From
where I sit it looks like the NHL is trying to break some knuckles...
I
really don't understand the logic of making players keep their
helmets on during fights. How is this going to protect the players
when visors are being grandfathered in? I believe they are trying to
protect against concussions. Which is fair enough. But then create
break-away visors. Until it's fully outlawed, and that will never
happen, there will be fights in hockey. Helmets are not concussion proof. Hit your head hard
enough and you will get a concussion. It's fairly straight forward.
Players are well aware of the risks associated with fighting. There
are less pure goons left in the league. If they can't play a regular
shift, they won't make the NHL. So, as long as fighting is part of
the game, why are players being put at a secondary, unnecessary risk
of injury? Is this a way for the league to keep fighters off the
ice? A not-so-subtle way to appease the whiners who want fighting
abolished? In response to that I quote the great
Conn Smythe, “We're going to have to do something about all this
violence or people are going to keep buying tickets.”
I
recently complained about hockey tickets...now I want to take aim atthe NFL.
via espn.go.com
Naturally,
Super Bowl tickets are going up. I will give them some credit for
lowering the price on 'cheap' seats to $500. However, their excuse
of wanting to cut off the scalpers, rings quite hollow. The Super
Bowl is hugely profitable. It's the biggest annual sports show in
the world. But they could make huge amounts of money and give
tickets away for free. So, what's the real motivation behind the
increase? Greed. Plain and simple. As long as people are willing
to pay the asking price upfront the NFL will just keep upping the
cost. I don't blame them for it at all. However, don't piss in my
ear and tell me it's raining. You want to make more money. It's got
nothing to do with cutting out the scalpers. It has to do with you
wanting a piece of the action. And the NFL wants to get as much of
that action as they can.
At
least that's how I see it...and I sit in the cheap seats.
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