X's and O's

Famous former NFL coach and SNL punchline, Mike Ditka was asked about Northwestern college football players intent to unionize college football players. He's against it.

Ya know, I don't know if I am for or against it either because I haven't considered it all that much. I'm inclined to go against Da Coach because I think he's a vainglorious idiot, for a variety of reasons, many of which I will now go into.

The '85 Bears were arguably the best team ever to take the field in the NFL. Da Coach led them to the Super Bowl. Big fucking deal. I could have coached that team to the Super Bowl. Anybody could have. The trick was in repeating or even getting to the SB again.That was a team that should have had a few Super Bowls. Other teams do it. Da Coach was one and done. Ditka was one of only two coaches in Super Bowl XX to hold Walter Payton scoreless. The other was Raymond Berry of New England, whose job it was to stop him from scoring. Loveable cartoon character, Refrigerator Perry got to score for the Bears but not Hall of Famer, Walter Payton. That was Da Coach's call. Ditka is a cartoon character himself. It pays well, I guess. He seems to be a republican troll- for free. Recently he declared that, had he run for the senate against Barack Obama back in the day, he would have beat him and, thus, saved the world from an Obama presidency and the horror of the Affordable Care Act.

OK, so Ditka is an asshole. Secretly or not so, everybody knows that. What else have I got?

Well, back to the Union thing with the college players. He makes a fair point that most college football players are rewarded with a free education for their play and that that should be good enough. He might be right. I'll have to look into that. He went on to say though that "...while Unions were a good thing in the 20's, 30's and 40's, they overstepped their boundaries..."

Really? In the 50's I guess, since that's when he began laying off decades of union worthiness. I think that up through the 70's more than 30% of American workers were members of a Union. It's about 11% now.  I don't think that is overstepping boundaries. I'm pretty sure it's the opposite.

Ditka is an asshole. He's not running for office that I know of and needing to repeat talking points so as to attract a certain type of idiot. He's a rich guy and though I don't know what his business is aside from being an ex-NFL coach who only won one fucking Super Bowl with the best team ever, it's usually enough to be anti-labor if you're simply rich. (Ferrerman note: If I- your Ferrerman- won like $400 million in the Powerball, I- your Ferrerman- would do a total 180 politically. This whole blog would suddenly be about how persecuted us 1%'ers are. Why are the democrats putting us in ovens??!! Shit like that. You better hope I never win because I could write some insane shit that would make even the best reichtards blush. Why, yes, I have a dark side. Would you like to see it?)

He's a goofball. A Hall Of Fame goofball at that. Any generic idiot can make stupid statements about unions outliving their usefulness.  He's as smart as a Topix troll saying that. Like one, he probably thinks that the myriad of benefits that we all enjoy today- that men and women literally fought, bled and died for back in the day- would have evolved out of the good hearts of management anyway, if we had just been patient. I don't know about Ditka but, other idiots 'believe' this. Da Coach strikes me as the generic reichtard that simply thinks unions "...got too big for their britches...". A CEO earns an $8 million bonus but you pussies think you should just be given a cost of living adjustment! Doesn't anybody just rub dirt on it and take a lap any more?

Da Coach has never been a union man that I know of. When he wants to be in a commercial or a movie or on a Sunday football show, he doesn't just get hired at the going rate that some union dictates he should make like a schlub! Nope, he and his agent go in there and negotiate like men do! Well, men who have agents, that is. Agents are like...personal unions...The agent goes in their and fights for the client, making sure he or she gets the best deal, the most money possible! Now how is that different from a union? I'm not so sure it is.

One way it differs though is that Mike Ditka doesn't think agents have out-lived their usefulness. He probably hates having to pay his agent 10% but, probably he's smart enough to realize that he couldn't make anywhere near what he's making now...without representation....someone blocking for him...

Get the picture, coach? Or do I have to draw you a diagram? Ya know, sometimes management won't let you score. Can you imagine that?