The Sports Business Journal, whatever that is, reported Monday that the NFL is planning for a regular season as short as eight games.
Heck, eight games wouldn’t even give the prima donnas time to get into trouble.
Before you rush out to purchase your 8-game season tickets, be aware that schedule would have the “regular” season starting in late November with the Super Bowl scooted back until February 12.
The article didn’t mention this, but you might still have to buy a personal seat license (PSL) and pay for the full 16-game season unless the NFL could find a way to sneak in the proposed 18-game season and charge for the two extra games.
The NFL had previously approved pushing the Super Bowl back to that date.
Makes you think the league lords might have been expecting just exactly this sort of thing to play out and were covering their bases in advance.
All of this means, of course, a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) would have to be reached by at least early November.
They’ve had how long to reach this new agreement?
And so far they’ve managed to lock out the players. Owners and players get along together about like husbands and wives.
The league and the players can’t agree on locking out or walking out or just about anything else.
Now they’re suddenly supposed to come up with a new CBA? The owners, a bunch of really rich, really dumb dudes, kept giving stuff to the players and now those same owners want the players to give it back.
Stay tuned for NFL owners to show up twittering in their underpants.
THE NFL-NFLPA stupidity has now moved to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.
Judge Kermit Bye, after about an hour of listening to oral arguments on the legality of the owners’ lockout, advised the two sides to saddle up and settle up.
The stumbling block appears to be a mere $9 billion bucks the owners want more of and the players want to keep.
It’s pretty easy to see why Joe and Judy Average Fan can’t buy tickets, park their cars, purchase their hot dogs and soda pops and popcorn and take the family to a pro football game.
At the rate things are going, we will likely see Congress step in to balance the budget, set financially responsible goals and demand both sides live happily ever after.
We can all see how Congress has handled our country’s financial follies. It makes perfect sense that these good folks could step in and straighten up the National Football League.
Where the heck is Howard Cosell when we need him.”
You remember old Howie, don’t you? He was the guy who changed his name, capped his teeth and wore a wig to “tell it like it is.”
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