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Originally Posted by Backwards Masking
This new CBA could be an excellent thing for the small market teams. Of course the leauge will always pander to the owners who tow the company line and stick up for the obscure rule calls and officiating no matter how bad it is (Dan Roony, cough, Pittsburgh, cough, Super Bowl XL cough cough). But if done correctly, the NFL could have as much parity as everyone says it does. This could also help eliminiate East Coast bias.
It's kind of damned if you do damned if you don't for the small market owners. Stick for keeping the Big Cities on the PrimeTime games (a year or two ago both Redskin's / Eagles games were Sun and Mon nighters even though neither made the playoffs the year before.) in order to generate revenue, you won't see KC, Seattle, Minn, Jax etc play very often. Stick up for your small market team and go against the grain you get punished for getting out of line.
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I think people want to make this a sob story for small market owners, but my guess is, you'd have to try really, really hard to lose money given the amount of ridiculous revenue sharing they get from the league.
I don't blame Jerry Jones at all. He actually cares about his team and sinks money into it. People talk a lot about how the salary cap has created parity in the NFL. I call BS. What's created parity in the NFL is the salary floor.