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You should know what you’re talking about before running your mouth. The salary cap is agreed upon in the CBA between the players union and the league, so there’s no legal grounds to remove it. The issue at hand is that after an “uncapped year” you have 30 teams retroactively changing the rules and punishing two teams for actually, you know, treating it like an uncapped year. A salary cap becomes collusion if and only if it is not negotiated with the players union – as was the case in 2010. There’s absolutely nothing illegal about the salary cap as it exists today.

The only reason the league got the players union involved on their side was to make it more difficult for a lawsuit to go through. They redistributed the cap taken away from Washington and Dallas to the other 30 teams for the sole purpose of keeping the union happy. Had the league just taken the money out of the cap, who does that really hurt? Certainly not the owners; it’s a removal of cap space, not a fine. That’s money taken straight out of the players’ pockets. If the league hadn’t do that, it would be 2 owners AND the players union against the league rather than two owners against 30 + the players.

Jones counter-sued for $750 million dollars because he believed that the deals broke no existing rules. The NFL knew it had no stable ground on which to stand, dropped it’s suit and today, stadium sponsorship deals are the norm.

The NFL, with Paul Tagliabue leading the charge, made a similar backdoor deal with the NFLPA for salary cap considerations, and countered with voiding the contract that Deion Sanders signed with the Cowboys, made the “Deion Sanders Rule”, and applied it retroactively to include Sanders’ contract.

The Cowboys countered that with winning the Super Bowl anyway. If you think that Jerry Jones is afraid to sue the NFL, you’d better think again. He’s been there and done that already.

You’re just stubbornly ignorant. It can only be cheating when a rule is broken. You’re one of those kids that always claimed the other kid was cheating if they beat you at something, just because they figured out a way to do things better than you.

And several other teams did the same thing, worst among them being the Bears with the Julius Peppers contract.

You do realize there was no profit-sharing in that uncapped year, right? I remember there was an attempt to keep profit-sharing out of this CBA and the players were arguing to keep profit-sharing in against owners that wanted it out.

All 32 owners agreed to the uncapped year when they agreed to the last CBA. All 32 owners agreed to put the uncapped year into affect when they all agreed to let the last CBA expire. The small market teams were scared to death that the more successful teams would spend crazy amounts of money and leave them in the dust so they got together and tried to enforce a form of collusion to get spending down. And now they’re trying to make Jones and Snyder out to be the bad guys.

Sorry six warnings of a back-room “wink-wink” deal is not a violation of anything. And is no way any form of cheating.

Getting the NFLPA to sign off on this scheme retroactively is not collective bargaining, particularly when it is done under obvious duress. It was foolish for the NFLPA to go along with this, because it means lower salaries for free agents no matter how you slice it. The NFL is going to lose this battle ultimately, and the net effect will be to help the players in their ongoing battle for a fair share of NFL revenues.

The only downside for Snyder if he goes nuclear is that he will become the new Al Davis, no longer a mamer in good standing of the old boys’ club. If I was him, i would say who gives a shoot. Some of the owners obviously already want to screw him anyway.

Anyone watch Scarface/Goodfellas knows there’s retaliation for when you cross someone with power….
Jones and Synder done crossed the boss.

Doesn’t matter if you like/hate either team but for the NFL to penalize the teams for not participating in collusion (an illegal activity) and then blackmailing the NFLPA as well as abusing their job posts ie. Goodell/Mara they should be fired.

Unfortunately the damage has already been done as they can never sign the FAs they wanted to this year, but I hope they get some justice and their salary cap get’s restored asap.

Hate to say this but this has been one of the most unfair events I have seen in sports history.

The fact that you tell a team a day before FA that they are going to take their cap space away shows how badly they tried to hurt the teams.

http://www.nflcollusion.com

This is personal, Jones and Snyder have made plenty of enemies. What needs to be realized here is that these are the two top grossing franchises in the NFL by far and so should they decide to drop the grenade, they may be the only two that could withstand the blow financially. Should be interesting as it plays out.

Whatever happens, the NFL needs to be on notice that they can’t just sit up in their ivory tower and hand down bogus penalties without any accountability. If something isn’t done now, it will need to be done in the future.

Is 7-10 the hours of the day where your brains work?

There was no cheating. The labor agreement agreed to an uncapped year. Like with a signing bonus, there was some risk involved in all that guaranteed money up front…but additional risk in not doing it as a signing bonus. For instance, if any player decided to retire or walk after that, the team couldn’t sue for any of it returned, since it was contractually his one year salary.

But, again, these two weren’t even the only ones to do it. And they broke no rules. Cheating requires there to be a rule that was broken, no?