Posted on 10/16/2017 8:03:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
The owners have absolute control over who is on their rosters and who is on the field. That is all the authority they need. Most of these players are not political kamikazes - if they see another player get cut over a stunt like this, they'll fall in line. But give the players no guidance and it is like the power going out in a big city on a hot night. Most NFL contracts are not guaranteed and even if those that are do not prevent the player from being cut or benched.
NFL SCUM ALERT
I remember him well:
“No Tittle,
No Title”
This situation is similar to 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. The Big Three lost a lot of business to foreign competitors, and eventually they started building plants in Mexico to get around their union problem.
I’m sure you’re’ familiar with this famous verse form Hamlet
“Alexander was buried, Alexander returned to dust, the dust is dirt, and dirt makes mud we use to stop up holes. So why can’t someone plug a beer barrel with the dirt that used to be Alexander? The great emperor Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might plug up a hole to keep the wind away. Oh, to think that the same body that once ruled the world could now patch up a wall!’”
The NFL is biting the dust.
True. But if a player gets cut in the middle of the season then the owner loses out two ways — he has to pay the player anyway, then he has to pay someone else to replace the player.
“...only blm...”
Thanks for adding the word that is always implied but normally left out.
That's the first I heard of the ribs but with a broken sternum I'd be surprised if the ribs weren't involved.
The concussion and broken sternum are legend though, and Tittle finished the game and didn't miss a game the rest of the season.
Don’t think the union chief isn’t motivated in the end by money.
Numbers don’t lie, and the union head is going to fall on the side of making sure his exorbitant salary will be safeguarded at least until the end of his tenure.
This crisis jeopardizes pensions to players long retired. This is a collapse, and this collapse is occurring in an age of sudden collapses to institutions that NOBODY thought would fail, likely starting with the bankruptcy of PanAm.
The union is stupid, and even evil, but they are greedy, and that’s all you need.
Goodell & the NFL Team owners can fix this problem with one simple move. “You either stand to salute and honor the USA Flag with your right hand covering your heart, during the playing of our great national anthem or, don’t even suit up anymore...you are fired”!!!
Until the leadership of the NFL does this, I will never watch another NFL game...and any American citizen that does watch these “Hate America” Obama/Clinton/Weinstein, traitors and turncoats is just as guilty of treason as these players are. End of story!!!
I don’t think this affects pensions much at all. In fact, the NFL is notorious for having a poor pension system compared to other major sports. Only active players vote on the collective bargaining agreements, and they have repeatedly demonstrated over the years that they’re willing to bargain away pension benefits for retirees in exchange for cash up front. Those mutants you see kneeling on the sidelines are dumb as rocks — which means they’re as short-sighted as rocks, too.
To your point, you would not believe how many current players are living paycheck to paycheck.
Perhaps, also, to my point.
To take it to an opposite extreme using reductio ad absurdum, if a player was to take the field while waving a Confederate Flag, would there be an equal outcry to protect their freedom of speech?
Almost certainly not, the player would be benched on the spot, terminated later that day, and I'd think that the general response would be "Dumba$$. He got what he deserved." Same freedoms, same concept, only one is politically correct - therefore acceptable - and one is not.
I think that's what I find so offensive about this entire situation. Players exercised their freedom of speech, that's fine. The fans (me included) exercised their freedom of speech to say, "We don't approve.", also fine.
Where the NFL fell down was that they forgot who was in charge in a customer-vendor relationship. "The customer is always right", is an excellent cliché to follow. In this particular case, the vendor (NFL) said, "We DON'T CARE", when presented with what the customer said they wanted, then doubled down on the premise when the customer pushed back.
How many stores do you frequent where the clerks insult you, personally? Or argue with you about your purchase? Or, when you complain to their management, have the manager side with their employee rather than with you, the customer?
Speaking for myself, none. So to me, the only surprise about people's reactions to this situation is that they're not more vehement.
/rant off. Thanks for listening.
They did. The result you got was driven by the demographics of the teams and the league as a whole.
It's too late for that. If they have to be forced, F*** 'em.
At the end of the day, I don’t really care. I’ve lost interest. If I have to consider politics and mamby-pamby politically correct Bologna to watch a football game, I don’t enjoy it enough to include it in my schedule.
It teaches men how to fight together for an objective.
It is the game of the winners, the vanquished are forced to play soccer. The story is timeless:/
The loser left has hated football from it's very beginnings. The NFL has been infiltrated by traitors just as our government has and now they are both committing suicide. The left has convinced us to destroy the very institutions that have made America the greatest nation on earth and while our enemies are gathering strength, we are contemplating our hurt wittle feeeeeewingsssss.
All of this was brilliantly foreshadowed in the Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
Your post is important:
The opposite of love isn’t hate.
It’s indifference.
When the NBA struck a long time ago I lost interest completely. Love the NCAA’s despite the best efforts of the NCAA and CBS to ruin it.
Very good post. I am going to borrow your Confederate flag analogy.
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