With Chicago deep in Cubs’
hysteria, a little bit of football news got buried inside the Tribune
yesterday. No, it had nothing to do the
Bears’ upset win over the Vikings Monday night.
This was about dollars and cents, the lifeblood of the NFL.
It seems that the city waived
$937,500 in rent for NFL use of downtown parks.
Oh, we couldn’t have Commissioner Goodell pony up all that money; it
might bankrupt his league. Chicago should
be grateful the league allowed it to get all that positive publicity for having
the draft two straight years. I bet
nobody thinks of the city as the murder capital of the U.S anymore. No, they still talk about what a great draft
Chicago puts on.
The good news is that the NFL is
proof positive of reincarnation. P.T.
Barnum is back from the dead, and he’s playing fans for the suckers they
are. Consider the Raiders as they try to
exit Oakland, yet again. Las Vegas is
tripping all over itself to help fund a stadium for the team. The state of Nevada just approved public
financing to the tune of $750 million.
There’s your working definition of a sucker. If Oakland tries to see that giveaway and
raise it a couple hundred million, there’s sucker #2.
And retired NFL players are going
to get how much to deal with the effects of dementia? I forget.
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