RIP Dave Duerson

Love to know what it was like to cover that team. My NFL-following experience only dates back to the mid-70s but I cannot recall a team with as many oversized personalities and/or quotable players and coaches as the '85 Bears.

The mid-90s Cowboys might be close but I don't know if any single one of those teams had a list that matched this.

Ditka
Ryan
Payton
McMahon
Dent
Hampton
McMichael
Singletary
Perry
Fencik
Marshall

Hell, even Kevin Butler was a character.

 

There will be no "ploys" in the NFL CBA talks.

The owners are going to bust the NFLPA to bits and impose the settlement THEY want. They are going for unconditional victory. The players won't get shit.

 

This from the guy who thinks the same thing will happen the next time MLB has labor negotiations.

 

Sorry. This is getting way off topic. There is a hell of a lot about Duerson worth discussing.

But really, you slept through the last 40 years or so of negotiations between the owners and players in MLB, didn't you?

 

What Starman means, oop, is that owners are white, and thus bad. They're all racists who are indenturing minorities.

 

I don't really have a problem with that.

 

To get back to Duerson, the owners don't give a shit about brain injuries, and won't spend 10 cents doing anything about them.

 

Football is going to become boxing.

Poor minorities killing each other for our amusement.

 

The NFL is way too powerful a corporate entity for this to ever happen. I know you said "football", not "NFL", but football won't turn into a marginal clown show like boxing. There's just too much money in it and it's too deeply rooted in the economies of, well, everybody.

That said, as much as I love, love, love football, I'm increasingly leaning toward encouraging my young nephews to pursue other sports, just for their own welfare. If I had heard somebody say that 10 years ago, my reaction would have been, "That's pussy." Not anymore.

 

Seriously?

 

Yea. I am serious.

 

Wow. A guy shot himself in the heart. Does anyone seriously think it was in any way related to the NFL labor talks??