Saints stuff in today's MMQB

It's been said before, but big market teams line up the corporate sponsors to buy the suites, to buy large blocks of tickets, to fill the stadium with advertising, to pay to have their name associated with the stadium, the field or whatever....

The majority of that revenue is unshared, and that's what fuels the guarenteed contracts, the signing bonuses et al. If one wants to know why there is even talk about the current CBA expiring, it's tied into the debate Bills owner Ralph Wilson was talking about a couple of years ago when he forced JJ and Snyder to share some their unshared revenues.

I would gladly do away with the salary cap if Goddell were able to force the owners to agree to two important issues:

1) a slotting system of pay for draft picks, with a moving cap on the top draft picks, a la the NBA. It takes a lot of power away from agents, but it would limit the money a top 5 pick would cost a franchise and would end holdouts.

2) ANY revenue generated by any team in the NFL must be thrown in a pool and shared equally among all franchises. Yes, it is socialist, however, for the betterment of the game, franchises must be placed on an equal footing financially to ensure an equally competative product. Pete Rozelle had to the foresight to recognize this and make the NFL the most popular sport in America. It dirves me nuts to see owners like JJ and Snyder work to undermine that issue.