Eagles a member of "The Gang of Nine"---

[Diomedes]

I'm with wiggy on this one.

[Rome]

When I started paying for my family's Eagles tickets in the late 1980's they were 10 bucks a ticket.

They're 65 now.

My income hasn't increased 650% since then, so no, I don't feel the least bit of sympathy for the players any more than I feel it for the owners.

They're all greedy fargheads and none of them gives a shtein about you, me or any other fan.  If you honestly think they do, you're delusional.

[Tomahawk]

The Eagles, like every other person or organization, absofarginglutely LOVE me. If you don't think so, you're dead wrong.

[phattymatty]

I make a sizable donation every year to the NFLPA, just in case any of those football players are having money troubles.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I want whatever is going to help the Eagles become more competitive.  Since the Eagles are one of the more profitable franchises, I don't want them to have to give money to other, less-profitable franchises.  Also, since they manage the salary cap well, I don't want the cap removed or increased to the point of irrelevance.

[Rome]

The Eagles, like every other person or organization, absofarginglutely LOVE me. If you don't think so, you're dead wrong.

$20 hookers & stilloncrack's Mom don't count.

[rjs246]

They have $20 hookers now?! Jackpot.

[Rome]

They had gloryholes in the cheerleaders locker room and they charge $8 for a beer.

Is it really so difficult to believe they have $20 blowwhores available too?

[PhillyFan]

When I started paying for my family's Eagles tickets in the late 1980's they were 10 bucks a ticket.

They're 65 now.

My income hasn't increased 650% since then

Of course it hasn't.  The popularity of the NFL has grown so much fueling a huge increase in demand for tickets.  Since the 80's they've added only 4 teams and kept the 16 gam  schedule, so the supply of tickets hasn't gone up all that much.  Maybe you need to learn a specialized skill that is in short supply, but great demand so you can keep pace. 

[PhillyFan]

I'm against revenue sharing in the NFL even more so than MLB.  I don't even want to hear about small market teams not being able to compete in the NFL.  Not when you've got a team in GB that's been able to field one of the more competetive teams over the course of the last 10 years, including 2 trips to the SB. 

I wonder if there's any chance that GB was competitve because the NFL has been sharing most of the revenue and had a salary cap in place since 1994.  Take that away and maybe you'd have seen a different result.   

[Rome]

When I started paying for my family's Eagles tickets in the late 1980's they were 10 bucks a ticket.

They're 65 now.

My income hasn't increased 650% since then

Of course it hasn't.  The popularity of the NFL has grown so much fueling a huge increase in demand for tickets.  Since the 80's they've added only 4 teams and kept the 16 gam  schedule, so the supply of tickets hasn't gone up all that much.  Maybe you need to learn a specialized skill that is in short supply, but great demand so you can keep pace. 

Demand for tickets doesn't cause them to rise as dramatically as they have. 

650% increase.

How many other products have increased 650% in price over that time span?  Has a gallon of milk?  How about a gallon of gas?  There's more demand for those items now than there was 20 years ago, yet prices remain relatively stable.  How about housing?  Has the median cost of a residential property increased 650% over that same time period?  How about automobiles or any other commodity you can think of?

No.  Ticket prices have increased because of gluttonous greed on the owners/players part and the abject stupidity of season ticket holders like myself.  We've allowed this to happen because we love the game.  I don't have a problem with them making market value for their talents but I also don't feel the least bit of sympathy for them when their careers end either.

[MadMarchHare]

Dude, in 1988 I could get regular unleaded for $0.79 a gallon.  It's now around $2.19.  That's up nearly 3 fold.  And gas isn't as popular, and less scarce, than football tickets.

[Tomahawk]

Gas isn't as popular as football? I bet more people use gas than watch football.

[General_Failure]

More people have gas than footballs.

[Rome]

Labor talks break down again - impasse over revenue sharing, etc.

The greed and stupidity of millionaires and billionaires never ceases to amaze me.