Football Fans Are Tired of the Posturing

I don’t mean to imply that I speak for all football fans. But I can tell you this. When I have expressed my opinion that I am about to share with you, I ‘ve had about 100% agreement with those football fans I’ve talked to. But being that I don’t know that many (at least out of the millions in the US), I just need to qualify that the following is MY OPINION and that some football fans that I know agree.

The bottom line is that it is way past time for this deadlock to be over.  What prompted me to write the obvious here?  People have been saying this for a while right?  Well, I just lost it the other day when some of the talking heads were discussing the new “secret” meetings that had started between owners, the league, and the players.  Because one of the parties was quoted as saying something to the effect of “I believe that now we are in a position to get this thing done”.

Now?  Why now?  Why haven’t they been in position before?  I can tell you why.  It’s about money and greed that’s why.  All of a sudden, both parties have realized that neither side is budging and guess what?  If it goes on much longer, training camp is delayed and preseason games are in jeopardy.  And losing preseason games means losing revenue.

So no matter what either side says, they are both about they money.  Not the fans, not the game itself, just the money.  Now there are, I’m sure some individuals on each side who probably care about something besides the money, but I can’t tell who they are.

What I do know is that it took the sport of professional baseball forever to recover from their last work stoppage.  And they recovered just in time to enter the Steroid nightmare.  Did the NFL learn nothing from this?

All I can say is that, as much as I love football, I might just have to live with college football if these guys don’t fix it and fix it now.  I don’t watch baseball any more and haven’t for years.  Come guys, quit posturing and get it done!