To Draft or Not To Draft......

[NBT]

Originally Posted by painekiller

The player have offered a 50/50 split, down from the current 60/40, the owners walked out of the room, end of talks. So the players have moved in their demands.

The owner have an issue of owners not agreeing with each other, the have and have not's.

It's hard to think of any rich billionaire NFL owner as being a "have not".

And how about those unearned guaranteed rookie contract bonuses?

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by NBT

It's hard to think of any rich billionaire NFL owner as being a "have not".

And how about those unearned guaranteed rookie contract bonuses?

Not all team owners are billionaires. Just saying...

[NBT]

Is Green Bay a small market? Isn't the team owned essentially by their fans? You would never know it by the way they win.

...Then there are the Buffalo's, Jacksonville's, Minnesota's, Nashville's, etc. They seem to be the have not's of the NFL owners. Hard to really raise much sympathy for them though, when they have that $9B pie to cut up.

[Nconroe]

I think GB is a small city, so perhaps their TV market is small, but apparently they are always sold out, have like a 20 year wait list for season tickets, and have like second most team jersey/ related sales. plus they manage their roster mostly with smart draft picks and have a relatively low total salary number compared to most teams. so, yeah, they are basically a public owned, non-profit team, so likely doing quite well as is. and just won another SB, those lucky fans.

Those poorer teams, only get like 300 million, not sure how they make it. you know like 3 years ago total revenue was like 5 billion, now its 9 billion, likely to go up more if we have Thursday night football and 18 game schedule, so tough to see the struggles to maintain stadiums as claimed. I guess some teams do have better stadium deals than others however. stadium deals does figure into the revenue sharing plan for all of this somehow.

[NBT]

Feeling gloomy today - What's the use of having a Draft if you can't even sign 'em after you draft 'em, what with the players decertifying, and filing a law suit against the owners. In the end everybody will win but us, the paying, long suffering fans.