I tend to think that players unions are as effective as either the players or the people players trust to give them advice about things like contracts and unions are. I also think the overall shorter playing career of your average voting NFLPA member makes it harder for the players union to take strong collective…

Maybe it's taken so long to happen because it has already happened?

It's a quick jump from chainsaws and talking to your children about race to advice about how to fence.

The NFL is a non-profit because money is passed through to the franchises, which are taxable entities.

What?

I don't think it is any great virtue. The issue is that until the NFL fans punish the NFL for employing someone who is an asshole, it will pay to employ an asshole. You forget that a great many fans buy into the sort of bullshit logic Goodell uses in his complaints about NFL employees to the hilt.

I think #3 would be "Doing the first two without hurting attendance or television ratings", which Goodell seems to have done flawlessly.

On the contrary, based on the NFL's ratings and attendance this season, he's done it fantastically.

Except the important thing to remember is that the NFL is as addictive as any illegal drug, so the owners and the commissioner can get away with making strictly economic decisions.

What the fuck does Al Sharpton know?"

You've misinterpreted the reason for the existence of the NFL. The NFL does not exist so that the game of football can be played. It exists so that the owners can make money. Sports do not "need" an outside ruling body unless they need it to help the owners make more money. Given how the many fiascos the NFL has…

Well, no.

Good stuff.

This is why I think only suckers watch regular season basketball.

I feel like this is a great guide for "normal" Baby Boomer parents, but parents are people, and sometimes people are weird, so I figured I'd throw this bit out as well.

The 3rd quarterback taken?

The beauty of the playoffs is that a team with a loss that is a better matchup for the best teams in the country can still have a chance. Football is such a highly specialized game at this point, it really shouldn't be too shocking that a team that matches up well against #1 and #2 might not match up well against a…

It takes a special level of incompetence to fail as a McDonald's proprietor.

Except the teams with vacancies that have "competent" quarterbacks probably didn't want to hire Ryan as a head coach.

Well, the issue isn't dumb rules so much as it's the design of the game means that the more people care about it, the more exhaustively precise the rules will get.