Blogs

  • Sportstalk and the NFL Labor Dispute: Keep It Stupid, Simple?
    davidfinkel
    March 4, 2011

    I can’t count how often I’ve heard radio sportstalk jockeys offer the following wisdom: “The fans want their pro football on Sunday. They couldn’t care less about millionaires fighting with the billionaires about dividing the NFL pie.” It’s not just the assumption that “the fans” are willfully ignorant; it seems the networks want to make sure we stay that way.

  • Football's Looming Lockout Pushes Union to Center Stage
    davidfinkel
    September 20, 2010

    After football players raised an index finger (“one” for unity) in a brief pre-game gesture of union solidarity on the season’s opening day, we hear that ESPN radio says 99 percent of the calls and emails ESPN got were critical of the players. A startling revelation indeed: who would have thought that watching football could cause more brain damage than playing it?

  • Pro Football’s Scrambled Brains Throw Egg on the Superbowl
    davidfinkel
    February 5, 2010

    I can remember it like yesterday, one of the great thrills of my sports-watching life. Tragically, Larry Morris, now living in a nursing home with dementia, can’t remember it at all. Absent a union that puts health and safety first for active and retired players, the NFL has discarded its injured performers.