Question about Randy Moss - Raiders...

[sepporepi]

But how to control it?

If a player gets an endorsement deal it must be made sure it is not a hidden team salary. So neither the team, the owner, a employee is allowed to have any connection to the company?

I think that is impossible to enforce.

[MJZiggy]

I think the problem with that scenario is that there's a difference between a business partner making a nice endorsement deal to a player as a favor to the owner (one which the player may or may not have worked out on his own) and the owner paying a company to give that endorsement deal. In the first case, I don't know that the player takes the deal as he migh have gotten that endoresement on his own and he will still have to do the work involved in the endorsement (filming, appearances, etc). In the second case, that's just blatantly gonna get you caught.

[Rastak]

But how to control it?

If a player gets an endorsement deal it must be made sure it is not a hidden team salary. So neither the team, the owner, a employee is allowed to have any connection to the company?

I think that is impossible to enforce.

It's enforceable. It's a huge risk for a team to get caught doing it and Denver got caught. NFL management isn't full of idiots. They could figure out such a relationship unless it was very well hidden. And the better hidden it is the harder it would be to deny it was deliberate.

[Guiness]

I know it's sour grapes and all, but you look at it, and there were three years where we had an amazing chance at the SB. The two we didn't get it, we were beaten by teams proven to be cheaters later.

Denver did beat us on the field that SB, so that one doesn't sting as much as that loss to SF.