i think the salary cap is one of the best things in professional sports. i hate MLB for this reason. and i don't like guaranteed contracts in the NBA. if the NFL goes this route i'll become a full time college football fan since college teams will most likely have their players longer than the pro teams will. the NFL ain't broke, let's not try and fix it.
yeah but they also level the playing field. there aren't any players starving. and i don't want smaller markets to suffer. if you want to take money from the owners, that's fine with me, give it to the former players who broke their bodies for the ascension of this league who can't pay medical bills and such now.
I like the cap as long as there isnt team turnover every year. I like to see teams become dynasties and have success for a long time, but at the same time it still gives teams in small markets the opportunity to become successful, without just giving it to them.
this last statement is exactly it. No team is broke, so why should they be confined to a cap? No one here will like it, because they know the Saints have a cheap-skate owner, but you'd feel diff (as I do), if your team had a wealthy owner, as mine does.
I already think the NFL has the worst officiating and has added too many stupid candy-ass rules to protect the moneyman QB BUT if they remove the salary cap, that's it for me. The owners blame the players and agents... The players and agents blame the owners... ...and the people that continuously take it in the shorts are the fans. The #1 most overused comment by a "below-average intelligence" player holding out for a new contract...I need to put food on the table for my family. The #1 most overused comment by a greedy owner...We need a new stadium in order to generate enough revenue to stay competitive. Cha-ching...cha-ching
I'll disagree with this one. I'm a Red Sox fan, and our owner spends an arseload of money, and has won a couple of titles. I still think baseball needs to do something to make the bottom half more competitive. Teams like Jacksonville, Green Bay, New Orleans will become the Devil Rays, and the Royals. That's not good for the league.
There is no NFL team that even remotely comes close to losing money. There would be no Marlins or D-Rays with 10 mill payrolls in the NFL.
I meant from the competitive on the field point of view. But since you brought up money, the NFL is set up a LOT different than MLB. The NFL has true profit sharing. Each team gets identical cuts from the league's TV deal, and no team has their own network. MLB on the other hand, just about every team has it's own network (or regional contract). The money coming in from that (or lack there-of) varies drrastically from team to team. There is no way Green Bay, Jax, and NO could compete spending wise with teams like Dallas, the Giants, the Redskins etc. So these teams could do like the Yanks and Red Sox. bid against each other (driving up the price) of all the best free agents. While the teams making less money have to settle for scraps.
