Honestly as a fan I'm tired of pretending. I watch 100,000 people pack a stadium, I see the TV contracts, I buy the jersey with the kid's number on it, and then I'm supposed to nod along that he is just grateful for his meal plan? It's theater and everyone knows it. Pay them, call them employees, let them unionize, whatever. At least then the product on the field stops being built on a polite fiction. And maybe it stabilizes the transfer portal chaos too, because right now we have free agency with none of the contracts that make free agency work. Give me real professionalism over fake amateurism. The games will still be great on Saturdays.
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