Arbitrator who decided on Owens case to be dismissed by NFLPA

[TrueBeliever]

Originally Posted by Vlad Logicslav

Not to be contrary but I think the NFLPA should win this thing. It is not right a mans livelihood can be taken away just because he has a big mouth. In any other profession, he could move to another employer after termination so long as they would hire him.

I must agree with all the disagreements to this post.

First of all, as has been mentioned, T.O. is not exactly going to be living on food stamps from this point on. Even after the suspension, he is still going to get a check for about $1 million for the remaining five games of the season. As someone who was forced to quit his job in September and who has not been able to find full-time work since, I am sick and ****ing tired of pro athletes pissing and moaning that they can't "feed their families" when they make more in one year than most of us will ever see in a lifetime of working our a**es off.

Further, you can't just "move on to another employer in any other profession." Take what happened to a friend of mine. She interviewed for a job, got invited back for a second interview, nailed it, everyone seemed to like her, she liked them, it looked like a done deal. Then she didn't get it. A while later she ran into one of the people who had interviewed her - turned out the guy would have been her boss played golf with a guy who knew a guy, who knew a guy, who knew a guy who worked with her at her old job and had heard her say something mildly derogatory about that job. These people worked in different cities - there was no reason to think they would ever have known each other.

And then T.O. goes on national TV and pisses and moans about how the Eagles are "classless" and "don't pay him what he's worth", but the Eagles are being cruel and evil by not letting him work somewhere else, even though he'll still get $1 million to sit around his house not doing a damn thing. Give me a break. If he's got it so bad, why doesn't he go and work somewhere else? Let's see how he likes stocking shelves at Wal-Mart.