NFL union warns cities
 

Does anyone really feel sympathy towards an NFL player? Yeh, they don't all make several million dollars a year and they all bust ass year-round to stay in shape. I just find it a little silly for them to bank on the "Great Recession" for sympathy. Many people can't afford a steak, let alone $90 football tickets... and they want sympathy and support? Come on.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi...f_lockout.html

The National Football Association's Players Association, gearing up for a potential lockout next season, is dispatching letters to political leaders in the cities in which the league has teams.

NFLPA President Kevin Mawae wrote similar letters ? which can be read here ? to top city and state officials across the country, warning of losses of some $160 million to each city in the event of a lockout.

?During one of the worst economies since the Great Depression, NFL owners are preparing to cancel the 2011 season and, in the process, devastate New York businesses and stadium workers who count on football Sundays to make ends meet,? Mawae said in a statement to be released with the New York letter. ?It is our hope that the owners will shelve this plan and negotiate in good faith to ensure that we are playing for the fans in 2011.?

The union's aim is to bring public pressure on team owners in advance of the March 4 expiration of the players' contract, and it has dispatched similar letters to governors, governors-elect, mayors and mayor-elect in all NFL cities.

I think people will say fuck the player and fuck the owners. We can watch college football on saturday and sunday for a season.

The businesses that bank $5 beers and $10 nachos will say otherwise. And the average overweight fuck of an American will cry like a bitch without football on Sat Sun Mon night.

i dont know about this, but every Philly game I've been to is packed! you have a better chance of finding the hope diamond then getting tickets for face value. I've been on the waiting list for YEARS and still thousands back in line.

if the NFL went down for a year, that would be the worst decision they could possibly make. baseball was fucked for a while back in the strike in the 90's.

If they want to make more money, find better shit to offer for $10 each game. Average fan fill is probably 60k or more on average.

sounds to me like some NFL teams need a new home :2 cents:

the reason there are not a lot of people is because of ticket broker sites, who make a killing off re-selling tickets. Id LOVE to see it become illegal to do so. I know I would go to way more games if they didn't cost $200 for a $65 ticket

Maybe they should lower ticket prices. There is no way they won't play next year so they should call that bluff.

Sly - The fact that the NFL is going to get $5 billion from the TV networks regardless of whether a season is played or not in 2011 does generate some sympathy. The owners have no reason to work on a new CBA if they can walk away with their cut of $5 billion dollars and bank it for a year.