Why? The players agreed to play for what they were paid. Most players had a degree or some college, they could have had a different job than playing football.
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And some of them were not able to perform basic tasks to hold a job because of injuries.
The ENTIRE life of an NFL player.
Well, choosing to play football for one of the most profitable businesses around should not mean that you become a homeless bumb when your employments causes you a severe injury. At least not in my opinion.
I don't care how profitable a business is, a person chooses what they are going to do for a living. If the job doesn't offer insurance and retirement and you can't deal with that. Don't work for them.
I gotcha. Anything that can be done to protect the billionaires from those evil poor people kind of plan.
What I am saying is that the employer, the NFL in this case, should go ahead and spare a gallon of gas from their yachts and take better care of the people who the used to get those yachts. Maybe just temper the greed a little bit.
It's just hard for me to feel sorry for someone who gets paid to play a game. You don't see people in an uproar for West Virginia miners who were underpaid for decades and then died of black lung. Ok, I'll revise that a little, I'm sure there are probably groups somewhere working for the miners, but they don't get the press that ex-NFL players get.
I think the problem that some of us have HH is your use of the word "owe"...I don't think a person in the area would disagree that it would be a great gesture for the owners to follow suit in some way with the gesture made by Turley and others. However to imply that they "owe" the x-NFL players something implies that they promised them something that isn't being delivered. The x-NFL players agreed to a level of pay and benefits when they played that was appropriate for the times, and their own union has continued to negotiate for todays players rather than negotiate benefits for the x-NFL players. The analogy of mine workers in W Virginia is a perfect analogy, unfortunately if Jim-Bob drops a weeks paycheck to pay for the X-mine workers medical bills it isn't going to go very far!!!