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...year of the kicker and the double-bye schedule in the NFL...
...recent frenetic scramble for the promised NFL expansion franchises has made me think again. Those $84 million dollar salaries are not as wholly a result of free enterprise as one might think. With Hartford, Jacksonville, and a number of other cities offering outlays of nearly a quarter of a billion (yes, billion) dollars to snag a team, it becomes eminently clear that $84 million dollar contracts are the direct result of outrageous municipal subsidies to professional sports...
Jacksonville has mounted a fabulously expensive campaign to get an NFL expansion team. The city government has made the campaign its first priority, promising that a football team (with the few hundred part-time jobs it will create) will dispel Jacksonville's backwater image and make it a "first-tier city...
...which is the better school, but which school offers the "better buy." Longtime the domain of professional athletes who have achieved free-agency--the practice is to sign with whichever team makes the best offer (for the running back Rocket Ismail, this meant playing in Canada instead of the NFL)--we cannot ethically superimpose the practice on college admissions...
...they downsized expectations, reevaluated goals, and did the bureaucratic equivalent of the Patriots opting out of the NFL in favor of the Pop Warner Conference. The trouble is by doing that they are compromising our ability to punish those who are truly dangerous...