[Eric]

Good riddance ... but what a load of cash ... $160, 000, 000! Maybe it's time that the major football leagues looked at a salary cap ... but this isn't really about football, or the fans, it's about the cash ... if people really want to see large amounts of money moving around they could watch the daily proceedings of the NYSE. I enjoy watching football (though I prefer hockey), but I would prefer it if there were more teams involved in the league title races ... gets real boring. I don't mean that the sport on the field is boring, far from it ... but the predictability of it all ... (the Scottish Premier League is the biggest joke ... let me see, which one of the two teams will come top this year?) .... there are sports in which great players are content to play for teams that never win the top honours: Raymond Bourque played 21 seasons in the NHL for the Boston Bruins without winning the Stanley Cup; Fergie Jenkins was a standout pitcher in MLB, won the Cy Young award made it to the Hall of Fame, but he played for the Chicago Cubs, the perennial also rans; so, he never was on a world series team. I know that the great players will earn the big bucks, but there has to be a limit. At some point the idea that football is a sport as well as a business will have to reassert itself, or even the most loyal fans will get turned off.