It bothers me the way these NFL owners/execs make these long term plans....

[jadillac]

You see these old (white) men making multi-billion dollar future plans about moving teams, scheduling games 10-15 years into the future, expanding, doing things to make themselves billions of dollars, building huge stadiums, etc....ALL under the complete & automatic assumption that these young Black men/athletes are simply going to be there...ready and willing to put their bodies & future health on the line. All of these decisions hinge completely on Blacks.

Now....will said Black athlete be there? Indeed, more than likely they will. Just the nature of the beast in our current society.

I'm not suggesting the NFL or it's owners are racist or have a slave mentality, but it's just the way the hierachy of power is set-up. And, to these eyes, it just looks bad.

Just imagine if by chance somehow/someway these Black athletes formed their own professional league. Or even if it just became a legitimate POSSIBILITY. The NFL and all the hundreds of billions of dollars it encapsulates in it's totality, would literally start to shake & crumble overnight. Those billion dollar stadiums would be nearly useless, the hundreds of millions of dollars in NFL TV contracts would be useless. And so on & so forth down teh line of revenue streams.

Think about that level of power.


Yes, I get it, it's a business and you MUST plan for the future, but it's just a little odd to my mind sometimes.


Black athletes are 99.9999% the reason the NFL machine operates, but have 0% of the power.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Someone give Radio Raheem some batteries

 

[jadillac]

Someone give Radio Raheem some batteries

anyone with stupid-ass comments & deflections like this can keep them.


It's ok, to discuss and express ideas/opinions about the way things are.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

First page...we might witness fukkery

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

anyone with stupid-ass comments & deflections like this can keep them.


It's ok, to discuss and express ideas/opinions about the way things are.

Oh STFU

 

[jadillac]

Oh STFU

No offense, but you're White.

You obviously have no issue with the process. And if you do, it's not important enough to you to discuss it as a problem.

 

[Easy-E]

I'm sorry, it's hard to even engage in this topic when the new to-go to sound enlightened is to examine the racial implications of everything without proper historical context.

It's like "white male employer + black employee = slavery."

You can cook, but, this is low hanging fruit that poisons actual discourse and solution building on real racial issues.

 

[Codeine Bryant]

I'm not sure what you're getting at...

Every business operates under the presumption that it will still be operating in the foreseeable future and plans accordingly...

And no, the NFL players won't ever be able to make their own league. 70% of NBA players go broke within 5 years of retirement. I'm sure the NFL stats are in the same neighborhood.

I'm to believe dudes who can't even manage 8 figure contracts for a few months in a lockout can somehow build a multi-billion dollar enterprise??




These aren't highly educated Rhode Scholar African Americans we're talking about. These are guys that usually struggle to meet academic standards and take bullshyt paper classes so they can play on Saturday. A grip of them have to go to JuCo just to get into D1 programs.

The young men that are capable of building the type of enterprise that is the NFL are in business and economics. They're not strapping on pads and helmets to play on Sunday and shorten their lifespan.

 

[Da King]

The house negro is more than happy to accept the crumbs off the white mans table, till they get checked, nothing will change

 

[Forlife44]

Nothing will ever change. First I can't see the black league being giving the tax exemption that the NFL has and also the owners would probably get their friends in Congress to make the sport illegal before allowing black people to take over. And last but not least I can't wee the hit public supporting a black run sports league.

 

[resurrection]

I'm confused. Besides startups whose only goal is to be bought out by a big company for a huge payday, every business plans its operations with the assumption that it will have employees to run it. Even if players went on strike or something like baseball, they'd bring in replacements. No large businesses are, or could be, run purely by a handful of the most powerful executives. So just confused what your point is

And your post also has a lot of hyperbole in it. Sure black is the largest racial demographic of NFL players (it's basically 2/3) but saying their decisions "hinge completely on blacks" is pretty dishonest. Maybe their decisions hinge completely on players being there, of course, because there is no football without players to play it. But if I knew nothing about the sport and your post was my first exposure to the game, it would sound like every single player is black and being black is somehow a prerequisite to being a player or something. Just not really sure if I can take your points seriously given that level of hyperbole.

 

[concise]

I'm not sure what you're getting at...

Every business operates under the presumption that it will still be operating in the foreseeable future and plans accordingly...

And no, the NFL players won't ever be able to make their own league. 70% of NBA players go broke within 5 years of retirement. I'm sure the NFL stats are in the same neighborhood.

I'm to believe dudes who can't even manage 8 figure contracts for a few months in a lockout can somehow build a multi-billion dollar enterprise??




These aren't highly educated Rhode Scholar African Americans we're talking about. These are guys that usually struggle to meet academic standards and take bullshyt paper classes so they can play on Saturday. A grip of them have to go to JuCo just to get into D1 programs.

The young men that are capable of building the type of enterprise that is the NFL are in business and economics. They're not strapping on pads and helmets to play on Sunday and shorten their lifespan.

Add the fact that the athletes are pulling in millions, collectively, not billions like the owners are.

When downturns in business happen, like fans staying away or revenues being down, how much money are they sitting on as a cushion?


They'd have to build up their own billion dollar stadiums with taxpayer money for teams with no history in a brand new league. Then they'd need some sort of history for the emotional capital to be able to boldly charge extort fans on tickets, concessions, parking, etc.

And then get the billion dollar tv contracts that enable everyone to get the money they're getting these days.

 

[Spaceman Piff]

i mean.. they're paying millions of dollars to the athletes..

it's not exactly far fetched to assume that there will be people willing to take their money

the nhl operates assuming they'll have hockey players next year.. nascar assumes it will have drivers.

besides availability of teams, there's nothing stopping a billionaire black person from buying an nfl team.

but would that make the nfl any less unfair to the players? not really.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

No offense, but you're White..

LOL


Quit while you are ahead, Raheem.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

What else these young brothers are going to do? You have to plan for that. I judge strippers but in essence, what else can most of those chicks do to pull in that type of money? It's the same for an athlete. My issue with athletes isn't their money but they rarely stimulate their neighborhood's economies and give sustainable opportunities to black people. They don't have to do it but it would be nice.