Spaw, I'm all for letting leagues tie their own ropes if they want to let salaries spiral out of control. But if owners are going to make big bucks selling advertising rights, luxury boxes, and team merchandise, I have no problem with players getting as big a slice of the pie as possible. Salaries will come down on their own in a hurry if people get fed up with paying $30 to park their car (da Bears), or $81.00 for a ticket (avg. price for a 'Skins ticket). They'll quit showing up, and the owners will cut costs to save their wallets. It hasn't happened yet, so more power to em' if they can find 80,000 people willing to turn over a Benjamin or two to enjoy a three hour footgall game eight Sundays a year.

But as long as Jim Carrey, Ah-nuld, Julia, and Jack can make $20 million for a few month's work memorizing and reciting some lines, I have no problem if someone wants to pay Barry Bonds that much for a 162 game season, or if they want to pay Peyton Manning $7 million to play 16 games of football a year. When people stop coming to the games, those athletes will learn to live on less, or they'll learn to live on a LOT less selling shoes rather than endorsing them.