Comments on: NFL Labor Fight Will Resume In Court

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:06:49 +0000

“Just the tax implications alone would take a team of accountants to figure out.”

Of course it would be a huge mess to transition, that would require dozens of lawyers and accounts. Then they wouldn’t have to have dozens of lawyers and accountants deal with labor unrest by overpaid children every 15 years.

By: Madcity Packer Fan

Madcity Packer Fan — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:59:18 +0000

I am being tortured by basketball and soon I will be tortured by boring ass baseball. They better stop acting like fuckheads and put a pen to paper! UFL has 5 teams and most of the players are wannabes and has beens. The LFL is fine for 5-10 minutes of checking out some t&a. Someone suggested the CFL…hmm…fuck that. Ahhh Fuck! Get a deal in place!

By: iltarion

iltarion — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:41:12 +0000

Though there is some merit in the idea, Jeremy, going from basically a sole proprietorship to a 32 partner owned corporation would have a HUGE impact on the owners’ personal finances. Just the tax implications alone would take a team of accountants to figure out. Even bylaws can be changed by a majority of stockholders. That is way too much the risk for an individual owner to take.

The “call for financial statements” has nothing to do with the impasse. It is a smokescreen for the fact that the players think they’ll be better off in court than negotiating. Anyone who thinks for a second that the owners “opening their books” would then cause the players to turn around and agree to a deal is seriously naive.

Smith said “open your books in 15 minutes or forget an extension.” That is not an offer. It is paramount to saying “part the Red Sea, get me the Hope Diamond and the panties of Grace Kelly in 10 minutes.” It is a good comparison to the “deal” that William Wallace offered the commander of the English forces at Stirling. In short, no deal was ever intended to be made. The players were going to litigation, but they wanted to make their “open the books” PR campaign plea one last time.

By: El Tigre

El Tigre — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:02:19 +0000

These bastards better get there shit together. I cannot live without football. The packers are rolling. Don’t stop a possible dynasty.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:56:21 +0000

The owners could be rid of this process of overpaying athletes for good by transitioning the NFL into a nonpublic corporation they each owned stock in. Each owner could maintain management of their franchise through the bylaws of the corporation, and they could then decide to run their business however they wanted. Professional sports leagues are the only business venture that competes financially with its self. Any other executive would laugh at the idea of bidding against another division of it’s business for the services of someone they already employed. The model already exists in MLS. Of course this will never happen because it’s too obvious a solution for the megalomaniacal personalities involved.