It has always been our position that for a player association to be effective, the players themselves need to be instrumental and passionate regarding its establishment and maintenance there just isn't that level of commitment within those two groups of players at the moment. Players' interests need to be aligned and they need to operate as an unselfish collective, rather than an everymanforhimself mentality. Until this "collective" mindset can be obtained within these groups of players, it will be difficult to establish an effective player association..A National Football League franchise is not only a civic status symbol, but a way of grabbing your town some air time and potentially some cash. Last year alone, the NFL produced $9.5 billion in revenue. That's $2 billion more than the $7.5 billion produced by Major League Baseball over the same span and more than the revenue produced by the NCAA ($5.3 billion) and NASCAR ($4.1 billion) combined.

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