I’d love to see the NFL shut down. Imagine a season mercifully empty of the idiocy of football!? It would be wonderful.
I don’t think the NHL asked for help from Congress before their lockout.
To all freepers.Is the NFL greedy and it’s players overpaid?
To all freepers.Is the NFL greedy and it’s players overpaid?
Note to the NFL: Hint, hint....
That’s why the NFL gave Harry $350,000 for his campaign.
My biggest beef with this is the fight over the 18-game schedule. All this will do is dilute the quality of the remaining games (some team’s 14-2 already and locked in the playoffs, they’re going to rest their starters the last 2 games) and it will make players more susceptible to injuries. I would support the 18-game schedule ONLY if preseason was completely abolished, there is a midseason bye for ALL teams (make that bye week an NFL-sponsored Pop Warner game or something) and have a bye week for all teams going into the playoffs and eliminate the extra week before the Super Bowl. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want football to go into March.
If this starts to come to fruition, the political grandstanding will be unlike any we’ve seen
It’s about time that conservatives and the Tea Party helped the NFL with a death of assisted suicide. Anyone screaming for government help has outlasted its useful life.
The NFLPA should just compromise with the owners.
Its not like the players are underpaid.
Besides my BIL has won season tickets for next season....
The Empire Gladiator League used to have a complete lock on Gladiator Games throughout the empire. The owners made a fortune. Successful Gladiators were world wide rock stars who got rich and had women throwing themselves at their feat. If there was TV, they would have owned the TV rights and all of the residuals. The people loved it.
When the NFL goes away, something better will take its place, with a different set of owners, a different set of players, and a different set of corrupt politicians taking payoffs. Let it all go, won’t bother me if they all act stupidly.
This is just the latest example of the problem with government being way to big and powerful. It just invites rich groups to spend money to corrupt and influence lawmakers to bend the law to their whims.
Lots of comments on this thread taking sides on this issue. I guess I have a more basic question. Why should any of this be the concern of government in the first place?
Of course because multi-millionaire players need help negotiating with billionaire owners. Yeah, Congress has no other priority.
As a long time NFL season ticket holder (33 years) let me say this ... get over yourselves you over paid prima donna a**holes.