How to play this off-season with free agency?

[Walt White]

Originally Posted by bringbackmarty

Jones is most definitely coming back on a fat backloaded deal with signifcicant performance escalators and a decent bonus the first couple of years, If they do mahomes early - jones gets the tag. My prediction, we sign Jones to a five year deal worth 70 mil guaranteed, if he makes it to year five and collects all the bonuses its worth close to $130,000,000. We get to the next cba and sign Mahomes for an 7 year 40+ mil a year contract worth over 300 million dollars with incentives - more than half of which is guaranteed. It's too much money for a goddamned superbowl championship. We pay these guys too much money to play a stupid game, all that money could be going to cure cancer, fix the environment, feed people who don't have enough to eat, help those with mental illness, explore space, fix the roads, the schools or grow food. When it comes to this football shit, we are being pretty ****ing stupid. Maybe now that we won one we as chief consumers should demand lower prices for our fandom and the nfl investing in the health safety and future of the country instead of the pockets of guys who can play football good for a few years. I love the sport, I love our team, but I love America and all of her people more. These contracts, the idiotic speeches, all this other bullshit can go **** itself.

You realize that makes no logical sense right? This is a game, but it is a business. All the money that funnels into that revolves around this form of entertainment. And there are tons of people that make their living from the NFL or talking about the NFL. And the more money in the hands of people, the more they have to help others. And everyone that earns their money, they have a right to do with it what they want anyway.

And guess what, all those problems you listed, throwing money at the problem won't fix them. Because if they did, it would have been done by now. People continually give to help the poor and cure illness. There is a deeper rooted issue of why it isn't fixed. Get mad at governments or big industry that halts the progress of cures for their own gain.

I'd actually argue that the NFL and other sports actually help the aid of the world's problems. Not just bringing people together and hope and all the intangible things that are most important. But they often raise awareness way beyond the scale of most with the platform they are on. Because of money. And all the millionaires related to the game that earned their money are often very charitable.

But yeah, go ahead and don't buy NFL products or watch games if you want. It is your money.