Because football sells itself as America's sport and the people running football -- as they make up new rules to exploit their leverage over everyone and everything -- embody exactly the sort of greed and arrogance that's slowly chipping away at America, in general. And just like in America, they're pretty much getting away with it because we're all too busy or confused to care. Plus, at this point, greed and arrogance seems synonymous with any major success in American business, so really why should we waste our energy getting upset about it here? This cloud of confusion and cynicism follows pretty much every controversy involving Roger Goodell these days.
Goodell and his cronies are now being sued by the NFLPA for collusion during the supposedly uncapped 2010 season. Yesterday I suggested that it's precisely this sort of arrogance that is keeping Tom Benson from just paying Drew Brees what he's worth on the NFL market. This just reinforces such suspicion.
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