January 19, 201016 yr comment_76303 I know the strike years weren't good, but was it areally a bust per se? The expectation had to be low I imagine. I just don't know enough about the details. I know many a person that rooted the helmet, and in fact, i recall a guy that played QB for the Saints that actually did well and had some nibble after. i think he was a high school teacher or something. yes it was a bust season that they tried to salvage with luke warm success by ending the strike. the actual games were attended, if i remember right, less than even preseason games. i believe when the strike happened buddy ryan (maybe ditka too?) told their respective teams not to walk the line which they ALL did not if i remember correctly. that said, there were a few scab nfl players who did cross the line throughout the league but i never remember them refusing the benefits won by the nfl players union that they didn't stand behind. 1987 was a sad ending for walter paytons career (who to his fantastic credit DID stand fast in solidarity). Report
January 19, 201016 yr comment_76307 I'd certainly like to read up on that time a little more. My recollection of it just isn't that good. Probably for a good reason! yes it was a bust season that they tried to salvage with luke warm success by ending the strike. the actual games were attended, if i remember right, less than even preseason games. i believe when the strike happened buddy ryan (maybe ditka too?) told their respective teams not to walk the line which they ALL did not if i remember correctly. that said, there were a few scab nfl players who did cross the line throughout the league but i never remember them refusing the benefits won by the nfl players union that they didn't stand behind. 1987 was a sad ending for walter paytons career (who to his fantastic credit DID stand fast in solidarity). Report
January 19, 201016 yr comment_76326 and as usual you have come to the wrong conclusions and add nothing even mildly important to the conversation with the exception of the usual jibes and acidic giant-head wit expected from an infantile meglomaniac. Oh geez choad - you are such a weenie-head. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm an adolescent meglomaniac. It's very possible that I did miss you point because you hid it somewhere in a bunch of irrelevant crap. Report
January 20, 201016 yr comment_76350 Oh geez choad - you are such a weenie-head. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm an adolescent meglomaniac. It's very possible that I did miss you point because you hid it somewhere in a bunch of irrelevant crap. whatever. yawwwwn... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Report
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