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The NFL is more accessible than any other sport. Free football every week on your local networks.
Greed? Gimme a break.
The nfl increases viewership every year.
Amazon prime is a bargain, Netflix is already in most homes.
Sounds like a bunch of Veruca Salt’s in here:
“Daddy, I want to watch football and I want it now”
 
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Mackeyser said:
Also, capitalism isn’t monopolistic, quite the opposite. In capitalism in a perfect market, sellers COMPETE with informed buyers on price and value and buyers seek out products that meet their needs at the value point they feel most comfortable with. The NFL is a monopoly cartel and extracts monopoly rents.
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That's the rub, right? The NFL can put more games on streaming and force us to pay a fee and have us still be subjected to commercials because.... they can.

We are a captured audience. There is no competition. Another league can't start up during the Fall and compete with the NFL because the NFL would crush them. And Congress would let them. The salary cap isn't there to help players, it's there to keep the owners profits rolling by curbing bidding wars on players and thus artificially keeping the game competitive to secure profit.

A real rival league competing against the NFL would raise player salaries, lower prices for fans, but also lower the take for the owners. And the owners won't let that happen. That's why the NFL and AFL merged back in the day. Monopolies are good for one group only. And it ain't us.

God when I think about this crap it really pisses me off. Time to take up drinking again.
 
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OldSchool said:
Irrelevant IMO so next year there will be a few different players taking my money. Means absolutely nothing to me it's still players taking as much as the other guys.
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That's fine.
I'm just saying that players are out there laying it on the line every game, and the league's business side while necessary to an extent, sucks at the teats of the players like leaches for their 50% .
No wonder Goodell gets booed robustly at the draft every year.
We fans want to see the players play, and it just gets more difficult every season.
If the players received a 60 / 40 ratio instead of the 50 / 50, the league would probably still survive.
I think this horse is dead now. :cheers2:
 
dieterbrock said:
The NFL is more accessible than any other sport. Free football every week on your local networks.
Greed? Gimme a break.
The nfl increases viewership every year.
Amazon prime is a bargain, Netflix is already in most homes.
Sounds like a bunch of Veruca Salt’s in here:
“Daddy, I want to watch football and I want it now”
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OldSchool said:
They do so they and the players can both make money off of us fans. I get it the owners are billionaires and there are about 2400 millionaires. There's a whole lot of our money floating around among them. I don't separate them but some want to for their own reasons. They both take our money when they didn't used to especially at this level. To me they're both complicit and neither is some knight in shining armor they're made out to be fighting the bad guy. They're both bad, greedy and a lot of the time lazy as long as they're making their share of the money.
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I wasn't completely disagreeing with you but I would place the blame 70/30.
 
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