Work it out boys, let’s go !

I know EXACTLY of what I speak. If you slice up the total pie and give the owners a larger share they will NOT use that share to grow their businesses. They will pocket the money.

When Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs head) gets a massive bonus does he immediately take that money and give his maid a raise? I’m betting no. I bet he takes that cash and either blows it on something wasteful like another yacht or he reinvests it in another hedge fund or some other reverse robin hood scam.

Do you REALLY think that Mike Brown owner of the Bengals is going to spend one more cent than he’s obligated to spend just because you gave him a larger slice of the pie? Anyone who follows the Bengals knows that’s a laughable proposition. He would pocket the money or he would increase one salary, HIS. (He has the GM title so he can pay himself WHATEVER HE WANTS) This is how the owners can play games with the books and its why the players want to see ALL of the books. Not just the ones the Owners want to show. (Asinine auditing concept)

So bo1210, I would ask you to kindly STFU like you did to me. But I am not as polite as you. So F off you incompetent lemming.

You have no idea hat you’re talking about. Kindly STFU.

To buy, they accept all bills and responsibilities of ownership. They wanted to see the books; now they can. I suppose they will make Smith commie.

Oh well, WAS A GREAT GAME!

God knows he not a Federal judge.

Seconly, NFL teams are simply a conduit of cash from you the customer to the players. So the more cash awarded to the players, means higher prices for you.

It’s like the fallacy of taxing corporations. Corporations do not print money, any taxes or fees you make a corporation pay necessarily result in high prices for you the customer.

Instead of getting more money that would have been shared, the league made agreements that they (the owners) would get paid by tv/sponsors even if there was not a single game played in 2011. In some cases (Direct TV) the league would get paid more, if there is no season. The league would have to repay this money eventually, I believe by the end of the following year but I’m not 100% sure on that point.

This is the money that has been called the “lockout insurance”. Judge Doty has found this to be illegal, (since the league is supposed to negotiate in the best interests of both owners and players) today he decides what the damages are.

Give it up man. I have explained everything to you over and over and over. Those of us smart enough to care get it and those dumb enough not to don’t. Hence why your opinion is in the minority.

@ username

While I tend to side with the owners on this as they haven’t really done anything wrong, this one seems fishy to me. But no, I am not pro-spoiled brat players who don’t understand their roles in a short cycle of being an employee in a very lucrative profession.

@ lasher

The owners legally opted out of the CBA. They expressed their legal rights to renegotiate, that is why so many of us are “pro-owner”

“You’re not wrong, Walter. You’re just an a******.”

And while individual players only get paid the amount provided for in their contract, the amount teams agree to pay in contracts is based on the provisions of the CBA applicable to all members.

Don’t worry about it, you don’t understand much less than half the people on this site.

If you give them the money they want, they are going to use it to grow their business. When the business grows, it will increase revenue. Increased revenue will raise the salary cap. A raised salary cap will INCREASE YOUR SALARY… this means you’ll get paid more money!”

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Yeah. And tax cuts for the rich creates new jobs too ….

Any money the owners take back is going straight into their pockets and bank accounts. They’ll stimulate an economy, Wall Streets. When they buy into hedge funds and they buy up stocks and bonds that will do little for the players.

“In all these cases the players seem to want, want, want and want. They make claims that everything is theirs. I just don’t understand it.”

What you don’t understand fills libraries.
The players haven’t asked for anything, in fact they were fine with the CBA they had, which wasn’t set to expire until the end of the 2012 season.
The owners OTOH were the greedy ones.
They pulled the plug on their agreement, and why?
Not because they’re losing money, because they’re not. They’re just upset that their profits aren’t as large as they used to be.

You can’t get nothin’ from nothin’. Plus there will be nothing to file anti-trust suits against.

DeMaurice Smith is REALY ugly. Couldn’t the players at least elect somebody whose face didn’t look like a pile of sh##.

“I get the point that the league arguably broke the CBA by doing this but the players don’t deserve anything more than their percentage that they would have gotten had the league followed the CBA to begin with.”

So far they haven’t. So I assume you are on the side of the players?

If you give them the money they want, they are going to use it to grow Tom Brady’s hair. As Tom Brady’s hair grows, it will increase revenue.

That’s about 13% more revenue that the union failed to allow the league to realize.