#sportsteamowner — Public Fediverse posts

Even in Japan, I sometimes end up in a conversation about Gringo football. David Zirin helps me find worthwhile parts so the talk isn't as big a waste of my time.

This article is from ten years ago, but recent news about responses to a near-death on the field suggest not much has changed. I'm looking for an article that mentioned player union demands for safer grass on the fields.

.> officials who—I mean, at the risk of sounding unkind—are unskilled, untrained scabs who are in over their heads on an NFL field in front of 70,000 fans. They have no idea what they’re doing. And that’s what made Monday night such a big story, is that it crystallized in front of a national audience the problems of both corporate arrogance as well as unskilled, non-union workers.

The #SportsTeamOwner lines that have been bothering me for 6 months. People in #Florida probably know who the model for Helmut von Zeppelin is, maybe Huizenga in 2001?
> He was nearing the rarefied peak of Mount Bastard. When Helmut walked by, even other most vicious corporate bastards sad, "Now that's a bastard!" There was only one more level above him, and von Zeppelin was determined to reach it.
> Sports team owner
The book came to mind in June with #GlenTaylor
https://mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/108469100786710767