dsturgeon
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Okay let’s create a scenario:
The NFL no longer wants the NFLPA and their litigations. So they break with them and start anew.
The problem is the NFLPA is a union, meaning every player was under contract through that union. If the NFL wants to break off from the NFLPA, they would be voiding each and every players’ contract... in the entire NFL. Now the NFL has absolute autonomy, can do anything they want to the players. Why would the players be okay with this? They wouldn’t. So they get new executives who set up a make shift league, not unlike the XFL or the USFL. Difference? They have all the NFL players.
so in 12 months time we have a Super Bowl played by the Green Bay Packers and the Cleveland Browns. The starting QBs are a guy from the arena league and a guy from the indoor football league. Players who never even saw the nfl because they weren’t particularly good in college. It’s a sloppy game, lots of turnovers.
Now to the upstart league’s championship, the Tempe Tomcats with Russell Wilson throwing to Odell Beckham and Julio Jones, vs the New Hampshire Hampsters, with Tom Brady and Aaron Donald going on a torrid pace through the whole league.
Which game do you think people would want to watch? The sponsors go with the audience, all the money would be in the new league in a matter of months. Suddenly the 3b$ NFL teams aren’t even worth 300m$.
The players are the league. It’s already happening in the NBA, they have guaranteed contracts and just say when they’re done playing for a team. What can the league do? Tell them they don’t need that player? They absolutely do, it’s their entire profit model.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t root for Jeffrey Lurie. I root for my guys
Not to that extent of breaking with the nflpa, but there are negotiations. I find it hard to believe, that there is no way to get it done to where players cany hurt their team and other players by holding out.
As you can tell by my previous posts, I am not an expert. I also don't see why a large amount of the players would have a problem with this. Especially the ones that don't play QB and DE. I would think every player but watson on the texans, wants him to shutup and play
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