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Originally Posted by Tuckdaddy
So if you were the CEO of a billion dollar corporation and you wanted to speak to an employee about an issue that was reported, it would be o.k. with you for the employee to say no? No business is ran that way.
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Unionized businesses are something entirely different. I also note that the NFL is not the employer of any NFL player. Each club is a separate corporation which employs its players. The NFL is the organization that governs everything.
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Players need to stop thinking of themselves as some type of equal partners in the league. They are not. Owners are like ranch owners, Goodell is the foreman and players are the cattle.
When the foreman says I need to talk to you then you go and have a talk or get out of business. End of story.
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Sure, that is the way the league is run. That is how all professional sports franchises were run years ago, but the players thought they had some rights under the CBA. They learned the hard way that they do not -- at least not when it comes to discipline.
If your philosophy is to be perfectly ok with, say, Justin Houston being barred from teh NFL for life because he refused to speak with the Commissioner about some allegation that someone made in some newspaper anywhere without any other evidence at all, then yes, you're fine with the NFL as currently constituted.
I might be too, frankly, if the Commissioner didn't decide what he did on disciplinary matters based on which side of the bed he rolled out of, combined with a finger-in-the-air public opinion poll on any given issue.
But sure, yes, if you like the Kenesaw Mountain Landis approach, you're good with all this.