NFLPA To Decertify By March 3rd

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Originally Posted by Donger

From my reading, the salary cap didn't even start until 1994. Did big market teams "take over" in the years prior to 1994?

You missed the part where free agency didn't exist. If there's no free agency and the draft is honored (ie, when you are drafted by the chiefs, you are a slave to the chiefs for life, until they decide they dont like you any more), then the large markets are powerless to do anything with their money.

If free agency doesn't exist and the draft is honored, we are pretty much not having this discussion and don't really care as much about the CBA. Have a union, don't have a union, whatever, we still own you if we draft you.