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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 675683"><p>I was being sarcastic, except for the winning part.</p><p></p><p>While I sided with the owners in the last CBA negotiations once the players pulled the union decertification stunt together with the fact that the bottom half of the franchises are pretty mediocre business propositions, it did seem like it was resolved in a balanced way. The player's share (i.e., aggregate cap) includes a percentage of TV revenue which is where the $5 and $10 million annual cap jumps are mainly coming from. The provision that teams have to spend 89% of the cap in cash, escalating to 95% going forward, makes for competitive pay across all franchises, and better competitive balance at least theoretically. Big bumps in pensions and retiree medical benefits was a nice touch, even if the mounting law suits and negative PR would have forced it. The NFL pension plan is about $1 billion underfunded, but that's a point for some other discussion; public and private pensions in the US are about $3 trillion underfunded, so I guess the NFL is par for the course with their actuaries sweating bullets over these low interest rates just like everybody else's. </p><p></p><p>However, knowing what guys got paid back in the 60's and prior for getting their heads bashed in, playing in a more violent and dirty game than we see today, while having to take off season jobs selling cars or what have you to make ends meet, I can't help but have sympathy for the player's position in retrospect. The reserve clause amounted to indentured servitude. Conversely, the NFL was a fairly low revenue, sketchy operation back then, with TV popularity just getting rolling and no revenue sharing for the poorer franchises. All in all, everybody was involved more for love of the game than money, and that is something to be missed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 675683"] I was being sarcastic, except for the winning part. While I sided with the owners in the last CBA negotiations once the players pulled the union decertification stunt together with the fact that the bottom half of the franchises are pretty mediocre business propositions, it did seem like it was resolved in a balanced way. The player's share (i.e., aggregate cap) includes a percentage of TV revenue which is where the $5 and $10 million annual cap jumps are mainly coming from. The provision that teams have to spend 89% of the cap in cash, escalating to 95% going forward, makes for competitive pay across all franchises, and better competitive balance at least theoretically. Big bumps in pensions and retiree medical benefits was a nice touch, even if the mounting law suits and negative PR would have forced it. The NFL pension plan is about $1 billion underfunded, but that's a point for some other discussion; public and private pensions in the US are about $3 trillion underfunded, so I guess the NFL is par for the course with their actuaries sweating bullets over these low interest rates just like everybody else's. However, knowing what guys got paid back in the 60's and prior for getting their heads bashed in, playing in a more violent and dirty game than we see today, while having to take off season jobs selling cars or what have you to make ends meet, I can't help but have sympathy for the player's position in retrospect. The reserve clause amounted to indentured servitude. Conversely, the NFL was a fairly low revenue, sketchy operation back then, with TV popularity just getting rolling and no revenue sharing for the poorer franchises. All in all, everybody was involved more for love of the game than money, and that is something to be missed. [/QUOTE]
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