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Fusk You, NFL Owner Man

GenePontecorvoGenePontecorvo 5,612 Posts
edited July 2011 in Strut Central
I am tired. You are playing with my emotions. You are a rich white man trying to make more money off of dudes who will have nothing but a battered and broken body left when they are done. Capitulate and let's play some goddamn football already. Enough.

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  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
    ???If that man was on fire and I had to piss to put him out, I wouldn???t do it." James Harrison on Roger Goodell.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    I wouldn't piss to put the fire out either.
  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,782 Posts
    HarveyCanal said:
    I wouldn't piss to put the fire out either.

    Woh. Jinx.

    Believe me, I love my NFL football, but I have been mentally preparing for life without it.

    I might even spend time with my kids on Sunday instead of plunking my ass on the couch for 8 hours watching Red Zone and obsessing for fantasy stats.

    The ridiculous part is, they are fighting over billions provided by us, the fan.

    Fusk Roger Goodell too. Fucker is ruining the game worse than Gary Bettman.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    No football, no peace!
  • Garcia_VegaGarcia_Vega 2,428 Posts
    Whatever happens this whole mess has left a bad taste in my mouth. 2011-12 season is tainted.
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    If your average every day poor dudes owned these teams we wouldn't have these problems.

    b/w

    Watched the Curious Case Of Curt Flood on HBO last night and I highly recommend it.
  • RisingsonRisingson 696 Posts
    Garcia_Vega said:
    Whatever happens this whole mess has left a bad taste in my mouth. 2011-12 season is tainted.

    +1

    it's definitely damaged the NFL.
    Billionaires arguing with millionaires over how to divide +$9billion is not a good look...
  • RisingsonRisingson 696 Posts
    the players & the NFLPA are taking the fucking piss now.....no vote expected from them until Monday at the earliest. These spoiled fuckin bitches, pull the finger out & get this shit sorted. These overpaid cunts wouldnt have a sport if it werent for the fans. So do all us fans a favour & get this shit done...get your ass into meetings over the weekend, fuck!! Anyone else want to punch Kevin Mawae's lights out?
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    WhoIsStanPapi said:
    Only someone with the character of a corrupt prison guard or a child pornographer sides with the owners over the players here.

    It's a business deal, and both sides are posturing to some extent. The NFL owners make out like bandits in the general scheme, but I wouldn't compare NFL players to prisoners or raped children either. Or slaves, if you're looking at it from Adrian Peterson's standpoint. It's millionaires vs. billionaires. I don't feel sorry for anyone involved.



    That said, if the football season is materially impacted, I'm going to be fusking bullshit.
  • RisingsonRisingson 696 Posts
    WhoIsStanPapi said:



    Please provide video when and if you punch Mawae's lights out, should be a classic. He's not even being paid for this. He'll be grunting in pain every day when he gets up for the rest of his life. NFL owners risk nothing at all and have a license to print money.

    Luckily for me the Atlantic Ocean separate's me from Kevin Mawae

    I know Mawae was heavily involved with the NFLPA when he was a player but isnt he retired? Why is even in the thick of it? Leave it to Dominique Foxworth or Jeff Saturday now.

    I'm not on the owners side or the players side. I'm on the fans side. Like I said before, billionaires arguing with millionaires over $$$, it's sick. Now that the owners have voted for this CBA the players look worse by the minute for not getting this done....work through the night reading all the details & vote! Again, these players wouldnt have shit if it werent for us fans....
  • Bon VivantBon Vivant The Eye of the Storm 2,018 Posts
    Players are compensated handsomely to play the game, and not all end up in wheelchairs or the like. Far from it. They are also grown men that are capable of making an informed decision, Let's not go overboard.

    My favorite part of the proposal is the rookie salary cap. About time.
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Bon Vivant said:
    Players are compensated handsomely to play the game, and not all end up in wheelchairs or the like. Far from it. They are also grown men that are capable of making an informed decision, Let's not go overboard.

    My favorite part of the proposal is the rookie salary cap. About time.

    this.

    greedy vs. spoiled

    cannot feel sorry for either side.
  • GenePontecorvoGenePontecorvo 5,612 Posts
    The whole shit is a bad look. Once we draftin Fantasy, we will have forgotten though.

    "Hold on a sec son/Cos we almost there"
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    double
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    I don't think anyone is taking the owners side. But what is the league minimum salary? 400k? That is a large salary. Also, dudes who have made it to the NFL know the risks, they have been playing ball for a while and know they can get hurt. There are lots of jobs out there that pay peanuts that have the risk of lifelong debilitating injury. This idea that the players aren't compensated for the toll it takes on their body is a crock. I know for a fact these dudes have access to their trainers and doctors 24/7...name another career that has that sort of access to top-shelf medical care and has a salary like those in pro sports. Put it this way, these dudes have to wear a fucking HELMET to do the job they do, they have to know the risk to getting really hurt is there. No one is forced to play football against their will. They are grown ass men taking a risk for an amount of money for a year most people have to work decades for, sometimes in dangerous jobs like construction, road work, factories, police officers, military(please defend arthritis or nerve injury for millions of dollars against getting a limb blown off from a bomb for about $8 an hour), etc. Again I am not on the owners side at all, but your grandstanding about how being an NFL player is the most dangerous job in the world and making it seem like they only get 5 dollars an hour for it doesn't help your argument. Both sides are wrong...one side says 2+2=3, the other 2+2=5. They should just take that money, set up a very nice scholarship fund for promising high-school athletes who get seriously injured and cannot play anymore, or just donate the money to a deserving cause.




    WhoIsStanPapi said:
    Bon Vivant said:
    Players are compensated handsomely to play the game, and not all end up in wheelchairs or the like. Far from it. They are also grown men that are capable of making an informed decision, Let's not go overboard.

    My favorite part of the proposal is the rookie salary cap. About time.

    I agree about the rookie cap, but not about the lasting effects of playing the game. Most long-time NFL players have lasting physical injuries that stay with them for life.

    As far as I know not a single NFL owner has any such problems resulting from their terrible tenures as poobahs.

    Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe Danny Snyder had a paper cut that went septic that I missed. I kind of hope so, because he's a humongous dick.

    And yeah, some players are "compensated handsomely" to play the game. Most really aren't, if you look at the entire picture.

    Meanwhile all owners make huge-ass money, unless they try not to. I'm still waiting to see one single reason for taking the owners' side and I'm just not seeing one.
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Fucking iPhone .sorry double/triple
  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    Bon Vivant said:
    and not all end up in wheelchairs or the like. Far from it.

    "A 1994 study of 7,000 former players by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health found linemen had a 52 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than the general population. While U.S. life expectancy is 77.6 years, recent studies suggest the average for NFL players is 55, 52 for linemen."

    http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/29/Sports/A_huge_problem.shtml
  • GenePontecorvoGenePontecorvo 5,612 Posts
  • JimBeamJimBeam Seattle. 2,012 Posts
    it's a sad situation when al the abstainer davis is the smartest man in the room.
  • Bon VivantBon Vivant The Eye of the Storm 2,018 Posts
    Horseleech said:
    Bon Vivant said:
    and not all end up in wheelchairs or the like. Far from it.

    "A 1994 study of 7,000 former players by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health found linemen had a 52 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than the general population. While U.S. life expectancy is 77.6 years, recent studies suggest the average for NFL players is 55, 52 for linemen."

    http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/29/Sports/A_huge_problem.shtml

    An increase in the risk of dying from heart disease is not the same as being confined in a wheelchair. This stat doesn't even say that 52% more NFL players die from heart disease than non-NFL players. It says they have a greater RISK of dying from it. Whatever that means. Maybe it means that NFL players have a 3% risk, while non-NFL's have a 2% risk? That's 50% greater.

    Not seeing your point.
  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    This whole argument/discussion/situation is a first-world problem of the highest order...embarrassing on so many levels.

    "Its our 9 billion" "no its our 9 billion"!

    fucking crybabies

    eat the rich.



    RIP Wurzel
  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    Eagles rumored to be interested in Brett Favre as a backup when they deal Kolb.
    Eagles fans, I ready your cliff for you:

  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    Millionaires vs Billionaires is on some seriously uniformed shit.

    The players were always right- fusk the owners.

    In the end nothing will be missed (Hall of Fame Game? Ha!) This was nothing, and preserves labor peace for a decade.

    Get ready for kick off.
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    gareth said:
    Millionaires vs Billionaires is on some seriously uniformed shit.

    :hi:

    We need to get a beer soon so I can gently explain that spelling mistakes undermine the gravity of your mild reprimand.
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