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Originally Posted by SBXVII
Which is even more reason for whoever oversees business owners to step in. In reality the NFLPA should be ashamed for agreeing to this. They had so much leverage in this. If you want to punish your two favorite owners then your admitting to the fact the other 30 teams colluded and the NFLPA should be up in arms about this.
The Skins should lower their ticket prices, way low, since the money sent back to the League to help indigent teams is based off of the % of total revenue. They want to screw around then lets lower the ticket price because you know the market is so bad for DS also.
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there really isnt anyone that oversees business owners in general. if there are tax implications, the federal goverment could get involved but thats about it.
the NFLPA probably was up in arms about this when they first heard about it, but the NFL basically told the NFLPA: "We are mad and really want to screw Dan and Jerry over. so heres the deal - you let us screw them over, we'll let the cap stay where it is. Well take money away from these two teams, but we will redistribute it among the other teams. If you dont, we'll lower the salary cap this year enough that 32 teams will have 200MM less to spend on players.
The really horrible thing here is, the NFL openly admited to the NFLPA that they colluded against the players in the uncapped year. The NFL admitted to screwing the players 2 years ago out of hundreds of millions of dollars... and they had the balls to say, we did it before, and well do it again now, if you dont sign off on this.
In reality, i think the best course of action here would be for the skins and cowboys to make sure the players in general know about, and are aware of this. This would motivate the players to sue the NFLPA for not acting in their best interest. However,at that point we could have a big ole lawsuit and likely no football until its resolved.
Given that the other teams did exactly what the skins and cowboys did, and several teams did so more severely than the cowboys, i cant help but think the owners are pissed at the skins and cowboys about something else, and they are using this as an excuse to mete out the punishment they want for the other thing.
in the end, the NFL is a big, ugly bully, but theres not anything anyone can do about it.