Ongoing CBA discussions

[SBXVII]

GTripp,

The NFLPA probably does have better laywers and likely can "win" in court, and the fans ultimately aren't going to give a damn when football is here next season, and as an observer it's hard for me not to root for the players to get whatever they can in the negotiations.

I can see where your coming from in respect that I would hope anyone would lobby to get whatever money they can get, but I have a hard time siding with the players after hearing what the owners offered, how much the players are already making, and honestly I don't feel sorry for the retired players when they should have found a way to save during their playing days or saved during their jobs after football. All football players know they have about 10-20 yrs to play then age catches up with them and then they should be putting their degrees to good use for their retirement.

I just have a hard time feeling sorry when I make roughly $50,000 a year with overtime, have to pay for the majority of my medical and dental, a % of my earnings goes to retirement and another goes to social security and yet my job is no different then the medical professionals who have to worry about picking up a disease from their patients, firemen who face getting killed fighting fires everyday, or policemen who face getting killed everyday.

I understand fans being pissed because they think the owners are being greedy but no one goes into business to lose money. No one goes into business to give away half their earnings. Businessman start business in the hopes of making the most money they can. Plus how good your business goes determines how succesful you are. So most owners should appear greedy because they are trying to make the most. If anything I feel the players are the ones fans should be pointing their fingers at and calling greedy because it just seems they are trying to take and take from what the owners are earnging. It seems like they want the owners to fork over the money for everything that the common citizen has to pay for on their own. It seems like their taking their starting salaries of $400,000 + for granted when if they don't like what they are doing to what they are making then come join the rest of us who have to earn a fraction of what they make with worse conditions then what they have .... everyday, not just on Sundays. Instead of risking their lives for 16 days of the year how about they risk their lives for 365 days minus weekends or time off and holidays. Not to mention having to worry about a possibility of a furlough. or they can find another job that has a union if they like.