I have no issue with anyone taking up for the players where they are saying their careers are short and they are trying to save wear and tear and all that good stuff, but I guess I look at it from a perspective of being a fan.
As a fan I look at this as a bad thing. I think whatever injuries you think your avoiding, we will have that many more related to conditioning issues and things of that nature.
And maybe I'm alone here and ill take whatever comes my way for it, but im not going to shed a tear for these guys having to actually go to work and put the work in when they feel its "unnecessary" or "unfair." When you compare their salary to what probably 99 percent of this board population makes in comparison to what work they have to put in to make ends meet and things of that nature, I simply feel like they are being unreasonable. I dont feel for these players in that sense. You could get hurt, you would like to spend that time away doing God knows what, but you get paid to do a job and you get paid damn good.
Yes their careers are shorter then the average person, no doubt about it. But if your even relatively smart/careful with your finances, you get the trade off of retiring young and living a great life after working doing a job you loved for years.
Once again, I understand how people could see the players side of things and im not defending the owners either. This is strictly me speaking from a fans side of things. Owners and players fighting is billionaires and millionaires arguing. I am neither and don't really particularly feel the need to defend either one of them.
And lastly, I'm a union guy and have always been so I get where this comes from on their side. As a fan though, not interested in making the product worse and I can't see anything good coming from this.
