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ESPN is reporting that it's likely NFL owners will opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players association next week. We danced in this club back in 2006 when then-commissioner Paul Tagliabue kept the CBA in tact before handing the reigns over to the Principal Goodell AND struck a record-breaking television plan that has the the league continuing its domination of American sports. Many of the things Tagliabue saved in '06 are at stake again next week. First of all, the salary cap. Um, if we play 2010 without a salary cap, I can tell you who will when the Super Bowl that year -- the team that buys all the free agents during the coinciding off-season. So probably the Cowboys. Then there could be a lockout. That's lame, and the salary cap is what keeps the NFL stable and ahead of leagues like Major League Baseball, which is still trying to figure out what NFL owners did in the 1980s. Next on the chopping block would the NFL Draft as we know, which is still my single favorite sporting event. But ESPN also implies that these doomsday scenarios are worked into the CBA to encourage owners to come to an agreement. That's nice to hear, but I just don't trust rich people tugging on opposite ends of a dollar. I thought the NHLPA was sane enough to not tank an entire season. I was wrong. The next two seasons wouldn't be affected, so should this happen, the two sides would have that amount of time to strike a new deal before we're seeing un-capped football. That would last a season, then there wouldn't be any football. No football?! I bet there will be plenty of U.S. Senators more credible and less decrepit than Arlen Spector involved if it ever gets to that point. |
