Mar 6, 2011

An argument for the NFL Owners...

So it seems like The Court of Public Opinion is swinging towards the NFLPA in this labor dispute. The owners are Billionaires. The players have short careers with significant risk of injury.
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Well, I say, the Boss is the Boss for a reason. The Boss owns something called The Means of Production. My Economics degree taught me that means that without the owners, the players don't have a job.
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History has proven that professional football leagues not named NFL don't last very long. The USFL had all the money in the world to draft and pay college stars, but it folded.
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The bottom line is: The NFL Players need the NFL Owners more than the Owners need the Players. Every year, there is a fresh crop of players coming out of college just dying to play for an NFL Owner.
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Yes, NFL Owners are rich assholes who charge me $7 for a beer that should cost $0.75, and $20,000 for the right to buy $150 a seat tickets. But they sell the crack to which I am addicted. Without the stadiums and TV deals, I'm watching baseball in September. And nobody likes baseball because baseball doesn't have a point spread.
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The bottom line is that the NFLPA will cave in because Antonio Cromartie has child support payments to make and Woody Johnson gets $0.50 every time you buy baby powder and/or a Band Aid. NFL players are mostly college dropouts who never went to class in the first place.
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Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Drew Brees can't sway the other 1,997 NFLPA members to think about the "Future of the Game."

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