That's like saying customers are not important to the companies they buy products from. If the product deteriorates or becomes something of disdain to the fans then the business goes downhill.
Salary cap works to create the feeling that all teams have a chance. Making the owners spend the large majority of the cap means that teams must at least try to be competitive. Without the cap, Jeery would spend whatever he felt the increased revenue from success would justify. He may very not win every year but he would definitely spend more than everyone else to win.
The cap is crucial, therefore the salaries of each player effects the opportunities for success - so as a fan, their salaries, which the FANS ultimately pay, is our business!
There are people who buy products which are advertised during the game, yet those people do not watch football. Some of that revenue ultimately ends up in the hands of the league and team through the purchase of the rights to telecast by the broadcasting company. One might make the case the majority of people purchasing those products are not football fans, or at the very least fans of other teams, which makes their viewing sketchy about how that is involved with the Cowboys.
So your fans ultimately comment - fans capitalized for emphasis by you - is not as significant in the big scheme of things.
The cap is a mechanism created by the league to hold salaries down under the auspices of making the game competitive, which was a point you made. One might make a legal argument this is a form of labor price fixing. Perhaps only because the league deals with the players union, who may be bought off as unions tend to do in favor of ownership - the history of unions in America suggests this could be the case - prevents this from being flat out illegal. Understanding the interstate commerce laws that came into play early in the Super Bowl era when the two leagues were merging, that created an agreement between the Federal Govt and the league to not show four games - two on CBS and two on Fox currently - gave the league a pass on the interstate commerce laws, meaning each team would be seen as a individual going concern, while governed by the league.
The league dodged a bunch of grief for this which allows a salary cap, which is collusion between franchises in an industry that sets costs of labor.
Now factor in the draft which forces college players to be hired by a specific team instead of operating in a free market to seek their job and its salary in a competitive way instead of again slotting and price fixing by the league.
The claim this is for competition becomes laughable after looking at the NE Patriots win so many championships over the last decade and a half.
All of these aspects dilute the fan participation as you see it, because this competitive nature is a smoke screen to hide the truth the league and its owners skirt laws that most of the companies in this country must abide.
Currently there is a class action on milk price fixing, and this is not the first time that industry has been called on the carpet. While these two issues are not related - price fixing vs salary fixing and free market access to employment - you can see how not everyone is being governed under the law equally.
One last point on Federal intervention, the lawmakers on a national level agreed to cut down the number of games shown on a specific day to placate women complaining about their husbands glued to the TV all day Sunday. Another example of the Feds being influenced by lobbyists and pencil pushing to look like they made a Solomon-like judgment.
So this is not a small deal at all, but the Federal Govt allowing the league a free pass on colluding to set salaries.
So trundle off and play this pretend Madden game of salary cap, then insert your opinion Dak, or any player needs to give a home town discount if you choose. The machinations which make the cap a fact cause the idea to be ridiculous. Add to that you have no say whatsoever, that further exacerbates the absurdity of your point. Then factor in most, if not all the people who are arguing this point would try and get every last dime they can because this is a business, and it moves this idea of taking less to the preposterous.
The sobs and tears by those angered by Zeke's contract, or Dak, or any player for the Dallas Cowboys using this cap argument ignores one HUGE truth.
Nothing this team has done in regard to the cap over the last 23 years and counting has produced even a sniff of an NFC Championship game, much less a Super Bowl. That negates any argument that Dak taking less will suddenly cause Jerry and his management staff to have a clue how to equate winning with money.
Enjoy this game and feel as connected as you must. But truthfully, to me this is merely swatting flies on the Titanic. You, nor any fan has a fiduciary claim to the team's finances and how they spend their money.
As Mia Wallace once said, "that is an exercise in futility."
