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Far as I'm concerned let the players strike. Last time they did that, the NFL brought in replacements. At some point the players need to learn is they get paid to play a game many would play for free.

agreed. nfl needs to keep the game going. they shut the sport down for a season like baseball did back in the mid 90s and i'm done with the nfl.

OOH, first we have a real-life The Longest Yard and a possibility of a real-life The Replacements. What's next? Winning for the Gipper?

What really needs to be done is obvious. New commish. This guy is a momma's boy and the players union is going to walk all over him. Do you honestly think a guy like this is going to be able to fix everything the old commish couldn't? Things like long hair, players retirement, and the NFL proprietary channel for subscibers only? Forget about it. We're doomed to watch hack football which I am not in favor of. Of course all of you fans in Cincy and Atlanta who have mediocre teams to begin with will notice no change of pace at all.

All I know is that an NFL without a salary cap is a ban NFL. That and if the players do strike and they do bring in replacements like they did in the 80s, I'm marching my happy ass down to the stadium.

AGREE STRIKE!
See if we really care

AGREE STRIKE!
See if we really care
Mr.Whistler | 04/06/08, 12:13 PM

Drunk? High? Meth? Coke? OF COURSE WE REALLY CARE!!! FOOTBALL IS LIFE...BREATH...THE REASON TO GET UP THE MORNING THE OTHER SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR. My GOD, imagine a world without football! Hello wrists, meet razor.

Just kidding. I would really care though. My Cowboys are on the cusp of World Championship number 6. (Gentlemen...men..men..men...Start your Hating!!!).

Just don't let the NFL become a salary-capless joke like baseball where a few teams become big spenders and smallmarket teams are cannon fodder like the Rays, Pirates, Royals, and former Expos are in baseball

OK; where are all the retractions and appologies to Mr. Ralph Wilson !?! Writers and Media people from coast to coast all dismissed Wilson as a small mind in a small market city. Well; he and Brown jr.@ Cincy were the only ones to vote against this CBA. With Wilson MAN enough to tell the rest of the owners and public that this "Agreement" was Foolish; makes him deserving of some kind of public plaudit ! Starting with you, SI.
Amir FaSaad in the B-lo, NY

Far as I'm concerned let the players strike. Last time they did that, the NFL brought in replacements. At some point the players need to learn is they get paid to play a game many would play for free.
cjewart | 04/06/08, 11:30 AM

A strike needs to happen. If the owners are smart they could start the salary structure all over again. Then all could afford to go to games and buy memorabilia for our kids.

I currently pay ten dollars a game to watch semi-pro teams play. The guys do the same plays and block the same way the pros do. They don't get payed like the college players do. They do it for the love.

STRIKE for a better tommorow.

I just remember the 87 strike when I was a kid and my father and I being excited because it mean Mark Malone was not going to start on Sunday.

They need to fix this, because I don't want to see a strike!

This one is easy. The shorter your hair the more you can be paid. A player with hair over his name on his jersey gets the minimum. Problem solved.

The only people that really get hurt are the fans. You have players making millions and owners making billions yet ticket prices keep going up. Guess who pays the price. The Giants with a new stadium will be charging $13,000 for PSL's, that's fricking insane.

Just kidding. I would really care though. My Cowboys are on the cusp of World Championship number 6. (Gentlemen...men..men..men...Start your Hating!!!).

Hooah!05 - Cowboy Up!! | 04/06/08, 12:54 PM
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Its a long off season, I know, its like Catch 22,
You have the NFL, the Unions, networks,
All of them greedy, Salary Cap we need, but how?
By pricing fans out?
Salary s are way too high, look at #1 over all
draft picks the few years, ridiculous $$ for a rookie
who wouldnt be playing.
Something must be done

Cowboys close to their 6th? Not hardly. Just like it took them 8 to get 5 it'll take them 10 appearances to get 6. By that time the 9ers will have #6 sitting in the same cabinet that 1-5 are in. +_+ lmao
Strike? I hope it happens. Goodell has tried to run the league with an iron fist since he was named Commish. I get SOME of it. I mean Pac Man Jones? How many times does a guy need to screw up and get busted before he sees that he has to change something in his life that OBVIOUSLY ain't working? The NFL don't need players like that in the league. But Goodell needs to spread that around the league to the rest of the players that screw up continually. This half handed punishment for other players guilty of similar or worse should have been suspended too. And that is what Goodell does not get either. And while we're at it how can a sitting Commish come out in congress and tell them that he DESTROYED the evidence to Spygate before the investigators could look at it and before the investigation was complete?
Yeah dude you're the Commish, maybe you should act like one while you're at it. Who can suspend this meatball before he really messes up the league and the game?

Most of these players last 2 to 3 years - they don't have a bargaining chip !!!

All these spoiled, rich people are crotches!

The owners are going to lock them out before a strike happens!!!! But someway the players will be blamed....

Go ahead and strike - let me know when I can play as a replacement.