re: All professional leagues should have a hard salary cap. No going above allowed at all

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Now you’re talking about the same as participation trophies. This is hilarious. Maybe we should put a cap on how much money you can make at your job or how much your company can spend on all employees. The irony is off the charts.

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Remember that the NFL (to use one example) is a single company and each team operates as a franchise of that company. So instead of talking about individual businesses competing against each other, we are instead talking about discrete units of the same company operating under the auspices of a single corporate entity. So, to use your own comparison, the company I work for most definitely has a cap for the amount of money they can spend on employees - it's set by the annual budget and is based on projected revenue. The NFL is no different. The players even have a union, whose purpose is to monitor the operations of the company and ensure that the NFL's employee budget (i.e., the salary cap) is set high enough that the players are getting their fair share of the company pie. And the free market still operates, because you or I or Vince McMahon or anyone else is free to go out and start our own pro football teams/leagues not connected to the NFL and pay players any amount we can afford.

It's goofy to me that everyone gets on this board and complains about the current state of college football, in which players can be paid any amount of NIL money and can freely choose to change teams at the drop of a hat, but then half of those same people also want to scream, "But dat's communism!!!" at anyone who is a proponent of salary caps and contracts in professional sports. It's almost as if - almost as if - a disturbing percentage of the people running around talking and voting and helping run this country into the ground don't actually have any idea what they're talking about.