The Super Bowl being today has given me inspiration for this new post. The possibility of no football in 2011 is looming. With the collective bargaining agreement expiring in March, there could be a lockout and no Football. In the negotiations of the new collective bargaining agreement there is the idea of the 18 game regular season schedule change. Now some do not know what the collective bargaining agreement is. Well, it is a contract struck between the players union and the owners. This contract contains clauses about salary caps, which is a total amount a team can spend on paying players, how revenue is distributed between players and owners, along with other NFL policies. Now though there is a push for the addition of two regular season games. The sides have just started to meet for the first time with intensity to iron out an agreement. The goal is to get a deal done by March. If this can’t be done the owners will almost certainly lock the players out. The lockout means that games aren’t played and the players are sitting at home on Sundays without pay. The owners would do this to cut their losses and try to get the players, who may not have alternative sources of income, to sign an agreement. The NFL could lose billions if there is a lock out or some other work stoppage. The more time that passes without an agreement the more money that is lost especially if there are lost regular season games. Hopefully, for the sake of all football fans there will be some agreement signed. The addition of the two extra games will be a major source of discourse between the two sides though, especially since the owners are asking the players to play more games for less money. We can all enjoy this Super Bowl, but hopefully there will be more on the horizon.
I feel that our economy and people can't afford to do a lockout in the NFL because of the "trickle-down" effect. The effect is that since people aren't going to the games and spending money at the stadiums, at Sporting Goods Stores on appareal, the food stand workers and the clean up workers. I feel that our economy can not monetarly afford a 2011 Lock-Out
ReplyDeleteI don't think a lockout would be very good for anyone either. I think the players might be better prepared for it in the short run since they do not have to pay to maintain any facilities or stadiums like the owners do. A lockout would also enrage the fans if games are canceled too.
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