This is an excellent post, though I'm really waiting for the 2nd installment. I want your take on ex-players and the NFLPA.
Like the rest of the world, the players are realizing that the gap between the haves and the have-nots is increasingly drastically. Why, if the salary cap increases by over 35% since 2003, minimum salaries only go up 15% in the same period?
That is a very good question, the disparity between the increase in the salary cap and the increase in min salaries.
I thought both the cap and the salary structure were hard-wired to the collective bargaining agreement, meaning they are known in advance for every year the CBA is in effect.
TV Revenues/NFL revenues to JUSTIFY a larger cap, that is.
The cap is hard wired, at a 7M increase a year. That is until they renegotiate, at which time they'll use TV revenues to increase the salary cap by 20M (with a hardwired 9M per year, or some nonsense).
Remember the salary cap increased 17M in 2003 and then 2M every year after... until 2006 when it increased another 17M and then 7M a year. I predict 20+M when it expires in 2011, with a 10+M increase per year after.
Commenting by HaloScan
