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Originally Posted by Amnorix
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.
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.
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It has nothing to do with what I'm good with, it's the way it is in large corporations and if the players thought the CBA was good for them or they had rights then they didn't read it. Employees are not allowed to just do whatever they want.
Lets not forget the owners fought for their CEO to have all the say in these matters. Kraft included. If your top dog that is charged with assuring the product is made with quality, like Roger is, wants to speak with you then you go and speak with them. That is in any corporation. Players like your boy and apparently other players have the attitude of "How dare he give me any demands" "I am the man". If they don't like it then they can quit and stop whining about it like little kids. They signed it and now want to complain like babies.
Roger is above them in the corporation. He is quality control and they have no choice but to comply with what he says. That is it. Brady and AP found out the hard way.