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Cheesehead
Just heard Drew Brees on Mike and Mike show this morning. It's time for the fans to finally wake up and be the force putting pressure on the owners and players to get a deal done.
Both sides are playing us like an accordian.
We are the customers. They aren't.
When I say this, keep in mind I side with the players. Brees made the point the owners brought this fight to the players with league revenues increasing 8 percent each year. This is a pure case of trying to bust the union and on top of that, grab more money to pay off some bad decisions the owners made in the past.
The reality is both sides think that no matter what, the fans will come back.
What if we don't? What if we make it CLEAR that we won't?
This lockout is playing the customer--the fans--for fools. I'm not, and I hope you aren't either.
How do we do this? Fairly easy. We start writing emails in increasing numbers to the team offices that each day the lockout continues, we will reduce our chances of buying ANYTHING from the NFL: tickets, memorabelia, even watching games whenever they start. We will become season ticket holders for the UFL...or perhaps start a competing league where ALL the teams are based on the Green Bay model, no owners, just fans in charge.
Congress will not move to help this situation, and the ONLY pressure that will work is when the customers say ENOUGH of the litigation! Enough of the namecalling! A deal in place by July 1 or we are gone, for good!
If you agree with me, cut and paste this and send it around.
If you disagree with me, then know you didn't do anything to move the situation to a resolution and you lilke being played like an accordian.
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Both sides are playing us like an accordian.
We are the customers. They aren't.
When I say this, keep in mind I side with the players. Brees made the point the owners brought this fight to the players with league revenues increasing 8 percent each year. This is a pure case of trying to bust the union and on top of that, grab more money to pay off some bad decisions the owners made in the past.
The reality is both sides think that no matter what, the fans will come back.
What if we don't? What if we make it CLEAR that we won't?
This lockout is playing the customer--the fans--for fools. I'm not, and I hope you aren't either.
How do we do this? Fairly easy. We start writing emails in increasing numbers to the team offices that each day the lockout continues, we will reduce our chances of buying ANYTHING from the NFL: tickets, memorabelia, even watching games whenever they start. We will become season ticket holders for the UFL...or perhaps start a competing league where ALL the teams are based on the Green Bay model, no owners, just fans in charge.
Congress will not move to help this situation, and the ONLY pressure that will work is when the customers say ENOUGH of the litigation! Enough of the namecalling! A deal in place by July 1 or we are gone, for good!
If you agree with me, cut and paste this and send it around.
If you disagree with me, then know you didn't do anything to move the situation to a resolution and you lilke being played like an accordian.
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