I will admit that I wasn't that happy to hear the court ruling in favor of the players. My small-town team, the Packers, need the owners to do fairly well, otherwise, like the Marines and their persistent bureaucratic fears of extinction, may face too tough a financial road. The owners, who don't want to make public their finances, always use the Packers' data as proxy. As a public corporation, the Packers are required to release the info. Simply put, the Packers have progressively suffered under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and either they get more revenue or their outlook is bleak.
But I suppose any movement is good movement at this point.
The citation here is a WSJ op-ed about when Teddy Roosevelt stepped in and helped mediate a summit of sports luminaries who were considering banning football because of a death in play. Teddy naturally saw a boys2men process in football and inserted himself like it was the Russo-Japanese war all over again, inviting the game's big shots for a summit at the White House. As there, he dictated no demands. He just pushed hard for agreement.
Today, of course, everything goes to the courts, which is its own progress and frustration.
I just feel a special concern for the Packers and - by extension - the League because of my grandfather's role in keeping the Packers alive and in Green Bay.
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Yesterday I got the results of my biopsy at the dentist: what was discovered on the underside of my tongue was just scar tissue from a scraggly back tooth pushed up because there isn't enough room on my right side. The dentist and I had agreed to crown that tooth no matter the outcome of the biopsy, so I was there yesterday for that procedure when the news came in.
Crown hurt less than having a piece of my tongue sliced away!