Lockout seems inevitable...what will you do

[Brooklyn Bully]

Work stoppage KILLED the NHL, and hurt MLB. Baseball has slowly creeped back but the NHL is damaged for many, many more years. The NFL will recover much faster than MLB has but I will still be very angry. Going to every home game is a huge part of my year. Not being able to go will just be miserable.

[Claws]

It will cause damage and some of those won't come back...ever. Hockey is a prime example of pissin everybody off.

College will just make even more money and a lot of those fans won't come back...ever.

The nfl can't be this stupid!

[Nicbsbll2]

Baseball and college football... then college football and hockey. I wont be happy, but I'll survive.

Hell, I'll even watch high school football.

I've got enough to do me over until the NFL returns.

[unicar15]

I don't get how a group of individuals can be stingy enough to the point that they are willing to go without making any money rather than giving a little to make less than the maximum.

DeMaurice Smith is the biggest douchebag in the history of pro sports player associations if he lets this continue. If Upshaw were still the president of the NFLPA this wouldn't be happening...something would be done by now.

58 million TVs were tuned into the NFCC this weekend...that is astounding. The NFL and its owners make more money than they know what to do with and they are griping about fractions of what they take in every year. Same with the player's union....

[unicar15]

I disagree...the NFL is much more popular than baseball was then. The strike didn't help baseball but life was changing for people anyway and the days of having time to sit down and follow a 160+ game MLB season was no longer feasible. The strike just accelerated the inevitable.

The NFL could strike and the following year people would still come back and devote a couple of hours out of their Sunday to watch. I know I would.

I agree though that hopefully the two sides are not that dumb to let he decision of how to divide up billions of dollars even come into play on hurting the NFL and what it has become today.

There are a lot of casual observers to the NFL that would be turned off IMO. People like us (that have interest in specific teams) would come back but I bet that a percentage of those casual fans would just go back to watching college football.

[Mattiekrome]

Start a simulation season on Madden 2011, watch the games every week just like I would real NFL football.

Hmm, I would finally take full interest in college football, something I've never gotten fully on board with.

I do remember never really getting back into MLB after the strike ended, it just kind of faded away for me. Of course the NFL is way more entertaining than MLB (at least to myself it is).

[ChucktownK]

Back to surfing, just like the post-season.

[CatMan72]

Root for the scabs and hope we find a couple of keepers.

[PanthaSan]

Watch reruns of my second favorite sport, curling. Now there's some real sporting action

[carpanfan96]

While no doubt the rest of the owners are doing this for themselves, there are a few owners in the NFL that don't make any money what so ever. Those team's need that drastic reduction in player salaries to stay afloat.

For example in 2007 over half the teams in the league made less then 30 million in profits on the year. Including the panthers, with a handful of teams making 1-7 million. The lions had a loss of 3.7 million for the year. The highest team made 58.5 million dollars before taxes (redskins).

In 2008 there were two teams that lost money on the year, as well as the Boys and Vikings making less then 10 million dollars. Average Profit for a team was 32 million, skewed heavily by the Redskins making 90 million dollars. 18 teams made less then 30 million dollars and it was the NFL's most profitable year ever.

Also just to note, there are a few teams in Debt. The worst being the Dolphins at 400 million in debt.

This past season will have been one of the worst profit wise for the NFL because of the low raise in tv deals and quite a few teams having trouble selling tickets.

[ThPantherFan]

I guess the UFL will make a strong showing. Maybe they will put them on TV. I haven't attended or watched a pro baseball game since they struck. Of course that was a players strike. I have a hard time sympathizing with multi-million heirs going on strike for more money. I'll have a hard time with it. But then again, maybe I don't know all the reasons for a lock out.

[beastson]

How did we get to this point anyway

[Kyle82]

Damn.....hopefully this won't even be an option :toetap05:

[carpanfan96]

How did we get to this point anyway

Free Agency and Players wanting more and more money..... 60 percent of all profit's to players, then just to stay afloat teams have to continuously upgrade the stadiums and/or make repairs. = most teams making less then 30 million dollars a year.