Word: nfl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
Restic himself straddled both views. Hired torevive a sagging program in 1971, he won Ivytitles in 1974 and 1975. But instead of taking anyone of several head coaching offers in the NFL, hestayed on for the rest of his career...
...show, and for 23 years, Restic saw his name up in lights, on top of a constantly-changing marquee that featured several future NFL players, many young CEOs and hundreds of senior government official wannabes...