*****Official Chiefsplanet NFL Lockout Talk Thread*****
 

We're heading in that direction. I had forgotten that the owners were going to get paid 5 billion dollars from the networks even if they don't play games. They just had a guy on the NFL network that's in the players union, talking about some of the decisions the owners have made leading to this point. He made some compelling arguments that they've been planning this for some time.

Now, whether or not that's true is another story. But he did make a pretty compelling case. I've always been a firm believer that these things always get handled in the 11th hour. I'm not so sure anymore.

I figured I'd make this thread to discuss the issues at hand. A repository if you will, of collected information regarding free agency this year, all the way to a possible strike next year. It's unfortunate, but we're there folks.

I posted this in the "Chiefs Losing Money" thread:

Technically, the likely possibility is a lockout rather than a strike.

Wanna quit losing money? Get rid of the enormous rookie salaries.

This. Huge difference.

With the chefs winning next years super bowl, that will give us an extra year to celebrate.

That is crazy that $94 million is 27th in the league. The Chiefs have to be dead last.

They can't risk letting it come to this. Look at how the other 3 leagues suffered for years after their strikes and lockouts. No way does the NFL let their rock solid position as the top US sports league slip away. Can't do it. Just can't.

They were.

I find the Packers only making $20 million in 2008 extremely hard to believe. The TV deal that runs through 2011 for CBS, Fox and NBC and 2013 for ESPN is worth roughly $20 billion(depending on which sources you are looking at).

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Edit: $1.1 billion per year just from the MNF broadcasting 2006-2013.

LMAO

I guess they got what they paid for

thats pretty much the way i feel. Why risk your position as top dog? i find it hard to believe they can't figure out a way to share all that money. guess ill start gettin ready for Texans tryouts just in case.

This. Sux either way, though. I hate it when professional sports talk about 'Labor Strife' and 'Work Stoppage' like they actually live in the real world.

Just like the NBA, the owners will get the players to fold b/c most of them live paycheck to paycheck.

Theres always College Football and by the time the NFL strikes the communist government will make College football play a playoff.