One more point concerning the NFL protests.
The NFL players might be OK with a less profitable league and a contract that might be smaller right now when they are making six and seven figures but they are forgetting something.
The avg NFL players career is 3.3 years, for a pro-bowl caliber player that shoots up to 11.7. This is the time of maximum earnings for these players, not only from playing but from endorsements and appearances.
Now a very smart player might put money aside for when the big checks stop coming but if they do not they will find that the taxes and the mortgages on those million dollar properties don’t stop when the NFL checks do. So they need to be marketable if they want to keep up that lifestyle.
How marketable do you think NFL players are now that the league is identified with protesting against the flag and police? If you have a national brand or even a local one do you want to take a chance on identifying your brand with this type of thing?
And while the most visible protesters will certainly be affected even the avg player who didn’t take a knee is going to suddenly discover that the tag “ex-NFL player” will no longer open financial doors like it used to.
NFL players, thanks to your protests you have sacked the financial future of every guy in the league not named Brady or of that caliber and you’ve done it for decades to come. And when you find yourself in financial trouble you will have the unpleasant realization that you as a group did this to yourselves and to every college player that follows you.
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Why should the players care? The revenue stream will continue to flow unabated for another three of four seasons, until TV contracts are up for renewal. By that time, there will be — what? — a 75 percent turnover in the players now in the league. It’s no skin off their noses to kill the brand. Empty seats mean nothing since the tickets already were sold and, if they weren’t, the effect on revenue is negligible. Revenue is TV and TV only. And that’s why the protests will continue until the NFL is as popular as a horse race where a Triple Crown is not at stake, or a boxing match with no glamour title on the line.