Salary Cap garbage...a GREAT writeup!

[RoadLizard 73]

I have posted many times regarding my disdain for the salary CRAP...er cap. usually, except for a few that really understand the problems it creates always come whining back to the "Small market" teams arguments sprinkled in with the "Look at baseball" arguments. This guy wrote a great article about salary caps, please read it and respond if you like. As for the small market BS, alls I can say what about the late 80's/early 90's Bills? 4 straight SB's and a small market team...right? The Bungles in the 80's made it to two SB's and competed quite often.....right? Those are two examples, but there are more!

 

May I also throw in my usual arguments ahead of time....

Salary Caps are BAD because:

 

1. Lame teams win SB's that have no business being there other than they beat an even lamer team.

2. No teams ever stay together longer than a year or two. It's musical all-pros.

3. Caps reward sucking and punish success.

4. The quality of play goes downhill. The last SB was agreat example of shoddy play between what 20 years ago would have been .500 teams at best. The NFL hype machine tried to spin it as an epic battle of the best the NFL has to offer. OK, yeah...

5. Caps try and artifcially balance the league by penalizing good franchises and helping awful ones. The league scorns anyone being too good..... I mean.... the point is to be great and win...right? No, the point now I guess is to be compassionate and only win a little bit as to not hurt anyones feelings.

 

ARTICLE BELOW:

 

League should have no need for any type of salary cap - (03/08)

By Brad Kvederis

 

With all the talk coming out of the NFL over the past week, you'd think the sky was falling.

The end of the salary cap is coming, they say, and in the ensuing anarchy, all 1,696 players in the league will sign $20 million contracts with Dallas or Washington, which will then win the next 50 consecutive Super Bowls while everyone else stands around watching helplessly.

 

The end of the salary cap will be the end of competition in football, they say. Overnight, the Pittsburgh Steelers will turn into the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Kansas City Chiefs will become the Royals. The sky is falling.

 

I say let it fall. Kill the salary cap, grind it into little pieces and bury it so deep it could never come back even if it was a zombie in a cheap horror movie. Over the past 13 years, we've had the idea of parity and big-market/small-market economics shoved down our throats so many times, we've forgotten that the salary cap is ruining football.

 

How so, you ask? The cap enforces parity by law, which is great, I guess, if the memory of Trent Dilfer leading the Baltimore Ravens to a Super Bowl victory brings a tear of nostalgia to your eyes. The cap robs the game of its truly memorable teams, making sure that there are enough holes in each of them that even the Patriots' "dynasty" will forever be followed by the words "in the salary cap era."

 

The cap creates a different power balance every year, but not by generously leveling the playing field between the haves and the have-nots. Basically, it destroys teams at random.

 

Think, for a moment, about what would have happened to the 49ers of the '80s under the current system.

 

Sorry, Ronnie Lott - we can't afford to keep you. Just business, you understand, but have fun playing for the Panthers. Too bad, Steve Young - you don't fit into our budget. Good luck with the Jets, and we'll remember to go 4-12 next time Montana gets hurt. Adios, John Taylor - the Lions need a second receiver, and we're prohibited from offering you even half as much as they will.

 

The stuff of legends,

 

 

 

huh?

 

The truth is, a salary cap causes you to lose just as many players to higher bidders as a free-for-all capless market would. The only difference is that under the current system, it doesn't even matter who's bidding against you for your top-notch players. They're just gone.

 

Baseball is always mentioned as the prime example of what's wrong with a "free" free-agent market. The Yankees are the greedy Evil Empire, the A's are the spunky Little Engine that Could, and greed beats spunk every time. But what would've happened to the A's if there had been a salary cap in baseball?

 

Giambi? Still gone - just maybe to the Tigers or the Astros instead of the Yankees. Tejada? If Giambi stayed, Miguel would be a cap casualty without a doubt. Mulder and Hudson? They'd cost too much to keep anyway, or else Harden and Zito would.

 

Thing about baseball is, it has just as much parity as football, but without the salary cap. A different World Series winner in each of the past six seasons? Ten different teams in the Series during that span? Looks like parity to me.

 

Last year's World Series featured the White Sox (12th in total payroll) against the Astros (13th). In 2003, the Marlins ($54 million payroll) beat the Yankees ($164 million). Before the NHL lockout, the Tampa Bay Lightning ($40 million payroll) won the Stanley Cup, while the New York Rangers ($80 million) missed the playoffs.

 

Rich or poor, smart teams can win in pro sports without a salary cap. Throw the NFL's cap on the trash heap where it belongs, and let smarts be measured in terms of football sense in September, not in an accountant's ledger in the middle of March.

[famousb 11]

I have no fundamental problem w/ the principal of a salary cap, but its the fact that owners use the excuse that it is to create parity, while in reality it is a system used to limit how much money they have to fork over to players in order to look like they are trying to be competitive. With the revenue sharing systems there isn't nearly as much difference between "big market" and "small market" as there is between the Yankees payroll and that of the Marlins (i think ARod and Jeter make more than the entire Marlins team).

 

I would have no problem w/ a salary cap if it was doubled or even tripled. Then there would still be some limit on what teams could spend, but it would give owners more discretion in what they want to spend to create that dynasty... and then you would still have the Bidwells (before this year) that would remain atrociously low just to maintain the status quo...

[esoitl 0]

i dont so much have problems with the cap

there shouldnt be a team in any sport that is fielding an all-star lineup at all times

 

in my eyes there is little loyalty to a team shown except for a few select players and people will go where they can get paid

 

 

 

i truly disagree with all the talk of SF and how they should still be dominating the league yet got destroyed by the cap.....

when it got brought into effect there were teams that understood it and worked with it, like it or not but there were teams, IMO, that didnt understand how it worked and couldnt see down the road enough to prevent their own collapse

how many teams, especially SF, got into trouble cause they were buying teams year in and year out and paying for players years after they were cut?

thats not the cap, thats poor management

 

i'll agree that player greed tears teams apart when someone demands a huge contract. then the cap shuffle has to begin and players are cut but overall i enjoy watching the 'salary cap NFL'