Which is why my legislature was all over that shit.

Charters in general are a fucking scam that conservatives love because it gives greedy corporations and individuals a chance to profit off education, while also weakening the lobbying power of public schools, a group that tends to support democrats.

Did you see the Dion Sanders charter school doc?

Football is a sport I *didn’t* want to play and wanted nothing to do with, but was forced to be adjacent to. A kid with no football around sounds like a magical, amazing world he should be grateful for.

The school will literally cancel everything before they stop paying for football. If they canceled it, most parents would take their kids out of school for some charter school BS. Or they’d get boosters. Or something. It’s the tent pole of most schools and, indeed, towns. Growiing up here, elementary school kids…

Critical error. You’re assuming the ownership is working for the good of the company, not the good of the ownership.

Are you high? If anything, South Dallas and Stop 6 are *more* dedicated to football. It’s the only thing keeping the school open!
“Sure, we’ve got a 75% drop out rate, but our running back has a good chance of beating Southlake this year!”

The average NFL fan understands, what, 25% of what’s happening on the field at any given time? Football is far too complicated for these people. If the Wide Receiver blows his route because of [complicated football reason] and drops a pass are fans going to notice? I doubt it. They’ll just call him a bum, or worse,…

Seeing as the MLBPA and the reserve clause coexisted for just under a decade, I’m not sure it’s something that was “agreed” to so much as “something the union lived with until they could kill it”.

College football: for the fan who wants the ethical nightmares of college basketball AND the ethical nightmares of professional football in one convenient package!

The drunks in the stands at NFL games are all murderers and degenerates.

It’s this kind of stuff that makes me worry about the quality of the stuff that the Ringer is gonna be producing. Kevin Clark is a smart guy, he knows exactly what the problem is and who’s fault it is. But if he wants to keep writing for his VC-backed content distribution platform or whatever-the-fuck they’re calling…

The drunks in the stands at college football games are either young folks with the enthusiasm of youth or older people reliving the enthusiasm of their youth.

This seems like people from a bygone era blaming labor for a fundamental shift in their own expectations. No mention of shortened coaching staff tenure or the influx of young coaching staffs? What business do you know, free market or not, that brings in new, and often inexperienced, management every two years and sees…

You’re not totally wrong, but there are other economic factors at play here.

Yay, remnants of slavery!

yup, nothing breeds excitement like the option offense and games decided by seven TD margins. Sign me up!!!

The problem is we, the fans. The cognitive dissonance that occurs every time I watch football is commonplace. I *know* that what I am watching is reprehensible and will shorten actual human lives, and yet, I still am tuning in every Sunday. Nothing matters until we stop watching and actual NFL profits are affected.…

The intent of this change was to divert money to veterans, but what it has actually done is make cheap young players so disposable—and good cheap young players so valuable—that vets are instead just being pushed out of the league.

“Damn millennials are ruining everything.”