Play football brehs

[Kyle C. Barker]

Football players put in a lot of work to get to a league where the average career is no more than 5 years. I think that is where it is messed up for them. If you include the college gatekeepers there is a couple of billions made off their labor just for the chance to get to the next level while colleges act as a clearinghouse for the NFL. In England, players as young as 17 can sign professional contracts. Football is obviously more dangerous and teenagers are unlikely going to be able to handle playing professional football but too much of their life is spent making money for other people. Hell Real reportedly paid Odegaard 80K euros a week when he was 16. He could flop but at the very least made money off his labor. Guaranteed contracts are the best though, there are dudes that fall out with the manager/coach and are banished to reserves but still pick up their check every week.

This is good argument why college players should be paid

 

[Larry Lambo]

If they pay the players more, it's just going to come out of the pockets of the fans. Owners are not going to reduce their profit to pay the players a higher salary.

A lot of the teams aren't really making that much in terms of income anyways. Most teams made less than $100M last year while the salary cap is $168M.

So say they raised the average salary up from $3M to $5M, that would mean teams would be losing money.

Play a sport with 53 man rosters and only 16 games, and you aren't going to get paid as much.

 

[homiedontplaydat]

nikkas get hurt too quick in football. If you have guaranteed contracts everywhere that shyt would cripple teams. It's fukked up but no other sport matches up in terms of the sheer amount of injuries.

Well one could say because they are RISKING THEIR LIVES on the field that would make them worth more right? I guess a better question is how much is a football player's life worth

The NFL will probably never get the contracts the NBA is getting currently, but they still deserve a bigger share of money. The sport is dangerous and has more long term affects on the body than any other sport besides MAYBE boxing/mma. They should be paid more for the risk involved if anything

 

[The Emperor]

Time for a lockout

 

[Larry Lambo]

Well one could say because they are RISKING THEIR LIVES on the field that would make them worth more right? I guess a better question is how much is a football player's life worth

The NFL will probably never get the contracts the NBA is getting currently, but they still deserve a bigger share of money. The sport is dangerous and has more long term affects on the body than any other sport besides MAYBE boxing/mma. They should be paid more for the risk involved if anything

Are you willing to pay more to watch them risk their lives, tho?

It's not about what you deserve, it's about what you command in the market.

 

[Cheese McNair]

You guys need some perspective...

Football has created more black millionaires than any other sport -- remember, there are 72 jobs available for players on every team (53 man game-day roster plus practice squad), then there are dozens of jobs available for coaches & coordinators & trainers.

I keep hearing how great the NBA is for players, but there are only 15 jobs available on each team...again, the NFL has 72 jobs open per team.

If you don't make the NFL, you can go coach D1, D2, or D3 football...or head over to the CFL or Arena leagues...again, an abundance of jobs.

I know it's en-vouge to hate the NFL right now, but no other league has uplifted more black folks out of poverty. The 'Rooney Rule' was created by the NFL, meanwhile the NBA banned brothas from wearing urban clothing to the arena while at the same time allowing Donald Sterling to shyt on black people for 30 years.

But the NBA is great for blacks, right? Not when compared to the NFL...

There's a reason that football is king in this country, and black people should be the last ones trying to tear the sport down.

if more black kids were taught to play futbol, then this wouldnt be the case.

 

[homiedontplaydat]

Are you willing to pay more to watch them risk their lives, tho?

It's not about what you deserve, it's about what you command in the market.

I'm not watching them at all I don't fukk with the NFL like that but the players have more power than they think they do. Dude people in this country are ADDICTED to football, they'll pay anything to watch these guys bash their heads together. The money is there, it's up to the players to organize and go get it

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

im sure its written in the contracts they have to pay regardless and im sure they have insurance in that case, the nflpa is so weak because the majority of players buckle. They need to do what the nhl did years ago, basically they got their joseph in egypt on told the players that in a few years there will more likely be a strike to start saving your money, thus players were able to last the year and get what they wnted.

The nfl at the moment like another person mentioned is top heavy, the middle and bottom wouldnt survive they'd be getting those eddy curry 40% type loans

If ads don't play then you don't get paid. It's why the NBA tries to force series to 7 games. Most of the TV deal money is a back end type deal. The pressure from the network to get those games back on would have that strike over before it even started.

 

[MikelArteta]

If ads don't play then you don't get paid. It's why the NBA tries to force series to 7 games. Most of the TV deal money is a back end type deal. The pressure from the network to get those games back on would have that strike over before it even started.

NFLPA: TV deal intended to benefit owners during possible lockout

The NFL Players Association filed a complaint Wednesday, claiming that the language in the league's television contracts acts as a form of lockout protection for team owners, guaranteeing them revenues even if football isn't played in 2011

im sure its in the new tv contract as well

owners get their gwap regardless

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

NFLPA: TV deal intended to benefit owners during possible lockout

The NFL Players Association filed a complaint Wednesday, claiming that the language in the league's television contracts acts as a form of lockout protection for team owners, guaranteeing them revenues even if football isn't played in 2011

im sure its in the new tv contract as well

owners get their gwap regardless

" The league also has said that failure to play games would force it to reimburse the TV networks, regardless."

Owners can survive longer because they're generally richer than 99% of all people but they'll have the networks on their asses because the networks will have the beer companies and sex pill companies on their asses.

The NFL isn't broke but they can't afford to not play those games just as much as the players.

 

[It is a mystery]

I played football in Middle and HighSchool and took some of the worst hits. I seen other players take WORSE hits, Nothing happened to me or them. Some of yall have to stop being scary.

Are you really trying to compare being hit by a middleschooler to a brolic adult who has made a career out of hitting people

 

[Dorian Breh]

And they pay ZERO taxes.

fukking absurd

@Feds