DMBcrew36
03-24-2010, 09:52 AM
This was supposed to be the year the socialists who run the National Football League finally got a taste of the free market.
Thanks to a poison pill in the league's expiring labor agreement with the players, the richest teams in America's richest pro-sports league would, for the first time in 15 years, finally be allowed—if not required—to throw irresponsibly large sums of scratch at the sport's top free agents, just like their colleagues in baseball always do. Somewhere, Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek were cracking beers and settling in for the show. But here's the strange thing: It never happened.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704896104575139573238663934.html
Thanks to a poison pill in the league's expiring labor agreement with the players, the richest teams in America's richest pro-sports league would, for the first time in 15 years, finally be allowed—if not required—to throw irresponsibly large sums of scratch at the sport's top free agents, just like their colleagues in baseball always do. Somewhere, Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek were cracking beers and settling in for the show. But here's the strange thing: It never happened.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704896104575139573238663934.html