conraddobler
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Were I an economics professor I would love to case study the Cardinals organization.
Here we are shown the bitter fruit of the communist approach in it's end stage.
Does anyone seriously believe that without revenue sharing and if instead the TV money was dolled out on a team by team ratings basis, that Mr. Bidwill would still be running a NFL team?
Now don't get me wrong I believe the cap has done more good than harm generally but as with any good thing there is a flip side that being it has prolonged Bidwills stay way past it's appointed time.
I figure sans the revenue sharing the team would have bought the farm somewhere around the mid 80's or early 90's.
He just isn't in the same league as the other owners and would by now have been 0-16 about 8years running. The draft wouldn't save you now it simply isn't long enough and players would be openly shunning the team by just not signing and going back in the draft the next year.
This would make all the sense in the world since Bidwill would be forced to forgo slotted deals and start enslaving draft picks to save $ since he would have NO FREAKIN REVENUE. Now going back into the draft would make a great deal of sense and he would be summarily screwed.
This would cause the small fan base to dwindle to even more micrscopic proportions and the league would have eventually stepped in to mercifuly fold the team or force its sale even if he still managed to stay financially afloat.
Life is not fair, and I have especially little time to waste feeling for owners that have millions of dollars. The issue of Bidwill caring is so ridiculously moot it's laughable. Who cares if he cares he's incompetent and is only sustained through artificial means "ie TV money"
He may be a great guy, hey I know several and none of them has been blessed by God to own an NFL team either. So how is that fair I ask?
The logical solution would be for everyone to recognize this quit going to the games and force the sale of the team. Or a case could be made just to wait out Bidwill and know someday he will in fact have to sell due to estate taxes.
Neither very attractive but what I suspect most fans will do is bitch and moan and scream and in the end:
Simply ignore the above hardcore too dreary to ever fully come to grips with facts and continue to care cause as fans we are all stuck. You gloom and doomer's are on to something but you haven't thought it all the way through.
It's worse than you imagine much worse but if you going that route you might as well go all the way and just quit caring. So continue to whine albeit much too softly for the true situation calls for you to scream for mercy.
In the end either doom yourself to dreadful failure after failure or stop watching.
Once again life isn't fair.
Here we are shown the bitter fruit of the communist approach in it's end stage.
Does anyone seriously believe that without revenue sharing and if instead the TV money was dolled out on a team by team ratings basis, that Mr. Bidwill would still be running a NFL team?
Now don't get me wrong I believe the cap has done more good than harm generally but as with any good thing there is a flip side that being it has prolonged Bidwills stay way past it's appointed time.
I figure sans the revenue sharing the team would have bought the farm somewhere around the mid 80's or early 90's.
He just isn't in the same league as the other owners and would by now have been 0-16 about 8years running. The draft wouldn't save you now it simply isn't long enough and players would be openly shunning the team by just not signing and going back in the draft the next year.
This would make all the sense in the world since Bidwill would be forced to forgo slotted deals and start enslaving draft picks to save $ since he would have NO FREAKIN REVENUE. Now going back into the draft would make a great deal of sense and he would be summarily screwed.
This would cause the small fan base to dwindle to even more micrscopic proportions and the league would have eventually stepped in to mercifuly fold the team or force its sale even if he still managed to stay financially afloat.
Life is not fair, and I have especially little time to waste feeling for owners that have millions of dollars. The issue of Bidwill caring is so ridiculously moot it's laughable. Who cares if he cares he's incompetent and is only sustained through artificial means "ie TV money"
He may be a great guy, hey I know several and none of them has been blessed by God to own an NFL team either. So how is that fair I ask?
The logical solution would be for everyone to recognize this quit going to the games and force the sale of the team. Or a case could be made just to wait out Bidwill and know someday he will in fact have to sell due to estate taxes.
Neither very attractive but what I suspect most fans will do is bitch and moan and scream and in the end:
Simply ignore the above hardcore too dreary to ever fully come to grips with facts and continue to care cause as fans we are all stuck. You gloom and doomer's are on to something but you haven't thought it all the way through.
It's worse than you imagine much worse but if you going that route you might as well go all the way and just quit caring. So continue to whine albeit much too softly for the true situation calls for you to scream for mercy.
In the end either doom yourself to dreadful failure after failure or stop watching.
Once again life isn't fair.
