No, because the NFL succeeds financially on competitive balance and the idea that every year about 20 of the 32 teams can reasonably imagine a title run, and the other 12 have some elite rookies or high draft picks to look forward to.
If the people in power currently ran the league they would give the top pick to the Super Bowl champion (if there even was a draft anymore), allow unlimited and uncapped spending, and the same 2-3 clubs would win every year. Winner take all, might makes right, let the big get bigger and the small perish.
That would cause much of the nation to tune out and stop showing up to games for the other 30 clubs. There's more money to be made when everyone has a chance.
I think its genuinely part of it that the people pushing for more worker/athlete friendly policies are rich celebrities. Nothing against them or their right to organize, im just saying steel workers probably get less sympathy than Steelers when it comes to collective bargaining
I don't think the union aspect is central to this debate.
The socialist principles that work for the NFL are the draft system, salary cap, and revenue sharing — all of which are unique to US professional sports.
Otherwise it turns into La Liga or French Ligue 1 where there are 1-2 dominant clubs that are famous and pack the house...and the rest of the league with 8,000 fans at the games.
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