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Originally posted by JLambert@Apr 10th '06 @ 7:13 am
He's whining and complaining, but he is right.* This is the same thing that will rip the Jags out of Jacksonville.* Maybe the Packers, Chargers and Bengals too.
For most of the time, the salary cap has increased, say 3-5M a year, now it is jumping up 7-10M+ per year.* Small market teams don't have the luxury box sales, the sweet Stadium naming rights deals, merchandising sales numbers or the advertising possiblities that large market teams have.
What the new CBA did, thanks to the ****ing players, is lump all revenue into the salary cap, thus driving up the cap at a faster rate.*
Unfortunately, the small market owners aren't enough of a force, or couldn't plead their case well enough before the new CBA was signed.* Then again, a number of them don't sell their stadium naming rights, or weren't seen as being aggressive marketers of their team and brand, so the Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder's attitude was "**** Ya".
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Don't you put this all on Jones and Snyder. It took more then 2 owners to get this thing together and pass it. They just had the most to lose and yes, I said lose! It's funny you mention Stadium naming rights. 4 years ago Alltel wanted to pay the Bills moo goo dollars for the right to put their name on that stadium but Wilson being the self centered, clueless and nieve **** that he is just could not live with the fact that the stadium he named after himself could be called anything else.
The Bills have been in danger of losing this team long before this new CBA was put into effect. Financial problems for the Bills started back in the early and mid 90's even when the Bills were playing in SB's. From that time the economic situation in Buffalo has gradually gotten worst and right now I can't think of any team that operates in a poorer demographic region then the Bills.
This is much more political then what your seeing on the surface.