Or the Dallas Cowgirl Pussies!
Posted on 10/16/2017 8:03:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Since he got the job, those of us who paid attention to the NFL could see that Goodell was in over his head. It was we like in every situation he would ask himself “what’s the worst thing i could do now?” And then do it. We asked “he’s the worst commissioner of any major sport ever, a real embarrassment. Why does he still have a job?” The answer was always “the NFL is making more money than ever under him, that’s all the owners care about.” It’s like giving a three year old a gun and telling him to guard the store. For a while you say “sure it seems dangerous but hey, nobody’s robbing us anymore!” Until he shoots someone by accident. Then you realize that you really messed up with that plan but it’s too late.
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Or the Dallas Cowgirl Pussies!
Or the Dallas Cowgirl Pussies!
VI yes I never did well w Roman numerals.
FWIW, I approve of neither kneeling nor Rebel Flag waving. I used to go to see a football game, and preferred to leave the politics at the stadium entrance.
Amazing that players on the football field in San Francisco and Oakland get freedom of speech, but conservative at Berkeley do not.
-PJ
So what's the takeaway from this, that the Cowboys should have done a Kaepernick and put the stickers on their helmets anyway, because the NFL is impotent in punishing them when push comes to shove?
Is the lesson that good guys finish last, or that it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission, or not even forgiveness but just double down and rub people's noses in it?
-PJ
At least not without putting it into the Collective Bargaining Agreement, which will be negotiated again soon.
Exactly. That’s what the NBA did back in the 1990s.
Wrong. Goodell had the powers to end the problem as soon as it started. He chose poorly, which he has done over and over again. He is incompetent at his job, making him the most overpaid person in the country.
As someone mentioned up thread, why would we return to watching those who have to be commanded to respect our country? I won’t.
Excellent, and moving article. It choked me up, and I don’t even watch football. Thanks for sharing.
“what the U.S. auto industry was dealing with back in the 1970s and 1980s. Their union workers turned out crap cars but they couldn’t be fired.”
Don’t forget that the Japanese government was subsidizing Japanese auto makers so they could dump their cars on the US market below cost.
As crappy as American cars were back then, they’d have been more competitive without the full power of the Japanese government arrayed against them.
CK killed the NFL games.
Goodell is aiding and abetting after the crime.
Foreign subsidies are no excuse for poor workmanship. I grew up not far from a Ford plant that was closed in the early 1980s because it had the worst record for producing defective cars of any plant in the company. That’s a pathetic indictment of the work force there, and it had nothing to do with Japanese competition.
He is wrong and millions of Americans are proving that every Sunday.
“That’s a pathetic indictment of the work force there, and it had nothing to do with Japanese competition.”
Of course it did. Absent the crushing (and illegal) cost competition from the Japanese, Ford would have been in a position to charge higher prices.
Bad for the consumer? Maybe in the short term, but in the long term the extra capital would have allowed more rapid factory automation, as well as increased strength when fighting union depredations. Capital is power, and that’s what the Japanese stole from us.
Further, the loss of market share to the Japanese, the Germans, the Koreans, the Moldavians and anybody else with a bike shop has hurt the nation, and that is certainly bad for the consumer.
These weren't Ford Escorts that were produced at that plant -- they were Thunderbirds. Did Japanese companies even produce a car that competed for market share with a Thunderbird back then?
I hope it is. I am SICK, SICK AND TIRED, of over paid, whining, cry baby, look at me, look at how great I am, I am the greatest, I deserve special treatment, I should get a pass on beating my wife/girl friend, I should be allowed to use all the drugs and booze and drive drunk and get away with it, sports players. Half of them cannot read and write, get special privileges throughout college, to keep them playing. Tell them how wonderful they are so they can play. I am sick of them. I quit watching the NBA back in the early 1990s. I was sick of them THEN. NOW I would not watch if you put a gun to my head. I quit on the NFL a few years back. I barely watch MLB now. Bout the only thing I watch is some EURO soccer. That is becoming less and less also. I am SICK and TIRED of the professional athlete. Sick of them.
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