No Cap after '09? (1 Viewer)

[chad_moore]

This brings up an interesting question: Where exactly would these "big market" teams be getting all this extra money from? By far, the biggest piece of each team's income pie is the tv money.The league does not allow each team to negotiate it's own tv contract or set up it's own local tv network (ala YES, SNY, etc in baseball), so the tv pie still gets split 32 ways. As far as merchandise is concerned, the NFL Properties money is split 32 ways also. The only money the owners actually keep is stadium money (tickets, suites, concessions, parking). That and money out of their own pockets. Can anyone think of anything else? I'm not sure if that would really make our budget very much different to Dallas or New York's.

It hit it in just the right place, as to where teams make up the difference. With our ticket prices the way they are and the waiting list as long as it is.....Benson is probably salivating at the moment. If he can get the Saintst to the Playoffs this year and there is a 30k waiting list, you can bet the prices will skyrocket to...."allow the Saints to compete on the same level as the bigger markets." This also means that Benson will want to negotiate something with the state to maintain annual payments to stay competitive and ALSO be looking for a new stadium with MORE suites to maintain that competitve edge.

I think if the state was smart, they would get to moving on getting that long term deal with the Saints done as soon as possible. All signs point to bad things for us as Saints fans if indeed the salary cap is eliminated.

 

[marccooper]

Obviously the players would be the ones to want this. It would destroy the game long term, but it would make them a bundle over the next few years.

The NFL would be idiotic to agree to abandon the salary cap. Free agency and the salary cap came as a package deal. If there is no salary cap, there should also be no free agency.