The NFL could be capless by 2010

[TexasCowboy]

NFL Owners Set to Opt Out of Bargaining Deal

Fri Jan 25, 2008 --from FFMastermind.com

The Philadelphia Daily News reports the NFL averted a labor war two years ago when outgoing commissioner Paul Tagliabue strong-armed the owners into agreeing to a collective-bargaining- agreement extension that gave the players 60 percent of the league's pot of gold. The owners can opt out of the deal in November, which seems almost a certainty right now.

If that happens, 2009 would be the last capped year of the current agreement. There would be no salary cap in 2010, but the service requirement for free agency would jump from 4 to 6 years. "I think it's really common knowledge our last labor agreement is not our smartest move," Broncos owner Pat Bowlen told Jeff Legwold, of the Rocky Mountain News. "And I'm not talking about [just] the Denver Broncos. I'm talking about the [whole] league. We can't live with this deal."

Some more good news to pass along to NFL fans. So if this happens this November, what are the ramifications exactly? Will there be a strike in 2009 or 2010?

[Senior Official]

Bad, bad move not to have a cap. Small market teams would suffer and fans would jump ship (MLB). Cap management is one of the keys to a successful organization.

[TexasCowboy]

Bad, bad move not to have a cap. Small market teams would suffer and fans would jump ship (MLB). Cap management is one of the keys to a successful organization.

Fuck the small market teams look at what it has done to the large market teams? multiple super bowl winning franchises like Green Bay and San Fran
haven't sniffed a super bowl in over 16 years..and trying to build a team by
using restrictions as to how much you can spend isn't helping anyone it is
hurting them IMO

[Steeler Fanatic]

Fuck the small market teams look at what it has done to the large market teams? multiple super bowl winning franchises like Green Bay and San Fran
haven't sniffed a super bowl in over 16 years..and trying to build a team by
using restrictions as to how much you can spend isn't helping anyone it is
hurting them IMO

Did you take a math class in school? San Fran won the Superbowl in the 94 season (14 years ago) and Green Bay won it in 96 (12 years ago). They went the following season and lost to Denver. The Packers went back to the NFC title game this season and lost in OT -- I would count that as at least "sniffing" a Super Bowl.

I also wouldn't call Green Bay a large market team. They are in reality one of the smallest market teams in the NFL. San Francisco's problems have nothing to do with the salary cap and everything to do with incredibly poor management. The smaller market teams need help in terms of revenue sharing, but the main idea behind the current model remains a good one.

[Ray-ven Mad]

This is the golden egg layingest goose in the history of organized sports. If management or the players do anything to fuck with the current formula, they risk killing it. If baseball had the sense to follow the NFL's example, we might be looking at the Montreal Expos the same way we do the Patriots right now. The NFL is THE model professional sports league. Pat Bowlen is a fucking idiot if that is the way he really thinks. Every single person with any stake in the NFL is making money. I don't see what in god's green earth there is that needs to be fixed.

[eliforpres]

This is the golden egg layingest goose in the history of organized sports. If management or the players do anything to fuck with the current formula, they risk killing it. If baseball had the sense to follow the NFL's example, we might be looking at the Montreal Expos the same way we do the Patriots right now. The NFL is THE model professional sports league. Pat Bowlen is a fucking idiot if that is the way he really thinks. Every single person with any stake in the NFL is making money. I don't see what in god's green earth there is that needs to be fixed.


Lets all hope this DOESN'T Happen --- It would really kill the competition -- NY Dallas Washington San Fran and Oakland would dominate this league due to the Strong Marketing in those cities -- It would ruin the NFL

Peace
EFP

[TexasCowboy]

Did you take a math class in school? San Fran won the Superbowl in the 94 season (14 years ago) and Green Bay won it in 96 (12 years ago). They went the following season and lost to Denver. The Packers went back to the NFC title game this season and lost in OT -- I would count that as at least "sniffing" a Super Bowl.[/qoute]

I also wouldn't call Green Bay a large market team. They are in reality one of the smallest market teams in the NFL. San Francisco's problems have nothing to do with the salary cap and everything to do with incredibly poor management. The smaller market teams need help in terms of revenue sharing, but the main idea behind the current model remains a good one.

No shit moron but my point was that teams were fine before there was a cap in place restricting them as to how they could build their teams, now it has destroyed teams and their building so that they can no longer be a long term dynasty so I for one am all in favor for the cap being destroyed by 2010