blacksaint

I may be mistaken here, but I thought I heard somewhere that players from the pre-modern era decided not to defer contract money toward the future, and take all their money upfront, basically signing away a lot of their benefits that they would have received today, or something to that effect. Like I said I might be mistaken, but if that is the case, why make a big deal about it now, I know nobody in those days could have ever imagine that the NFL would grow into the financial beast that it is. Now, I not saying they don't deserve something, but to make it sound like the NFL leaves them in the cold is not fair, they do get help for hospital bills, mortgages, and different things like that, again I'm not saying that the NFL shouldn't restructure their benefits package, but to to take all your money upfront do whatever it was you did, and now see the money that modern players make, and say we should be getting a bigger piece of the pie, I just see a little something wrong with that. True those players built a foundation for the league, but they had nothing to do with the success the league has built since the early 90's to this day. The NFL's popularity wasn't built on the success of the players from the 40, 50, and 60's, but from the players from the 80, 90, and the 2000's, now the players from the pre-modern era wants to look at the modern era players as selfish, but make no bones about it, nobody gave the modern player nothing, they had to earn it. The NFL is not worth $7 BILLION dollars because of Pre-era players, the leagues popularity in all earnest was solidified in the 70's, with the Steeler dynasty, America's team the Cowboys, the high flying antics of the San Diego Suuuper Charrrgers, and the nasty boys of Oakland, along with others. Then the 80's came along to add a little flavor to the plate and increase the individual identity of the league with the emergence of players such as Walter Payton, Tony Dorsett, Earl Campbell, Joe Montana, Dan Marino, John Elway, Jerry Rice, and a host of other players who made the game a more marketable product. Then the 90's players and the new millennium players with their larger than life personalities basically blew the doors off of the henge's as for as marketing is concerned, these guys came along and made the NFL the most popular sport in this country by a landslide. Now yes the players from the past deserves a better disability plan, but to say they're the reason the game is the way it is today is ludacris and insane at best, they're just the guys who played the game at their time and the guys who came after them are just the ones who played at their times. When the pre-era guys received their pay checks at that time were able to live the good life in those economic times. Is the NFL responsible for the evolution of the economy? No, they're not. Are they responsible for the players in that era spending their money whichever way they did and not investing in their own future? No they're not. I think it's irresponsible to make the NFL and the Players Union of today the bad guy in all this, it's the contracts that they all agreed upon at that time. And as far as the Congress is concerned I personally know of a bunch of veterans who fought in the military in the past who need their situation looked into, but Congress is to busy looking into steroids in the MLB, dog fighting, and now the NFL. Yo Congress, these vets can't even survive day to day without the help of civilians living in their own communities, these vets are homeless, starving, and barely getting by on their disability plan, why I don't see Congress gathering under special circumstances to deal with those issues. PRIORITIES, PRIORITIES, PRIORITIES.

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