Comments on: Labor Crisis Ahead For NFL http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/labour_crisis_ahead_for_nfl/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:32:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dodd http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/labour_crisis_ahead_for_nfl/comment-page-1/#comment-335881 Dodd Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:40:21 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2008/04/labour_crisis_ahead_for_nfl/#comment-335881 That's just a silly question. The players accepted team salary caps in return for free agency. The only cap on individual players' salaries is the practical maximum that comes into play when management has to decide portion of the team's total cap they're willing to devote to a single player. That aggregate salary cap is in place to ensure competitive balance - to make it so that no one team can just go out and buy Super Bowls every year. With ownership there's no such rationale. That's just a silly question. The players accepted team salary caps in return for free agency. The only cap on individual players' salaries is the practical maximum that comes into play when management has to decide portion of the team's total cap they're willing to devote to a single player.

That aggregate salary cap is in place to ensure competitive balance - to make it so that no one team can just go out and buy Super Bowls every year. With ownership there's no such rationale.

]]> By: ftroop http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/labour_crisis_ahead_for_nfl/comment-page-1/#comment-335760 ftroop Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:49:14 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2008/04/labour_crisis_ahead_for_nfl/#comment-335760 Why should the owner make more or less than any single player? Market logic, as always. If there should be caps on player salaries, why not also on owner salaries? Why should the owner make more or less than any single player?

Market logic, as always.

If there should be caps on player salaries, why not also on owner salaries?

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