re: #200 ObserverArt

I get the feeling their is so much heat on this issue because all the players look at those other sports and wonder what the hell they can do to get that in the NFL.

Tons of discussions going on all the time about the next union contract negotiations and guaranteed contracts. Add in the dangers in the game and the player’s union should be in a decent position to get change. If they hang tough and have good leadership.

I don’t think the NFL can take another player’s strike and replacement season. That would really cost them.

If only this was all true. The leadership of the union, IMO, is weak.

The other thing, is that this is a sport-relative to basketball- that has a much higher percentage of American White Males. Not to say that race is a part of the issue, but with the where and how football is taught to the American White Male- lends to a more conservative view of business, Unions, and politics.