Why Football Rules, and Baseball Droolz

[Fran Haring]

Can you remember the last time the NFL went on strike? I'll help: it was 1987 for 24 hours (reducing the season from 16 games to 15).

Weren't a few of those 15 games played by replacement players? That was an absolute joke of a season for the NFL, regardless of how long the strike technically lasted.

[Rifuarian]

I'm a bigger sports fan than I am a drum corps fan, but I've never understood why people on this board are so obsessed with sports analogies. Until drum corps becomes a for-profit business in which the marching members actually paid these comparisons are useless. Then we can think about drafts, trades, pay caps, revenue sharing, etc. -- all of which have more to do, after all, with maximizing profits for all involved and not socialism, parity, or helping the weak.

As for the article itself, no one who is familiar with how the business of American sports works can take it seriously. Just another example of Maher's talent, which he shares with his fellow blowhards on the right, for distorting a complex reality to fit his simple-minded, black and white worldview.

Edited April 1, 2011 by Rifuarian

[Toby]

Much more Current Events than DCI. Closing.