No matter what side anyone is on it's going be the fans that pay for it. I have no problem with players wanting a bigger piece of the pie they deserve it. However the owners will just increase the price of tickets and the fans will pay for it.

When people can't afford to go they wont and then there will be less revenue for the NFL.

I hope Winston gets AIDS in less than 20 years

Winston is the one who brought up coal mining.

He's the one who invited the comparison.

Don't be a dumbass.

Ticket revenue is minuscule compared to the $9 billion dollars in TV revenue.

Yep.

And the PPV model won't recapture what the inevitable cable rights contraction bubble gives back as the bubble peters out. There just aren't enough viewers to make up for what the non-viewers are presently subsidizing. Player salaries, at least in relation to inflation, will be going down at some point and I don't think that point is too far off.

Within 10 years the owners won't have the license to print money they do now and as the television experience gets better and better, their ability to recover ANYTHING via gate sales will be diminished. Most teams can't sell out with any regularity now, even when they have quality squads.

The supply and demand curves are already not intersecting at the present price points - owners can't just keep jumping up the ticket prices infinitely.

Which may well be what causes the standoff - everyone involved in the game would be wise to make hay while the sun is shining. It won't be this bright for much longer no matter what any of them do.

Yeah I know that too but if the stadiums start looking half empty because of lost interest in going do to cost increase then I think it would have a trickle effect on TV because viewers will notice the crowds not into it and that will affect the mindset of watching games imo it will be a downward spiral. Image is everything.


Baseball the World Series is exciting because you see all those people in the stands even though the cost of a single ticket can be in the thousands it's not an average home game during the season. After saying that about WS tickets being so expensive I don't know if I have a point? People will pay out the ass for good product but if the product doesn't look appealing then they wont and I think that is my point with the empty seats for watching it on TV.

And dopey gigantic stadiums, outside of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, will and should be a thing of the past.

With Los Angeles, the stadium build makes complete sense because we're hosting the 2028 Olympics. Finally, there will be a venue to support a Final Four, which has never been hosted by any city on the West Coast.

Vegas makes sense, too, as it's already a destination. But IMO, future stadiums should be limited to 50,000 seats or less, especially with the advent of UHD 4K TV's, not to mention, the emergence of Virtual Reality.

Figures, KC gets a franchise QBOTF only to squander his prime years on strike.

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Millionaires fighting with Billionaires. Sorry I dont feel for either of them.

Not with a face like that. Well, maybe with a face like that.

I liked that guy until I saw that narly mouth of his, not suprised at the stupid shit that comes out of it.

I don't fully believe and agree with you. There should be protection of the workers. Just because there's a difference of degrees to auburn doesn't mean there isn't pain associated with each one.

What do the players get revenue percentage wise compared to other sports?

Only thing they should try for is guaranteed contracts. And the league shouldn't pay out more than 50% revenue.

Only ones that should be pissed are the fans and stadiums that get fleeced by them.