Economy Affecting the AFL

The economy may be hurting many people throughout the country, but in this case an entire league may be in trouble due to the recession. The Arena Football League is looking towards cancelling their 2009 season in order to become more efficient. Even though the decision is not official yet, he told the LA Times that he was pretty optimistic about the vote to cancel the upcoming season would be approved. One of the efforts the union is trying to make in order to save their season is cutting the leagues salary cap from $ 2 million to $1.4 million. If this is the case and the players are willing to do this in order to keep playing then by all means they should consider this option. One of the more higher paid players, Ahmad Hawkins, has said that he was one of the players who backed the idea of a league wide pay cut in order to keep playing the season. "I'm one of the top-paid guys and I was the first one to say I'd take a pay cut, e agreed to take the salary cap lower. The players want to do anything we can to play this season " Hawkins said. If this is the route that they want to take and they want to keep playing then they must all come to agreement and vote as soon as possible. If a pay cut is the only way to go, then they must bite the bullet for this season and do what's best for them and the league.