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Texans Plan To Show "Sign of Solidarity" Sunday

I'm going to be pissed if there's no games next season. Right when we're getting good, our players are starting their prime, we're poised to start our playoff/Super Bowl runs and no games?? I've got high hopes this season (we all do) and if we make the playoffs, even advancing in them, we're going to have so much momentum going into 2011. What a tease that would be.
 
i booed because the flag wasnt even rolled up...I mean cmon guys show some respect for a country that lets you play a kids game and get paid. let the flag be taken off the field and let our space heroes (you know the guys who game up with the satellite dish=big paydays for nfl) get off the field before you make aplay for more money.

Also, I booed because those of us who are hit hard by the economy I dont want to see that when I come to escape my problems.
 
they are just going to end up dropping the union, and if there is a strike I doubt many of them are going to walk away from the 1.9 million dollar average salary. What will then suck is that we'll be in a very interesting situation.

If there is a strike, and players cross the strike and we have strike games are we going to have to pay full prices for our tickets to maintain our PSL.
 
I think a great compromise would be to adjust the way players are paid. Owners don't want to "give up" their share, I get that, but show some compromise and do this at the same time the NFLPA and Owners agree to a Rookie Pay Scale. Shift the $'s to veterans, not the rookies at the top of the draft. Veterans that earned it get paid more, rookies won't be handed $40 million guaranteed contracts, we'll have games and Owner's may not "make more" but the good news is that they will "lose less". Meaning, they won't be on the hook for those Jamarcus Russell type of busts.
 
silvrhand said:
they are just going to end up dropping the union, and if there is a strike I doubt many of them are going to walk away from the 1.9 million dollar average salary. What will then suck is that we'll be in a very interesting situation.

If there is a strike, and players cross the strike and we have strike games are we going to have to pay full prices for our tickets to maintain our PSL.
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I hope this becomes a non-issue. The NFL is as popular as it has ever been and the strike knocked baseball on its ass for 5 years. I think most people with extremely unsympathetic to players and owners fighting it out over money when both sides are making a great deal to begin with.

I hope the NFL fixes this, otherwise a lot more more is going to be lost from a loss of fans than petty bickering can fix.
 
spurstexanstros said:
i booed because the flag wasnt even rolled up...I mean cmon guys show some respect for a country that lets you play a kids game and get paid. let the flag be taken off the field and let our space heroes (you know the guys who game up with the satellite dish=big paydays for nfl) get off the field before you make aplay for more money.

Also, I booed because those of us who are hit hard by the economy I dont want to see that when I come to escape my problems.
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Well said.

I hope they get rookie salaries fixed. This needs to be the last year of the outrageous rookie contract. I don't care how good the guy might be, or will be, because he has got to prove it first.

People like Jamarcus Russell and Ryan Leaf prove that hundreds of millions of dollars go down the drain. That loss of money affects everyone.

And I want HUGE deductions taken from players' salaries, to fund a real retirement program. Pay out, when you retire, is based on how many games you played in. Not how many years. GAMES. the guys who take the most damage to their bodies should get the biggest chunks of coin to help pay for therapy and other medical costs.

There is a right way to do things, but will somebody stand up and makeit happen...or will both sides find ways to gain more for themselves and essentially let greed own their souls?

I will watch scabs play the NFL games. Anybody who says "I'll take the money" is fine by me. These players need to remember they work for many bosses (us fans are included as one of those bosses). They should get things done for themselves, but they have got to realize that rookie salaries and a lack of a true retirement/medical pension is what's the most damaging to their side of the table.
 
silvrhand said:
they are just going to end up dropping the union, and if there is a strike I doubt many of them are going to walk away from the 1.9 million dollar average salary. What will then suck is that we'll be in a very interesting situation.

If there is a strike, and players cross the strike and we have strike games are we going to have to pay full prices for our tickets to maintain our PSL.
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We will have to pay for the tickets as scheduled, BUT.... the $$ will be refunded pro-rata for any /all games NOT played.
 
GP said:
And I want HUGE deductions taken from players' salaries, to fund a real retirement program. Pay out, when you retire, is based on how many games you played in. Not how many years. GAMES. the guys who take the most damage to their bodies should get the biggest chunks of coin to help pay for therapy and other medical costs.
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Especially for the older veterans who never got the multimillion dollar salaries and who are disabled from football injuries (and thus can't work and support themselves or their families). I believe both ownership and the NFLPA have been almost criminally derelict in their moral obligation to support those wounded warriors who made today's multibillion dollar NFL possible, starting with livable pensions and full medical care (particularly for football-related medical problems).

Every player, especially those making eight figure signing bonuses before ever playing a down in the NFL, owes a LOT to these aging, often crippled alumni from decades past. They paved Easy Street with gold for those who came after them and got relatively little in the process.
 
Had no problem with what the players did..

All they are doing is brining awarness to what is really going on. Doesn't matter to me if they get their salaries cut or not...

But I don't have a problem with them doing something that makes people talk about what's happening. As I said, many fans think that the players are asking for more money and I think that they just want to clarify what's happening. I slso don't blame them for just taking a paycut and being happy with it.

I could care less about the results of all this...just want some football...
 
Rey said:
Had no problem with what the players did..

All they are doing is brining awarness to what is really going on. Doesn't matter to me if they get their salaries cut or not...

But I don't have a problem with them doing something that makes people talk about what's happening. As I said, many fans think that the players are asking for more money and I think that they just want to clarify what's happening. I slso don't blame them for just taking a paycut and being happy with it.

I could care less about the results of all this...just want some football...
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I bet 98% of the fans at Reliant on Sunday had NO idea what they meant! They probably thought they were just shooting each other the bird!!:)
 
Solidarity...

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