In football (both American-style or rest of the world-style) it seems we're heading to work stoppages. Usually about who gets what part of the big pile of cash the audience gives the sport every year. It's also about how to make the pile of money bigger, by putting players in more games.
How quickly those discussions turn to money. When you start out, in fact when you talk to children starting out, they all talk about wanting to play the sport just because. In fact they won't understand why people wouldn't want to play the game the love for free anyway.
Of course, when you actually get to the pros, and suddenly your livelihood is connected to "the game you love", you might want to introduce some security measures. You might want to rake in as much cash as you can. And you might want to do it without an extreme amount of broken bones and torn muscles.
For the owners of teams, sports are a means to an end. Owners support the cause wholeheartedly perhaps, but they are in it to win it, either for cash or for glory. They are not doing it out of charity, and they are not just giving money to players who can barely play. Anything they can do to improve their investment, they will do.
And now we enter the situation where the interests of the one side are vehemently opposite to the other. The speed at which these differences get resolved, depend on how quickly one side is making the other think they are getting a good deal. The players get an extra weekend off. The owners can schedule games on every day of the week. Something along those lines.
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