Football is Back....Now Let's Keep it that way

U.S. Judge Susan Nelson has reached a decision that sort of lifted the 42 day NFL Lockout. The ruling came in Last Monday; and players are allowed into their respective team facilities, but they can't work out or talk to their coaches. The players situation is like visiting a college: They can go and look, but they can't use any of the college's stuff. And the NFL wants to appeal the ruling.

Enough already. The players and owners are playing chicken in cadillacs and royce royals with the money that hard working people pour into their business. Get over yourselves, both of you.

Owners, you are fighting loosing battles against the United States court system and the court of  public opinion. The most recent court ruling, before lifting the lockout, was the 9 billion dollars in TV revenue is to be split between the owners and players. And owners are acting as if not getting all of it is the end of the world.

And players, you are not the victims of an oppressive business. The mean NFL player salary is $770,000 a year. In the real world, that's pretty good. And superstars get paid far more than that. Don't get me started on how Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson compared football to modern day slavery. Peterson makes 10.2 million dollars a year. And he has the guile to say that. It's unthinkable.

 Now, the one thing that both sides can agree on is this: Everybody wants Football to be played in 2011.

The players want to play in order to make money and the owners want the players to play in order to make money. If, by some divine intervention, that Football were not to be played in 2011, everybody looses money. And they can all sit in their respective mansions for the lockout, but both sides will eventually hurt financially.

Here is one piece of advice to both sides. Fans don't care about your posturing, they care about their team's games in 2011. Fans work very hard at their jobs in order to pay your very successful business. A lockout would forever damage the relationship between fans and the sport. Happened with Baseball in 1994 and it took  the great home run chase of 1998 to get fans to care again. So both sides, get off your high horses and play football.