Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for March 06, 2021

Players under contract were demanding trades a century ago. Eeeesh.

Seems to work for the Jets and the Lions as far as being consistently bad. However, cheer up Jet and Lion fans, if Buffalo, Tampa and Cleveland can find their way out of the abyss, anything is possible….

Your pick, Buying a big name for Huge $ ( then getting low return ) or selling a mediocre player for big $ and a few trades.

Never see them giving the money back after a crappy season. Millionaires suck!

When management can fire players even tho they have a contract, then players should have the same rights as management

Nobody reads their contracts anymore.

“Don’t contracts mean anything anymore?”

When did contracts mean anything? For many years, a sporting contract was just a form of paid indentured servitude. Contracts never expired, there was always option years, so a team could extend the contract. Unless the team wanted the contract to expire, then bye-bye. Then there was the tacit agreement that you didn’t sign someone else’s free agents. That’s what helped lead to the AFL-NFL merger. The Bills let K Pete Gogolak’s contract expire. The New York Giants signed Gogolak, which AFL Commissioner Al Davis took as an act of war.

Contracts are worth the paper they are printed on. The last time I bought printer paper, I bought 2 reams for $10. That’s a penny a page.

It seems that the same sports pundits who habitually bitch about a “lack of loyalty” or “He has a contract, he should honor it” are equally supportive of teams like the WFC dumping the NFL’s comeback player of the year and the Belichick method of “use them and dump them contract be damned” because they are just economic decisions.

Actually, I believe they are discussing the Pirates.

Our team is buying back, at a discount, our World Series players they traded off.

Conversations in NFL GMs’ offices: “Let’s see now… You’re 30, getting older… Here’s a pay cut. Take the cut or get cut.”

Remember the movie “Money Ball”?

Cleveland?

It’s just payback for decades of owners buying and selling players at will without the players’ consent or input.

You can demand anything, granting the demand is what gives them the power.