NFL

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

Not exactly. How the owners spend the money they receive is up to them, baseball doesn't force them to reinvest it on the team. Teams like the Royals and Pirates collect this and are extremely profitable, despite not putting much effort into theirs teams until lately. It is in no way nearly as socialist an idea as capping what a team can spend. Penalizing a team based on where they play and how big their fan base is just seems wrong.

So would you be against a salary floor, or something stating that a certain percentage of shared revenues be reinvested in salary or other operating expenses?

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by Stephen

So would you be against a salary floor, or something stating that a certain percentage of shared revenues be reinvested in salary or other operating expenses?

Yea I would be against it. It's their business, let them run it into the ground if they want. If the fans stop coming it's their own fault. If the fans don't care and just keep going, what does it matter. Not all teams abuse the system, while I don't care much for revenue sharing, what they choose to do with it is up to them.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

Yea I would be against it. It's their business, let them run it into the ground if they want. If the fans stop coming it's their own fault. If the fans don't care and just keep going, what does it matter. Not all teams abuse the system, while I don't care much for revenue sharing, what they choose to do with it is up to them.

That's the rub for me. If you're going to share revenue, then it needs to be regulated. Otherwise, why share in the first place?

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by Stephen

That's the rub for me. If you're going to share revenue, then it needs to be regulated. Otherwise, why share in the first place?

But why? Most teams do use the money on themselves, there are only a handful of teams that abuse the system. As it stands it certainly helps a great deal of teams and outside of the teams located in the large markets who have to pay, no one is complaining. It's by no means a perfect solution, but regulating the business operations of small market team just because they are a small market team wouldn't be right.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

But why? Most teams do use the money on themselves, there are only a handful of teams that abuse the system. As it stands it certainly helps a great deal of teams and outside of the teams located in the large markets who have to pay, no one is complaining. It's by no means a perfect solution, but regulating the business operations of small market team just because they are a small market team wouldn't be right.

That's why.