Billistic

The CBAs between the owners and the NFLPA have transferred many tens of billions of dollars from football fans to the players, whether via ticket cost increases or increases in prices of Dodge Ram Tough trucks due to the cost of the endless TV commercials that make games last for 75 hours (deliberate use of hyperbole, K-9, NOT a lie). Fans payed for Nate Clements' ludicrous contract with the 49ers, not the 49ers ownership. I'm cryin' for both the owners and players.

Did DirectTV negotiate 32 different contracts to "broadcast" Sunday Ticket? The fact the the NFL is actually a monopoly is totally irrelevant.

A coming Supreme Court ruling against the needle company. Who did the NFLPA agree with in the prior CBAs? Was there one CBA or 32 individual CBAs?

Easy, brother. I'm just saying that to strike or not to strike has always been the players ultimate recourse. Personally, I think a lock out by the owners is much more likely in 2011. They've realized that they gave away to much of the revenues store in the previous CBA. That was way too un-American! Time to start thinking about signing up for a bowling league.

Please...rub more salt into my wounds... How about the Second Coming of Marv?

Smith's legs were like Popeye's forearms, plus he could drive while unconscious. Maybin? I don't think so.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during the notorious Polian v. Linda Bogdan incident. Have you read the entry in Wikipedia? Right out of OBD.

I saw that, but this case will not revisit the issue of free agency. That's a different issue altogether. If the SC rules in favor of single entity, the players will "never" be able to bring an antitrust claim against the NFL. That hasn't happened ever so far, as far as I know, since baseball. The players can strike, and the owners can lock them out in 2011, but this case hasn't changed that as far as I can see.

The Federal Circuit Court (7th district) ruled that the NFL was a "single entity" in 8/08. The Supreme Court will rule on "single entity" status some time in spring 2010. Even if the SC rules that the League is a SE, it won't reverse the previous decision institutionalizing free agency. I'm not sure how it shifts the power in the owner-player battle. Didn't the NFLPA already admit the league was a SE when it negotiated the original CBA? I think a ruling favorable to the owners would impact deals with TV, merchandising and stuff like that, but not so much dealings with the players.

How are things in the bunker?

Classic citation!

OK, to rephrase the question: Why did Warren Sapp fall off the map after he left the Bucs?

This is test of defensive football knowledge, and an open challenge to the Stadium Wall "inner circle" jerk: Dan, Steely Dan, San Jose, THE Dean, K-9 (woof), Sage, VOR, THE Senator and any/all who throw in with these "guys". Got anything?

Frankly, I prefer talking football, but when a horde of small-minded, incestuous insiders gathers to attack me, I tend to let it rip. Starting 9/14 @ 7:00, there will be plenty to distract all from matters of personality and style. ...hopefully "distract" in the good sense...

strategy courtesy of ostriches

Good night girls. Look out for the boogie man.

You cretins are better than what's on TV (barely).

Statements of my opinions. Where are the contradictions. What facts are missing?

If you want to say I misquoted you, go ahead, but any idiot that cannot see it as an attempt at humor (especially since I provided the exact citation to your real post above the "blah, blah, blah" remark) is daffy. A lie, no. Get it?

OMG! Did he really say that?

Plenty of liars on this board, but I'm not one of them.

Why bother? Because you must document your claim or admit it's false.

You guys get (in the manner of Lewis Carroll) intelligenter and intelligenter.

Post #113 (above) is what he's flipping out over.

Well, let's see your "show". BTW, what is exactly is a "digressive pattern"? ...and what exactly were the lies?