YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Assassin · Post by **The Assassin** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:42 am

good news,good news

kcdave · Post by **kcdave** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:52 am

Is that it Paul? Shit, I thought maybe you got laid!

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:58 am

kcdave wrote:Is that it Paul? Shit, I thought maybe you got laid!

Same difference for all of us.

Louis Cyphre · Post by **Louis Cyphre** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:03 am

What about revenue sharing?

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:43 am

Are the Chiefs still over the cap now? And if not how soon until we are? :D

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:20 pm

KC Paul 3.0 wrote:
Louis Cyphre wrote:What about revenue sharing?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2360258

Looks like they still have equal revenue sharing, but the NFL hasn't released details about it yet.
ESPN.com wrote:There were no further details on the agreement, including whether it includes expanded revenue sharing.
The best part about it is that the new salary cap is now $102 million, so a LOT of NFL teams won't have to butcher their rosters as badly as they thought they had to before.

I watched some of Tag's press conference last night before going to bed. The revenue sharing formula is fairly complex, but it involves a formula that is supposed to guarantee that a team spending between the midpoint and the top of the cap be spending no more than 65% of their total revenue.

Shoalzie · Post by **Shoalzie** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:11 pm

Great news. I was getting so sick of the media drama and having free agency delayed back a few days at a time. We would've had football for two more years anyways but this is re-assuring that we won't have to listen to the labor crap for another handful of years. Let the cuts begin!

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:29 pm

....

sin,

San Diego Cgargers..now 20+ mill under the cap.

Neely8 · Post by **Neely8** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:26 pm

Good ole Ralph Wilson in Buffalo........didn't understand it but voted against it anyway. Buffalo fan must love this guy........

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:33 pm

Neely8 wrote:Good ole Ralph Wilson in Buffalo........didn't understand it but voted against it anyway. Buffalo fan must love this guy........

Ralph's issue was that he had 45 minutes to read and digest an agreement that was worth billions of dollars. I don't necessarily blame him.

Neely8 · Post by **Neely8** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:39 pm

BSmack wrote:
Neely8 wrote:Good ole Ralph Wilson in Buffalo........didn't understand it but voted against it anyway. Buffalo fan must love this guy........
Ralph's issue was that he had 45 minutes to read and digest an agreement that was worth billions of dollars. I don't necessarily blame him.

So the other 30 owners didn't read it and just voted yes?

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:50 pm

Neely8 wrote:
BSmack wrote:
Neely8 wrote:Good ole Ralph Wilson in Buffalo........didn't understand it but voted against it anyway. Buffalo fan must love this guy........
Ralph's issue was that he had 45 minutes to read and digest an agreement that was worth billions of dollars. I don't necessarily blame him.
So the other 30 owners didn't read it and just voted yes?

Pretty much. Well, I'm assuming the 9 owners who bargained the deal read the details. But the remaining owners could not have had more than a cursory glance at the deal. They were basicly voting on faith.

BTW: This is done in legislative bodies all the time. It's hardly anything new.

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:49 am

KC Paul 3.0 wrote:
ChargerMike wrote:....

sin,

San Diego Cgargers..now 20+ mill under the cap.
Then they have no excuse NOT to resign Brees to a long-term deal, do they?

sans the injury he would have been locked up long ago!

With the extra scrilla over the cap and the fact we may be just a few players short, I figured some tasty free agents would be verah interested in the schweet San Diego climate. My worry, if it ends up Brees is gone we may not be able to draw flies.
Starting Rivers means another 2-3 freeking years of losing close games because of inexperience.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:51 am

KC Paul 3.0 wrote:
BSmack wrote:
Neely8 wrote:Good ole Ralph Wilson in Buffalo........didn't understand it but voted against it anyway. Buffalo fan must love this guy........
Ralph's issue was that he had 45 minutes to read and digest an agreement that was worth billions of dollars. I don't necessarily blame him.
Hell, did you SEE that old bastard? Mother fucker has GOT to have one leg in the goddamn casket....I'm not real sure the jurassic fart even knew where the fuck he was even AT.

It's pretty sad when AL DAVIS comes across like a Harvard scholar compared to Old Ralphie Boy.

Nobody's accusing Ralph Wilson of being young. Just sayin that he had a point about not wanting to vote on something after only having 45 minutes to read it.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:45 pm

KC Paul 3.0 wrote:Yeah, but nevertheless he STILL had a clearcut decision to make- allowing complete labor ANARCHY to take place in 2007 or sign off on the deal in front of him. Shouldn't have been that difficult of a decision IMO.

That's what we would all like to think. However, neither you or I know the details of this agreement. I do know that this agreement is going to put pressure on smaller market teams to maximize their revenue streams.

You know what that means in plain English?

Yep, higher ticket prices, extra charges, more pay for play options on team websites, fewer open training camp practices...

Neely8 · Post by **Neely8** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:44 pm

I even heard that ole Ralphie stood up in the middle of the presentation and said...."I just don't get it....."

DallasFanatic · Post by **DallasFanatic** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:53 pm

Speaking of Al Davis, did anyone notice the bed sores on his face? Dude has to get out of his pajamas once in a while and get some fresh air. He looked worse than Skeletor.

jiminphilly · Post by **jiminphilly** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:54 pm

BSmack wrote:
KC Paul 3.0 wrote:Yeah, but nevertheless he STILL had a clearcut decision to make- allowing complete labor ANARCHY to take place in 2007 or sign off on the deal in front of him. Shouldn't have been that difficult of a decision IMO.
That's what we would all like to think. However, neither you or I know the details of this agreement. I do know that this agreement is going to put pressure on smaller market teams to maximize their revenue streams.

You know what that means in plain English?

Yep, higher ticket prices, extra charges, more pay for play options on team websites, fewer open training camp practices...

Aside from the finances I did read that the players's union managed to get rid of the rules that allowed owners to recoup signing bonues from players who were performing conduct detrimental to the team as well as putting a player on the in-active list for longer than 1 week at a time..
(team's can only do it 1 week at a time).

Sounds like the players really made out in this deal.