NFL Hall Of Famers Threaten Boycott Unless They Get...

[sid]

...free health insurance, an annual salary, and a share of the profits of the NFL. Can you believe this? What the hell ever happened to the big salaries they were all paid?

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/201...alth-benefits/

[dogtag]

They can get stuffed

[bruce]

Can't see a problem with this. There isn't a large pool of men who can replace them. The top players are the top players. THey have ever right to bargain for their own best interests. IF the owners can't or won't pay up, someone else will. It is all about the money. The players are out for the money. The owners are out for the money. No difference. JMHO. Sincerely. bruce.

[Vern Humphrey]

What do I care -- it won't be my money, will it?

[S.A. Boggs]

Falling revenue for the owners and new demands on what is left, now the owners might ask the public for help. I can see the owners demanding cities to sell bonds to fund them or they will move the team somewhere else. Bruce is right, all about GREED, let the players take a knee now!
Sam

[Vern Humphrey]

Not one penny! Not a cent of public money!

[gwp]

Falling revenue for the owners and new demands on what is left, now the owners might ask the public for help. I can see the owners demanding cities to sell bonds to fund them or they will move the team somewhere else. Bruce is right, all about GREED, let the players take a knee now!
Sam

I live in one of the doughnut counties aground Indianapolis that is taxed to support Lucas Stadium for the Colts even though I have never entered the stadium.

Here is an interesting report:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/sdut-nfl-subsidies-stadium-2016jan21-story.html#

The most expensive stadium for taxpayers is Lucas Oil Stadium (home of the Indianapolis Colts) with an astounding $619 million in taxpayer funds used.

Taxpayers’ massive investment in building a stadium for Colts billionaire team owner Jim Irsay proved disastrous for the Indianapolis economy. Since the construction of the stadium, the poverty rate in Marion County, the county in which Indianapolis is located, skyrocketed from 12.7 percent to 21.3 percent and the median household income dropped more than $10,000, from $51,553 to $41,478.

Pushing off 86 percent of the cost of stadium construction on to the backs of taxpayers freed up plenty of spending money for the Colts. Some of that money was used to buy a condo for Kimberly Wundrum, Irsay’s mistress. Wundrum later died of an overdose in the Colts-owned home. Soon thereafter, Irsay was arrested for DUI and drug possession, was suspended six games by the NFL and attended rehab in several facilities around the country.

[Sandpebble]

America.... no one whines more than the rich... remember when $million a year baseball players went on strike for medical benefits ?

[Roadkingtrax]

America.... no one whines more than the rich... remember when $million a year baseball players went on strike for medical benefits ?

Funny how tax breaks for millionaires are cherry picked for criticism based on ethnicity and their occupation. Otherwise its lauded as Republic savin' when it falls on their percieved norms.

[Vern Humphrey]

Don't feed the fonzanoons.

[JB White]

HOF means they are retired and no longer work for the NFL. Had they listened to Vern and invested into their own plans when they had the money, they wouldn't be sniveling now. Right Vern?
Now don't look at me...I never had that kind of money. That's why I joined a Union.

[Vern Humphrey]

I didn't -- I put the "union dues" into my own retirement plan.

[Roadkingtrax]

Don't feed the fonzanoons.

No one asked you.

[Vern Humphrey]

Don't feed the fonzanoons.

[S.A. Boggs]

Don't feed the fonzanoons.

Cute name, reminds one of a white stripped black animal often found in the woods. "They" are following this animals path closely, a distinct and identifiable "Perfume" that sadly long endures.
Sam