Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas
Sunday, March 12, 2006
A few questions:
Why can't baseball make Barry Bonds go away as quickly as the NFL did its labor dispute?
Just when this new agreement brought locker room harmony to Valley Ranch, why did those Terrell Owens-signing-with-the-Cowboys rumors have to start?
Can't we just give peace a chance?
Did you notice that while NFL owners retained their cost-certainty, and their salary cap, there was no mention of a price ceiling on such items as tickets, beer, popcorn, etc.?
Since the players are now going to be making more money, have you suddenly realized the owners won't be paying for any of that?
Do you think an owner such as Jerry Jones will pass that cost along to (a) the fans, (b) Rowdy, (c) Dale Hansen?
Is this a question on the Wonderlic test?
No, but if you didn't answer (a), do you think you're smart enough to play quarterback in the NFL?
Why does the NFL, with this new agreement, continue to reward lazy, cheap, incompetent owners?
Whatever you think about Jerry, wouldn't you agree he's not lazy and he's not cheap?
Did you notice I failed to mention "incompetent?"
But that would have made the question a lot harder, right?
Do you realize that due to TV revenue it's impossible for an NFL team to lose money?
Even the
Hard to believe, huh?
Did political pressure force the boat people from
Or did they think there was more money to be made by attempting to buy the Arizona Cardinals?
Nothing against Paul Tagliabue, but why is he suddenly being praised for his work as NFL commissioner?
Isn't this a push-button league due to TV revenue and what had been, until lately, a weak players' union?
Wouldn't you love to see Tagliabue as the baseball commissioner?
Could he last five minutes in that job?
If they switched jobs, and Bud Selig was commissioner of the NFL, why wouldn't he now have the same reputation as Tags?
Wanna bet that he would?
If Tags has done such a great job, how come the NFL doesn't have a team in LA?
Isn't that the second largest media market in the country?
And you're telling me the NFL can't put one team in there, while baseball has two, the NBA has two and the NHL has one?
Does it make sense to have a team in
Would baseball owners fire a commissioner who couldn't make a deal to put a team in LA?
Or fire a commissioner who awarded extra home games to a
As opposed to the NFL, don't "real men" own baseball teams?
Why?
If I only answered the players' union, no salary cap, plus George Steinbrenner, would that be enough to convince you?
Isn't it strange, however, that over the last five years baseball has been more about championship and playoff parity than even the NFL?
Doesn't that go to show that owners who are committed and who put the right people in place are more likely to be rewarded, salary cap or not?
The NFL is an ownership retirement home for the lazy, cheap and incompetent, but do those fools have any more success than when real football was being played in the NFL?
You understand here that I'm talking about the pre-salary cap days, right?
Is it OK if I still hate the salary cap and what it's done to the NFL's standard of play?
Can I give some credit here to Gene Upshaw?
After all these years as the NFL players' union chieftain, don't you like the way he suddenly answered the "hip-pocket puppet" label?
Can we all agree that Upshaw cut a "mean mother" of a deal for the players?
But was that just me laughing when I heard Jerry Jones call it that?
Jerry, you never met Marvin Miller, did you?
(Marvin was the longtime executive director of the baseball players' union.)
As someone who knows both, wonder if it would insult Jerry if I told him Mr. Miller would have taken off both ears and the tail if those two had ever hooked up in labor negotiations?
Jerry is good, but when it's good vs. The Real Mean Mother, which side are you betting on?
Speaking of betting, does this new NFL labor agreement include a nice cut for bookmakers and
Where would the NFL be without its gambling appeal?
Is Jerry Jones cursing the timing of this new labor agreement? Got a new stadium going up in
Someone must pay, right?
As previously mentioned, the answer is (a).
Randy Galloway's Galloway & Co. can be heard weekdays 3-6 p.m. on ESPN/103.3 FM.
Randy Galloway, (817) 390-7760 rgalloway@star-telegram.com
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