[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

BAD idea. Teams with owners like Jerry Jones who is spending profits like a madman will be screwing his players over. They bring him a ton of revenue and it's not their fault if he chooses to drop a billion dollars on a stadium or gets himself fined for a punt-blocking TV screen above the field (somehow he escaped any responsibility with that blunder).

Even for the Skins this year, the stadium is being renovated and that will cut into the profits for the year. Snyder's likely not handing the contractors cash at the start of the job, he'll be paying off a construction loan/note in the near future for the work. Should the players be penalized for the owner's decisions on how to use the revenue and affect his profit?

This would not be on a team by team basis, it would be based on the league as a whole like, it is now. And even then, yes players should be "penalized" by getting lower salaries if profits are down. Likewise they should be rewarded when profits go up. It's not fair that the owners and taxpayers pay for stadiums out of their pockets and the players don't have to contribute anything towards it. Players need stadiums to play in.