Just like in the Willy Wonka movie, the NFL owners and the players had a golden ticket. The stakes are a lot higher than those of the chocolate factory. Around 10 billion more. The sad part is that you let your golden ticket expired.
After one of the most successful NFL seasons, and the highest rated Super Bowl ever, the owners and the players' associations decided to play a high stakes poker game with revealed cards, then spent a week bluffing each other only to realize they both had nothing. The losers are the fans.
We'll now be held hostage for the next 3 months to a year. We will go through a handful of "almost had a deal" to a number of "we will cancel the season." We will be forced to choose sides. We will be led to feel sorry for million dollar athletes who will be forced to spend a small part of their savings, or borrow against future millions, while the rest of America struggles through a bad economy, high unemployment and gas prices, salary freezes and furlough days. As fans, we pay what's necessary to help support the teams we live or die for, and in so doing, we support the many greedy million and billionaires who make up the NFL.
Yes, just like in the movie when Violet Beauregarde goes down the bad eggs shoot, the same should happen to those running the NFL. The Wise Guy would like you to join him for a boycott of the first regular season game, whenever that may be. Let's show the NFL who really runs the league ... the fans!
"Wise Guy"
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