This is a weird way to make a living. You hang in a hotel lobby -- a nice hotel lobby -- from 9:30 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. You eat lunch, go outside to take and make cell phone calls and hope the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport airplanes don't obliterate the conversation.
An NFL owner leaves his boardroom/bunker mid-afternoon. It's Jim Irsay from the Indianapolis Colts. Reporters crowd him. He says he's taking a bathroom break.
That's the highlight until a big guy, media guy, sitting on the edge of a chair tips the thing over and falls on the floor. He's not hurt. Which is good, because we needed this.
And then, finally, there's news. At about 7 p.m. we gather in a news conference and listen to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and his associates, including Carolina Panther owner Jerry Richardson.
The deal sounds extraordinary. Ten years -- 10 years of labor peace. But the players apparently don't like it. The acrimony runs deep.
I've said from the beginning that I don't think the owners are greedy and I don't think the players are greedy. We fling the term around because we think that we'd play for free. We wouldn't. It's not about money. It's about doing what's right. But who decides?
I like the deal. I like the structure. I like that the league goes back to work Saturday.
But how would I feel if I were a player? I have absolutely no idea.
And I have no idea what happens next.
Listen up America: What happens next is to BOYCOTT these slimey union thugs stealing more billions.
Todays greedy pro athlete union swine is trying to jack up the public up for more billions for their greedy selves in the worst ever economy.
Stop trying to take advantage of Obama being in the WH as you are only damaging him and making him a one termer. Thats what the NFL and NBA conspriracy was up too from the gitgo as never has 2 pro leagues went on strike at the same time.
Organized extortionism and rape soaking the American masses already in debt over 100 trillion counting everything with a real 20% unemployment rate.
BOYCOTT !!!
Posted by: fight union scabs | July 22, 2011 at 07:17 AM
Fight union scabs, dude get a grip.
When the tv contracts are negotiated which drives up cable, satellite, tickets costs etc. who is negotiating them? the NFL owners. SO it goes both ways. Boycott your self but im getting back to watching football when they resume.
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