According to the SportsBuisness Journal, the NFL might not have a salary cap as soon as 2010.
Jeff Pash, the league’s general counsel who is handling labor talks, said, “If I were the union, I would say that, too. That is the right pressure point to try to urge. If the union said ‘no problem if we go to an uncapped year, we will agree to do a cap at some point,’ that would change the dynamic. … The union feels as if the uncapped year is a big pressure point. I don’t know if that is right or not.”
That’s cool, NFL – just ignore the fans like baseball does. There are several reasons the NFL is so popular and one of the reasons is parity. Pirates and Royals fans know every year that their team won’t compete over the long haul because their owners won’t spend to win. The same thing will happen in the NFL and certain teams will eventually become yearly bottom feeders. The excitement of knowing a losing franchise could turn their misfortune around in one offseason will be vanished and the league will turn into the have’s and have not’s.
But hey, at least the players will get paid right? Surely that’s the most important thing here.
