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Although he keeps a lighthearted attitude towards the sport and his teammates, as a leader on the Crimson defense and the team as a whole, Balaraman is determined to finish the season strong—and get a good meal out of the highest bidder...
Balaraman is also quick to give credit to the rest of the team. After taking a break from the sport during his sophomore year, he realized that the people involved were what really made him want to play...
...played baseball, soccer, basketball, track and field, and football. Brian was a three-sport athlete in high school, earning nine letters in football, basketball, and track...
...Several outstanding NFL players, including McNabb and Jets linebacker Bart Scott have announced they wouldn't play for a Limbaugh-owned team. That's understandable, but they shouldn't forget that playing in the NFL is to be working for sport's biggest plantation. Yes, guys like McNabb are making multimillion-dollar paydays. Yet he and the rest of the players labor within the confines of a football monopoly that has never taken kindly to outside competition or an activist workforce. Consider the NFL players' strike of 1987, which the owners crushed with all the sensitivity of Kentucky coal-mine...
...sure, maybe Rush isn't the players' dream boss, nor is he even favored by other owners, including Jim Irsay. But the notion that you need to occupy some kind of moral high ground to be able to extract profit from a monopoly sport that routinely exploits its criminally inclined workforce leaves me unmoved. The NFL is just another big business - why should it be anything less - only with a huge amount of ego attached to it. Rush should fit in quite well...