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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

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.

Same could be said about George Steinbrenner and he was horrible for baseball. I hear all the things about the parity in baseball, but the Yankees have only missed the playoffs once since '96 and in that span have won more World Series than all but a handfull of franchises have done in their whole history.

Jerry Jones has made no secret he wants to bring about a similar inequity for football. He pushed against the league to try to get his own sponsorships. He pushed to get merchandise taken out of a community pool, which is one of the big reasons for the inequities.

These owners didn't make all their money because they aren't competitive. Jerry Jones can afford to sink money into the product because he has a cash cow with his organization. Someone like Jerry Jones wants to make his own rules. Small market vs big market is a problem in every sport. Competitively its not as big a problem in football because any small market team can compete if they don't care about the bottom line for the short term, up to a point. If they can build a brand around their name like the Steelers or the Packers, they can eventually make some money. The question is why should they knock themselves out to break even while Jerry Jones is making hundreds of millions each year?