NFL greed now as bad as MLB--NY Post

"To think that just a few years ago, NFL executives were in the habit of poking private fun at Major League Baseball and the NBA for allowing TV money to dictate the dates and starting times of its playoff and championship games.

• The NFC Championship, outdoors in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Jan. 20, will be a night game. The specialty of the institution has become prostitution.

In a season marked by the greed-driven and predictable embarrassment of the NFL Network's failure to be widely cleared and fully exploited,

• yet to have it recognized for what it was intended to be - another money-grab made of artificial additives - the NFL continues to reveal itself as growing sicker by the dollar.

***And I'm as sick of writing it as you are of reading it, but the business of modern sports remains predicated on doing what once, as a matter of common sense and common decency, would have been out of the question.***

• And more times than not, such colossally greed-driven decisions are made on behalf of TV money.

That baseball is now stooped and steeped in total disrepute because it replaced its sense of right from wrong with its unquenchable thirst for money is a lesson that has been ignored by the NFL.

• No way the NFL would allow any outside entity, at any price, to mess with its game or its devoted patrons.

But here we are. The only thing that's preventing tonight's Giants-Packers from being played in daylight, when severe but regularly anticipated weather conditions will not be as severe, is money. The good of the game? You've got to be kidding."

• From NY Post article by Phil Mushnick, "Cold, Hard Cash, Greedy NFL Freezing Out Fans," 1/20/08

P.S. Phil doesn't show pictures of scantily clad girls on his site and doesn't pander to teen males. In spite of that, he's correct in what he says. (sm)

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