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Originally posted by Alfienator:
Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
i like this
Brock Purdy said his first big purchase will be a Bass Boat, as long as his wife approves 🎣 pic.twitter.com/H98wyOlTO7
— Alex Tran (@nineralex) May 21, 2025
I feel like this is a lie. Seems like he already has a boat. He should've gotten a nice chunk of change from Toyota to already purchase one.
Originally posted by Alfienator:
I feel like this is a lie. Seems like he already has a boat. He should've gotten a nice chunk of change from Toyota to already purchase one.
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
The idea that players should get the majority of the money is silly. Yes fans pay to see them but the team wouldn't function without the money the owners invest. Most owners don't make a lot of money from football after expenses. They're money usually comes from other sources. I'm not against players making money but they don't need to be the highest salaried people in America. Especialy when it keeps driving up prices. Tickets go up. Parking goes up. Access to view games on TV or streaming gets more expensive.
What bothers me even more is the game isn't getting better. They keep changing rules to try and protect these high priced players and it just waters down the game. These millionaire players are far more cautious because they're worried about injuries.
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
The idea that players should get the majority of the money is silly. Yes fans pay to see them but the team wouldn't function without the money the owners invest. Most owners don't make a lot of money from football after expenses. They're money usually comes from other sources. I'm not against players making money but they don't need to be the highest salaried people in America. Especialy when it keeps driving up prices. Tickets go up. Parking goes up. Access to view games on TV or streaming gets more expensive.
What bothers me even more is the game isn't getting better. They keep changing rules to try and protect these high priced players and it just waters down the game. These millionaire players are far more cautious because they're worried about injuries.
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
This isn't a question of whether they ovewrpaid for Brock. In the current market it's a fair deal. The problem is that salaries overall are just going wild. We fans have become numb to the money and the impact it eventually has on ticket prices and all the other costs for fans. We've become institutionalized to use a term from Shawshank Redemption. We talk about the money like it's nothing when many of us can barely afford to attend one game.
I've been an avid sports fan my entire life but I find it harder and harder to have any emotional attachment to players now. They live in a different world than we do.
Originally posted by frenchmov:
Oh boo hoo, the billionaire owners who aren't putting their careers on the line every Sunday can't get another $100m a year because they have to pay people
The players are why we watch. That's it. As for ticket prices/etc going up, well yeah. That's how business works. Don't go to the games if it's too expensive.
Don't stream the games. I have an antenna I bought for $5 about 15 years ago, I get 2 early games, 1 late game and and all in beautiful hd free of charge.
When I was growing up Sunday ticket didn't exist. You got the morning & afternoon games selected for you. Didn't like the matchups?? Too bad.
Now you have incredible choices if you want to see the games. Pay or don't pay, but it's your choice.
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:I dont get any of this. Like, at all.
The idea that players should get the majority of the money is silly. Yes fans pay to see them but the team wouldn't function without the money the owners invest. Most owners don't make a lot of money from football after expenses. They're money usually comes from other sources. I'm not against players making money but they don't need to be the highest salaried people in America. Especialy when it keeps driving up prices. Tickets go up. Parking goes up. Access to view games on TV or streaming gets more expensive.
What bothers me even more is the game isn't getting better. They keep changing rules to try and protect these high priced players and it just waters down the game. These millionaire players are far more cautious because they're worried about injuries.
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
This isn't a question of whether they ovewrpaid for Brock. In the current market it's a fair deal. The problem is that salaries overall are just going wild. We fans have become numb to the money and the impact it eventually has on ticket prices and all the other costs for fans. We've become institutionalized to use a term from Shawshank Redemption. We talk about the money like it's nothing when many of us can barely afford to attend one game.
I've been an avid sports fan my entire life but I find it harder and harder to have any emotional attachment to players now. They live in a different world than we do.
Originally posted by the_dynasty:
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:I dont get any of this. Like, at all.
The idea that players should get the majority of the money is silly. Yes fans pay to see them but the team wouldn't function without the money the owners invest. Most owners don't make a lot of money from football after expenses. They're money usually comes from other sources. I'm not against players making money but they don't need to be the highest salaried people in America. Especialy when it keeps driving up prices. Tickets go up. Parking goes up. Access to view games on TV or streaming gets more expensive.
What bothers me even more is the game isn't getting better. They keep changing rules to try and protect these high priced players and it just waters down the game. These millionaire players are far more cautious because they're worried about injuries.
To many owners, owning a sports team is an investment. The owners get collective revenue split up between them. In sports like baseball, many MLB owners of small market teams basically shovel money by not spending money and getting that revenue $.
The reason people watch sports is the players, not the owners. People want to see best talent compete against each other. Not owners money competing against each other, but in a structure of a competitive event.
Most NFL players make crap money and their average NFL careers lasts like 3 years. Hell, Purdy made only 3 million over 3 years
Many guys in corporate tech who work at management who have received more comp than Purdy has. And yet Purdy was a top 15 (at worst) guy in the world in what he has done at the position not many people could do. Mid to upper management at a FAANG company ? Literally thousands of people could do that job.
And that's a QB. For most guys in the NFL, they really arent making that much money. Compared to safe, WFH jobs nowadays. Have you seen the sponsor money for internet influencers with many subs ?
And the thing is, it's not like the salaries rose out of nowhere. Its a direct result of profits from the league being good. And owners grab a lot of that revenue money.
The NBA contracts exploded around 8-ish (?) years ago because of revenue sharing and large NBA deals, not just because.
Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
This isn't a question of whether they ovewrpaid for Brock. In the current market it's a fair deal. The problem is that salaries overall are just going wild. We fans have become numb to the money and the impact it eventually has on ticket prices and all the other costs for fans. We've become institutionalized to use a term from Shawshank Redemption. We talk about the money like it's nothing when many of us can barely afford to attend one game.
I've been an avid sports fan my entire life but I find it harder and harder to have any emotional attachment to players now. They live in a different world than we do.
How old are you? I'm curious.
This is the same thing my father in law keeps harping on and I have to keep reminding him that he needs to get over it and these are the times now.
Contract amounts are skyrocketing. If you look back just 25 years you'll see there were only two 100 million contracts around. Brett Favre and Drew Bledsoe IIRC. And both of them were 10 year deals.
A QB making $10 million a season these days are usually bottom tier starters or big time backups.
Worrying about how much these guys make is kind of crazy to me. Why do you need to have emotional attachment to them outside of how they play on the field or what they do in their communities?
Heck what professional sport can you find where guys aren't getting way more than the average Joe?
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:Last time I checked, in capitalism supply and demand dictate the price
So they should get paid in the top 400 of all earners in America. Just for playing a sport? Like I said i love sports but damn ther ehas to be some limits put on this. It's not a sustainable businwess model when salaries are escalating at these rates. Don't keep believing they'll be able to sign players around him and win a SB. Players that get signed for bottom dollars aren't the type that you build a winning team with. Top free agents cost a lot so you're left with building through the draft. That's fine if you hit on over 50% of your picks but most teams don't. Unless they fall on hard times and have 2 or 3 bad years in a row where they are picking in the top 10.
No business is immune from inflationary pressures. Sooner of later ther league and players have to come to an agreement. Put some caps on what certain positions can earn just like they do for rookies. Ifd they don't we'll be seeing $100 million QBs and $60 million WRs within a few years.
the salaries are rising because NFL revenue is growing. scarcity at some positions exacerbate the salaries. I dont see how its an "unsustainable business model" when the NFL makes a ton of revenue and a ton of profit. Unlike public valuation companies where you have lots of inflated bubbles, NFL is an actual established product that many people enjoy consuming.
It's not a sustainable business model when salaries are escalating at these rates.
Don't keep believing they'll be able to sign players around him and win a SB. Players that get signed for bottom dollars aren't the type that you build a winning team with. Top free agents cost a lot so you're left with building through the draft. That's fine if you hit on over 50% of your picks but most teams don't. Unless they fall on hard times and have 2 or 3 bad years in a row where they are picking in the top 10.
Originally posted by Isosceles:
I kinda get what CatchMaster80 is saying. I don't think he's necessarily worrying about what players make. Of course the man can speak for himself. But what I'm feeling, from what he's writing, is that changes in the sport, like skyrocking salaries, or whatever, are slowly taking away from what he's been used to and has enjoyed in his life. (as I read what he says).
As an example (hopefully valid example): A long time ago, a certain element of the NBA became a bit too much for me, as compared to how the game was when I was growing up watching it. So I boycotted watching NBA game for several years. As much as I love basketball, I just didn't need what I felt I was getting at the time. I'm back again, and I'm pretty much loving it again.
Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by Isosceles:
I kinda get what CatchMaster80 is saying. I don't think he's necessarily worrying about what players make. Of course the man can speak for himself. But what I'm feeling, from what he's writing, is that changes in the sport, like skyrocking salaries, or whatever, are slowly taking away from what he's been used to and has enjoyed in his life. (as I read what he says).
As an example (hopefully valid example): A long time ago, a certain element of the NBA became a bit too much for me, as compared to how the game was when I was growing up watching it. So I boycotted watching NBA game for several years. As much as I love basketball, I just didn't need what I felt I was getting at the time. I'm back again, and I'm pretty much loving it again.
It's capitalism, demand goes up price goes up. That's all. NFL is making more money than ever (thank you fans). Revenue goes up, players piece of the pie (the cap) goes up, contracts go up. Owners have to spend the money.
I loved the NBA growing up, it wasn't so much the $$ that made me go elsewhere. It was the evolution of the game. Defense is gone. It's just shooting 3s all game. Great players control the league and force too much stuff. We don't even have real rivalries anymore. I guess for me they took a lot of the "physical" out of the NBA.
Give me the old pistons and Knicks vs the bulls. That was great basketball
Great interview: Greg Cosell on people calling Brock Purdy a system quarterback:
— Coach Yac 🗣 (@Coach_Yac) May 22, 2025
"When people see a quarterback execute at a high level, which Purdy has done for most of his three years they assume that it's the system… Steve Young said that it is so hard to do that… And that… pic.twitter.com/lKXMSMmVOd
Originally posted by genus49:
I think it's hilarious that Seahawks fans danced all over social media celebrating the deal and laughing at it...only to find out that Sam Darnold has higher cap hits than Brock lol