You can’t underestimate the lasting impact that the late Steve Sabol had on the NFL.
Sabol, who died Tuesday at 69, was president and co-founder (with his father) of NFL Films, whose depiction of the game is one of the biggest reasons the sport ascended to the top of the American sports landscape, as colleague Chris Gasper eloquently pointed out in his column Friday.
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Wow, interesting Kraft brings up the film. I remember the NFL film on the 1-15 team! I called my friend pumped for football season. "They lost practically every game last year but after watching this NFL production, you'd think they'd won the bleeping Superbowl last year!! You have to see it!" If NFL films can take a 1-15 season and produce it up and get you excited for next year, you do indeed have a Trojan Horse of an investment! Kraft is dead-on: NFL Films is worth a LOT more than any balance sheet will ever properly reflect.
Dude, We all know that you're a toady for management but your attacks on the refs went too far even for you. Your attacks on the refs concerns about the pension are idiotic for multiple reasons. Here are a couple: Whether an employee is worth a benefit is not based on how many other workers in other industries have been screwed out of their pensions. It is based on the value of their work to the enterprise and whether the enterprise can afford the benefit. Here, the refs value is only being made more and more obvious by the shoddy refing being done by the scabs. And, can you seriously argue that the NFL, as it earns billions each year, can not afford the pensions? The fact that garbage collectors don't have the leverage to get the pension that they deserve is beside the point. Your crocidle tears of concern about "american workers" and teachers aside, as far as I am aware, you have never shown public support for them except as a tool by which to attack anyone in opposition to your masters running the NFL. You hew to the familiar line of doing nothing while American workers loose their wages and benefits. Then attackingt those whose still have relatively good salaries and benefits by comparing them to those who do not have the leverage to protect their wages. Why haven't you ever attacked Kraft or Belecik's salary by comparing their salaries to those of teachers? Try sticking to actuall football issues where you have enough trouble figuring out what your bosses at the NFL want you to parrot for them. By the way, if you "can't underestimate the lasting impact that the late Steve Sabol had on the NFL" then why do you spend 1/3 of your column talking about how lasting his impact is? Perhaps you should spend more time in a remedial reading course and less time spouting off on labor issues.