The time has come in which all sports fans feared. The NFL on Friday announced there was a break down on the negotiations and a lock out was announced for the 2011-2012 season. There are many different issues swirling around this whole debacle. NFL owners among some of their desires want to pay rookies less money and they want to take away two preseason games and want to add two games to the regular season. Players of course do not like the idea of adding two more games on to the season, which is already grueling enough on the players as it is. Now no matter what malarkey some NFL or sports analyst tries to feed you, all of this comes down to money. Money! Don’t let anyone feed you any other bull either. The owners want more money. The players want more money. The game in which millions of fans watch during the NFL season may not be on this year because of greed. Discontent. A unquenchable thirst for more and more.
Of course I do not feel bad for the owners or the players. They have more money then they will ever know what to do with. They are over paid enough as it is and they have nothing to worry about. The fact that they are going to cancel this sport which so many people love just because the consumption of greed is sickening. But there is something even more serious in this whole event. Do not feel bad for the players or the owners. The people in which we need to feel sorry about, is the thousands of people who are going to lose their jobs who get work from the NFL season. When I say thousands I do not mean, then, a hundred, or even a thousand, I mean thousands are going to lose their jobs that get work during the NFL season or cater to working for the NFL. Some of those people who desperately need the job who are going to lose it because people who already have millions, sometimes in the case of the owners, billions, can only think about how they can makes themselves even richer then they already are. Billions of dollars, which get pumped into the economy from the NFL, are going to be lost. It well be felt even harder in cities like Detroit who are already in a epic struggle for the very survival of their city are going to lose crucial income. Do the owners give a rat’s butt though? No. As long as they have their vast fortunes, they are going to sit down and they are not going to budge until their needs are met.
Of course it might just be their lust for money, which ends this whole situation. After all, the season is still a good time away. To my knowledge there is still time for them to work things out in order for there to be a season this year. After all, the owners are going to lose money by not having a season. Not that it will really hurt them, but it is going to hurt them more then if they came to an agreement with the player’s union. I of course love college football more then I do pro, but I love watching my Packers, my Super Bowl Champion Packers, on Sunday. What people I hope realize though, whether you love the NFL or hate the NFL, I hope you realize and remember the thousands of people who are going to lose their job. I love football and I do not know what I am going to do if there is no season this year, but there are things more important then us having a lack of entertainment. Greed is a powerful thing and it is the forefront reason why the NFL is in a lock out right now. It is not just the owners though of course. The players union is being just as stubborn and unwilling to budge,. Going as far as to tell young kids they should not show up to the draft. Both sides need to get their heads out of their butts and come to an agreement. I would be highly disappointed if there was no NFL season. I think I would be more disgusted by the fact that neither side could let go of their insatiable greed for more and more. Your not only letting the fans down, the reason why the sport is so popular in the first place, but your putting people’s jobs at jeopardy. It is down right disrespect and down right distasteful. I will continue to monitor this situation as I know all of the sports fans will be doing.
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