Possible Strike Next Season? (Updated ESPN Article-3/12/08)

If the owners are dumb enough to opt out of the CBA, bring an end to the era of parity, and send player salaries even higher.....well, they deserve what is coming to them.

Let's merge this thread by Mc2Guy into the "Strike Coming Next Year?" thread

Sorry, I searched for Lock Out and couldn't find another active thread...apologies.

No worries. I can see how you'd miss this

interesting to see that the owners have instituted a debt limit. I thought that Snyder might be preparing for the end of the cba by saving his money now, but it may be that he has a ways to go to get under the debt limit by 2010 & needs to start now.

Thats goodfor us because two of our three SB victories occurred during strike stricken seasons.

Awful hard on the FLA. peops there Daseal! Maybe if you qualified that to apply to pro sports only.

Tampa Bay has absolutely no problem with selling tickets. Sure they once did, but by the categorizations above, no one does right now. And the Bucs haven't been doing it for a couple of years, they are on 10 years of consecutive sellouts. Best bet is to stay away from generalities.

Tampa Bay has absolutely no problem with selling tickets. Sure they once did, but by the categorizations above, no one does right now. And the Bucs haven't been doing it for a couple of years, they are on 10 years of consecutive sellouts. Best bet is to stay away from generalities.

I thought I remembered the Bucs having trouble selling tickets, so I did a google search. I'm too lazy to see if they had trouble with ticket sales during the regular season, but I they did have trouble (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jan/03/bucs-giants-tickets-still-available/?sports-bucs) selling out tickets to a playoff game. That's not good.

Awful hard on the FLA. peops there Daseal! Maybe if you qualified that to apply to pro sports only.

Football is huge in Fla., there is some of the best high school & college ball in the country. I think that's the problem J'ville has, they're competing against U. of Fla, Miami & Fla. St., all of which have been powerhouse programs over the last 20 yrs. or so. Now Central Fla. & USF are also competitive.

Doesn't mean that people can't support both, but their loyalty is toward tradition & J'ville doesn't have much of one since its only 12 years old.

You are right Freddy, the gators are huge in Jax and I travel there often and most fans prefer the gators to the Jags. Many have said if they get offered Jags or Gators tickets they take the Gators. People only have so much money to spend on sports tickets.

Another factor in Fla is that there is so much do do there in Nov & Dec. When most in the northeast have no choice but to sit inside (or outside) and watch football because the weather sucks, people in Fla can be out playing golf, tennis, motorcycle ride, etc. Once again more competition for the limited amount of disposable income.

The formula I have heard for an NFL franchise is that the TV money pays the players and the ticket sales and concessions pay the owners. If ticket sales are down the owners of those teams are not making money. That doesnt sound like a gravy train to me.

I thought I remembered the Bucs having trouble selling tickets, so I did a google search. I'm too lazy to see if they had trouble with ticket sales during the regular season, but I they did have trouble (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jan/03/bucs-giants-tickets-still-available/?sports-bucs) selling out tickets to a playoff game. That's not good.

Not to defend tough ticket sells, but there are a number of clubs that struggle with Wild Card games. Had they made it to the divisional round (yeah, right) and struggled, then I’d agree. Ten straight years of sellouts is ten straight years and that is impressive. I was taking issue with the statement(s) that pro football in Florida is a loser and I pointed out that blanket statements like that can easily be contradicted, as it was.