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Originally Posted by Brock
The average NFL salary is 900,000 dollars. It isn't an exorbitant salary unless you're talking about top tier QBs. Secondly, this viewpoint that "they play a game" keeps getting brought up. Yes, they "play a game", a dangerous game, a game that takes a significant number of years off their lives, and significantly affects the quality of those years they have left. They trade those years for money, and I don't understand why people think they should just take whatever line of bullshit the owners throw at them.
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Agreed. They don't play a game. They perform a service which generates high revenue. Same as actors or top salesmen or anyone else who has a skill for which people are willing to pay.
OTOH the owners provide the venue without which their skills would be marketless. And those owners can replace players quicker than players can replace owners.
Which is why both sides need to get their stuff together and hammer out an agreement that keeps the golden goose laying.