Looks like the entire roster of the Pittsburgh Power arena football team was fired this week in an effort to break the player's union.
One of the team's owners is former Pittsburgh Steelers star receiver Lynn Swann. During Swann's playing days, he was represented and protected by a union that looked after his interests, in an era where professional football players didn't make the kind of money that they do today, and injury could (and still can) end a career before it ever gets started. Thanks to Swann's union, he enjoys a comfortable pension. I guess it makes a big difference though when you're writing a check of $400 dollars per player per game! How DARE those ingrates ask to be paid as much as $1600 a game! (that, sports fans, works out to less than $30,000 per player for an 18 game season, compared to the $7,200 the players were making). They should feel lucky that their Galtian masters allow them to get the snot beat out of them for 400 bucks a game while charging from $20 to $170 a ticket!