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Indianapolis Colts 2008 Preview RepotJuly 8, 2008
It’s ironic, really. The system is set up to prevent this. It’s designed to create parity and equality. This is what the people behind it champion to the masses. There are 32 teams that operate under a socialistic form of government that calls itself the NFL (National Football League). A more accurate title would be the PRPF (People’s Republic of Pro Football).
In the PRPF, revenue a team earns goes into a pot, where it is then redistributed in a more proportionate fashion. Money a team spends on player payroll must not exceed $116 million in the year 2008. They call this the salary cap. In the PRPF, teams that achieve the most success are rewarded with a lower draft position and harder schedule the following season. Teams that do the best in the draft eventually are forced to give up the highest number of quality players in free agency. Otherwise, they’d go over that cap. This is the system.
There is the belief that the key in pro football is to operate within the system and beat the other 31 teams. It’s not. Rather, the key in pro football is to beat the system. Beating the other teams is the secondary issue. Some clubs know this. Few understand it. And even fewer actually do it.
The Indianapolis Colts are one of the few.
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