The Start Of Free Agency To Be Delayed? (CBA Extension Talk)

[Wingspan]

the nfl is better because it doesnt play a 1000 game schedule and have half its league make the playoffs....player salaries have nothing to do with it

player salaries have no effect on anyone other than the jealous bitter working class fans who dont like kids caking off for life at age 22

wrong.

it's the constant competitive nature of the NFL that keeps the sell outs. you elimate the rules that keep all 32 teams playing on the same salary stucture, you will have 6 or 7 nfl teams with all the money paying all the players, and the rest of the teams fielding young underpaid players, where once in a while they will snag a playoff spot, but over all, it will be the big money makers in year in and year out.

when you have the small market teams that can not keep paying top money, you will have more franchises looking like the cardinals. the fans will stop going at the same rate. and they will lose more money.

keep thinking it wont happen. thats what every other league did, and they all struggle bringing in attendence on a league wide scale.

[rjs246]

Salaries have everything to do with why the NFL is the better league. The cap keeps things on a level playing field. Fans from every NFL city know that their team could be just a season away from competing because of the cap. Teams go from terrible to outstanding in short order because of parity. Take the cap away and you'll have the money-hogs developing dynasties and you'll have a small handful of teams who will be good for a long time while the rest of the league suffers. The cap has made the NFL what it is. If you don't see that you're pretty f'ing blind.

[ice grillin you]

the nfl more than any other sport is a team game...money can buy players but not teams...coaching and player personel decisions own the league...the teams that are best in those areas will win


the nba has had a cap for a while and its popularity is at an all-time low

baseball doesnt have a cap and is as popular as its ever been....baseball suffers more from a 162 game schedule as anything else


all that said im pro cap and i think the league is better with it....but lets not pretend the game will become unwatchable if they dont have one...people wont admit it but what it comes down to is heads not liking rich athletes and the nfl system screws athletes on the regular which appeals greatly to a lot of people

[MadMarchHare]

No one's saying it'll be unwatchable.
But it will decline in popularity.  A lot.  And the loss of parity will make it a helluva lot less interesting.

[hunt]

all athletes are rich compared to the average fan.

[rjs246]

You're a liar!

[ice grillin you]

yeah the nfl sucked in the 70's 80's and early 90's

sixers fans are loving the nba cap that is preventing them from being a contender for the foreseeable future

[hunt]

guaranteed contracts & out of control salaries are what killed the nba & mlb....i don't want to see the nfl go in that direction and getting rid of the cap is a precursor to doing just that, imo.

[ice grillin you]

baseball is more popular than is ever been and as good a product as ever...it hasnt been hurt much less killed


nba is just a bad product right now...partly due to guaranteed contracts but more to do with the salary cap and the influx of young not ready for the nba players

[rjs246]

Baseball has morphed into a homerun derby where large market teams dominate. May the richest, brutiest brutes win. And I thought I read that attendance and tv ratings have been in decline league-wide, though I don't really know for sure.

[SunMo]

where large market teams dominate. May the richest, brutiest brutes win.

Florida Marlins, Chicago Whitesox, Anahiem Angels

[ice grillin you]

i cant speak on tv...but the ratings of all sports are down including the nfl

as for attendance the league set an all-time record last year

[rjs246]

Florida Marlins, Chicago Whitesox, Anahiem Angels

1. Dismantled every other year.
2. What is their payroll right now? Didn't they just get Thome and sign Konerko to a huge deal?
3. Have a freak in the OF and a good coach. They might compete on and off, but they won't be a perenial playoff team like the Yanks and Sox of the world.

Exceptions are everywhere, they don't make it a good product.

[SunMo]

i'm just saying, more of the recent champs have been lower payroll teams than have been higher payroll teams

[ice grillin you]

it would save all of us a lot of time if you just said you hate baseball and moved on