Murray Wood: Who's hot and who's not
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You won’t get any complaints from me about having more football.
The NFL Players Association barely passed a 10-year agreement with the league that opens the door for a 17-game regular season and two more playoff teams.
While the league looks a bit hypocritical by promising player safety and then adding an extra game to each team’s schedule, it was the players who agreed to it. Why? Money talks.
The players got a bigger piece of the pie. The money for lower-end players goes up and they get more jobs for players.
Oh, and they have two teams who get another playoff cheque.
The owners over the course of 10 years know they will come out on top. That’s why the players, especially the top-end guys, aren’t too fond of this new agreement.
But we’re not the owners or the players. We’re the fans.
You get an extra week of football and another shot for your team to get into the playoffs. For fantasy football fans, it’s another added week of playing armchair general manager.
And 10 years of labour peace for a sports league is another sensational win for fans tired of collective bargaining.
