“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.
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.
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.
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.
Depends on how you look at them. The union caved, that makes it pretty successful for the NFL. Of course the big lesson the NFL learned from that is to move the “beginning” of the season to March. Technically speaking the last CBA negotiations had the longest work stoppage in NFL history, March to the end of July, and the only game that got messed with was the Hall of Fame game.