Could you go without NFL football for two years?

[The Huddler]

honestly, I lot of you could use the break to develop other aspects of your lives that are lacking. maybe build your self esteems unrelated to how the panthers are doing. 

[The Huddler]

anyone else annoyed with smith?

 

like who the fug is this random guy acting all tough and taking away my football???

[steven8989]

This is not happening NFL losing money lol this really shouldn't be a question.

[DamnItJake!]

It would suck!! Cause college would get sucky unless they start cutting Seniors and Juniors for better talent!! But XFL would say thank you very much and bolster the rosters with better talent!! Could back fire on them!! Not sure if the NFL could bring other players in again like the last strike occurred!!??

[rayzor]

It would probably be good for me. More walks with the family maybe.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

7 minutes ago, t96 said:

All a part of negotiations. Realistically neither side can afford a lockout/holdout.

Owners tried to use replacement players back in the 1980's and it was pretty ugly.

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“We can’t have the inmates running the prison,” McNair told a roomful of NFL executives and other owners.

It was a gaffe in the classic political sense of “accidentally saying what you really mean.” McNair’s words were not meant for public consumption; the wider world knows about them only because ESPN The Magazine got wind of what he said and published it as part of lengthier tick-tock about what happened at the league meetings. McNair later apologized. When that didn’t fly, he tried to say his words referred not to the players, but to the league office. Pretty much no one believed him.

McNair’s behind-closed-doors candor should come as no surprise. His “inmates” remark has a direct antecedent that dates to the ’87 strike. As the CBA talks broke down that year, a quote that to this day is widely attributed to Dallas Cowboys president Tex Schramm started making the rounds. “You guys are cattle and we’re the ranchers,” Schramm supposedly told NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw during a late-stage bargaining session in September 1987. “And ranchers can always get more cattle.”

 

https://deadspin.com/the-1987-nfl-players-strike-created-the-modern-nfl-1819152183

[raz]

2 years, no problem.    forever, no problem

[thunderraiden]

1 hour ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Browns fans haven't really watched football in 30 years. 

Was Bill their HC that long ago?

[uncfan888]

21 minutes ago, rayzor said:

It would probably be good for me. More walks with the family maybe.

We have a baby due in August.. I'm sure the wife wouldn't mind it if football was delayed a while 

[stirs]

Been without it since 2015, so what's a couple more years.

Do we still get to draft in the 2021 season at 7?  I am warming to Smith actually ......

[Moo Daeng]

Of course. Who couldn't? What would happen,?

[stirs]

Igo is somewhere in the fetal position as we speak

[panthers55]

An extended strike almost killed baseball and football would be no different. People would find other things to do on Sunday over a 2 year period and TV revenue would drop. And neither side would benefit from getting what they want of a seriously diminished pie.

[countryboi]

he is just setting the stage he doesnt really believe he either side will hold out 2 years but if you asking if which side billionaires or their employees can hold out longer. you already know the answer.