Dave Zirin: Fighting the NFL Lockout
“It’s not about dollars and cents, it’s about owners telling players who is boss,” says Dave Zirin, sports columnist for The Nation, about the impending NFL lockout. Even Barack Obama has gotten into the act, though, writing off the labor dispute in professional football as “millionaires fighting billionaires” and ignoring the real factors in the fight, from the health risks and short careers the players face to the people who will be out of work if football doesn’t go on–while the owners sign a TV contract that pays them even if there is no season.
Dave joins us via Skype to give us the latest on why progressives should stand with the NFL players, and the connections to the labor struggles going on around the country right now.
This video was originally posted on GRITtv.org.