While logical, no that isnt the way sports gamers approach Madden (or the NCAA games). The whole idea behind the game, since it comes out EVERY year, is that you are playing with the updated rosters and players each year. Every year a ton of players are traded, recruited, dropped, etc and half the point of buying the new game is the updated info. New features usually only come out every couple of years (major ones anyway).
This is exactly the mindset that the NFL owners are hoping the fans develop. The players and their salaries are always front and center for fans to look at and say "Wait, what? They're making millions! What a bunch of crybabies!" and side with the owners. What isn't front and center for most fans is the fact that the owners make billions of dollars, with a "B." And they want 1.) to make even more billions with a "B" and 2.) the players to make fewer millions with an "M."
So what? The owners of the places we all work make "billions" and they pay us jack squat. The very rich have been getting richer compared to everyone else for a long while. Nothing about the football situation is somehow unique.
Players. Argh man... it the players the owners all of them. Dont be so shallow. They all make stupid money off us. We dont need them, they need us. Sadly some schlum thinks painting their face with colors makes them part of the team.
Im with you. They all need us we got nothing. I have more fun watching my kids play sports... Priorities baby... and NFL players are insignificant.
You need to rethink your math. Owners do not make billions of dollars. NFL total 7B a year minus 1B to owners. 6B -57% to players = 2.58B + 1B = 3.58B / 32 teams = 111M per owner. Oh yea those owners are racking in the money. Now out of that they pay coaches and support staff, maintance and better yet they pay for the players medical. Players take home thier paycheck and the owners are left with the bills.
The kids don't but I am with you on the statement.
Dont forget ****, assault, sex with minors. Think LT fame. Drunk Joe Namath hitting on the reporter. NY Giants guy shooting himself in the leg. Oh the list go on. And idiots losing all there money. Half of them are dumb as dirt. The other half... smart, and good people. Just way to many dummies.
Football is worse than joining an inner-city gang. At least they get prison time for their crimes.
The NFL (and Major League Baseball) are legalized monopolies. This makes big time sports in the US a very different situation from a regular job. Manning/Brady, which ever one considers the best in the game, can not go across the street to the other employer and get a job. The NFL restricts players' ability to sell their services. They also put artificial ceilings on player salaries in that players can only make a so much money under the salary system.
