Judge Nelson rules in favor of players, lifts lockout

I think that the status quo in the NFL is fine. We have seen Green Bay, New Orleans and Pittsburgh win Super Bowls over the last three years. I have trouble imagining Milwaukee, Kansas City and Pittsburgh winning the World Series.

But I think the NFL owners made a mistake in going for jugular, asking upfront for about a 15% pay cut. That will impact existing free agents who will be caught by a radically lower cap. The NFL argues that if the league receives more profits they will invest more and grow the revenue base. Even if you take an noncynical point of view about that claim the current players will be long gone before revenues increase enough to recoup aforementioned investments.

I think if the League would do something like reducing the percentage of revenue the players take by, let's say, one percent a year for four years they could get a deal done. NFL revenues continue to rise and the salary cap would just grow a little more slowly. The players careers are so short that they have a powerful incentive to settle.

But if I am De Maurice Smith I can not throw away my best weapons by not suing. Letting the lockout continue would be a disaster for the players because they would go broke before the owners.

 

Yes. Because the Cardinals have been so good under the existing system.

 

Willing to bet anything this gets overturned by the appealate court.

Except in matters of urgent public interest (police, firefighters, airline pilots, postal workers, etc.) there is no reason a business cannot be permitted to shut its doors for a while if it chooses to do so.

Hell, I was irrepairably harmed when I was laid off, as were newspaper people in Seattle, Denver and elsewhere when their papers folded. Could they get a judge to rule that owners didn't have that right?

 

Mark, a lockout is not exactly shutting one's doors. Fans in most cities are expected to pony up season ticket payments as usual -- an interest-free loan if you will. The door was shut to the players, but money was welcome to walk on in.

 

The system (and getting lucky with the Kurt Warner reclamation project) are the only reasons that team has done anything in thee past 30 years. Yes, it has been bad. It could have been even worse.

 

This is unintentionally hilarious on so many levels.

 

Andrew Luck is a free agent.

 

Just remember Nighthawk112005 is a fan that hated the Cardinals' Super Bowl season and didn't think it was legitimate. The Cardinals are a team that will benefit from a lockout because there isn't much hope for a good 2011 season.

 

Blowing any chance he ever had of being elected as a Republican governor, Roger Goodell begs for collective bargaining with the NFL players (outlining the disaster that will happen if they don't do it) and practically screams for socialism otherwise the free market will decide everything and Buffalo and Green Bay and New Orleans will suck forever!

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I'm worried that this new gray hair I have is about to permanently extinguishes any chance I had of boning Jessica Alba on a regular basis.

 

Gee, Roger. Maybe you should have thought of that before this whole mess happened? And maybe you should have warned your bosses that this could happen?

Like I said earlier, the NFL had, with a few tweaks needed, an excellent business model. They're on the verge of blowing it all over their ridiculous greed.

 

The key distinguishing fact is that all the newspapers in the nation did not collectively agree to shut everything down. That's as illegal as all gasoline manufacturers collectively agreeing to raise the price of gasoline to no lower than $10 per gallon.