The NFL Salary Cap and Socialism
The big news over the last couple weeks has been about the collective bargaining agreement in the NFL. My understanding of it is that the owners and the players union can't agree on a salary cap. The players want the cap to be higher, meaning that there will be more $$$ to spread around to the 53 man roster. Many owners want the cap to stay relatively low so that they can keep a larger potion of their revenue as profit. However, there is also another major point of dispute in the quest for a new collective bargaining agreement, it is revenue sharing.
The top revenue producing teams would have to share some of their revenue with the lower revenue producing teams. It is argued by the league that this will help keep the "playing field" level, allowing teams that bring in less money the same opportunity to succeed and thrive as the big market clubs. It will prevent the NFL from becoming 6 elite teams, 10 mid-level teams, and 16 low-income teams; Thus creating a better, more competitive league.
If this is easily understandable when pertaining to sports, why is it so hard to comprehend when it is suggested in the real world?
The top revenue producing teams would have to share some of their revenue with the lower revenue producing teams. It is argued by the league that this will help keep the "playing field" level, allowing teams that bring in less money the same opportunity to succeed and thrive as the big market clubs. It will prevent the NFL from becoming 6 elite teams, 10 mid-level teams, and 16 low-income teams; Thus creating a better, more competitive league.
If this is easily understandable when pertaining to sports, why is it so hard to comprehend when it is suggested in the real world?
posted by Media.Truth at 7:34 AM
1 Comments:
Being that I have been in law for over 8 years, and would say I was a 'fan' of sports.....I still dont understand the whole collective bargening.
I think the players get paid too much anyway regardless of the salary caps. If you think about it, who will really spend all that money in their lifetime? I'm sure in some way, it is possible. To me, its highly unlikely.
Everyone wants to be compensated for their abilities to perform well, but I think the NFL/NBA needs to be realistic and stop overpaying their players. To me its not necessary to pay someone 40 million a year (just throwing that out there) and then they could possibly get hurt the next game and they are no assett to anyone anymore.
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