Ben Gilbert

You're saying, hey, enemy, I know you can't know for sure that I can get this done, but you have to trust me enough that I'm pretty sure I know my fellow owners enough that they would agree to this.

So if you and I can kind of get close to agreeing to something, then I can take it to them.

But this is all subject to them blowing it up.

All right, so now we've got this cast of characters to pay attention to.

On the NFL side, there's the commissioner, Pete Rozelle, and Dallas Cowboys GM, Tex Schramm.

And on the AFL side, there's new commissioner and Raiders owner, Al Davis, and the Chiefs owner, Lamar Hunt.

And Lamar Hunt, of course, was the guy who started the whole AFL in the first place.

And Al Davis...

And basically the head just to go beat him up in negotiation.

I mean, at this point, it's like, hey, we understand we're in a negotiation.

Just go get the best deal you can.

And if you have to piss everyone off such that you have no working relationship with the rest of the owners, Al Davis is the kind of guy that's like, oh, I'm totally up for that.

That's fine if for the next 30 years, everyone that I have to work with hates me.

I see.

Literally, a kicker.

They start a war over a kicker.

And it makes sense it's the Giants because they're the most harmed here.

I mean, they have, in their own city, the Jets with Joe Namath.

So any of the 30 million Americans who play fantasy football can relate to this situation.

Some Dr. Evil shit right there.