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Schefter: CBA Meeting for Today Canceled, JR Rubbing People Wrong Way

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So, if owners lock out, player contracts are void and they don't get paid correct?

Maybe its a dumb question:

Whats to keep the already organized NFLPA from organizing its talent under 32 puppet 'owners' that they identify and sign up for. The only thing trademarked is the franchise brands. NFLPA applies for loan to foot the bill to pay the players a marginal 255k min salary (they were going to make zero that year otherwise). And then, leasing college football stadiums across the country to play the games and letting the tv stations come to them?

Seems like it would be pretty easy really... Every step of the way they would have all the leverage. Banks would jump in line to give the loan to pay the players for a season after seeing the NFL's (formally the NFL at least) revenue books. Colleges would jump in line and give sweetheart deals knowing that if they don't negotiate with the new boss, there would be no way for them to get top talent into their schools anymore as the paydays would be gone. NFLPA could institute whatever share distribution they wanted and the puppet owners would gladly sign. All they'd have to do is change their team names/logos, but keep whatever hometown identity they are currently associated with the same to carry over the fans ... I.E. Carolina Cougars... etc etc.

Done. Thanks for negotiating NFL.

Eventually, 4 or 5 years from now, they could then buy their original stadiums for pennies on the dollar if they wanted to.

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So, if owners lock out, player contracts are void and they don't get paid correct?

Maybe its a dumb question:

Whats to keep the already organized NFLPA from organizing its talent under 32 puppet 'owners' that they identify and sign up for. The only thing trademarked is the franchise brands. NFLPA applies for loan to foot the bill to pay the players a marginal 255k min salary (they were going to make zero that year otherwise). And then, leasing college football stadiums across the country to play the games and letting the tv stations come to them?

This just means going to play for the UFL or startup league. I assume this could happen if the lockout dragged on for a long time.

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Why would a player want to play for this old dolt? You guys better not hold your breath with us signing free agents ever again as long as Richardson's still in charge. Between him and Marty Hurney, he's turning Charlotte into the least desirable destination for free agents in the league. "The Carolina Panthers: We're crappy AND we won't pay you! Now won't you sign with us please?"

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So, if owners lock out, player contracts are void and they don't get paid correct?

Maybe its a dumb question:

Whats to keep the already organized NFLPA from organizing its talent under 32 puppet 'owners' that they identify and sign up for. The only thing trademarked is the franchise brands. NFLPA applies for loan to foot the bill to pay the players a marginal 255k min salary (they were going to make zero that year otherwise). And then, leasing college football stadiums across the country to play the games and letting the tv stations come to them?

Seems like it would be pretty easy really... Every step of the way they would have all the leverage. Banks would jump in line to give the loan to pay the players for a season after seeing the NFL's (formally the NFL at least) revenue books. Colleges would jump in line and give sweetheart deals knowing that if they don't negotiate with the new boss, there would be no way for them to get top talent into their schools anymore as the paydays would be gone. NFLPA could institute whatever share distribution they wanted and the puppet owners would gladly sign. All they'd have to do is change their team names/logos, but keep whatever hometown identity they are currently associated with the same to carry over the fans ... I.E. Carolina Cougars... etc etc.

Done. Thanks for negotiating NFL.

Eventually, 4 or 5 years from now, they could then buy their original stadiums for pennies on the dollar if they wanted to.

None of it seems easy really and history has proven that multiple times. First, I can't imagine an NFL player risking his lucrative NFL career to slum around for 250K a year just to prove they don't need the NFL. I doubt anyone would be jumping at the chance to fund another football league, especially one run by the clowns currently running the NFLPA. Colleges would never jump at the chance to screw over the NFL for a thrown together, hodgepodge league that would have little, if any, chance of long term success. Also, without major TV contracts, stadiums, or fan loyalty where exactly would this revenue stream originate? Sounds like the owners have all of the leverage here just like most people outside the NFLPA realize.

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There isn't one thing unreasonable that the owners are asking for, and if it takes an real man like JR to drive that into the thick skulls of the NFLPA then let be so.

SUCK IT, NFLPA. :dita:

Sometimes in life, you have to play the asshole because it's the right thing to do.

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There isn't one thing unreasonable that the owners are asking for, and if it takes an real man like JR to drive that into the thick skulls of the NFLPA then let be so.

SUCK IT, NFLPA. :dita:

Sometimes in life, you have to play the asshole because it's the right thing to do.

That's the attitude that will give us no football for awhile.

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That's the attitude that will give us no football for awhile.

I love the sport dearly, but it would disappoint me MORE to see the players union stand in the way of improvements to the sport and the fan experience, than to see the owners concede to the entitlement and faked suffrage of the union.

Especially because this is the union that defends Albert Haynesworth's ill-gotten gains against the Redskins, JaMarcus Russel's rookie salary against Oakland, your inability to watch some away pre-season games, and annual wage increases of 10% per year forever. Like I said, the NFLPA can SUCK IT.

:smash:

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