All hail Keith!
There is no bigger pain in the ass (from what almost everybody says), and there is no better reporter anywhere in any field at any price.
The NFL recently agreed to pay $765M to be paid out to 4500 guys over a 17-year period. As others have said, it sounds right decent, but... a little math (the kind that's simple enough even for me to understand) shows just how big this particular bamboozle really is.
The league made some $9.5 Billion last year - BILLION. If that number stays static over the 17-year lifetime of the deal (and we all know it's a lot more likely to go up rather than stay the same or go down), the total "cost" to the owners is less than one half of one percent of league revenue.
But of course, we can always count on some Press Poodle - who in this case owes his living to the NFL - to come up with some good PR Fluffery (in the form of sneering mockery which has become the prevailing journalistic style of Corporate Attack Dog Media).
Enter Pete Prisco at CBS Sports:
Here's Keith taking Mr Prisco down:
Nobody does it better. Welcome back, Mr Olbermann - we've missed you.
There is no bigger pain in the ass (from what almost everybody says), and there is no better reporter anywhere in any field at any price.
The NFL recently agreed to pay $765M to be paid out to 4500 guys over a 17-year period. As others have said, it sounds right decent, but... a little math (the kind that's simple enough even for me to understand) shows just how big this particular bamboozle really is.
The league made some $9.5 Billion last year - BILLION. If that number stays static over the 17-year lifetime of the deal (and we all know it's a lot more likely to go up rather than stay the same or go down), the total "cost" to the owners is less than one half of one percent of league revenue.
But of course, we can always count on some Press Poodle - who in this case owes his living to the NFL - to come up with some good PR Fluffery (in the form of sneering mockery which has become the prevailing journalistic style of Corporate Attack Dog Media).
Enter Pete Prisco at CBS Sports:
I just got off the phone with my attorney. Why?
I had a concussion playing 115-pound football and another in high school. Back then -- not leather helmet days but close -- they just called it getting your bell rung and stuck some nasty crap in front of your nose, and told you to go back into the game.
So I am suing.
Why not? I might get an extra $100,000 or so for my bank account. The precedent has been set. The NFL settled Thursday with a group of players filing concussion lawsuits to the tune of $765 million. So why not go after the high schools? Pop Warner? Colleges? And maybe even those two-hand touch games set up by our dads?So, are you saying your coaches didn't know about the dangers of head injuries? And that we should pretend it's still 1965 and make all of our health and safety decisions based on what we didn't fucking know 50 years ago? Or are we finally unmasking your deep-seated fear that maybe your daddy didn't really give a fuck about you?
Here's Keith taking Mr Prisco down:
Nobody does it better. Welcome back, Mr Olbermann - we've missed you.
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