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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
This ratification vote will be very close, there are a lot of angry players out there, but I think it will pass, there are too many players in football that can't save their money and need the paycheck, plus careers in the CFL are very short.
at the end of the day, while it sounds greedy, the league overall has been losing money for probably nearly 40 years, of course they're going to be cautious with change with their first big tv deal.
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I get that the players wants shares of TV revenues but they were asking for the moon. They wants $18M out $27M from TV revenue. I just don't get why they are asking too much. Yes they are the one entertaining the fans on and off the field BUT the owners are the one putting up the money paying to play the game and so on. I agree with you 100%, the owners are losing way too much money for a long time. Attendance in some CFL team barely keep up with the payroll so I am glad that TSN are finally helping them generate revenues.
I don't think CFLPA will get a lot of sympathies from the fans all over Canada. I am sure if they ask the owners for a little piece of the pie like even $5M out $27M, they might get it but not 2/3 of the TV revenues.
Oh yeah, I had to laugh on Nik's analogy this morning on what they got out of this negotiation. Just love Nik but on his analogy this morning, I thought he sounded like a spoiled brat.
"It's like your dad saying, I am going to get you a car and he brings home a bicycle".