NFLPA Files Charges Against Owners

[jtm]

The owners are shamelessly exploiting a real economic crisis to opt out of a contract they signed by lying about their personal finances to squeeze more labor out of the players at less pay. They've gone about this by essentially telling the players tough poo, take it or leave it.

And people are defending this.

And you are defending people that get paid more than most people make in a year in one game. At the end of the day I don't care how they divide their big bag of money, but rest assured, the employees will not make this decision.

[Fiz]

i wasn't aware i was defending anyone

[KJDaniel31]

They don't have complete anti-trust immunity. They were sued last year for violating anti-trust laws and lost (American Needle v. NFL). Every professional sports league has the same immunity.

Just because you have some sort of anti-trust immunity doesn't mean you have to show all of your employees your profitability. NFL is not a public company. As I have said many times, if the players don't like go play in Canada or Europe. Plenty of others will be willing to get paid millions to chase a leather ball around.

I dont care that they have anti-trust exemptions (total or partial), and I dont care that they wish to keep their books a secret. I care that they have each of these, and demand my tax dollars to build new stadiums, all the while claiming they need said money to stay profitable.

It doesn't add up. If they didn't demand my tax dollars, I would care very little about their practices, but I am beginning to distrust them. That doesn't mean I've taken a side, as it appears I'm one of the few who is willing to admit massive ignorance on this subject. It just smells fishy.