Andrew

So you kind of build this player force that doesn't know what's going on.

And I say that with a grain of salt now because I used to be one of these guys like, oh, you know, they don't care what's going on.

And there is a good chunk that don't care what's going on.

But I think now it's more clear there's like an obvious force stopping them from getting like information about what's going on with this union stuff, which is the meat of this.

Like the recent stuff is just like the ultimate just fuck it.

I guess we're pawns of the ownership stuff, you know?

I think the arc of this is like, it's the arc of sort of unionism in America.

You know, you go back to like your early 1900s unions, right?

And those unions, you know, they're unbelievably powerful.

They're extremely dangerous.

You know, you get to a point where like the IWW will show up to a town and like the bosses in the town will show up with guns and shoot them because they're that well organized.

They're that dangerous.

They're that capable of striking.

They're that committed.

And they're that

able to tap into all of their members and have everyone in the union be a part of the union and do things with the union and that's you know how you can actually do collective action and then and you can watch this with sort of like with the ability of the nflpa like obviously like that's a much weaker union than you're like yeah i don't know you're like 1930 cio or whatever yeah yeah but

But you can watch it, like, sort of decay into this sort of, you know, what you call, like, a service union, where instead of it being run by the players, there's, like, okay, we have some people.

They're going to do everything for you.

They're going to sometimes talk to you about it.

but you know, like they're going to be the ones like managing all of the contracts and all of the negotiations and like, right.