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dogunwo said:

The risk is much greater for the player. They put their entire body and health on the line. The owner's risk is spread out across all players and the business model is practically guaranteed to make money. Dallas has been largely mediocre for the last 25 years and yet they continue to make more and more money, and increase in value more and more. What risk is that?

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CouchCoach said:

I side with the person that is generating the interest that causes the venture to be successful. I don't know anyone that ever paid to go watch the owner, producer or record label.

The players are the sport, I seldom side with the owners. I do not fault them for any money they make because people are paying to watch them.

I also find the most ridiculous statements made here about how pro athletes should be give hometown discounts to help the club like they're holding the club back. Aren't the owners responsible for managing their teams to be able to field competitive and entertaining teams?

I wonder how many people here would take less money so your company could afford to pay others? It is Pollyanna to even think that's what they would do.

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ScipioCowboy said:

When Jerry bought the Cowboys, they were hemorrhaging cash. It was considered a massive risk, and he made them profitable.

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Dallas Cowboys: Why do fans always side with ownership?

The Dallas Cowboys fan base is beyond loyal. They are supportive, rabid and inherently believes it is their divine right to win the Super Bowl. Every. Sing...

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ScipioCowboy said:

When Jerry bought the Cowboys, they were hemorrhaging cash. It was considered a massive risk, and he made them profitable.

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FVSTONE said:

Fan are tired of watching owners throwing multi-million dollar contracts at players who turn into Underachievers and over hyped bums! It's not the owners fault that season after season players getting paid act like they are owed more than what they sign for and will whine and cry 24/7 until the owner goes back to the table. Most fans are probably pay check to check people who are happy to have an owner who doesn't mind throwing money around trying to put together a team good enough to win championships and when players can't hold up their part of the agreement fans tend to side with owners..............

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Diehardblues said:

The Cowboys were not considered a massive risk. There were several bids to purchase the Cowboys.

They were losing money cause the team had three straight years of losing which was first time since their early expansion years. And the economy in Texas was hemorrhaging with the Savings and Loan scandals that forced our owner to sell.

All that was needed was winning again. Which Jimmy brought .

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ScipioCowboy said:

But it was though.

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Diehardblues said:

Not at all or it wouldn’t have sold for the highest price for a franchise to date.

All they need was to win. If they hadn’t it wouldn’t have turned .

And why Jethro eventually implemented revenue streams that didn’t rely with the success on the field.

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Diehardblues said:

Right

I’m not sure why some fans take such issue with players salaries . It’s pure jealousy. It’s sports entertainment at the highest level.

We don’t have a problem with a Rapper or Rocker making up to a 100 million on a tour. Or an Actor making 25, 30 million in a film. But OMG. A QB making 25-50 million is where they draw their line in the sand. Lol

And then have sympathy for Billionaire owners who most don’t even rely on the revenue from their franchise. It’s mostly a very wealthy mans toy and or expression of arrogance.

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StuckMojo said:

Guess you never heard of a salary cap? If there was no salary cap fans would not care what each player made.

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ABQCOWBOY said:

I disagree 100%. If not for this agreement, players would still be in the situation they were in so many years ago. At this point, players salaries have grown significantly because of the CBA and agreements between the Player's Union and Ownership. However, an interesting thing has happened since about 2007. While salaries have increased significantly, the increase in salaries according to status of said players have seen a real shift. What we are seeing is an overall increase in Salaries paid out but a smaller percentage being paid out to the average medium, as opposed to an increased percentage being paid to the upper echelon of NFL players.

So basically, what this shows is that the exact situation we are seeing in Dallas with Dak is exactly what the problem is with the modern NFL. This is not the teams creation, this is a player problem and more importantly, the agents driving these deals and the upper end players. For years the popular opinion has been, players should get whatever it is that they can get because your career is limited. Well, that model supports a lot of the Star players but it supports the average players less, and less. Is that the way it will always be? Perhaps, but it's certainly not the popular societal view in modern America, among a great many. So the question becomes, do we continue with this system or change it? Do we allow nature to take it's course or do we change the system? This is not a situation the Owners can really fix. I mean, they can devalue the position of QB and that would solve the problem, for a time, but eventually, the same situation would evolve again, perhaps a different position, who knows? The point is that the Owners are giving over a reasonable amount of money to players. It's the mismanagement of the cap that is creating this issue, based on demands of players through agents and compounded by this idea that all QBs, regardless of how good or bad they are, should be paid more money then is reasonable or responsible, supported by a great many of the fans. This practice has dire implications for not only Dallas but the entire sport. It's bad for everybody Dak. You may suggest that increasing the payout of cap by owners, to players, would be a solution but it won't fix the problem. You have to change the process and start paying according to production, rather then this mythical next up model. That can't sustain and will only create a bigger problem IMO.

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DakPresgoat said:

I hear what you’re saying.


But my ultimate point is. The salary cap is an artificial construct, that whatever it was created for, acts as a means to limit the salaries can be ultimately paid based on the agreed upon revenue sharing between the teams and players Union.

If there was no cap, each individual team would be ultimately making its own choice for how much they want to spend on their players.


Owners who are wealthy outside of football could even choose to take an overall loss on players salary, in the name of trying to win.


Now the cap does have negative impacts on driving down salaries for mid to low level players as the star players continue to push and soak up more and more of the pie. You’re right about that.


The artificial construct is why fans care about player salaries so much though. If Jerry Jones was losing money on the cowboys. By paying players ungodly amounts of cash in an uncapped league. Would any of us care? I wouldn’t. Maybe other fans would. Idk

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