The current problem is the amount of wannabe guys...who collect $3 or $4 million a year, and could easily be replaced by half the guys on the bench. The Redskins contract to Haynesworth is one that I would quickly throw out on the table. The owners allowed this to go into turbo....and frankly, a strike is the only way to reset the situation.
I like the comment:
Pro sports are currently all an illusion that makes little more sense for fans to get excited than to be excited if Apple has a record quarter – while having NO financial interest in Apple stock.
I think is was Gordon H. Clark who said, “Sports are the lowest form of human achievement but they’re fun to watch...”
This is so true. What can man really achieve in athletics? The “world’s fastest human” approaches 30MPH but a cheetah runs 65, a horse 45. For swimming, it’ worse. The fastest freestyler is something like 5.2MPH but a dolphin swims 35 mph.
“Superstar” is a joke when it is applied to athletics. Grown men make fortunes in MLB for PLAYING A KID’S GAME.
I would like to see the NFL completely implode.....of course, my favorite team is the Cleveland Browns...and they stink ...thought I should disclose that :-)
Bring on replacement player football!
It’ll be scab-tastic!
Not possible with the current administration. Zero will intercede on the side of the players union and replace the owners with the Government in effect nationalizing the NFL.
Why not just apply the antitrust laws to the NFL and make the bastards pay for their own stadium instead of screwing the tax payers.
The author of this article has it all wrong. In pro sports these days, the fan is not the consumer . . . the fan is the product. The largest source of revenue for the NFL is from television, which means that what they are really selling to their customers (TV networks and advertisers) is access to NFL viewers.
The evidence of this is that an NFL game that fills a television slot of 3 to 3.5 hours will typically only have 11-15 minutes of actual football on the field.
With that in mind, American football ought to be remembered as one of the biggest con jobs in modern history.
I used to buy Chevy cars and trucks, enjoyed the NFL, could afford my own health insurance and believed I would receive S.S. when I turned 65 or so, but that was WAAAAY back in the 1990s.
I can’t wait for the NFL to implode with a lockout. It’ll be hiliarious seeing those thugs picket outside the stadium while most of us will smile at their misery. If they’re so arrogant about having this showdown, then they deserve to get what’s coming to them.
That said...I don't care how the NFL owners and players decide to divide the profits from their entertainment business, as long as none of my tax dollars ever help pay for their stadiums again!
Technically there is no more NFL players union. They decertified, meaning that they are now 1700 individual employees and are suing the 32 separate teams for collusion using antitrust laws.
I have no problem with the Player’s Union. Whatever benefits they receive is a function of the marketplace. Nobody’s forced to subsidize them.