Players aren't forced to participate in the NFL.

Name another industry where you can get away with every company owner colluding on capping wages, and in this case, agreeing to blackball a player from being employed by anyone.

If players decide not to participate in the NFL, that severely hurts the owners. The players drive the popularity of the league. There's a reason the player's union is ridiculously powerful.

Nothing personal here but this is where you are mistaken. The NFL is one big corporation with franchise owners. You know like McD's, Wendy's etc...... and they call the shots on wages as well.

"Blackball" insinuates they formally came together to do this. You have no proof of that and besides you don't have to come together on a conference call to make sure all 32 toe the line. Like I said, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize what is best for your bottom line after watching the ratings/$$ fall off to some degree. Kaep/Reid did this to themselves. They finally "bit the hand" that feed their NFL playing opportunities and paid a dear price for it. A dear price not playing again. But on the other hand, they made a manure load of $$ by not playing either. :shrug:

But mcdonald's doesn't have a salary cap. Wages are set by the free market. If mcdonald's sets the wages too low, nobody would work there. The NFL has a unique labor agreement where they almost have a socialist system.... Jerry Jones is limited from buying out Andrew luck for $250m because the NFL as a whole wants to give small market teams a chance through a salary cap. As a fan, I get it. But it means much as incredible as it sounds, owners are allowed to underpay players in ways most businesses could not. If you want to see a true free market sports system, European soccer would be it. If mcdonald's workers go on strike, mcdonald's can shrug it off knowing every employee is easily replaceable. The NFL owners know that great football athletes are not easily replaceable (which is why the AAF has such a limited audience)

From what I recall, the lawsuit was about blackballing. Kaepernicks lawyers had to prove collusion to win. Thought I had seen reports where there were pretty blatant discussions between owners about not signing Kaepernick. Collusion is definitely illegal.

was the audio posted?

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What the hell is LJ so busy with these days that he has to cram a 2 minute video in while driving around? Park your ****ing car idiot.

Reid played last year and just signed a 3 year deal.

50/50 Kaep is in the league in 2019.

Also, you’re as profound a dumbass as ever for comparing a burger flipper to an NFL player.

I don’t see it. He’ll be an extremely limited 32 year old qb who was never that good to begin with and brings boatloads of baggage.

Plus, you run the risk of his deranged girlfriend calling you racist on twitter.

Because Kaep got paid doesn't mean there is proof. But rather it much easier as some have said to pay off for this to go away than rather waste time,$$ and continual bad PR lingering for months/years.

We'll never know if there was "actual collusion" or not.:shrug:

Hey, my bad. I usually don't keep up with an Alinsky Lietenent only the Alinsky General(Kaep)

Hey Cave do you see team owners as "white slave owners"? If you do, why would a slave owner let their slaves have their cake and eat it as well? And since when do slaves actually earn hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars a year playing a game?

Ahhhh yes the beauty and exceptional greatness of America and it's capitalistic opportunities for all. Something your dumbass refuses to embrace and would rather play victim instead.:rolleyes:

Dan Patrick said that he's heard different. He knows some scouts and other guys in the league. They said that Kaepernick settled without notifying the Player's Union and that it was cheap. It was an est 10 million to Kaepernick and a donation to the charity of Kaepernick's choice of some unknown amount. Kaepernick didn't have any concrete evidence. No tape, no email proof. He was going to lose and his lawyers knew it so they took whatever deal they could get.

The reasons why the NFL settled; relatively cheap, the NFL wouldn't face the discovery process, Executives and Owners wouldn't need to testify.

FWIW

Kaepernick wanted a payday and got it

We still know that Goodell and Kraft are good buddies and the Patriots get all the calls to get to the Super Bowl. No discovery needed. We already know.

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