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NFL owners' treatment of players compared to 'modern-day slavery'
Pioneer Press ^
| 03/15/2011
| Jeremy Fowler
Posted on 03/16/2011 6:51:35 AM PDT by RoadKingSE
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I'm crying crocodile tears over the conditions these poor oppressed victims of NFL team-owners greed are forced to tolerate. I wonder if they could afford slave quarters like this(Reggie Bush's Crib)if they were forced to survive using their BS Degrees in the Physiology of Exercise - full "scholarship".
To: RoadKingSE
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:52:46 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: RoadKingSE
I can’t recall the $50 million contracts the slaves got. Could someone refresh my memory?
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:52:55 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: RoadKingSE
I want to be one of those slaves. . . . . PPPPLLLLEEEAAASSSEEE
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:53:44 AM PDT
by
DeaconRed
(If we didn't laugh. . . . . . We would go insane. . . . .)
To: RoadKingSE
So, they’re kidnapped by Arabs, crammed in the leaky hold of a ship, and then all the fruits of their labors go to someone else?
Get another job.
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:54:55 AM PDT
by
steve8714
(Firing Federal Bureaucrats would have a 100,000x beneficial effect on the deficit, maybe more.)
To: RoadKingSE
Slaves?!?!?!
They live the lives of gods.
To: RoadKingSE
"Yahoo's Doug Farrar, who conducted the interview Friday with Peterson, removed that comment from the story later Tuesday, explaining on Twitter that he wants to give Peterson the chance to provide context."
Hmmmmm, I wonder if ol' Dougie would have done the same edit job for a comment by an owner saying something equally absurd??? Just sayin'.
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:56:42 AM PDT
by
safeasthebanks
("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
To: RoadKingSE
Nice to see this gentleman has a healthy sense of perspective.
To: Voter#537
If the season doesn't start this year, then they will be slaves. At Mickie D's, Burger Kang, KFC.
They will have to memorize this: "Want Fries With That?"
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:57:09 AM PDT
by
DeaconRed
(If we didn't laugh. . . . . . We would go insane. . . . .)
To: RoadKingSE
It would be highly offensive to say what Peterson said at any time...but with the employment/economic situation as it is right now, his statement is really ridiculous
To: yldstrk
The longer this goes on, the dumber the statements will become.
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:58:29 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: RoadKingSE
Already over-rated and over-paid and probably never to match his best year to date. A nitwit, too, but who’d a thunk otherwise.
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:58:36 AM PDT
by
PaleoBob
To: RoadKingSE
Obviously no sense of history.
The NFL owners are treating the players the same way carpetbaggers treated the black minstrels. (Which is what I’ve always likened pro-sports to...)
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:59:19 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
To: RoadKingSE
Cry me a freakin’ river, or at least cry enough to fill your swimming pool you big baby.
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:59:21 AM PDT
by
NWFLConservative
(The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government......Tommy J)
To: yldstrk
Where do I sign up to be one of these slaves?
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:59:21 AM PDT
by
Roklok
To: RoadKingSE
And Peterson is considered “cerebral”. Like a bag of hammers.
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:59:27 AM PDT
by
Cyman
To: RoadKingSE
What a bunch of over priveleged, under achieving a-holes the players are! Lock them out and bus in the replacement players. Who cares? The players need to take stock of their situation. If the NFL closed up shop today the owners could just go back to doing whatever it was that made them rich enough to buy a team in the first place. Most of the players, on the other hand, would be lucky to get hired as construction laborers. Not a real big demand these days for illiterate under achievers.
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posted on
03/16/2011 6:59:27 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Protect and Defend America! End the practice of islam on our shores before it's too late!)
To: RoadKingSE
That looks like a cheap motel.
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posted on
03/16/2011 7:01:38 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(TOTUS knows how to give a speech. Obama knows how to read.)
To: RoadKingSE
excuse me, 100K+ is not slavery
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posted on
03/16/2011 7:01:57 AM PDT
by
The Wizard
(Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
To: pgkdan
Put me in coach!
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posted on
03/16/2011 7:04:46 AM PDT
by
erikm88
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