The NFL lockout must have been a strenuous affair over the last four or five months. Just look at New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft's face (above middle) after the lockout was officially announced as "done." He's hugging Jeff Saturday of the Indianapolis Colts.
However, as a Patriots fan for many years, I do not condone a Patriot and a Colt embracing. Just within a year, the two teams were punching each other in the mouth. You would not see Peyton Manning and Tom Brady holding each other. Ever. But, Kraft's wife did pass away from cancer recently, so I guess a Colt just happened to be standing next to Kraft in that time of need.
But still. Colts hugging Patriots. Can not happen. This is the type of damage a lockout over $9 billion a year does.
That's a lot of fucking money. It's about $9 billion more than I have to my name. I need to start working for the NFL. Now.
Owners made out with a slight majority of the overall revenue –– getting 53 percent to the players' 47 percent; but the old deal was 50-50. This makes no sense. Cutting it down the middle is way more fair because these players are risking bodily harm. Owners are sitting in sky boxes, eating shrimp cocktail, and signing their names almost at will.
But, the biggest relief is just getting football back together. America wouldn't have made it through the fall without NFL football. Quickly, every NFL city would start massive revolts that consisted of roasting their mayor over fire. Gastric amounts of HD Plasma televisions would be smashed and all piled up in front of NFL headquarters. Roger Goodell would have to remain in hiding for fear of being assassinated. You think I'm crazy? This shit would happen.
I don't care if the revenue ratio was settled at 70 percent for the owners. Football would have been played. The American government did not want to deal with another terrorist attack, this time from a distraught Bills fan who was absolutely sick of having to sit through another losing season.
Hallelujah. Football is back. Armageddon averted. Go New England.
