rumored NFL lockout in 2011

Originally posted by Eduardo75:

Originally posted by Apples:
Replacement players!

I'll go tryout.

Falco!!!!! Falco!!!!! Falco!!!!! Falco!!!!! Falco!!!!!

Don't forget the "Wirey" kicker

Originally posted by Norwalks_Best:

Originally posted by Tru2RedNGold25:
No Football=The end of the world!!!

According to the Mayan Calendar 2012 is the last year anyway!

I am never disappointed by the depth of knowledge in the 'zone. Well done.

replacement players

There's almost two full seasons between then and now, so I wouldn't get too upset worrying about it right now. In fact, I'm pretty confident that they'll get it all worked out way before it becomes a game of brinksmanship; there’s just too much money involved for everyone not to think that they won’t get it worked out.

Originally posted by AC49er:
Wont happen no worries

I think I heard this song before, it might have been 1983.

Originally posted by boomer49er:

Think about that, the worst player in the NFL makes as much at the President of the United States, and that's IF he doesn't have a few years of experience.

Actually I'm pretty sure the worst player makes way more.

The size of your paycheck is not always an indicator of your actual talent.

It will all depend on what the players want this time and what the owners are willing to give.

Players want total free agency without being franchised.
They also want a higher cap space.

Owners want a rookie set scale
which the players may say ok but in three years (maybe two)- free agency

I don't think fans realize, not everyone plays 10 years and that even if the min is 400K, after taxes its half that. They don't see the medical bills some have to endure. I've read many a probowler after 10 years of playing when they get older can't lift a little kid or wake up with really bad pains. Football is the most brutal sport-if anyone is overpaid is baseball players.

I have only played in HS but because of my small size, once in a while i feel the effects more as I get older and close in on Hawaii 5-0


Can you imagine playing HS Coll and pro. Don't get me wrong-guys like crap
who have not played a down and have not proved anything should be b***hed slap-P Willis, Gore they should get what the owners can dish. Guys like Lott who pinky (?) just so he wouln't miss a game-well show him the money!

Originally posted by 9erfanAUS:
One thing that is glaringly obvious to me is the need for a rookie salary cap.

And you're right Boomer^, if there is a lockout during these tough times, football will slowly lose some of it's popularity. People will slowly begin to turn to other leagues to fill that void. It may be hard to bring some of those casual fans back...

-9fA

In my mind, Baseball never recovered from this.

What I would really like to see is an agreement so there is no uncaped year next year. We are not the richest team and I really don't want Crabs to get a big contract somewhere else.

Originally posted by nvninerfan1:

Originally posted by 9erfanAUS:
One thing that is glaringly obvious to me is the need for a rookie salary cap.

And you're right Boomer^, if there is a lockout during these tough times, football will slowly lose some of it's popularity. People will slowly begin to turn to other leagues to fill that void. It may be hard to bring some of those casual fans back...

-9fA

In my mind, Baseball never recovered from this.

The strike hurt baseball, but baseball also hurts itself with late games, late world series games and I really think younger people just do not want to sit down for a slower game.
Football is very popular, easily the most popular sport in the U.S. and has been marketed very well. I think we very well might have a strike and any downturn will be temporary.

De Smith: "Virtually impossible" to go back to capped system
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on February 4, 2010 5:01 PM ET

The NFL is expected to play 2010 without a salary cap in place. NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said that once that genie is out of the bottle, it will be "virtually impossible" to go back to a capped environment.

If Florio was here, he would write "Wow."

It's the first time Smith has used words that strong about the salary cap. Whether it's rhetoric or not, the battle lines here are being drawn. According to Smith, the salary cap system as we know it may be done for good one month from now.

Link

It's going to be interesting to see how this whole situation unfolds. If the NFL goes into a lockout, will it be able to regain it's popularity?

Originally posted by DANADA:

Originally posted by horsecore:
De Smith: "Virtually impossible" to go back to capped system
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on February 4, 2010 5:01 PM ET

The NFL is expected to play 2010 without a salary cap in place. NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said that once that genie is out of the bottle, it will be "virtually impossible" to go back to a capped environment.

If Florio was here, he would write "Wow."

It's the first time Smith has used words that strong about the salary cap. Whether it's rhetoric or not, the battle lines here are being drawn. According to Smith, the salary cap system as we know it may be done for good one month from now.

Link

It's going to be interesting to see how this whole situation unfolds. If the NFL goes into a lockout, will it be able to regain it's popularity?

A lockout will hurt them, but I think they'll recover fairly quickly.

To me, the most important thing is that they do not sign some agreement that screws up the league just to avoid the temporary black eye a lockout would give them. Eliminating the cap or raising it to the point that the smaller market teams have no hope of keeping/signing good players will kill this sport imo.

I believe that's exactly what happened to baseball. MLB is set up so that smaller market teams like the Kansas City Royals have no hope of ever competing with high revenue teams like the Yankees or Redsox. The moment teams like the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys can simply outspend everyone else to build better teams is the moment this sport dies imo.