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I've brought this topic up on a few other threads, so at the risk of repeating myself, I'll make the same general observation:

At some point, if the NFL persists it's anti-American position(and Goodell isn't fired), the collapse in cartel power becomes a potential business shark card game. Like all things in life, the Pareto principle applies ie the 80/20 rule. Same is true with the NFL - one could reasonably conclude that Dallas, DC, Giants, Chicago, GB, Pitt & NE are the Big 7.

If just a few got together and convinced another 8-10 teams to create a new league, it would be tantamount to going pig in a hi-lo poker game. Without the dilution of all the other minor, 2nd tier teams, the new rump league could probably generate the same amount of revenue with less than 1/2 the teams.

Of course, for any of this to work, the teams would have sweep clean any conflicts. For one, the Kneelers, Pats and others would have to issue a strong mea culpa and promise to never do it again. The new league would have to institute rules about behavior & termination, with a collective promise from other teams to enforce a black list.

It could work. The NFL only appears monolithic, but that's fairly recent history. Up until the 50s, the league was in constant financial peril. The 50s & 60s saw (successful) competing leagues and expansion.

At present, the entire league is TV driven. A new league, with a new start, adapted to new viewing alternatives, may have come about anyway at some point in the future. If this boycott continues - as I believe it will because it's incredibly simple to effectuate by simply *doing nothing*, then the downstream effects are going to become really interesting.

Congratulations, idiots. You’re just racing into your own (proverbial) coffins. Kiss the NFL goodbye.

You are so right TChris, they forgot about the “Dixie Chicks” debacle. They stood up at a concert in England and openly Disparaged the USA and the current Administration. This resulted in professional suicide for them as they alienated over 85% of their FAN base. That was over 12 years ago and they still have not recovered and will not at this stage.

Wonder if they ever heard of this guy? Wonder if any of them would ever follow in his footsteps if the need arose? I think we all know the answer to that - not even the cowardly/quisling managers and owners would give up their cushy lives for their country! Would any politician? More of the same! His ending was not a desired one but he didn’t flinch when his country needed him. That made him unique and not a coward.

“”Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was a professional American football player in the National Football League (NFL) who left his sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in June 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. His service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and subsequent death, were the subject of much media attention.[1]””