Apparently. Or forcing them to take a deal that *only* pays them an average of $3 million per player per year. Of course, $3 million IS the present day value of 40 acres and a mule. Oh wait...the Freedmen's Bureau couldn't actually fulfill that promise.
If only James Madison and John Quincy Adams were still around so they could work tirelessly until AP was freed.
Comments like these make it hard for me to defend the players. Santonio tweeting about how he has bills to pay and mouths to feed doesn't help either. The players will break at some point, no way they're as prepared as the owners to weather this labor storm.
Yeah the players better hope they get what they want out of the courts, because otherwise they're gonna snap like twigs once the checks are supposed to show up and they don't.
...Madison? Really? Madison? Madison falls into the Thomas Jefferson camp of "hold slaves til I die, but come up via letters with some scheme to payoff slaveowners and ship 'em all back to Africa camp.". He was no tireless abolitionist.
Along the same line of thought... Since it's not likely that he'd pick up a book at this point, maybe someone should just sit down with AP and make him watch "Roots."
The players have trouble because they don't save money and spend their money like they'll be making millions for the rest of their lives. That's not everyone, but I'd say a large portion of them. That's why many players are broke years after they finish playing.
It's a pattern. They hire their childhood buddies to be their managers, etc, they buy multiple homes for family members... The NFL already has financial counselors come in and talk to rookies about saving for the future, but my guess is that most of it falls on deaf ears. (Deaf ears adorned with really expensive diamond earrings, actually.)
I'm curious! Did you go to school. Since you don't know the history of the slave trade, keep your mouth shut on the subject, and learn something.
