Pro Owners In The NBA, Pro Players In The NFL!

Listen, I’m for the owners in the NBA because 22 teams are apparently not making money, Bashir your Lakers are doing just fine! But when it comes to the NFL, I tend to side with the players because even if everybody thinks that the players are greedy and the rookie payscale – only about 6 rookies make really really huge money in the draft, everybody after that is worth what you pay them if they come in and make an impact, yeah 1^st round guys are paid a bit too much what they get paid but you can argue that everyone past the 3^rd round is paid too little and they are locked into a contract for 3 or 4 years – it may be the only contract they ever get!

Green Bay Packers have plenty of guys who didn’t even get drafted – they’re being paid nothing! So, for everybody who thinks that in the NFL draft, everybody is getting rich…No, there’s about 6 guys at the top who are getting rich and making a ton of money and about 50% of them earning their money and 50% don’t, it’s up to you as an organization to draft better.

By the way, the Raiders draft poorly and they’ve been burned twice in the last five years in the top 5 or 6 picks, the Patriots trade out of that position. But there are also organizations that have benefited greatly from being in the top 10 NFL draft.

Now, I do believe that the current system needs to be tweaked – it’s like when you have these airlines, where employees are part owners of the airline…no thanks! I want the airlines to be owned and then have employee’s, the idea sounds great….like it always sounds great if it’s the “Ben and Jerry’s Model of Business”. It should be noted though, that Ben and Jerry’s is no longer owned by Ben and Jerry! It was bought by a big corporation.

Ben and Jerry, where the CEO only makes 4x more than the bottom guy’s that make ice cream earn…it sounds cute and they love that kinda living in Vermont, but it’s not realistic to run a major corporation like that, Ben and Jerry’s was sold! So the reality is that owners should make a lot more money than players do and they should make a large percentage of the profits or the viability of the league and you don’t want to become baseball – where they Yankee’s, they could if they wanted to, spend $300 million a year and the Royals are tapped out at $68 million, you don’t want that either.

You do have to protect the smaller markets, I totally understand that. But Green Bay is a smaller market and they make plenty of revenue. Like when you go look at these smaller markets, like Buffalo and Jacksonville and Cincinnati, let me ask you: is it because it’s a small market or is it because it’s not run very well?

Even At 75% Of What He Was, Tiger Woods Will Still Beat Jack Nicholas’ Major Wins Record!

Tiger Woods is no longer using crutches, not using a walking boot, but he hasn’t hit a full golf shot in about a month and a half…47 days to be precise – that’s according to the Associated Press. Probably not going to play in the British Open – that stars mid July, was in public for the 1^st time yesterday…he had a full beard, sweet! Now Woods has gone through 4 knee surgeries since he was a freshman at Stanford. But for all the times Tiger Woods did that, he would play through them…he wouldn’t recover fully. But Tiger Woods this time is taking his dear sweet time.

But Tiger Woods – we would all admit, doesn’t have anything to prove! But there is that record still hanging out there. Jack Nicholas won 18 Majors – best all time, Tiger has got 14. Now listen, old timer’s think Jack is better because he had better peers. New golfers don’t want to hear about old guys, they like Tiger. Whatever side your on, here’s something that’s not really arguable.

In his prime, at his best – for a 10 year period, we’ve never seen anything like Tiger. From 1997 – 2007, 10 years, the dude won 14 Majors – about 1 ½ a year. Now Jack won 18, but it took him 2 ½ times as long – 24 years. Okay so Jack got to 18 in 2 ½ decades, Tiger got about 80% there in 1 decade. We’ve never seen anything like Tiger Woods – who was a meteor through Golf. Now Tiger Woods was asked yesterday about Jack Nicholas and that record and he basically said that he’s not worried about it “I mean, he won when he was 46 right? I still have some time. On top of that, we’re about the same pace I believe – years on tour, and majors won…so I feel pretty confident of what my future holds and very excited about it – excited about coming out here and being ready to go, instead of trying to patch it…which I have been for a while.”

Listen, the 2 things I’d almost bet my life on – that Tiger will never be as good as Tiger was in that decade, I’d bet anything on that…but Tiger is going to tie or surpass Jack. Bottom line, Jack has got 18 and Tiger’s got 14 and he’s 35. If you figure 45 years old is about the end of the time you can win a major. Mayer won a title at 45, Jack won one when he was 46, and Tom Watson almost won the British in his 50’s. But if you figure 45 years old – and Tiger’s in much better shape than Mayer or Jack physically, perhaps not his ligaments, but he’s in very good shape.

We now have nutritional advantages, training advantages that those guys didn’t use or have back then. So the bottom line…can Tiger win 4 majors in the next 10 years? That’s a major every 2 ½ years? I think your nuts to bet against it. I mean, statistically, Tiger at his best won a major every – he won 1 ½ a year, now we’re asking him to win 1 every 2 ½ years. Were asking Tiger to be about 28% of what he was and I think he’ll probably end up being 75% of what he was.