Posted on 10/01/2017 10:29:24 AM PDT by Bulwinkle
Ever table full including outside, every bar stool taken, lots of folks standing... redskins don’t play till Monday night... crowd is 4-5 times larger than a regular Sunday when the skins don’t play AND larger than when the skins do play!!!
Is this the same Fairfax that’s a Washington, D.C. suburb that favored Hillary over Trump by
355,000 to 158,000?
I hope this continues. My fear is that, as the season goes on, people will give up and start watching, going to games, buying merchandise, etc. Especially when the playoffs start and Christmas gift buying heats up. I suspect the NFL is hoping this will blow over in a few weeks so they won’t have to address anything. But I hope the NFL gets hit where it hurts, in the wallet.
They should show Heidi on the tube ,, just like the old days when games counted for something. Be Safe!!!
Always keep sight of the fact that the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL are monopolies masquerading as free markets. The inevitable result is an overpriced product the all but guarantees a management and a labor force that is unconcerned about the concerns of the consumer. These problems will continue to resurface every couple of years until Congress requires the leagues to halt their anti-competitive practices, or regulates them like any other monopoly - with the interests of the consumer being placed first.
NFL management allows the players and their agents their exorbitant salaries and free agency as a necessary pay off to allow them to continue unregulated. If the team owners fought too hard to reign in player salaries, they would have to reveal the truth - that the NFL is a corporation with 30 individual share holders (i.e. the individual team owners) rather than a free market of 30 independent businesses. They’d rather keep up the illusion that they’re a free market of 30 independent businesses rather then acknowledge the truth that they are de facto, a single entity that has a monopoly on the market for professional football. It’s cheaper to pay off the players, players union and agents rather than admit they are one company.
If they admitted the truth, that they are one company - the NFL - rather than 30 separate companies, they could keep player salaries within more reasonable limits, demand greater player accountability, and reign in free agency - all powers that any other company has the right to exercise over their labor force. But to do so, they would have to admit that they are a monopoly rather than a market of 30 independent owners. This would invite the reasonable conclusion that it should be regulated like the power companies or any other monopoly. It’s cheaper to pay off the players.
My guess is a couple of servers quit... their loss.
Fats was absolutely slammed to taday.
Just turn on a game for five seconds, then turn it off... done!
I heard the owner on WMAL this week. His daughter is deployed. Nice to see him take a stand.
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i need to find a rugby channel
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