to be blind not to see it coming. It’s economics 101. If you don’t get it, you probably still support Obama.

Anyway, I’ll just enjoy the college football season and some MLB from time to time. I hope the owners cancel the season and force the players to find work elsewhere and see how they like it. Either that or fire everyone and start a brand new system of doing business with the long-term financial health of each franchise in mind. Don’t worry, college football will make us some new stars. Dump the current group of ingrates.

Mawae has nothing to lose, really as an active player–no one wanted to sign him last year, and after this, I don’t think anyocoach will want to sign him. But, if he and Kessler are leading the players down the proverbial garden path, he has plenty to lose in that respect.

I think there’s a split among some of the players who were negotiating as evidenced by Peter King’s report yesterday that on the night before everything went to pot, Jeff Saturday and Roger Goodell were seen in a restaurant having a serious conversation–and “not being too pleased when tghey realized they were spotted”. I just wonder how much the players are educated in all of this.

I don’t care how “late” the owners’ offer came–it was a chance to keep negitiating and the players walked out.

Maybe, this will help: OWNER= TARZAN
PLAYER= CHEETAH

The ball is in the NFLPA’s court.

All the fans know this.

Thus far they’ve refused to hit the ball back.

That doesn’t look good for them.

It’s not all that complicated.

What do Kickers do when they cant kick field goals? Maybe he can collect unemployment like 25% of the nation and cry from his house instead of talking like a big boy at union meetingts..

Why does my favorite league have these kind of people speaking for it?

Wheres Peyton Manning or Tom Brady?

Where are the 10 year pros who made millions off of this league?

You would think the players who have made millions on millions would actually protect the business that helped them…