Comments on: Memo to NFL: Don’t make me have to watch baseball! http://boltbeat.com/2011/04/05/memo-to-nfl-dont-make-me-have-to-watch-baseball/ A San Diego Chargers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:58:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: thegregone http://boltbeat.com/2011/04/05/memo-to-nfl-dont-make-me-have-to-watch-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-2120 thegregone Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:03:23 +0000 http://boltbeat.com/?p=5529#comment-2120 You know Macho, I agree with a lot of this argument, but part of it speaks to my point. That point is that even the owners are not on the same page. How are they going to bargain with the players when they can't even agree amongst themselves? The big spending owners (Jerry Jones, Daniel Snyder etc..) are making an embarrassment of riches but they don't want to evenly divide those profits even with their fellow owners from the small markets. Sound familiar? (MLB, NBA) However, the small market teams are viable in the NFL more than any other sport. The smallest market team in the league just won the Super Bowl! New England could still be considered a small market team, have you seen their payroll? They're from the Boston market, yes, but they have made a rule of not paying anyone an extraordinary amount of money. Atlanta is a contender and so are the Chargers. To your point, the small market owners are unintentionally forming a division amongst their own. Jerry Richardson did no favors by insulting Peyton Manning and Drew Brees during mediation. Last I checked, Carolina has been irrelevant since 2004. At least the players are united. Some of their proposals can be thought of as posturing, chips to be discarded during negotiations. The draft illegal? No salary cap? Not gonna happen. Tweak the franchise designation? Likely. Point is the owners need to unify the way the players have so we don't miss any games this season. Well written point. Enjoyed reading it. Thanks. You know Macho, I agree with a lot of this argument, but part of it speaks to my point. That point is that even the owners are not on the same page. How are they going to bargain with the players when they can’t even agree amongst themselves? The big spending owners (Jerry Jones, Daniel Snyder etc..) are making an embarrassment of riches but they don’t want to evenly divide those profits even with their fellow owners from the small markets. Sound familiar? (MLB, NBA) However, the small market teams are viable in the NFL more than any other sport. The smallest market team in the league just won the Super Bowl! New England could still be considered a small market team, have you seen their payroll? They’re from the Boston market, yes, but they have made a rule of not paying anyone an extraordinary amount of money. Atlanta is a contender and so are the Chargers.

To your point, the small market owners are unintentionally forming a division amongst their own. Jerry Richardson did no favors by insulting Peyton Manning and Drew Brees during mediation. Last I checked, Carolina has been irrelevant since 2004. At least the players are united. Some of their proposals can be thought of as posturing, chips to be discarded during negotiations. The draft illegal? No salary cap? Not gonna happen. Tweak the franchise designation? Likely. Point is the owners need to unify the way the players have so we don’t miss any games this season. Well written point. Enjoyed reading it. Thanks.

]]> By: Ernie Padaon http://boltbeat.com/2011/04/05/memo-to-nfl-dont-make-me-have-to-watch-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-2112 Ernie Padaon Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:53:07 +0000 http://boltbeat.com/?p=5529#comment-2112 seriously!!!! just get this thing done so we can watch some football again!!!!!!! seriously!!!! just get this thing done so we can watch some football again!!!!!!!

]]> By: MachoMenos http://boltbeat.com/2011/04/05/memo-to-nfl-dont-make-me-have-to-watch-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-2107 MachoMenos Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:29:18 +0000 http://boltbeat.com/?p=5529#comment-2107 You should care how they settle it. Why? Because if they don't settle it the right way our Chargers will get screwed. Most people think that it is a players vs. owners thing but it's not. It's really a players and high revenue owners vs. the small revenue owners. The high revenue owners are not sharing all of their revenues anymore which is why they want to strong arm the players out of an extra billion off the top. Technically, the owners are only asking for the same percentage off the top that they got when they originally made this deal. That billion used to be from an original total of 4 1/2 billion a year. Now that they are making 9 billion a year, percentage wise, 2 billion is equal to the 1 billion off the top. However, this solution would still have the Jerry Jones', Robert Kraft's and Daniel Snyder's still not sharing their extra profits with the rest of the league. The players have made out like bandits in the last 15 years. The salary cap has increased from 34 million to 128 million from 1994 to 2009. How would you like to make more than 3 1/2 times what you made 15 years ago for doing the same job? Although they say they're happy with the current deal (why wouldn't they be?) in their lawsuit against the league they want to make the franchise tags, the free agent tenders, the salary cap and even the draft, illegal. Basically, they want the same deal baseball players have. If any of these scenarios play out the small market teams will still be screwed. The last time I looked the Boltz are a small market team. So, yeah, you should care. You should care how they settle it. Why? Because if they don’t settle it the right way our Chargers will get screwed. Most people think that it is a players vs. owners thing but it’s not. It’s really a players and high revenue owners vs. the small revenue owners.

The high revenue owners are not sharing all of their revenues anymore which is why they want to strong arm the players out of an extra billion off the top. Technically, the owners are only asking for the same percentage off the top that they got when they originally made this deal. That billion used to be from an original total of 4 1/2 billion a year. Now that they are making 9 billion a year, percentage wise, 2 billion is equal to the 1 billion off the top. However, this solution would still have the Jerry Jones’, Robert Kraft’s and Daniel Snyder’s still not sharing their extra profits with the rest of the league.

The players have made out like bandits in the last 15 years. The salary cap has increased from 34 million to 128 million from 1994 to 2009. How would you like to make more than 3 1/2 times what you made 15 years ago for doing the same job? Although they say they’re happy with the current deal (why wouldn’t they be?) in their lawsuit against the league they want to make the franchise tags, the free agent tenders, the salary cap and even the draft, illegal. Basically, they want the same deal baseball players have.

If any of these scenarios play out the small market teams will still be screwed. The last time I looked the Boltz are a small market team.

So, yeah, you should care.

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