The issue with the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) & Owners is the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) percentage of PROFITS!
The level for this season is 52% to NFLPA 48% Owners. The owners want a decrease in profit sharing and a decrease to team cap levels.
The owners are crying broke PLEASE!!! TV PROFITS are at an all time high and profit sharing from team to team (local TV market profits sharing) is also at an all time high! The teams with huge fan base travel beyond great, go to any Steelers, Cowboys, Eagels, or Patriots (just to name a few) away games and in most cities with a losing team & you think its their home stadium. There is plenty of money to be had by all. OH, by the way this year Dish Network paid an undisclosed amount to air NFL Red Zone! MORE MONEY MORE MONEY MORE MONEY!!!!
The NFL is the only pro sports league where they can make a player renegotiate their contract because they have no guarantee contracts in the NFL. That is why most NFL contracts are usually front loaded and high on incentives. Imagine you come to work one day and they say take a 30% to 50% pay cut or get fired. This happens every year to way to many players under contract and its completely played out as if he does not "ACCEPT THIS HARD BALL TACTIC" the player is some how not a TEAM PLAYER! Yet if he wants a pay increase for being the BEST at what he does "HE IS NOW SOME HOW SELFISH AND GREEDY"! Hell I work and get a raise every year or I move on. Heck because I am a highly skill IT professional I do not deserve my raises because Joe blow make less as a short order cook "Really"!! but that is the attitude the average person takes towards professional athletes.
Please give me a break if the owners want to decrease your contract that is fine but if you want a raise as a player your a greed monger! That is straight up BS. I.E. CHRIS JOHNSON & DARRELLE REAVIS.
The owners get away with this because the PUBLIC/FANS are full envy & jealousy towards what NFL players make or any other professional athlete for that matter.
I support the players 1000000% on this issue the average player in the NFL plays only 3.5 years. So, with that in mind why would anyone deny them what they deserve for all they put into it. Your not a TEAM PLAYER unless you play HURT. The hell with what that will to do your body when your no longer playing Hell you made enough money right! Maybe because the fan base has whoulda-shoulda-cloulda attitude towards the professional athlete!
So, Yeah there will be a strike next year in both the NFL & NBA!
The owners held all of the chips for far to long and really want to go backwards in its treatment of the athletes.
Of all of the professional sports leagues the NFLPA has more reason to strike than any other league IMHO!
Those billionaire owners will be just fine I guarantee you!!! No one ever put limits on what they can make in their fields of endeavor but its perfectly fine to expect the athlete to except limits.
As far my team The STEELERS we could win it all or fail to make the playoffs again all depends on how hungry they are to win it all. the STEELERS have the talent its all about attitude and drive to excel at this point.
HERE WE GO STEELERS HERE WE GO STEELERS HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maxi...................
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