Move over unionized workers that are losing your collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin. Your protests are petty quibbles and quarrels compared to what is going on elsewhere.
A new collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the Players Association was not reached last week, and now the players are suing the league. And the league is responding by threatening a lockout.
This is something that affects all of America, not just kids needing an education in Wisconsin, which face it, isn't going to help them that much anyway for their future careers in the booming packing or hunting industries.
So, with the terror instilled by facing a year without an NFL season—much worse than a year without a Santa Claus–Adrian Peterson decided to make a remarkable statement.
"It's modern-day slavery, you know?"
I couldn't agree more with Mr. Peterson. This situation is the perfect example for modern-day slavery.
Now, some of you might think AD's, (not Adrian Peterson's, that's his slave name) comment is ridiculous just because he makes about 11 Million Dollars a year. But so what?
The thing is, It's all relative. Like Albert Einstein said, "Slavery is a relative phenomenon." If your unathtletic, white owner is making some 25%-50% more for sitting around and playing Farmville with a football team than your enormously supplemented muscles and freak of nature physique is for participating in a deathsport, then that's slavery or at least indentured servitude.
I mean, hey, that's why they called it the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's and not the Slave Rights Movement. They weren't slaves, relative to others. They were rolling in the deep back then.
And that relative amount of income is why women can still mostly be considered property.
Look, as far as I'm concerned, the NFL logo is on par with the Confederate Flag. The same goes for any team-licensed apparel. Waving a Terrible Towel or wearing a Cheesehead pretty much certifies you as a slave master in my book.
I mean, who's going to refuse to give up their seat on the front of the Jerome Bettis to get some equal rights around here?
It's time to start harboring these poor, victimized fugitives from their oppressive masters. I for one have decided to use my apartment as a place to provide a warm meal, a place to sleep, and safe passage for any of these abused and degraded refugees (and maybe ask them for an autograph, which I'm sure they'll charge me for, especially if they are college athletes) that are trying to get somewhere where they won't be so badly mistreated. We'll be singing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot all night. Just remember, follow the drinking gourd, AD.
I just fear for the day when the NFL will rise again.
