Fans should go on strike. NFL build your own stadiums with no tax payer involvement. Lower your ticket, food, parking, etc prices. Players and owners make way to much to be given aid.
Amen. I am tired of the owners crying that they are not making any money. I am not complaining that they make money, more power to them, but they are not paupers. Someone shed a tear for joe blow blue-collar worked, who cannot afford to watch his team because of the riduculous prices it costs to go to a game.
The NFL owner have created that system that they have by paying outrages salaries for untested products, e.g. multimillion dollar contracts for persons that are busts.
They cry that their venue does not bring them money, so if a city does not build them a staduim, they threaten to move, e.g. Raiders, Cardinals, Rams, Titians.
They screw the fan from the minute they drive into the parking lot. You cannot watch it on tv unless you pay for it. Now you cannot hear it unless you pay for it.
They make money year around, the draft, preseason, regular season, playoffs, pro bowl. There is nothing wrong with that, but again don't cry pauper.
Don't kill me hear, because I have not read up on this for ages, but regarding tv rights, merchandising, etc., they all get an equal share, so it allows for team to get paid no matter how they play, example Cards make as much as Cowboys. So, often times they do even have to field a decent product. For years the Cards were cheap and played like crap, but yet, they made as much as the Cowboys, 49ers, etc.