Posted on 08/09/2012 8:50:57 AM PDT by murron
Private organizations. Collective bargianing agreement. That says it all. Private organizations entering into contracts in which they agree to split revenues, or even to cap how much each of them spends, is not socialism. Joint ventures are not socialism.
That’s a point. :)
I had forgotten about that.
True liberals do not like competetive sports of any kind, period.
They also have a curious lack of a sense of humor and tend to be bitter and miserable by nature.
Liberals are simply wired differently than normal people.
If she could press your piano..............give it to her. It’s safer that way.
That’s not relly the definition of socialism. It’s not to any team’s benefit to compete economically with the other teams - I mean that it does no good, and actually harms, the Dallas Cowboys to drive the Jacksonville Jaguars out of business. The NFL is competing, in a capitalistic manner, for the entertainment dollar, and would be very happy to drive MLB, NBA, etc. out of business. That’s the true economic competition.
Lemme guess......you were always picked last for a team because you ran and threw like a GURL.
I live in Pittsburgh, and most of the citizenry here would happily mortgage their great-great-grandchildren’s financial futures to keep the Steelers happy here in Da ‘Burgh.
Same for the Pens......and maybe even the Pirates if they keep it up.
Parity = Mediocrity.
I yearn for the days of the unbeatable dynasties.
Like the 70’s Steelers........
;-)
Bravo Sierra!
Ever hear of George Blanda?
Look, no one’s forcing ANYONE to play football. Consider the decision to play a VOLUNTARY ASSUMPTION OF THE RISK.
And bring back the real game.
Its pretty big...9 1/2 feet long and almost 5,000 lbs.
And it needs to go to the OTHER side of the den/music room......(Gotta make room for the new beer tap!)
“Lemme guess......you were always picked last for a team because you ran and threw like a GURL.”
Nope, just a REAL conservative, for smaller, and cheaper, government, and building playpens for millionaires and billionaires is not the business of the government, and amacks of crony capitalism.
“I live in Pittsburgh, and most of the citizenry here would happily mortgage their great-great-grandchildren’s financial futures to keep the Steelers happy here in Da ‘Burgh.”
And that’s fine. Do it with your own money. Leave the rest of the Pennsylvania taxpayers out of it. I seem to remember that even Pittsburghers voted down a tax increase to build those playpens.
If we’re going to consider possible changes to make the game safer, then let the league be required to completely educate players so they are informed of the risks they are facing, including a reduced quality of life, crippling injuries. Bring in retired players to show what can happen by playing the game, even show them the dead bodies of relatively young men who took their lives.
If a player still chooses to sign up it will be under voluntary and informed circumstances. Play ball!
I had meant that, if we are to consider no changes to the game, than players should be informed honestly about the real risks they are facing when they play the game.
By your logic we should force kids who want to join the military to sit thru “Saving Private Ryan” or “Letters From Home” and be lectured by guys who’ve been blown to pieces by IED’s before they enlist, right?
Same nanny-state “informing” and “empowering” horse manure.
I guess that depends on whether the military has been deliberately withholding information on the risks of going to the front line, doesn’t it?
Tom Brady? Brady Quinn? Seems like a lot of QBs are metrosexuals.
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