They can save money AND recover their reputation. This author, by the way, with this picture, is giving the NFL a way back.
All they have to do is take it.
America is rising. Football is intergenerational. Less so now, but it can be going forward:
No Felons
Pro America
Pro Family
Pro Child
Pro Entertainment
Anti Political
It’s possible. I grew up admiring what Madden could do with rejects. Joe Montana, playing with a concussion, no time left, winning the game with an improbable throw to the end zone. Fran Tarkington, five times a bridesmaid, HOF’er and absolutely a hero for how he coped with amazing success and bitter failure.
I can’t imagine my childhood without football. We used to emulate those guys playing nerf football in the street in the summer until the streetlights come on. So many great memories.
Goodell could lead. He’s acting like a lobbyist, not a man defending a brand. He could have built a coalition of owners that aren’t stupid and this could have been over before it started. Instead, Goodell told them if they made a fuss, they’d be painted as slave drivers and there was nothing they could do about it. (Which is abjectly untrue - tweet the player’s signature at the bottom of his big fact contract and the whole thing is done).
I want these guys to pull up out of this death spin. I don’t think they will.
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.
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