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And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.

People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.

The NBA has made it clear they want fan bases to be able to keep their teams.

The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team.

The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.