Posted on 07/13/2017 6:01:25 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
To improve their individual pay, NFL players need to improve their collective pay. To improve their collective pay, they need to be willing to strike.
“If we want to get anything done, players have to be willing to strike,” Sherman said at Wednesday night’s ESPYs in L.A., via Deadspin.com. “That’s the thing that guys need to 100 percent realize. You’re going to have to miss games, you’re going to have to lose some money if you’re willing to make the point, because that’s how MLB and NBA got it done.”
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“You also have to realize you’re replaceable, because it’s happened before.”
The NFL games with the strike replacement players was an abject failure.
The NFL won’t make the same mistake.
Please strike!! Pretty please!!
The NFL has lost viewership. This will cause millions more to quit watching. They will have college games to watch instead. Companies are demanding lower rates for ads, while others have quit altogether. A strike will cause more companies to reevaluate their sponsorship. The players may think they have the NFL by the throat, but they have a serious image problem as well.
It’s a losing proposition. So of course, the idiots will do it. College teams can also play on Sunday to fill the vacuum.
I heard on a discussion of this on a sports radio. They were talking about how it was easy for union reps and quarterbacks with ten year careers to talk about missing a season. But the problems were with convincing the linemen and backup running backs who might be in the league for three years, making the most money they ever will, to give up one of those years so future players can make more.
Not really. The strike only lasted three weeks and a lot of well-known players cross the picket line. The players won’t make that same mistake.
Poor Richard doesn’t realize that 420 NBA players mathematically get a bigger slice of the revenue pie as opposed to 1700 NFL players. Really must T him off that benchwarmers in the NBA are getting 10 mil a year because of their CBA (which will eventually kill the NBA)
I heard on the radio that the Dallas Cowboys had $700 million in revenue, and $300 million in profit last year. Salary cap for this year in the range of $180 million.
The only leverage the players will have is if they can sit out an entire season, no playoffs, no Super Bowl.
If I was the NFLPA union chief, I'd be working on that...yesterday, to include reaching out to NBA and MLB players to fund a "bank" for low interest loans to certain players in the event of a strike.
You show the owners that kind of staying power for a full year, and the small market owners will be less intransigent at the bargaining table.
Like I said, they have three years to plan for it. There will be no excuse if they go in unprepared against the owners.
For years after the 1994 baseball strike I was actively hostile to baseball, turning off the TV or radio when it came on even if other people were watching it. Now I just don’t care. I watched two innings of the All-Star game and only recognized a couple players. So a season destroying strike can eliminate long time fans.
By all means I think it’s a great idea for you to keep bashing those that feed you.
Teams are struggling to stay under the luxury tax now, after shelling out $2 billion on free agents in the past few weeks. As happy as I am for Kelly Olynyk, a former Zag, it's crazy that he got a 4 year, $52 million contract from the Heat.
Between Richard Sherman and Colin Coprophage, there may be no NFL left by 2019.
Just Do It!!!
If the owners have any stones what-so-ever they party like it’s 1987 all over again — And I will celebrate.
Suicide is not the answer, Richard. Come down off that ledge.
I’ve been an NFL fan for 50 years. But, if it were to disappear tomorrow it will be missed for about a month. Maybe 6 weeks by the hard core fans.
Please do. With audiences already declining because of the Kaepernick trainwreck, a strike would turn off a whole new batch of potential consumers. Then maybe we could see some real sports instead of a bunch of whiny, overpaid gorillas.
Talk is cheap. Do it.
Colluding collectivists. Why not impeach the owners, Sherman? Well, I quit watching 20+ years ago (sad sack Lions) and all teams some time ago (wardrobe malfunction - hollywood football - entertainment v sports / opinions v measurables)
I have a preference for college football where they have a higher cause than MONEY.
One of the reasons there was talk about Sherman being trade bait.
Yes a strike is exactly what the NFL needs. LOL can’t stand these idiots!
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