Yep, Ralph holding his ground on the CBA at the time was head scratcher. In the end he was not only vindicated but is still mentioned when conversations come up about it in the media. J. Jones is probably still fuming. Ralph was a good businessman. But it seemed he always put that end above winning teams. No revelation there.
The SB era was all Polian, after he and later when Butler got canned it was over. In the end he kept a NFL team viable in a poor market. For that he gets all the credit.
The couple of times I met him he was down to earth, easy to chat with, and had a great sense of humor.