Agitate to collectivize the NFL!

The People's Cube ^ | 2-27-14 | Kommissar Brainiac

[ReformationFan]

Now that the big game is over it is time to rethink professional football.

Many young progs are running around claiming “team ownership”, touting that it is “their” team is the best. The ugly truth is that the teams are owned by some bourgeois one percenter and they owe you, the fans, nothing. They are exploiting you and getting rich as a result. Football is a business and you have been tricked into buying branded items to advertise for them with no compensation! Stop being exploited!

The last big game also showed disparity in awarding points. Denver worked so hard to get to the game and yet they were not rewarded fairly for their efforts. This inequality must not be allowed to poison the minds of the collective!

We must therefore look to the glorious progressive city of Green Bay that holds ownership of their team, and call for all football teams to be collectivized. End the exploitation of the fans by the bourgeoisie! We must also demand that all points are distributed equally. Remember in the Glorious Progressive World of Next Tuesday™ there are no winners and losers, only winners!

Every team should get a trophy at the end of the year. It is only fair.

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The league would argue that all that makes the season more competitive.

And no, a team doesn't just have to sit around and weight until it wins -- ask the Lions or the Browns.

A situation where the largest city with the largest media market always gets the best players and usually wins the championship, as was the case with the New York Yankees for a long time, doesn't look much better.

[Alberta's Child]

If balanced competition is so critical, then the NFL should just have a new draft every year with all of the existing NFL players mixed in with the new ones. Then a QB like Peyton Manning could play for 15 years in the NFL on 15 different teams.

Don't laugh ... it's getting closer and closer to that.

[Alberta's Child]

And unlike big-league baseball, the NFL never had a problem with competitive imbalance tied to market size. Otherwise, how did Green Bay end up being such a dominant team in the 1960s?

The league's national TV contract pretty much eliminated any disadvantage that small-market teams may have had.

Ironically, city and state income taxes in the Northeast are putting many of those big-market teams at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to signing players to big contracts. In purely monetary terms, a team like the New York Yankees has to offer at least 10%-15% more money to a free agent in order to "match" an offer from a team in a state with no income tax.