Who would you support in an NFL work stoppage?

[Renew Deal]

There's a lot of news out there about the NFL not coming back next year because of labor issues. The owners want concessions from the union. The union wants their share of the pie.

Who would you support in an NFL work stoppage?

[liberal N proud]

1. I don't support professional sports

Neither the owners or the players.

Labor issues? pfft

[Renew Deal]

4. Labor issues aren't important to you?

[PBS Poll-435]

6. Speaking for myself, it depends on the trade/profession

I don't think I could support a union of foreclosure agents and private prison guards.



:shrug:

[Renew Deal]

21. Forclosure agents and private prison gaurds are still important parts of the workforce

And if they decide to unionize for better benefits and work conditions, so be it.

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. NFL salaries are to labor issues as Marie Antoinette is to feminism.

Let me know if some actual working class people strike.

NFL players can take their "scholarship" funded communications degrees and get a real job.

[Myrina]

10. +10

:applause:

[Renew Deal]

22. Thousands of "working class people" will be effected if they don't have a season.

Back office, parking, concessions, etc. will all be laid off. You're OK with that?

[lumberjack_jeff]

25. Wait... what?

You're suggesting that I should be supportive of an NFL players strike because of all the low wage workers behind the scenes who will be put out of work?

Whose argument are you trying to make?

[Renew Deal]

27. I'm suggesting that a work stoppage is bad for "working class people."

And I'm suggesting that the players have traditional labor concerns that should be important to people that support workers.

[lumberjack_jeff]

34. NFL labor concerns are a parody of traditional labor concerns.

A work stoppage is bad for working class people - none of whom are in that union. The union and the owners are the stampeding elephants who squash the little people indiscriminately.

The median salary for a Seattle Seahawk is $1m. The lowest salary is $310,000/year.

[liberal N proud]

18. $10 million contract is not a labor issue

If they were striking for safety of the players or something like that, I would understand.

Professional sports are not a sport, everything is a business and games are even run that way. All these suckers who support teams like Cleveland thinking they will be in the Super Bowel someday are blind.

I will stick with College Sports and leave the pros to the owners and the lawyers.

Last ticket to a professional event was in 1995.

[Brickbat]

19. Where do you think those salaries came from? The good will of the owners?

[liberal N proud]

23. I don't care where they come from

I will not help the owners pay for it by buying tickets to their events or purchasing the licensed merchandise.

$10 million dollars for the boys to party on then drive down the street kill someone, then special treatment because they are a super star.

I don't care and don't want to be a part of the circus called professional sports.

[Renew Deal]

29. No one is asking you to spend money on sports

The question is are you supportive of the workers in a labor dispute?

[liberal N proud]

31. To which I say how can you have a labor dispute when you get paid $10 Million

When there are some real working class people having a labor dispute, call me.

[Renew Deal]

32. The owners want more work for not as much money

And they want rookies to make less money. The players want better health benefits and an extra bye week (aka vacation). There is a dispute.

[liberal N proud]

35. And 10% of America is out of work

Now there is a labor dispute

[trumad]

7. Last to be picked crowd eh?

[liberal N proud]

17. Stopped supporting professional sports with Baseball 1995 strike

1995 or thereabouts

I just think that the money they get paid and the price I have to pay is ridiculous. I have not purchased one professional sporting event ticket since that time.

College is much more of a sport than the pros.

[jpgray]

2. Whosoever continues the stoppage indefinitely

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3. I would support the NFL getting serious about injury prevention

That is my beef right now.

[Brickbat]

5. I support my AFL-CIO brothers and sisters.

ETA: Heh, I mean "I support my AFL-CIO brothers and sisters NO MATTER THE TRADE OR PROFESSION," hence the reference to "sisters."

:rofl:

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. Will no one think of the advertisers?

:sarcasm:

The truth is, I couldn't possibly care less. I don't support them now, so I don't know why I'd support them if they strike.

[Demoiselle]

11. I always support union workers. Period.

[fishwax]

12. labor

:kick:

[w8liftinglady]

13. The workers.they aren't all high-dollar superstars...and have a short career-span.

and are due the same rights as any labor group that has the bravery to unionize.

[Upton]

14. Drew Brees is a member of the NFLPA executive board

he makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million a year. Sorry, if I can't get all worked up in support for someone like him. I support neither side in this fight. I just want football.

[Renew Deal]

24. The NFL is essentially proposing more work for not much more money

And if you're a rookie, for less money. The players also want improved long term health care. Those are traditional labor issues.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

15. I Would Blame Them Both For Taking Away The Sport I Love

However, it would all come down to which side is being more reasonable. As of right now, they're BOTH being fairly unreasonable. I'm all for a Salary Cap and a rookie salary structure and all that stuff. I'm also all for allowing players the freedom to work wherever they can. However, I think the owners are being kind of unreasonable to be claiming poverty, yet refusing to open up their books and prove it.

In the end, I think everyone involved remembers how much damage Major League Baseball caused itself when it went on strike back in 1994, and they won't allow that to happen. Both sides will posture and make "scary" predictions of a year without football, but in the end, a deal will be struck at the eleventh hour and the season will commence without any missed games. It's going to be exactly the same as a contract negotiation between a team and a diva-like draft pick. They'll both posture and threaten a holdout, but they'll end up signing the contract just before any meaningful action is missed.

[ThatsMyBarack]

16. I wouldn't mind an NFL work stoppage.

In a world without football, 60 Minutes and The Amazing Race would be shown on time every week!

[Renew Deal]

26. lol

[Iggo]

20. By default, the union.

But I'd be a lot happier about it if I saw the NFLPA supporting other unions' strikes.

[bluedigger]

28. For now, I am neutral.

It is in no one's interest for them to go on strike. They need to come to an agreement.

[Renew Deal]

30. I agree

A work stoppage would be idiotic.

[archiemo]

33. Why do the players not start their own league? If they think it is easy!

[kctim]

36. Because they would have to use THEIR money to start one