The NFL is coming to it’s senses.

8 thoughts on “The NFL is coming to it’s senses.”

1. The NFL, a league that has provided me with decades of mostly-free entertainment, ends a management lockout that has, at worst, delayed a half-week of preseason games? No problems here. Baseball and Hockey both lost seasons in the past, and the NBA could do the same this year. Both players and owners saw reason and made compromises.

   And we’ll forgive, too, because on the balance, this really didn’t hurt anyone and we’re getting back what we wanted. Chad Ochocinco will come back from his offseason of crossing things off his bucket list; The Packers have a title to defend; I can start up fantasy football at my school; and, most importantly, we can hate Phillip Rivers again – he reminds me of the rich jerk villian in all of those 1980’s teen/college movies.

   Personally, I’m more of a college fan, but I’m glad the League is set to go.

2. Dear Drew,

   Forget? No (bleep) way! Every time this happens in any sport I remember and a bit of what makes me a fan dies with it. Now will I forgive? Lets just say the jury is out on that one. Perhaps a lot of it will do with how fast the Bronco’s rebound. Yeah, sounds a little bandwagonish but its honest.

   All the best (and enjoying a 2 week staycation)

   Louis

3. Good Morning from Omaha,

   The owners lost their leverage when the players played the trump card. $200,000 sounds like a lot of money to you and me but to guys who make at least 3 times that playing a childs game its just enough to get by. Hence the disconnect between the haves and the have nots.

   Its not just in football, but in life, generally speaking. CEO’s, CFO’s even the news readers on the morning tv shows can not even begin to relate to the daily struggles of an average working day to day kind of person and family. I can’t fix it and complaining about it won’t make it better. Gotta get out there and build that better mousetrap so that I can create that fiscal security blanket for my family.

   Football, I love the game, but I am having trouble justifying the ticket prices, parking fee’s and the cost of concessions to support this money taking machine I took part in creating.

   Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

   Gene

4. Everyone hates lawyers, until they need one. Whoever came up with the insurance policy idea is 2011’s MVP! Right now 32 owners (or owners groups) are cursing the lawyer who out-manuevered them.

   Consider how the NFLPA and likely many players knew about the policy and kept their mouths shut. That is a huge testament to the disconnect between the players and owners. Absolutely no loyalty exists between the two groups. Sadly, we’ll see this battle again in a few more years.

5. Hadn’t heard about that insurance policy; that’s classic. I am supremely impressed.

   I don’t pay much attention to preseason games, as it has little effect on the actual season, except for the guys who didn’t make the team. Besides, unless the Broncos are playing the Cowboys or the Texans, I am lucky if I get to see one preseason game per summer.

   It is a good chance to see what the rookies can do, and it might be the only time the second- and third-stringers get to play more than one series of downs. But I always felt it was a cheat to charge full prices for a game where the starters may only play one or two series.

   As for Washington; don’t want to get too political, but basically all I can see is that the average citizen is going to get screwed to the benefit of the 1% of people who have money. And something I’ve been required to pay into my entire working life, Social Security, will be wiped out because a bunch of politicians and Wall Streeters hate the idea that there’s money there that won’t make it into their pockets.

6. The labor deal is supposed to be for 7-9 years…so that’s a plus. It would be nice, however, if our unions for cops, teachers, miners and factory workers were as effective as the ones for athletes.

   Harry: I concurr with the last point 100 percent. At least when the billionaire owners and millionaire players claim their checks, it’s from people who hand over their money willingly from tickets and shirt sales, as opposed to pensions and bailouts.

7. Drew, you do not get a pass to stick an apostrophe in the possessive ITS. Cartoonist or sports lover, I don’t care– if you post on this page, you are posting for people who read the Rocky and expect a minimal command of English from its (ITS) contributors. I can’t stand to open a page and see a headline that screams “Fire me!” like yours does here. No props. No props whatsoever.

8. Drew,

   It looks like you just hired your copy editor. Did you tell her the salary for the position, or are you hoping she has an insurance policy?

   Mike

   To Bea: good catch!