J.C. Tretter
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first heard Feb 2025
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The risk they are taking, though, is substantial. And the damage they are receiving is substantial. And parents and kids and wives and siblings are there worried about their well-being. And the idea...
That the guys out there making the owner hundreds of millions to billions of dollars for what they're doing on the field while taking all of the risk physically, the idea that their wife and newborn baby are sitting on the grimy floor of a public restroom breastfeeding is just preposterous to me. 18 of the teams offer family rooms, 14 don't.
And the teams that don't, like, where is that wife supposed to go? What's your prediction for, let's say, two years from now? How many of those 14 will offer it? We've heard from some teams being like, ah, you know, we have an older stadium. There's no room for it. But everybody has suites. You know, like in the end, it comes down to a choice.
So how many games did your family attend when you were playing for Cleveland? Yeah, they would be at almost every home game. And in the end, once I got my third contract, me and two other teammates went in on a suite. Like we bought our own suite. We all had young kids from two and under, and we didn't want them out in the cold. So we said like, we'll pay the money and buy a suite.
How much did you have to pay? $150,000.
We want to live in a world where we're giving out 32 A-pluses for all the teams. That, again, is JC Treader. And when we went into this year one, I told the staff when we started it, like, if all that comes from this is four teams start giving dinner to those players, it's a win.
Yeah, we've heard from about 12 to 15 teams who have reached out to us just to say, like, what can we do better? Can you give us more information? What changes would make us better? I give credit to like Arthur Blank, who's the owner for the Atlanta Falcons. There was an article written where he said he pulled his president and GM and head coach aside.
and told them one, if this comes out again, they absolutely cannot be graded as low as they were before. And also that they need to start being more proactive and it shouldn't take this type of thing to create the change. Like they should be as leaders of the organization, be looking around corners and realizing where they're weak and where they need to improve.
I don't know Arthur well from people who do. It seems like it's not just lip service and that he's going to act on those words.
Those are the things you want to see. Like, don't get defensive about this. That's not what we're hoping for. We're hoping that people see like, okay, this team's providing this, this, and this. Maybe we should provide that too. Because in the end, as adversarials, sometimes we are. The teams need the players and the players need the franchises. Do you plan to do the survey every year? Yes.
And year two is going to be more important than year one because year one, owners could claim ignorance. I think more will claim ignorance than should claim ignorance. And for some of it, I'm sure they didn't know. Like, I don't think many owners are hanging out in the hot tubs with the guys.
And if they do, that's a story of itself that we should be diving into of why are they hanging out in the hot tubs with the guys. But year two, now that this is out there, If some things aren't changed, you can't claim ignorance anymore.
The teams are called franchises, and I think that's a connector outside of our industry. I think there is an expectation that everything is equal in the NFL. And I think everybody would think it's equal at Starbucks and equal at Chick-fil-A and equal at McDonald's. And you go to a franchise, the rules and the treatment of the workers are the same. And I think we know that's not true.
And if you're a worker, I think it would be valuable to know the treatment you will receive if you decide to work at one franchise versus another. And I also think if you're the overall company...
It would be interesting to see how your franchises who are carrying your name and dictating your brand image, how they treat their workers and how they treat their customers and how that varies across different franchise operators.
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