Owners are nothing but pigs at the trough

[Happy Panther]

OK, try this. Imagine you work at a restaurant. You make $50,000 a year as a waiter. The restaurant owner said, “I’m cutting your salary by $10,000 so that I can enhance my restaurant with new tables and a flat screen TV in the bar. But don’t worry. Because then we’ll do more business and eventually you’ll make even more money!”

NFL owners might be even more disingenuous than NCAA presidents. They express concerns about the health and welfare of players, yet they’re pushing for an 18-game schedule. Players already wake up five years after their careers and can’t remember what direction the kitchen is – or their legs won’t take them there.

http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/2011/03/03/nfl-lockout-owners-are-nothing-but-pigs-at-the-trough/?cxntfid=blogs_jeff_schultz_blog

OINK OINK OINK!!

[Highlandfire]

Or... you could be a state employee and be told 'you have to pay nearly 6% more toward your retirement, but you only get 90% of what you would have originally received. Oh and we need for you to pay double out of your paycheck what you have been paying for health insurance' and only make 36-45k per year...

fug the rich players.

[Lumps]

Or you could say everyone should join the military and risk getting your nuts blown off for 30k a year and stfu.

[GritsRgreat]

And when you got your six bodies, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig poo, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

Bricktop

[Delhommey]

The "Yeah the owners are probably being deliriously greedy but I'm jealous of how much the players make so I'm siding with the owners" argument is starting to grow on me.

[Happy Panther]

Its becoming more fashionable, certainly

[House]

Or maybe you make $50,000/yr as a waiter, you work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week.

You notice that the owner of the restruant lives in a big house and drives a new Mercedes. You find out that he is making upwards of $150,000/yr.

Well, this can't be fair because everytime you see the owner he is sitting in his office on the computer or the phone while you are busting your ass. So you and all of the other waiters get together and decide that you aren't going to work anymore unless the owner agrees to pay you all $75,0000/yr. That is only half of his salary, right?

The owner, not wanting labor strife, agrees to $60,000/yr. After a few years of this the owner realizes that he is not making any money and after all costs is making less than all of his employees. So the owner comes back and says he wants to cut wages back to $50,000/yr, but will invest money into making the restruant better in hopes to increase tips. You all freak out and say hell no.

So the restruant shuts down for a year, you don't care because you have savings and know that the owner will fold eventually. After a year the restruant opens back up but by now most of the customers have found new restruants and no longer care for your restruant and you end up losing your job all together because business is no longer worth a damn.

[Happy Panther]

The owners opted out of the deal, not the players.

Player salaries are going down not up.

Players will be working more

[Carolina Husker]

Or... you could be a state employee and be told 'you have to pay nearly 6% more toward your retirement, but you only get 90% of what you would have originally received. Oh and we need for you to pay double out of your paycheck what you have been paying for health insurance' and only make 36-45k per year...

fug the rich players.

Perhaps if you were a football player we would care about your personal problems.

[Delhommey]

After a few years of this the owner realizes that he is not making any money

Ha.

Ha ha.

HHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHA

[Jangler]

Time for the caste system in America. Only way to be fair. Just better hope you are born in the top 5% or your f**ked.

[raleigh-panther]

Let's not annoint the owners too quckly here.

Some of this is their own doing. That monstrosity of a stadium in NY and the one in Texas did not need to be built, as examples.

The economy changes, their desire for the bigger houses for their games have not.

The cities hurt the most by the economic downturn suffer and yet the owners have nothing for a rainy day? These are supposedly business men and few of them young, they have lived through multiple recessions and in recessions such as this one, football, is a luxury not a necessity.

The players and owners agreed to a contract. The owners don't like what they agreed to, fine; but, consider, it is already a violent sport, add two more regular season games, and it does not show much concern for their employees, many of whom, could very well become brain trauma patients later in life.

I have many friends out of work, some will never return to even close to what they were making.

As much as I love the NFL, it costs a lot of money, money that I freely chose to spend there. If these owners, all billionaires, can't work together with the players, some who are millionaires and most who aren't, then all of us should just turn off our TVs and find something else to do with our Sundays.

In Carolina, people can sing Richardson's praises all they want, but, the fact is, he allowed a sub-par team to be put on the field last year, and he drives the owner discussions now, which will cause another sub-par team on the field this year if this lockout occurs. My prices don't go down. I must question my own sanity for allowing my hard earned money to go here.

If these owners don't get what is happening to working people in America now, they will go the way of George Bush who didn't know the cost of a loaf of bread when asked at a town hall meeting when he was running for election....and they should.

The goose that laid the golden egg is about to be slaughtered by their hand.

[Brooklyn Bully]

Damn those businessmen for making a profit! Damn them!

If the players don't like it, they can quit. That's what you do when you don't like your boss. Players are not special. Players are not gods. Players deserve nothing special. Players are employees. Nothing more, nothing less. Too bad it's not that simple. Agents, the union, and contracts make the whole thing a mess.

[raleigh-panther]

Owners aren't special either.