Players and Fans Lose When Team Owners Don’t Open the Books

Players and Fans Lose When Team Owners Don’t Open the Books

Players and Fans Lose When Team Owners Don’t Open the Books

With many teams undergoing new megastadium projects, players and fans are getting the short end of the stick.

Facebook
Twitter
Email
Flipboard
Pocket

The NFL wants to take a billion dollar cut from player’s salaries to offset construction costs for megastadium projects. Nation columnist Dave Zirin, author of Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love, appeared on the Dylan Ratigan Show to talk about the rationale behind this cut, and how players and fans both lose out when owners are not transparent about their real financial situation.

Zirin also recently wrote about serious injuries in football and how it will hurt players to extend the season by two more games. Check out his post here.

Braden Goyette

Thank you for reading The Nation!

We hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply-reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that shifts the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.

Throughout this critical election year and a time of media austerity and renewed campus activism and rising labor organizing, independent journalism that gets to the heart of the matter is more critical than ever before. Donate right now and help us hold the powerful accountable, shine a light on issues that would otherwise be swept under the rug, and build a more just and equitable future.

For nearly 160 years, The Nation has stood for truth, justice, and moral clarity. As a reader-supported publication, we are not beholden to the whims of advertisers or a corporate owner. But it does take financial resources to report on stories that may take weeks or months to properly investigate, thoroughly edit and fact-check articles, and get our stories into the hands of readers.

Donate today and stand with us for a better future. Thank you for being a supporter of independent journalism.

Thank you for your generosity.

Ad Policy
x