In 1970, a hotdog cost fifty cents, a pop cost a dollar, a ticket to an NFL game cost fifteen dollars, and the average football player made between nine and ten thousand dollars. Fast forward nearly 40 years and a hotdog that used to cost 25 cents now costs an average of five dollars and fifty cents, a pop costs six dollars, a ticket to an NFL game costs 100 dollars and the average player is paid more than two million dollars! Times have changed. Because of all these changes in price, and to an insignificant extent in player salary, in 1994 the National Football League introduced the first salary cap that allowed owners to spend a certain amount of money on players. The Players Union and the National Football League did this because, first, they were tired of players being tossed from club to club just as a price and two to make things more equitable between teams. Today, money and fame have made players and owners very greedy and arrogant people. Are players asking for deals when they make well over a million dollars a year and there are people in the United States who are homeless? This is the main reason why the salary cap must remain in place. If the salary cap goes out the window, just like it did last season, a sports fan can say goodbye to the NFL in ten years because there won't be enough money to pay all the players. There should be a salary cap in the National Football League because it allows organizations to be equal and have a better chance of competing with each other and it could put players in their shoes so they know they can't have everything they want. One might disagree with the salary cap and especially the players because the players and the owners might feel like if they have money to spend why doesn't the NFL let us spend it on the players? Organizations also believe they are limited in success. If they can only spend an empty amount of money, they can only afford a certain player for a certain amount. Another reason, especially for players, is that they may feel they are worth much more than what they are paid. An athlete might be the best in the league, but if the organization he plays for can't afford it, he might not be paid as if he were the best in the league.