Don't Do It

I only have three words to say to Paul Tagliabue, Gene Upshaw (right), the NFLPA, and the 32 NFL owners. Don’t do it.

Don’t become everything that fans hate about MLB, the NHL and the NBA.

Don’t ruin sports most dominant mega-empire over a cap number and revenue sharing.

Don’t allow NFL free agency to resemble baseball’s yearly bidding war between the Yankees and everyone else.

Don’t let the egos of 32 of the richest men in the world derail our favorite sport.

Don’t make the “Jeremy Roenick” mistake that your inferior counterparts in the NHL made, assuming that the fans are stupid and blindly loyal.

Don’t make your fans explain to their kids why their favorite team just cut their favorite player on “Bloody Thursday.”

Don’t put fans through the agony of watching their home team destroy their future by cutting talent to get under the cap, thereby erasing the parody you worked so hard to build.

Don’t force teams on the rise to stop rising.

Don’t go into 2007 without a cap, leaving teams to boycott free agents and draft picks.

Don’t damage the fan’s opinion of America’s most successful sport over something we can’t and don’t want to understand.

Don’t do it.

Just fix it.