The McCaskey’s have taken a beating in recent years, deservedly so. I wonder how many free tickets and other perks the Chicago sports teams coughed up the politicians to back this bill.

The NFLPA is also going to actively steer players away from signing with the Browns or Bills because “HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FUCKING MINDS!”

Baseball and association football are affected by this.

Also consider that say, Robert Kraft (Pats owner) does everything he can to shovel money to his star players outside the cap, bending the rules as much as possible, to get stars to stay on below-market salaries. For example, Tom Brady’s fitness company leases office space from Kraft, rumored to be at pennies on the…

This is bullshit. Athletes these days play for up to 6-7 years beyond the age of 35. That’s plenty of time for the hammer to drop, considering that in the NFL, life-altering injuries can happen at practice. And as far as NFL salaries go, everyone knows that these guys are broke in three years.

The mystifying thing: The state legislature is Illinois is controlled by Democrats.

Don’t worry. The McCaskeys are the most ineffectual ownership family in the NFL. They couldn’t even get Chicago to build a dome rather than that spaceship that landed in Soldier Field, because Reinsdorf and Wirtz didn’t want it cutting into the United Center concert business. They managed to build a stadium that had…

Athletes may not work as an athlete until they are 67, but a severe injury leading to disability can hinder their ability to work for the rest of their lives. That’s why the argument for the bill is complete and utter bullshit, and would ultimately cost the public huge sums of money (assuming Trump doesn’t dismantle…

Trump Trash will love this bill. That’s why they want bills cutting off benefits for pro athletes in their home states of Wyoming and South Carolina.

Every fucking day. Every single fucking day.

You’re almost getting it! But then you’re falling short right before the finish line. You’re right that liberals tend to think in “What can my union do for me?” terms. But then you go and imagine that leftists think the same way. Leftists think in “What can our union do for us?” terms. These framings are not at all…

Further, why do you hate labor that much? That you want an individual to be forced to go up against the entire damn company? The company gets to join together, why shouldn’t labor?

I wish you were smart enough to realize how stupid this comment is, so that you could feel bad about yourself for making it.

So other people are going to berate you but let’s talk about this for a second like adults :) The union is a collective, like Social Security, Welfare and really all other forms of insurance and community. We pay taxes, we pay insurance fees, etc. so it makes sense there would be a union fee. Also this fee typically…

Cool.

Notably, professional sports are among the most strongly unionized workforces.

I guess, I dunno, it’s kinda like if you don’t help the union negotiate for benefits then you shouldn’t get those benefits. I can see the pros and cons.

This law is what prevents them from doing so. Sans this law, they can do exactly that.

Yeah but will they be organized?

Doesn’t even matter. Give it a few months and the only jobs will be corpse collector, highwayman, and scavenger.