I, for one, am so blankety-blank sick of every few years the Union turning around and saying "we'll hit you with an anti-trust suit if we don't get what we want." Have the owners turn around and say "at the end of this agreement we're closing down shop if you can't think of a way where this BS doesn't come up every time, then you go buy some stadiums, you pay for the health care, the retirement, see how you like it."
I know there'll be one or two greedy businessmen who have always wanted to have their own football team but a two or three team league will put a lot of Union guys out of work. And, if the owners agree not to let them use their stadiums, exercise rooms and practice fields, it'll be back to playing at college stadiums and using beat up buses and flying coach.
Unlike the writers who are almost all union members, I believe I can see both sides to an argument, but to be threatened every few years, as if you were paying off a blackmailer, is beyond the pall. If the owners need extra money for stadiums and upkeep, I don't have a problem with it. If they want to have NFL Europe, it comes out of their pockets. I know the owners want to spread the game beyond where it is and if that's so why in heaven's name haven't they talked to the owners of the CFL and have them start playing Spring games? With the teams we could have set up in this country, it would triple the money that the CFL is already making. And, most fans that I talk to loved having football in the Spring and Fall.
