Maple Leaf
Mentor
The systematic selection and placement of white and black players to an assigned role based on race alone in the NFL is a reality and has been for many, many years -decades to be most precise. One need only ask the questions: what colour is a runningback? Or, what colour is a kicker? These roles are no accident nor coincidence. From the 1970's onward, certain deliberate colour patterns arose in what was to become the grand design of the NFL.
Surely even the most casual observer of the NFL would be forced to admit that the NFL's player to position assigments resemble a rehersed script. The script on this web site is entitled "Caste Football". Caste Football has proven, by the preponderance of examples, that white players are systematically discriminated against and are tacitly removed from the NFL game. But what Caste Football has not done, to my satisfaction, is demonstrated WHY white players are not wanted. For to pass off all of the white exclusion from the field as simply racism by whites themselves seems very inadequate, something else must be at play here. So why such a black preference? Yes, racism certainly has a hand in it but the altogether volume of cases shouts down that answer. Examples of individuals confuse this fact. Individuals can always be explained away but not an entire crowd.
U.S. college football is an accomplice with the NFL in having helped create and now maintain the black monopoly but college football is only an NFL deputy. The NFL acts on its own decisions and must account for its own decisions. Anyone watching Bowl games this year would have certainly observed many whites excelling at many positions so we know there is not a question of supply.
The way to understanding the NFL is to ignore the media, the game, and all of the exaggerated and ingenious chatter used to promote the NFL. The NFL is a business and only a business. The media is a business and only a business. The NFL primarily sells entertainment and the media sells advertising. Both businesses promote each other. NFL teams are the most valuable sports franchises in the world with the Washington Redskins currently being valued at over 1 billion dollars. From a shareholders point of view, the NFL is doing a wonderfull job. May everyone have as profitable day as the NFL. Do not be misguided into thinking that the owners of these franchises somehow love football so much they are willing to tie up hundreds of millions of dollars in them. These teams are valued so much because they make the most profit.
Major League sports franchise values are not assessed in the same way corporations outside of sports are. That is, assets against liabilities and cash flow. Sports franchise values are derived on declared revenue. The revenue comes from gate reciepts and broadcast rights. NFL franchises are unique in that each team presents only 17 live events during their "official" season. MLB franchises must present over 160. Regardless of so few events, the NFL has the biggest, most lucrative, network televison contract. Based on 2002 figures, NFL teams received 73 million dollars each from broadcast rights whereas MLB teams received only 11 million. Broadcast revenues are shared amongst the 32 NFL teams. So too are gate receipts. Home teams take 60% of the gate and visiting teams 40%.
Since the owners collaborate to share income, one would only assume that they would collaborate to share and control costs. And they do. The NFL has an investor friendly collective bargaining agreement (cba) with a salary cap pegged in '06 at 86 million. It is no coincidence that the franchises with the highest values, the highest revenue, also tend to have the lowest payrolls.
One cannot understand a company's business plan without also understanding their approach to human resources. The NFL is no different. NFL franchises hire players in the same way other companies employees. That means, resumes and current assessed abilities are CONSIDERED but do not guarantee an applicant a job. Like any other company seeking employees, the intangibles are just as important, and , most of the time, are MORE important. Like most jobs, the successful applicant is usually one that has some undisclosed qualification which is never revealed to the applicant.
NFL management is not stupid and they are not blind. Every franchise wants to win but the rules in the NFL are that you win or lose with a black majority. The figures above prove that win or loose an NFL franchise is a winner. It is factually incorrect to suggest that winning on the field will alter a team's financial success in any significant way.
The only significant defense the NFL owners have to keeping the wealth they are currently deriving is their firewall, the cba. Legally the cba is a mechanism to maintain workplace standards and assure salary levels, in reality the cba is a mechanism used by the owners to fix costs. Remember: lower costs means higher revenues, means higher team values, which means due diligence to shareholders.
It is a very long story but to try to make it as simple and concise as possible it happened something like this. The players association (union) was formed by white players in 56. The NFL experienced strikes in 68,70,74,75,82, and 87. Throughout that period the NFL became an increasingly black player league until the late 80's and early 90's where it levelled off at 65-70% black. The numbers correlate. The inclusion of qualified blacks into the game without the intentional exclusion of whites was not and is not considered unfair. But, as black numbers rose, it was soon realized that increased black participation would create divisions and competitiveness in the workplace instead of cohesion and collaboration. Blacks were brought in more and more to increase the supply of available workers much in the same way as immigrants are brought into developed countries to compete for work as workplace competition advantages the owners.
The owners seemed more confident that blacks would be less able or willing to organize, negotiate, work in a constructive manner as a group, and collectively attempt to change the financial landscape between the players and the owners.
It was not exceptionally difficult to create a black majority and avoid anti-trust or discrimination law suits. Who was going to complain? All the owners had to do is work the college draft. They simply selected more and more black players every year until they had reached an acceptable percentage that would not turn fans away and hire coaches accomodating to blacks, and the rest fell into place. The owners probably surprised themselves at how accepting their patrons (mostly white) would turn out to be. The colleges noticed how the NFL wanted more and more blacks so they recruited more and more as well. The colleges were only too happy to comply. As changes sometimes take on a life of their own, racial allocations appeared partly to justify changes and partly because many coaches believed them. Notwithstanding, the black majority was orchestrated to cool down the union and its incesstant demands. Blacks made for a softer opponent. No other group in America has had poorer business success other than perhaps the American Indian.
Racism, habit, and stereotyping, are all contributing factors presently in the NFL but to ignore the NFL's history is simplistic. White players were moved out and are kept out because they were ,and the owners still believe, a threat to their botton line. Whites became a menace. A larger number of whites means a stronger players' union, more expensive white stars, longer careers with less disposable players, and the botton line is that it is going to cost the owners more in the long run.
Do not misunderstand what is being said here. The majority of black players in the NFL are legitimate. To deny so is absurd. But so too are many white players that are kept out of the game.
In business, a company needs to better the competition or defeat the competition before they can become competitive. The NFL owners understand what they are up against.Edited by: Maple Leaf
Surely even the most casual observer of the NFL would be forced to admit that the NFL's player to position assigments resemble a rehersed script. The script on this web site is entitled "Caste Football". Caste Football has proven, by the preponderance of examples, that white players are systematically discriminated against and are tacitly removed from the NFL game. But what Caste Football has not done, to my satisfaction, is demonstrated WHY white players are not wanted. For to pass off all of the white exclusion from the field as simply racism by whites themselves seems very inadequate, something else must be at play here. So why such a black preference? Yes, racism certainly has a hand in it but the altogether volume of cases shouts down that answer. Examples of individuals confuse this fact. Individuals can always be explained away but not an entire crowd.
U.S. college football is an accomplice with the NFL in having helped create and now maintain the black monopoly but college football is only an NFL deputy. The NFL acts on its own decisions and must account for its own decisions. Anyone watching Bowl games this year would have certainly observed many whites excelling at many positions so we know there is not a question of supply.
The way to understanding the NFL is to ignore the media, the game, and all of the exaggerated and ingenious chatter used to promote the NFL. The NFL is a business and only a business. The media is a business and only a business. The NFL primarily sells entertainment and the media sells advertising. Both businesses promote each other. NFL teams are the most valuable sports franchises in the world with the Washington Redskins currently being valued at over 1 billion dollars. From a shareholders point of view, the NFL is doing a wonderfull job. May everyone have as profitable day as the NFL. Do not be misguided into thinking that the owners of these franchises somehow love football so much they are willing to tie up hundreds of millions of dollars in them. These teams are valued so much because they make the most profit.
Major League sports franchise values are not assessed in the same way corporations outside of sports are. That is, assets against liabilities and cash flow. Sports franchise values are derived on declared revenue. The revenue comes from gate reciepts and broadcast rights. NFL franchises are unique in that each team presents only 17 live events during their "official" season. MLB franchises must present over 160. Regardless of so few events, the NFL has the biggest, most lucrative, network televison contract. Based on 2002 figures, NFL teams received 73 million dollars each from broadcast rights whereas MLB teams received only 11 million. Broadcast revenues are shared amongst the 32 NFL teams. So too are gate receipts. Home teams take 60% of the gate and visiting teams 40%.
Since the owners collaborate to share income, one would only assume that they would collaborate to share and control costs. And they do. The NFL has an investor friendly collective bargaining agreement (cba) with a salary cap pegged in '06 at 86 million. It is no coincidence that the franchises with the highest values, the highest revenue, also tend to have the lowest payrolls.
One cannot understand a company's business plan without also understanding their approach to human resources. The NFL is no different. NFL franchises hire players in the same way other companies employees. That means, resumes and current assessed abilities are CONSIDERED but do not guarantee an applicant a job. Like any other company seeking employees, the intangibles are just as important, and , most of the time, are MORE important. Like most jobs, the successful applicant is usually one that has some undisclosed qualification which is never revealed to the applicant.
NFL management is not stupid and they are not blind. Every franchise wants to win but the rules in the NFL are that you win or lose with a black majority. The figures above prove that win or loose an NFL franchise is a winner. It is factually incorrect to suggest that winning on the field will alter a team's financial success in any significant way.
The only significant defense the NFL owners have to keeping the wealth they are currently deriving is their firewall, the cba. Legally the cba is a mechanism to maintain workplace standards and assure salary levels, in reality the cba is a mechanism used by the owners to fix costs. Remember: lower costs means higher revenues, means higher team values, which means due diligence to shareholders.
It is a very long story but to try to make it as simple and concise as possible it happened something like this. The players association (union) was formed by white players in 56. The NFL experienced strikes in 68,70,74,75,82, and 87. Throughout that period the NFL became an increasingly black player league until the late 80's and early 90's where it levelled off at 65-70% black. The numbers correlate. The inclusion of qualified blacks into the game without the intentional exclusion of whites was not and is not considered unfair. But, as black numbers rose, it was soon realized that increased black participation would create divisions and competitiveness in the workplace instead of cohesion and collaboration. Blacks were brought in more and more to increase the supply of available workers much in the same way as immigrants are brought into developed countries to compete for work as workplace competition advantages the owners.
The owners seemed more confident that blacks would be less able or willing to organize, negotiate, work in a constructive manner as a group, and collectively attempt to change the financial landscape between the players and the owners.
It was not exceptionally difficult to create a black majority and avoid anti-trust or discrimination law suits. Who was going to complain? All the owners had to do is work the college draft. They simply selected more and more black players every year until they had reached an acceptable percentage that would not turn fans away and hire coaches accomodating to blacks, and the rest fell into place. The owners probably surprised themselves at how accepting their patrons (mostly white) would turn out to be. The colleges noticed how the NFL wanted more and more blacks so they recruited more and more as well. The colleges were only too happy to comply. As changes sometimes take on a life of their own, racial allocations appeared partly to justify changes and partly because many coaches believed them. Notwithstanding, the black majority was orchestrated to cool down the union and its incesstant demands. Blacks made for a softer opponent. No other group in America has had poorer business success other than perhaps the American Indian.
Racism, habit, and stereotyping, are all contributing factors presently in the NFL but to ignore the NFL's history is simplistic. White players were moved out and are kept out because they were ,and the owners still believe, a threat to their botton line. Whites became a menace. A larger number of whites means a stronger players' union, more expensive white stars, longer careers with less disposable players, and the botton line is that it is going to cost the owners more in the long run.
Do not misunderstand what is being said here. The majority of black players in the NFL are legitimate. To deny so is absurd. But so too are many white players that are kept out of the game.
In business, a company needs to better the competition or defeat the competition before they can become competitive. The NFL owners understand what they are up against.Edited by: Maple Leaf
