Roger Goodell sends letter to NFL teams

[Brian37]

Compared to whom? The owners are billionaires. FYI, it is a myth that every NFL player is a millionaire. The medium pay for a non star player is the mid 100,000. Very few are star players making multi millions. Most players only make several hundred thousand per year, and only spend 2 to 5 years in the league. 

If you want something real to bitch about, that would be the OWNERS blackmailing cities, threatening to leave, pitting city against city to get new stadiums. The Giants/Jets never payed off the old stadium before they blackmailed NYC/ and New Jersey to get the new one built, OFF THE BACKS OF THE TAX PAYERS.

The league would be NOTHING without their labor. The league needs to, just like all big businesses, for that matter, all need to stop shitting on workers.

The players are not the problem. Our 36 years of Reagan's failed trickle down economics has been widening the pay gap. 45 has been using race to protect corporate welfare. Shitting on black pro sports players is simply one more tactic in 45s vile sale of white hyper nationalism.

Sports dramas do not concern me. I can not care less.

Holy lack of reading comprehension BATMAN!

It isn't about liking or not liking a pro sport. GO BACK AND RE READ........

YOU regardless of liking the sport are STILL AFFECTED. Why should tax payers be blackmailed into paying for buildings that 32 billionaires could pool their own money? TAX PAYERS, including those whom don't watch the sport.

SECONDLY and again, this is about ALL big businesses and the GOP and their long term shitting on labor, and using race and class to protect corporate welfare. The NFL is merely ONE big business, but not the only.

Walmart is another big offender. They will use the law of eminent domain, which was not intended for businesses, but for things like public schools, fire stations, police stations or highways, they use that law, to bully the middle class and working poor off of their property, then because they are so big, they will go into a local, and crush even mom and pop businesses.

And even with the NFL, I could give a shit less if you want to falsely assume 100% of 4,500 players are all millionaires, not true, most are NOT. But Million, is still a SMALLER NUMBER that BILLION. The owners are far richer regardless.

It amazes me how far too many in America are convinced that the top 1% have their best interest in mind. NO, they don't, they have their shareholders and CEOs in mind. If you value a pluralistic class system, a stable society, than you are a fool to simply blindly let the top do whatever it wants.

It still effects you because like it or not, you pay for the OWNERS stadiums through YOUR taxes, and you pay for their tax breaks. Just like you have to compensate for what companies like Exxon or Walmart don't pay in taxes. The money that the top does not pay adds up over years, and what they don't pay you and I have to make up for.

Billionaires DO NOT need more tax breaks. Billionaire sports team owners can pool their own profits to build their own buildings. They will not end up eating cat food if they pay their own way.

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I have a mostly empty strip mall across my street, the middle section was a former grocery store. only 4 of the 12 units are being used. The former grocery store has sat empty for 8 years. You know why those units stay empty? Because the bank or real estate company that owns it, wont lower the rent, and they get to write off the losses for the empty unites as a tax write off. GUESS WHO pays for that? THE REST OF US.

THAT is the bigger picture, the players are being targeted by 45 as a vile political tactic to protect corporate welfare.