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latinos didn't watch sixty minutes this weekend
and see what president obama had to say and see how met ron he was going to
rationalize his uh... fifteen percent tax rate
and uh... you know whether you had anything to say about health care beyond
well if they can show up at the mercy room
that liking it passed through the wreckage of the divers room
on but uh... when i turn to c_b_s_ what was on but big league football the
n_f_l_ was on
meets and i when i met one-on-one on that one on that one gone now
tears up that there was a reason
so uh... uh... what's a or fourth estate zeran who it knows about this stuff
knows a lot about the stuff
uh... the uh... edge of sports dot com actually is days once a's the sports
editor for the nation magazine
uh... nation donation dot com as well added welcome at the program
by great to be here com
so while since we've talked
uh... it what's the deal here why are these football games taken so long
we can give
gab official who they are our politely called on the broadcast replacement
referees
but he's fallout from a dig that believe the prey that you pay
when you have a on skilled lousy um... untrained gavel labor in a union
workplace and its so bad and probably will appreciate this soviet people like
scott walker governor locker and paul ryan asking him to speak and then he
looked weak that they wanted to union reps to get back to work which is
amazing on one level
but on the other hand i think it has sets at home what about those to
manifest when scott walker
that they don't want skilled union labor in the classroom for putting out our
pryor's but they were really do need to monarch football field
yeah it's it's really quite remarkable it's it's it's rather certainly so where
does this all began at the start
well that's all started with the n_f_l_ owners who are about it
cockpit edit and i truly did a group of one percent of beer finding a cure
united states and that i know that saying something
uh... the network mit romney seem like a a man of the people
any of these guys have operated from the perspective of work in a lockout these
referees why they cannot come out because of their contract ended and the
owners decided that they had no right to their pensions
uh... for for as long as there been an appellate brief it at a pension plan
dealers said no from now on the way you have a four oh one k_ the referees said
well why is that the case uh... we've we've always cabbage pension plan in the
week is never done better economically why would you take that away from us
and the dealer said well we're not gonna negotiate with you on this question
sailors mostly settled because we can
exactly because we can't afford a walk
out and that's uh... a very important point the lockout it's not a strike at
the lockout and the owners of walked out the referees
just like to be owners walked out the players last year just like n_b_a_
owners locked out their players last year and just like national hockey
league owners locked out their players locked up are locking up their players
right now
and would all be blacked out to have in common
it became a law firm hired execute blocked out in became lead negotiator
correct hitting the blackout
this is about up conscious
slash and burn waiver management strategy but in the world of sports
and uh... in slash emer with regard to labor this is snow z even enhance even
hitting the players
that is just a an anecdotal question dave 'em
my understanding is that
uh... the green bay packers are owned by their fans
but other than that if you wanna on a football team you've got to basically be
a rich guy
enacted terrorist act
but they approve a credit at the very top of the yet that two billion dollars
of disposable income
um... if you want to be able to own a king and that's actually pretty much
change to bury my heart is that
that they've been but being a car
the owner who saw the sports franchise as their family business
are one part of that that the trolley
uh... those pierre thuot
doctors done at the byu acrylic napster
um... it now is a picture of you know in a row keen usually you've made billions
of dollars in another economic sector usually the financial sector and in
these are folks who are out for the kill and thereafter seepz andheri
really cute
see i walked out to entertain very very respectable
uh... labor management strategy because they're not used to losing
it's like a sitcom why are they doing this because they can so this is
basically they're doing the right the bane
being uh... capitol st sample
you know that they're basil it is going in and saying how do we screw the most
money out of the workers and keep it for ourselves
and that's how they keep score and the thing about it but the most egregious as
you mentioned the players before
this is the part that some of that that people really need to get their heads
around
but at the end of product ans
so much the n_f_l_ owners have done so much to project the idea
that they're very concerned about the health and safety
uh... players could just be ownership skate thirty million dollars n_i_h_ to
study the long-term effects of brain injuries
other people ought to be a lot of two thousand former n_f_l_ players including
hall of fame urs art monk
and grease met instead at the n_f_l_ knowingly put them in harm's way
with regard to head injuries and now here are the n_f_l_ is actually risking
the help of players
by taking the referees who are trained who go to comprehensive training to
identify concussion came to know when to get emergency medical personnel on the
field
and they have removed them off
from the field for a group of people
whose best refereeing experience involve enterprises like
the launcher a football league
and i wish i was seriously
the lingerie football league ref several a referee national games now
uh... they're dot that they were just college football guys you know pete is
because one of these one of these rats in the date do you know bolo wrong call
and they were using college football standards instead of n_f_l_ standards
within a
yet but there is not what it could be seen one level college football rest
uh... who crossed blackout picket line
and it out there on the peace so they don't have even the cream of the crop of
the college football guys they've got the b_ the b team in the seating
ended ppm india him but it's really be a inaugurated
animalistic but polly and and dot also other people have experienced involved
in r_d_
one of the referees is actually a former
professional poker player and if you know anything about the n_f_l_'s
wariness about the in any way shape or form connected to gambling
uh... you know how that bigger is better deluded such serious ruled out any
connection to that world in las vegas collective mar the integrity of the game
but take years
so many fans talk about this in by the way i a million sweeps per cent
in the immediate aftermath of the game last night commenting on what just took
place
hats and
period is incredible if you compare that opec nine million three percent about
the democratic national convention
over the course of entire week
bugatti owned and n_f_l_ football polls more viewers than pretty much any else
on t_v_ so there's a certain logic to that you would think that
you know in a way
is the referees for a football game are not unlike the judges in the jury system
and the police officers
in a democracy i mean the the the the the the ones who
in force the rules maintain the rules in force the rules
and you would think that
you know just like in our democracy we would want those people to be
well-trained well-paid and impartial
uh... that you would want to end and the very best and we don't tragically have
it i i've i've always said when when we start paying our concert teachers do the
same as we cheat is repaired doctors were no much better society
he think that the uh... fell we want to have their routes and in their the ones
who are making the teamwork their lubricating the game having flows
through them
you want them to be the very best
and the work that were not even talking about that much money commonly missus
so much more about geology dated about of the financial bottom line
uh... it it's been calculated that they could settled its right now the n_f_l_
owners
at the cockpit sixty feet sixty two thousand dollars per team per week
that's basically what it and on on parking
uh... if he had any make one parking in a given week
a typical team in sixty thousand dollars at it
peanut
that it's money between the cushion with garlic oregano concession
kathleen and at the end of european about blacks in football team you know
that they were caught selling peanuts from
independent airlines which went out of business they bought all their old
peanuts and selling them
it's ad-libbing capital model is the editor big capital markets into anything
a vacuum the content of our pocket
but what they're doing if they're endangering their players in the future
and that's very unfair courteous believe amazing stateside
yeah desire like a firecracker look at the thing of design thanks so much for
being with us state and uh... major sports dot com you can check it out
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