Originally Posted by
chief31
John Doe can easily be replaced by John Moe.
Payton Manning cannot be replaced by John Moe.
Noone wants to pay to see John Moe play football, nor do anything else. They pay to see Payton Manning.
That is, most definitely, not the same in any industry.
I bet if you made slaves of any people, that they would start obeying their masters.
What kind of point is that?
Just because you can point to some corporate greed that has ownership taking all the profits doesn't, by a far cry, make that right.
They need the employees in order to make those profits happen. They have to have the whole team working together.
But, once the teamwork results in massive profits, the owners no longer want to be a part of the team. They want all the rewards.
Only by unity do the employees have any voice, aside from begging the masters, on the "team".
And the entire history of our planet has shown that, left to the masters to decide unchallenged, masters will have slavery.
All you need to do as an NFL owner is have alot of money to buy the team, and hire a GM and/or team president.
I am not on the bandwagon of helping the rich to get richer. And the average NFL player is not even on the "rich radar" with these owners.
Free market? Fine. As long as you are willing to accept that unions are a part of the free market.
But again, it is the owners who cancelled the existing agreement. And it is the owners who are threatening to disrupt regular season play.