With the NFL trying to keep concussion experts off the sidelines and now endangering players safety with the faux-refs, could you guys make a case that this violates the CBA by placing the players in excessive danger beyond that expected from the job?

You make a good point. There probably are some owners who realize what idiocy this is. That being said, as with the issues last year, I'd bet any money the majority are pushing for this. And as you said, Goodell is a chump. He can't get the greedy asswipes to realize what they're doing to the sport and is instead…

Goodell is doing what the owners want. Why would they run him out of town? They almost ripped the players union's assholes apart last year, this year they can crush the referees union. This is important stuff for the owners to discuss at their next Romney fundraiser.

If they got good lawyers, they can sure as hell at least have a stalemate of a court case. There's a standard of safety that is expected, and the scab referees are allowing games to be played in a dangerous manner. Add to that the fact that the NFL is actively trying to keep concussion experts off the sidelines, and…

Selig is a greaseball who protects JEFF LORIA, a scumbag who has destroyed baseball in Montreal and has robbed Miami of half a billion dollars. Under his watch, MLB owners have fucked cities out of hundreds of millions of dollars (my team, the Yankees fucked NYC out of $1 billion in bond payments). Stern is an asshole…

One problem: I'm not against fining/charging bikers who do wrong. I'm against what the NYPD does in almost entirely ignoring when drivers do the same thing. Statistically, if you run somebody down in your car in NYC, you're likely to not get charged. That's the problem: the NYPD goes batshit over bikers and ignores…

Not intervening. Just add a line of law saying the NFL and the other major leagues lose their anti-trust exemption so they can their asses sued to hell for the shit they're all doing.

They frisk and searched more black and latino youths last year than there are in NYC. And less than 10% of those frisks led to anything substantial. They're abusing their power to intimidate and degrade people of color. Because nothing says "trust the police" and "you live in a free, prosperous country" like slamming…

And what's been the commissioner's salary in these tough times?

They need to go full-out on this. Unless they press Ginger Hammer on this 24/7, the average short attention span fan will ignore it.

There's also the fact that an unfortunately large amount of fans (read: Republicans) support the NFL all the way on this. The NFL can keep this farce going for years if they want.

Add this line to any bill: "The exemption from anti-trust laws of the United States of America given to the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League is revoked."

I barely watch the Giants games at this point. I don't want to watch people I root for having years taken off their lives every time there's a big hit. Ginger Hammer has shit on the players and referees big time in his tenure. He's resorted to shitting on the fans now by allowing this farce to go on. I'm done with…

Between this, the attempt to fuck the players last year, and the "ignore the data suggesting our players are killing themselves, just fine James Harrison and it'll be OK" shit, I'm nearly done with football.

It's pretty nice that in times of record revenues and profits, Ginger Hammer and the owners decide that the best thing for the league is to try and rubble up even more money out of football by going on some good-ole 19th century union-busting. Sure the game is becoming a farce and endangering the players, but who…

You're the same type of dumbass who thinks umpires in baseball routinely fucking teams in the asshole is romantic because of "the human element."

LOL. ESPN and NBC Sports will be airing "ALL IS WELL" propaganda pieces every hour by this time tomorrow. There will be no deal unless Ginger Hammer gets to personally shit in every union referee's hands and cheer "Romney/Ryan 2012!"

You'll accept it, you unwashed masses. The Ginger Hammer and the owners have declared it so. The referees and players unions must be crushed. Any dissent will be not be tolerated.

Maybe he isn't, but his department's policies are.