Posted on 03/12/2011 9:48:01 AM PST by publius321
by Thurston Howell
The thing that bothers me about professional sports the past few decades is –not- the large salaries athletes are paid. What bothers me is the fact that the teams that supposedly represent the cities in which they play really say nothing about the cities or regions themselves. Most of the players are not FROM the cities in which they play and never lived there until a team paid them millions of dollars to “take their talents there”.
For EXAMPLE, no matter how well the Miami Heat may play, Lebron James was born and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area. He was raised, coached and cultivated in the Cleveland community environment. He attended their schools, played on their playgrounds and grew up drinking the Cleveland water. No matter how many championships he -may- bring to south Florida by virtue of their luring him there, Miami will not have true cause to be proud.
On the other hand, Belle Glade & Pahokee, Florida, two very poor areas of Florida, produces more NFL stars than any other area in the country. It’s almost bizarre to see the veritable litany of NFL stars to emanate from there. In that case -THEY- have something to be proud of and many go on to play at Florida universities before being auctioned off to some other city/state to play professionally.
Pro sports are currently all an illusion that makes...
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Is that Thurston Howell the Third?
Yes sir.
Yes sir.
Vegas ain’t gonna be too happy. Luv it. Let both sides show what arrogant, selfish people they all are. It truly is time to put it to the test. Which one will blink? Obviously the players.
Think i say Tom Brady in Madison on TV.
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Players are filthy rich, no need for a union when you sign individual contracts.
Don`t like it, there are other leagues to go play in.
Finally got off the Island, eh?
Yeah, I also thought that it was Thurston B. Howell, III......”Gilligan, my good man!”
The first thing they need to do is stop the taxpayer subsidies for stadiums.
People complain about the salaries the players make, but any dollar not paid to the players ends up in "guess who's" pocket?
And while we’re fumigating the NFL, how ‘bout throwing all that pink crap away. It makes the NFL players look like a bunch of sissified, “anti-war” commie libs. Those pink mouth pieces, cleats and jock straps is a bit much.
Screw the NFL, owners and most players. The NFL loves hussein and FALSELY smeared Rush as a racist.
The NFL owners are Socialists as they have an anti-trust exemption which protects them from competition in the marketplace and in most cases the taxpayer pays the costs of their stadiums.
I will stand with the players and not the Socialist NFL owners.
“The first thing they need to do is stop the taxpayer subsidies for stadiums.”
Agreed. The owners are scum and many are libs. There are no good guys in this. The NFL sucks and loves Obam. The players by in large are spoiled. TV is totally for hussein that beams this crap. F em after what they did to Rush.
I like Rush but he looks stupid pimping the NFL after they PAWNED him.
“Negros, Felons, and Liberals. No conservatives allowed. The NFL jumped the shark years ago.”
Please explain.
Football is not like baseball. Players have to train year-round, the average length of a player's lifespan is 3-5 years, and any injury sustained can basically kill your career.
So it's reasonable for players to form a union and owners should be ashamed of themselves for trying to squeeze more out of players when they themselves are billionaires and profiting from tax-payer funded stadiums.
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