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Treader to push someone like that through?
And then the backside is J.C.
's reign as the union president expires while Lloyd Howe is the executive director.
And Lloyd makes a new cushy role for J.C.
as like, you know, I don't remember what the role was called, but like...
Chief of strategy or something?
Yes, chief strategy officer.
So something that paid him like $3 million a year, very handsomely.
Thankfully, Lloyd was off, you know, blowing money at the strip club and JC was kind of running like the actual day-to-day things because he's the one that has a connection to players, right?
And now we've gone through a point where after Gene Upshaw dies, the two executive directors who followed him as, you know, the head of the union, DeMar Smith and Lloyd Howell, neither of those guys were NFL players.
So you can understand how players might feel.
We've gotten a little bit too far from our roots.
Like we don't have guys who are from our background interested in, you know, players and what we go through, which leads back to JC Treader, who played for the Packers, played for the Browns, was at his peak, man.
He was a good player.
Like, I'm not going to take that away from him.
Like he was a good starting center on a lot of good offensive lines in Cleveland that didn't win any games.
But they block the hell out of people, man.
Like, when you go back, you look at some of those lines.
Like, they had Joe Thomas and Alex Mack and Mitchell Schwartz, Joe Petonia.
Like, they had some stars that were out there winning four or five games a year.