Rock out with your Lockout

Where can we vote for owners?

Usually I find unions to be tedious and troublesome but the owners are terrible in this case. The fact that the owners and Commissioner Goodell have been talking about fans are "excited" about the prospect of an 18 game season despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary really has gotten under my skin.

Usually I find unions to be tedious and troublesome but the owners are terrible in this case. The fact that the owners and Commissioner Goodell have been talking about fans are "excited" about the prospect of an 18 game season despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary really has gotten under my skin.

Another thing that is funny about that is he cites "all fans are excited about the possiblity of an 18 game season", meanwhile I haven't heard ANYONE I talk to that would like in the least.

What I have heard overwhelming fan support for is the ability for players to celebrate without fear of a sensitive penalty in the endzone after a touchdown.


So when is Goodell listening to fan support, when it is only in the best interest of the NFL?...Go screw Goodell and quit citing supposed fan support as sincere motives of the NFL.

Fans would have wanted the Vikings vs. Eagles game played in an all out blizzard and not played on a Tuesday night just so the NFL could buy another night in which it was the leading rated thing on television.

Sure it's a shame, but watching football is luxury to most of us. Most of us don't need the game to make a dollar. For players and owners football is a means of sustenance. For many players it's their only vehicle of employment and betterment.

There are many people involved in football games outside of the players who depend on the games to pay their bills

I say screw both sides and start a league were they play for the passion of the game like the old days.

There are many people involved in football games outside of the players who depend on the games to pay their bills

O.K. with this said what is better for them? The general workers that are never seen. Is it better for the owners to come on top or the players?

O.K. with this said what is better for them? The general workers that are never seen. Is it better for the owners to come on top or the players?

It's better for there to be games, so I'll say the players

O.K. with this said what is better for them? The general workers that are never seen. Is it better for the owners to come on top or the players?

What's best for them is that both sides reach a mutually beneficial agreement. Why is this such a difficult thing? Because both sides are acting out of greed. Everything else is just smoke.

I say screw both sides and start a league were they play for the passion of the game like the old days.

What are we talking about? The 1920s?

I say screw both sides and start a league were they play for the passion of the game like the old days.

The Lingerie Football League is definitely passionate and, just like Red Grange, its players wear lacy underwear.

What is missing from the dynamic of the negotiations is precisely the voice of the fans that is loud and clear here.

Fans want football so they want a resolution to these "issues" immediately. But the fans have no voice in the negotiations even though all of the $$$ that all these folks are fighting over come from the pockets of the fans - - and the taxpayers in cities that have funded stadiums for teams.

The fans pay the freight but the players and the owners decide whether or not the fans - - the one's paying the freight may I remind you - - get to see games next year.

That is what is wrong with this picture. Put fans in the room with the power of the dollars and this would be fixed in a flash.

The NFL expects to take in revenues just under $9B this year. Player salaries and benefits amount to just under 60% of that revenue or just under $5.4B.

And those folks can't figure out how to share that pie so that everyone gets a fair share? Give me a BREAK!