Reply #32: Owners have already overplayed their hand

[Missy Vixen]

First of all, anyone who bothers to read about the NFL knows that owners do not fund or maintain NFL stadiums. Owners are claiming they're "losing money", but the NFL made $8 billion in PROFIT last season, and the owners got $1 billion right off the top.

Players are now known to be courting brain damage and a much higher risk of early onset dementia, as well as coping with the 100% injury rate of the NFL. The average NFL career is three and a half seasons, and if you're drafted in rounds 2-7, you're not making the bank a first-round draft pick is. Plus injuries and the increased cost of health care, for the rest of your life.

Every day this drags on, it becomes clearer to Joe Watches-His-Team-On-Sundays exactly what this is: Union busting.