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NBA - basketball (think LeBron) | 260 | 45.61% | |
NFL - American football (think T.O.) | 102 | 17.89% | |
MLB - Major league baseball (think A-Rod) | 25 | 4.39% | |
NHL - National hockey league (think Patrick Roy) | 4 | 0.70% | |
PGA - professional golfers (think Tiger) | 17 | 2.98% | |
ATP - professional tennis (think Serena) | 15 | 2.63% | |
Motorsports - (think Danica Patrick) | 8 | 1.40% | |
Football - soccer for some (think Diego Maradonna) | 128 | 22.46% | |
Other _____________________________ | 11 | 1.93% | |
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2006 World Cup viewership was 26 BILLION..., which is more that 400 MILLION AVERAGE per game....and that is with games like Poland v Costa Rica and Angola v Iran. Now I know that the US is the center of the universe , but C'MON MAN!!! There's a reason why Man U is the richest franchise in the world!! (It isn't even close...viewership of 6 billion people v 300 million. There are 300 million REGISTERED MAN U SUPPORTERS!!, alone) ...and this coming from a Steelers fan. Back to the Vick thing; I thought he was on a short leash (pun intended), but with Goodell you never know. Good article to read: http://www.cbssports.com/print/colum...-bar;btn-print |
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July 28th, 2010, 02:36 PM | #122 | |
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Baseball and PED's? Hypocrites. McGuire, Sosa, Clemens, Bonds, et al are demonized for the "alleged" use of PED's, which were not banned by MLB at the time, yet an admitted cheater is already in the Hall of Fame. And people laugh at Gaylord Perry's doctored pitches. And if there is no football in 2011, it'll be a lockout, not a strike. I would like to believe that the owners and the players will work it out, but I know Santa Claus is a myth. Sports owners and players are collectively not the brightest bunch around. Speaking of which, the most ignored sports story right now is the real possibility that both the NFL and NBA will lockout the players in 2011. Think of it, no pro football or pro basketball at this time next year. |
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July 28th, 2010, 03:02 PM | #123 | |
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What is a FAIR Collective bargaining agreement? You don't have to get too specific, just outline some parameters. What do you think about: - Rookie Salary Cap - Free agency after X years - Franchise Tag - Guaranteed contracts - Signing bonuses - Performance based incentives - Conduct policy - Drug testing - Salary cap - Retiree benefits |
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July 28th, 2010, 03:18 PM | #124 |
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I'm in favor a a rookie salary cap, free agency after X years, conduct policies, and retiree benefits. I understand the reasons for drug testing, but it goes against the grain of personal liberty (the old security vs. freedom argument).
Guaranteed contracts and performance incentives are double-edged swords. Too many players have gotten the guaranteed money and let their performance go (AH of the Potomac Drainage Basin Indigenous Persons for one), and cheap owners and GM's who sit a player to prevent him from getting the bonus. And I think the same could be said of signing bonuses. Although, back in the day some bonuses were creative. When Marty Schottenheimer signed with the Bills out of college, his signing bonus was a rear-window defogger. A big deal back in the late 60's. |
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July 28th, 2010, 03:34 PM | #125 | |
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Now with that being said, Jack (the Assassin) Tatum passed away yesterday at the age of 61. May he rest in peace. I don't know if everyone hear is old enough to remember him but let's just say he brought it hard during games. Longtime player for the Oakland Raiders in the '70's. Infamous perhaps for paralyzing Darryl Stingley w/ a clean hit in 1978. The guy was a great and greatly feared player. Check out the video below of some his best work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJrDYQwwbuY Oh and one more thing....training camp opens on Friday for the Vikes. |
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Yah - RIP Tatum...along with Lyle Alzado. You guys can now go line up against Mike Webster in that big football field in the sky. I think there is something special when your defense gets a 'name': Pittsburgh: Steel Curtain Minnesota: Purple People Eaters Denver: Orange Crush |
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Dallas: Doomsday Defense Jets: NY Sack Exchange Rams: Fearsome Foursome Those were the days |
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Both the Eagles and Jets have been known as "Gang Green," Atlanta's one year wonder, the "Grits Blitz," Kansas City's "Redwood Forest" and the long-time nickname of the Bears, "the Monsters of the Midway."
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The next 4 issues on your list can be remedied with going softer on the salary cap. I would like to see the NFL go more like the NBA. I see nothing wrong with being able to go over the cap to sign a player that your organization drafted out of college. Signing bonuses can be eliminated (as far as cash payouts) & players would have to take less money to sign elsewhere. I'm not a big fan of guaranteed contracts. They are the scourge of MLB (Mo Vaughn & Carl Pavano), so I think all the sports leagues should just take a look there to see what happens. The next 3 issues on your list are no brainers to me. The NFL has to have some sort of conduct policy, performance incentives are a great way to keep any employee motivated & drug testing absolutely needs to be done. The NFL has far more guys on steroids than the average person would like to admit. Remember Korey Stringer ( I know you do keefriff)? How does a 27 year old kid die of heat stroke on the practice field? To me the NFL is the one sports league who should be giving their players pensions. Most of these guys are dealing with medical issues from their playing days after they retire. But, don't worry NFL fans. I would be shocked if there's no football in 2011. The issues surrounding their CBA are much easier to work out than the NBA. The NFL has the Lockout Year of 1987 to remind them how much revenue they'll lose with replacement players taking the field for roughly half of a season. That year was too painful for me to watch. The NBA on the other hand is heading for disaster. I can see an entire year lost due to the players trying to have contracts more like baseball than what they currently have. |
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I actually understand the concerns of players on mandatory drugs testing: some very funny things have occurred in athletics where athletes are subjected to compulsory testing and yet some countries (China) seem slightly less reliable about it than others and individual athletes can find their reputations are ruined in a Kafka-like process of private trial, where they aren't even represented and public verdict. The Diane Modahl case was a good example: her drugs test eventually was discreditted when it was shown the Portuguese laboratory didn't store her samples in a fridge but left them out in 35 degree summer heat to go contaminated. If I were clean and playing NFL, I'd still have a worry in the back of my mind at every drugs test, not of being caught but of being wrongly accused and publically shamed when I am innocent. The answer must surely be open and public audit of the testing as well as open and public test results from regular testing of the players. The integrity of the players is being judged and they have a right to insist that the testing must have integrity too. Pensions should perhaps be built into players contracts but on a fixed contributions basis rather than a fixed benefits basis. The contributions should be straight from the players earnings. In effect pensions are deferred salary anyway and the point here really is that many players earn megabucks and yet are so feckless with their money that they wind up on skid row within 5 years of retiring. A pension clause in their contract would protect some players from themselves. But no way should the liability be carried in a club's balance sheet creditors (thats "payables" in US accounting-speak) because there isn't the mutual loyalty relationship coming from the players side to warrant such an act of noblesse oblige on the part of the club.
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