Let's briefly review the landscape of American sports since 1990:
-- Greedy owners and players in baseball cancel the final two months of games and the postseason in 1994 because of labor strife, nearly carry that work stoppage over into the 1995 season, then spend the next 11 years juicing up players and ignoring scandal to try and win fans back.
-- Greedy owners and players in basketball cancel half the games in the 1998 season because of labor strife, come back with a soft salary cap that presents no competitive balance in the league, and spend the next eight years letting the three teams win every championship to try and win fans back.
-- Greedy owners and players in hockey cancel half of the 1994 season because of labor strife, cancel all of the 2004 season because of labor strife, and when they finally return have to drop ticket prices and revamp every rule in the book to try and win fans back.
-- Greedy owners and players in football spend part of the 2006 offseason arguing about how they should divide their profits, and delay the start of free agency in 2006 by a few days until they sort it out. The league remains strong, and no fans were lost.
Oh, NFL, where would we be without you?
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It's a good thing that players and owners in Major League Soccer don't get greedy. They don't have enough fans to lose.
I just wish the other sports would drop their ticket prices even further so I could consider going to games occasionally.
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