[Coededgeme]

Probably because the average career span of an NFL player is around 6 years... If that.. So this wouldnt work.

I would think that the average career span being shorter would make this work more. If you outright own the rights to the player you drafted for six years, and his only options is arbitration and not free agency, then why would this not work?

I don't get why you have such a low opinion of sports fans. Who is fooled into thinking lazy/greedy owners are trying to win?

The salary cap just makes sense. You don't invest a billion dollars into a business to get no return on it. I'd want to protect my investment, too.

Because I find it silly when people try to argue that the salary cap adds parity or fairness to a league and that other sports should support it. It doesn't add parity, it doesn't add fairness, it detracts from the fans enjoyment because it encourages player movement.

During the lockout, there was people who actually supported the owners. That is why I have such a low opinion of sports fans. They are on average idiots.

The salary cap only makes sense from the point of view of the owners. A better designed system makes sense. (note: each sport has things in their system that I think could be used in a better designed system, none of them have a great system right now) A better designed system borrows from baseball, where you own the players that you get and develop. A better designed system borrows from Basketball, where you can sign your own free agents and not face penalty(salary cap penalty or whatever) a better designed system borrows from football, you can assign a player a franchise status which guarantees him a good contract, but prevents him from going somewhere else. Of course any system that is worth a crap has guaranteed contracts and not the unholy abomination that the NFl does. Etc. A good design system of course has in place a way to encourage owners to try and win. Maybe not this year, but to build a team that should be competitive down the road. Every fan should be able to look at their team and say "we may not be good this year, but in two or three seasons we will be a force to be reckoned with" And of course heavy revenue sharing.