By Scary Barry Rodriguez October 24, 2011
( San Francisco ) - The slicksters behind the National Football League's lockout have turned the on the field entertainment product into garbage for this 2011 season. This last Sunday is a perfect example. Because the lack of training camp for all the teams many of the franchises touted as Super Bowl contenders such as the Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons and the New York Jets look like pretenders instead. As a television watching fan I found it more entertaining to watch CNN than the NFL.
Check it out ! The Miami Dolphins versus the Denver Broncos , Seattle Seahawks versus the Cleveland Browns , these teams combined have a single digit win record. Its slop city. Watch the New York Jets struggle, the New Orleans Saints blow out the Indianapolis Colts 62-7. What excitement ! If that don't turn you on hows about the Cleveland Browns 6 and the Seattle Seahawks 3, are we talking baseball here !
During an economic recession the NFL owners decided this was the time to play hardball and their millionaire plantation workers took a stand. If a Federal judge hadn't made a ruling to take away the owners 4 billion dollar television slush fund there wouldn't have been any season. The NFL tried to copy the National Hockey League's playbook and not negotiate in good faith, planning on a lockout no matter what. Teams like the San Francisco 49ers plan to move to another city and price their blue collar fans out of the equation. The billionaires down in the Silicon valley are dropping down six figures for luxury boxes and Carmen Policy and Joe Montana want them to stay in their hotel.
Over in Oakland once the lease runs out the Raiders will go to Los Angeles again. What the big brains in NFL want is for Joe six pack to stay home and watch the game on a expensive cable TV package so that the one percent that owns 99 % of the wealth in this country , parties in their luxury boxes without having to be around the regular folks that drive the American economic machine ! The same folks that support eliminating the middle class figure that they can go it alone with the big television contracts , royalties on the NFL brand gear and their boring NFL network.
Now lets check out the National Basketball Association. Once again the big brains behind the NBA and their billionaire owners want to squeeze some more cash out of the players side, citing a 300 million dollar revenue shortfall from the 2010 season. Timing is everything in life and the NBA just like the NFL can't get it right ! With record unemployment in every state and millions of folks losing their homes to foreclosure, the NBA believes we can't live without professional basketball ! The NBA over expanded and now its in trouble.
Recently analysis has shown that even Major League baseball playoff games don't draw as many viewers as regular season NFL games ! The big brains behind the MLB constantly over hype the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox or the Philadelphia Phils ! They preach about these big market teams as if the rest of the country doesn't exist. Meanwhile the ticket prices go up and it costs a small fortune to drink beer or buy hot dogs in any stadium around the country. Unlike the NFL and NBA , Major League baseball hasn't done a good job marketing individual players thereby losing the interests of fans in the West coast for example when the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals are playing in the World Series .
Let me break it down for you sport fans out there in America who are worrying about losing your jobs or having your house foreclosed ! The reality is that the way the NFL,NBA and MLB operates is just a reflection of why the American economy is in the dumps. These owners just consider us as numbers on a spread sheet ! They couldn't care less whether their teams go out of business and they put the vendors , stadium workers and all other regular folks out of jobs ! These one percent folks can write it off, outsource and get a government bailout. Oh ! What about the fans ? P.T Barnum said " theres a sucker born every minute ! ". That what the big guys that run professional sports think middle class and blue collar fans are , suckers ! They think we have to entertain ourselves with their sport's products so we can forget about being one step away from the poor house !
Courtesy of Scary Merlin Productions. BarryRodriguez (c) 2011. All Rights Reserved.
( San Francisco ) - The slicksters behind the National Football League's lockout have turned the on the field entertainment product into garbage for this 2011 season. This last Sunday is a perfect example. Because the lack of training camp for all the teams many of the franchises touted as Super Bowl contenders such as the Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons and the New York Jets look like pretenders instead. As a television watching fan I found it more entertaining to watch CNN than the NFL.
Check it out ! The Miami Dolphins versus the Denver Broncos , Seattle Seahawks versus the Cleveland Browns , these teams combined have a single digit win record. Its slop city. Watch the New York Jets struggle, the New Orleans Saints blow out the Indianapolis Colts 62-7. What excitement ! If that don't turn you on hows about the Cleveland Browns 6 and the Seattle Seahawks 3, are we talking baseball here !
During an economic recession the NFL owners decided this was the time to play hardball and their millionaire plantation workers took a stand. If a Federal judge hadn't made a ruling to take away the owners 4 billion dollar television slush fund there wouldn't have been any season. The NFL tried to copy the National Hockey League's playbook and not negotiate in good faith, planning on a lockout no matter what. Teams like the San Francisco 49ers plan to move to another city and price their blue collar fans out of the equation. The billionaires down in the Silicon valley are dropping down six figures for luxury boxes and Carmen Policy and Joe Montana want them to stay in their hotel.
Over in Oakland once the lease runs out the Raiders will go to Los Angeles again. What the big brains in NFL want is for Joe six pack to stay home and watch the game on a expensive cable TV package so that the one percent that owns 99 % of the wealth in this country , parties in their luxury boxes without having to be around the regular folks that drive the American economic machine ! The same folks that support eliminating the middle class figure that they can go it alone with the big television contracts , royalties on the NFL brand gear and their boring NFL network.
Now lets check out the National Basketball Association. Once again the big brains behind the NBA and their billionaire owners want to squeeze some more cash out of the players side, citing a 300 million dollar revenue shortfall from the 2010 season. Timing is everything in life and the NBA just like the NFL can't get it right ! With record unemployment in every state and millions of folks losing their homes to foreclosure, the NBA believes we can't live without professional basketball ! The NBA over expanded and now its in trouble.
Recently analysis has shown that even Major League baseball playoff games don't draw as many viewers as regular season NFL games ! The big brains behind the MLB constantly over hype the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox or the Philadelphia Phils ! They preach about these big market teams as if the rest of the country doesn't exist. Meanwhile the ticket prices go up and it costs a small fortune to drink beer or buy hot dogs in any stadium around the country. Unlike the NFL and NBA , Major League baseball hasn't done a good job marketing individual players thereby losing the interests of fans in the West coast for example when the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals are playing in the World Series .
Let me break it down for you sport fans out there in America who are worrying about losing your jobs or having your house foreclosed ! The reality is that the way the NFL,NBA and MLB operates is just a reflection of why the American economy is in the dumps. These owners just consider us as numbers on a spread sheet ! They couldn't care less whether their teams go out of business and they put the vendors , stadium workers and all other regular folks out of jobs ! These one percent folks can write it off, outsource and get a government bailout. Oh ! What about the fans ? P.T Barnum said " theres a sucker born every minute ! ". That what the big guys that run professional sports think middle class and blue collar fans are , suckers ! They think we have to entertain ourselves with their sport's products so we can forget about being one step away from the poor house !
Courtesy of Scary Merlin Productions. BarryRodriguez (c) 2011. All Rights Reserved.
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