That worked on baseball and not going that far is why NFL is a joke, have NFL won their Strike i think there would not be more strikes, Strike works.
We should make a WI if the NFLPA won both their strikes and how that affect all other strikes.
Or a mega Strike ie all sports goes into Strike the same season
I hear we almost had a three-fer in 1994-95. Baseball shit the bed and cancelled the ‘94 season. Hockey lost half a season. I understand the NBA could have gone that route too. Football was A-OK buuuuuuuut maybe a change here or there and the ‘94 season is in jeopardy.
Here’s my idea - the NFL labor agreement expires in March 1994 instead of whenever it really did. A lot of bitterness remains from 1982 and 1987 and the players want to strike back against the salary cap - for whatever reason, they decide it’s bullshit. So the season doesn’t start on time - or at all.
Baseball goes on strike as scheduled. No 1994 Series, and the 1995 season not only doesn’t start on time but it’s in jeopardy as well. If it does go off, it’s a greatly shortened season, like 84 games at most.
Hockey goes into lockout, Bergman makes the threat he did in OTL (sign soon and play a 48-game season or we shut it down completely) and it goes tits-up and the whole season is shot.
Basketball goes down a similar trajectory to 1998-99 but loses the whole year. If the blood is bad enough, especially if Jordan doesn’t step in, it could go into the 1995-96 season.
One more possible screw - OTL MLS started in 1996 and managed to hang on long enough to establish itself. With all these leagues on strike or locked out, MLS decides, what the hell, we’ll start a year early. It isn’t ready and it falls apart within a couple of years, just another failed soccer venture that “proves” Americans won’t consume soccer.
Best case, 1994-95 is less than fondly remembered as the Year Without Sports. Every league, save for MLS, rebuilds, some teams disappear, a lot of the sports boom is undone, and teams are much more at the mercy of cities for stadiums (city councils tell team owners, either make do, pay for it yourself, or fuck off to Memphis; we don’t care.) The fans mostly come back but a lot are turned off permanently and even some young fans are left with a permanent bad taste in their mouths.
Worst case, fans and cities are turned off en masse. All the gains made are completely undone, and the fans stay away in droves. There is MASSIVE loss of franchises and franchise value, and an entire league may go under (at that point, the NBA is the best candidate for that.) If American fans do take up for soccer, it will be EPL, La Liga and other Euro leagues, and they won’t be interested in an MLS reboot. Sports will be reduced to a sideshow and something else will fill the void.