Saturday, 18 June 2011

Cuts Show Real Greed of NFL Owners

Earlier this week SI.com reported that seven teams have made some sort of cuts to employee salaries as a result of the NFL lockout. Now, only the NFL players are locked out. Coaches, front office staff, maintenance staff, etc. are all still working. With the exception of head coaches, and high ranking executives like General Managers and VPs, NFL team staff do not make the kind of money the players do. They are far from rich. They are regular working people with mortgages and bills to pay.

Ralph Wilson Jr. -- One of the seven owners to cut employee salaries


At least seven of the 32 NFL teams have cut the salaries of their support staff using the lockout as an excuse. Those teams are Miami, the New York Jets, Kansas City, Detroit, Tampa Bay and Arizona. Some teams though have refused to make any cuts. Some facts to consider:
  • The lockout was imposed by the owners so they can try and pay players less and now they are using it as an excuse to pay other employees less
  • No games have been missed yet which means no major revenue generators have been missed. The biggest revenue generator of the off season, the NFL Draft, still went on
  • Even before the lockout which the owners imposed all NFL teams were extremely profitable
So we know the lockout was an excuse for cutting salary. The actual reason for the cuts is that the owners can. If they give them an excuse to grab some extra money they will. Not all of them do it, but some do.
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous18 June 2011 at 13:15

    Damn even the NFL is having economic problems =/

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  2. zephyr18 June 2011 at 15:13

    The players don't have a chance. The owners are gonna ice them into submission.

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  3. The Onion Gypsy18 June 2011 at 21:16

    hope it gets worked out fair for all concerned but i think they all make too much!

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  4. Jim18 June 2011 at 21:17

    All that hasn't happened this season is spring training, it really does show the greed of the owners, cutting support staff before any loss in revenue. The real losers will be us, the fans in this whole mess

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  5. icey19 June 2011 at 05:52

    a similar thing is happening to Barcelona right now.

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  6. Unknown19 June 2011 at 12:17

    I think it's time for the owner to take a pay cut. I guess they feel like they need another mansion or something?

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  7. Burndro20 June 2011 at 01:42

    Ridiculous, the athletes are over paid not the employees. Well, in most cases.

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  8. Anonymous20 June 2011 at 06:51

    I don't care who's right or wrong I just want this thing to end already :/

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  9. braumaman22 June 2011 at 14:40

    What annoys me is they weren't laying off people who made 5 mill a year to save money, they were laying off people making 40k a year and so forth, the people who actually need that money to survive.

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