Are you that stupid? YES. I am saying there is a negative side to making 48% of 25 billion over 10 years. First, 25 billion over 10 years? WTF is wrong with your math skills? Assuming that the 9 billion number (per year) that’s thrown around, even if the pie doesnt grow, we’re talking 90 billion over 10 years. Second, this deal is made given that the pie is composed of specific revenue streams. The players are making assumptions about what the total revenue streams are from which they take 48%. The owners thus have every incentive to try to find new revenue streams not within the deal. While there is nothing wrong with that, there is something wrong if the owners divert efforts to maximize revenues under the deal to seeking revenues outside the deal.

Thus, the players could get screwed and want an opt-out provision. Again, like i said, i didnt approve of the owners pulling the plug and I dont approve of the players holding out for the ability to do so. Your stupid comment does help me to understand the basis of many people’s animosity against the players generally – they just don’t understand anything that’s going on.

Also, you probably don’t understand why the owners opted out of the CBA. YOU MEAN THERE’S A DOWNSIDE TO THE OWNERS MAKING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS??! idiot.

How are the players allowed to continue to negotiate ANYTHING??

Looks to me, like the players are the one’s “slipping things in”…

…STFU and sign the damn deal, you ungrateful and arrogant pricks!!

The players want it because the owners demonstrated that no one makes a huge deal of/holds it against the party who pulls the plug.

So the players are sitting there thinking, we’re rolling the dice with this 48% deal. If it doesn’t work out the way we’re expecting, we may want out of this.

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wait hold up are you saying there is a negative side to getting 48% of 25 BILLION DOLLARS over the next ten years…a good 10% more than any other business will give you…WTF…

They are all a bunch of idiots trying to screw up the best thing going.

Less practice!

Less hitting!

Less tackling!

VJ lying to the fans!

The NFLPA**** is ruining the game. Shame on them!!!!!

Ha,ha,ha, you’re so funny. Fans, what fans?
They were going to go with free parking, but that got tabled. Try as hard as he might, the owners did not go for Demaurice’s proposal to cap the cost of a beer at $4.25.
Hold on there, we’re not just going to sign it, the fans want us to read it…

I think you mean “after 7 years.” Not “after 10 years.”

In my opinion, you can solve this with a broad definition of revenue, an independent firm reviewing the revenues, and the parties agreeing to meet and review all revenues to make sure both sides are getting a fair amount. I obviously haven’t seen the new CBA, but I know historically new revenues which one side believes should not be shared while the other does generally creates labor unrest. An opt out can be used as leverage over the course of the deal for players. I don’t agree with it necessarily, but I do understand it. PFT please try to look into the CBA and see if their is a mechanism which designates either sharing or a review system of determination for new revenue streams which are earned beyond the scope of this agreement and if they will be included in the 48% of revenue sharing.

If this agreement shares all revenue, my point is null and void. However I doubt it includes all revenues because teams generate revenue from other avenues like concerts in the stadium, interest, tax savings, and etc which typically are not classified as football operating revenue. It all hinges on the scope of the revenue which is shared and which revenues would not be included in that scope.

Get it done already!

This time around, the owners pulled the plug and yet a huge proportion of the readers of this site either conveniently forget or don’t care. The owners basically said, “jeez, this labor deal isn’t working out how we thought, lets pull the plug and try again.”

So the players are sitting there thinking, we’re rolling the dice with this 48% deal. If it doesn’t work out the way we’re expecting, we may want out of this.

I didn’t approve of the owners doing it and don’t approve of the players holding out for the provision.

Sleep in the bed you make.