wco81 wrote:CrimsonCrew wrote:Because the owners want a low cap The lower the cap, the higher their profits.
Sure but NFLPA must have been fooled or something into not having player salaries grow as fast as the TV money.
Maybe they traded higher salaries for more benefits like pensions and health care for retired players.
You would think they get at least the same percentage of revenues as under the older TV contract.
Larger rosters reduces individual bargaining power. Extremely militaristic ethos of sport casts individuals who standup for their own interests as bad teammates/people, somehow completely absent similar judgment of owners who do it much more. Then add violent nature of game means problems often take care of themselves from team’s POV, heightening ‘eat or be eaten’ philosophical underpinnings of sport snd solidarity is not really a thing. And on top add the fact that fans ALWAYS ultimately side with the teams over the players because players come and go more frequently, and this semi-fantasy most fans have that ‘there but for a few breaks go I’ sense that these guys, the upper 0.00007% of the population at what they do are, in their on average months long career, are somehow getting away with murder, and you get the inequities we all see but don’t compare to any other employment scenario, unless it’s denigrating.
