Save it?
Not no but HELL NO.
I want it to DIE!
I want to watch a cash strapped league cut player and coach pay lower and lower until coaches are depending on side gigs for their daily bread.
I want to watch players have to sell their mansions, high end cars, boats and expensive bling to pay off their debts then get off season jobs like honest people everywhere.
I want to hear their wailing and the lamentations of their gold digging women.
I want to watch the league sell the commissioners private plane, tell him to buy his own health insurance, then watch as he sweats bullets as he waits for the ax to fall.
I want to watch advertisers walk away until the only entities willing to advertise are locals like Bob’s Hardware, Larry’s Used Car Emporium and Huggy Bears Bail Bonds.
I want to watch the number of televised games drop until they are relegated to tape delayed showings on late nights.
I want to watch the NFL package disappear from cable and satellite TV.
I want to watch ESPN slowly strangle on it’s own hubris and lack of viewers until they’re reduced to televising Australian Rules Rugby, Curling and any obscure sporting event they can find until they finally go under.
I want to watch the NFL’s gold egg laying goose die trying to push out one last golden nugget and laugh as the league finds out the goose died and left them with a tiny piece of iron pyrite.
I want to watch as the annual draft goes from being a two day televised extravaganza to a one day event in a smoke filled room that is only reported on obscure and unread blogs.
I want all of this to take TIME as I drink up the tears of the league, owners, coaches and players.
I want to bathe in the Schadenfreude of it all.
All things considered I don’t think I’m asking for too much.
I want cities and states to refuse the league’s extortion. When the team demands a new billion dollar stadium paid by the taxpayers I want the city to say “go to another city then” just like if a professional foosball team threatened to leave.
I’m with you with the one exception of length of time for this to happen.
I want it fast tracked. While I’m still kicking. :-)
YUP!