NFL fans will know that a strike threatens the 2011-12 season. Many won’t care, but I’m in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and on opening day, that orb had better be carried, passed and kicked! Players want to train and practice, and owners want to lock them out. The owners found a court so Republican that they would rule for the billionaires over the millionaires. Damn Republicans!
Monday evening’s court ruling indicates that the NFL finally might have found what it wants after years of resounding defeats in the nation’s courts: a business-friendly panel of appellate judges who can help the league turn the tables on players in the legal dispute that threatens the 2011 season.
Players’ hopes of returning to work immediately were extinguished when the Midwestern appellate judges blocked a lower court’s order to end football’s shutdown, virtually ensuring that players will remain on the sideline at least into the summer. And the judges all but scoffed at some of the players’ arguments, suggesting they might not fare well when the panel considers the overall legality of the lockout next month.
The NFL has long believed it could score with an appeals court that covers mostly red states in the nation’s heartland and whose most liberal members, attorneys say, would be considered moderate on other circuits… [emphasis added]
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Now, it’s bad enough for Republicans to crash the economy, rig elections, ignore the Constitution, interfere with human rights, fully support racists, wage class war against the poor and middle classes, try to privatize social security, try to destroy Medicare and Medicaid, and commit all manner of vile Teabuggery! That’s all horrible, but now they are interfering with my football!
This Means War!
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Well– I have great sympathy for you folks—but football is not my cuppa tea—so no excitement here–
I hope you got a laugh out of it.