The NFL owners have been stock piling money and have enough to cover a non-existent 2011 season. I doubt the all the players are in as good a shape as the owners.
Bob Batterman, the lead outside counsel for the NFL, stated that the league expects to hold a 2011 season but the owners had prepared for the worst. “We hope and expect this will get resolved,” Mr. Batterman said Sunday.
This could be quite interesting, when Major League Baseball had their 1994-1995 strike it took years to recover. Will there be the same affect with the NFL.
My wife and I both enjoy watching the Bears struggle each year and will miss not having a 2011 season. But it does reminds me of the movie the Replacements, which is a fictionalized tale of the last NFL strike. Where the owners and coaches complain of the players as bitchy millionaires flying off to their castles. In the movie the only true winners were the replacement players getting their own brief 15 minutes of fame and pain, though the owners did get to keep the money.
I realize that long ago neither the owners nor the players were making fortunes. Listening to older players like Doug Buffone emphases this. It was a simpler time and the focus appeared to be directed on the game and not the money.
So $9.3 billion should be enough to make everyone happy or we as the consumers should take our money elsewhere and let them have a lot less money to play with.