NFLPA is warning players to start saving money now for a 2021 lockout

[MikelArteta]

It's not on the union it's on the PLAYERS!!

MSNBC reports that according to financial experts familiar with the NFL, about 380 of the league’s 1,700 players live paycheck to paycheck. This is despite the fact that the average NFL player salary for the 2010 season was $1.87 million. But considering that the NFL rookie minimum salary is $320,000, that average is skewed heavily because of a few superstars. Most rank-and-file NFL players, who earn in the low six figures after paying taxes and their agents, could be in serious financial trouble.

Poor personal finance leaves NFL players at a loss during lockout

yeah considering the average starting qb prob makes like 18 mill its heavily skewed.

 

[Remote]

I've never seen a convincing argument for why NFL contracts are not guaranteed.

"Bbbbbuut injuries!!!"

And?

 

[duckbutta]

NFLPA can only be as strong as the players within it. the players keep conceding and won't stand pat, so the union reps have no choice but to give in.

It's actually because their is not another viable football league for the players to play in...unlike the nba where if you don't make it so what you can go overseas and make a few hundred thousand a year and get to the league eventually...

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

It's actually because their is not another viable football league for the players to play in...unlike the nba where if you don't make it so what you can go overseas and make a few hundred thousand a year and get to the league eventually...

this isn't about options to get into the league tho it's about current and former players. people not in the league don't have shyt to do with these negotiations or making the NFLPA soft.


brehs need to stand for the greater good if the NFLPA is ever gonna move the needle, but they won't, so people need to stop blaming the NFLPA when it's the constituents who aren't willing to make the sacrifice required to gain leverage for the players in the long-term.

 

[duckbutta]

this isn't about options to get into the league tho it's about current and former players. people not in the league don't have shyt to do with these negotiations or making the NFLPA soft.


brehs need to stand for the greater good if the NFLPA is ever gonna move the needle, but they won't, so people need to stop blaming the NFLPA when it's the constituents who aren't willing to make the sacrifice required to gain leverage for the players in the long-term.

The NFLPA is soft because players don't have any other alternative to play football for this type of money...or really any type of money...in any other league...so they are going to put it with whatever the owners tell them to put up with...or the owners are going to be like "you don't like it fine then lets have a lockout....good look finding another players to make XXX amount of money playing football"

It's just simple logic...the less options you have...the more you have to put up with...and if you want to play professional football...then there is only one real option...the NFL...so you going to do whatever the fukk the owners say do...or you going to go play for 35k a year in the CFL or some shyt...