What’s
not to like about the National Football League, what with new Buffalo Bills
coach Rex Ryan declaring at his first news conference, “We’re going to build a
bully, and we’re going to see if you want to play with us for sixty
minutes”? Talk about keeping your
word. The Bills have gone out and signed
offensive lineman Richie Incognito, he of the bullying tendencies and 2013
eight-game suspension. (In the NFL, bad
words come before actions.)
Meanwhile,
the Rams are trying to extort a new stadium out of St. Louis because the team
is stuck in a facility already twenty years old; rumor has the Rams wants to
move back to southern California, from whence they came in 1995. Only Roger Goodell has made it clear to
owners that franchise relocation is a league, not a team, decision.
Gosh,
isn’t that what used to be called “restraint of trade,” in violation of the Sherman
Anti-Trust Act?
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