Probably. Seems neither the players or the commissioner for that matter seem to realize that their job is to fill the seats and keep the advertising dollars coming in. Ability to play is secondary. As the dollars dry up, down goes the salaries. Owners are not without blame either. If an employee of mine was alienating 50 percent of my customer base, he’d be looking elsewhere for employment real quick.
“If an employee of mine was alienating 50 percent of my customer base, he’d be looking elsewhere for employment real quick.”
If you check in the players contacts that tie in with the NFLPA, you’ll see it is in there twice that they can not do anything that will alienate the fans by actions detrimental to their club. So the owners are just as guilty as they could do something to stop it. And they have the players over a barrel as the CFL will not hire a suspended or behavior released player in an agreement with the NFL.
All of them could stop it. But now they are in over their heads and will be paying the “price.” Being able to pay players has been a problem before in the NFL and the AFL. Clubs went bankrupt and closed the doors. We’ll see.
rwood