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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 1035023" data-attributes="member: 13032">You're correct.  Pete Rozelle did make changes to help ensure "parity" across teams.  Parity primarily prevents one team from outspending other teams (via the salary cap).  This helps small market teams like the Packers field competitive teams.Parity is not the same as zero-sum.  Players can still decide, for example, that they would rather play in New York or somewhere in CA rather than in Green Bay.  And even that is limited through the draft and/or who holds the rights to a player.  So if a guy drafted by GB doesn't want to play or stay in GB, GB can get compensation - just an example.It was still a stroke of genius by Rozelle and at least in part (maybe a large part) contributes to the overwhelming popularity of the NFL.</blockquote>

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