I'm watching the GB Packers vs. the SF 49ers. Why you should be too (hint: labor)
It's ironic that this game is taking place in Wisconsin, because it highlights a union vs. corporate struggle. Some of you may know that NFL officials are striking right now; they've been replaced with scabs by the league. NFL officials, even under the best of circumstances, do not share in the massive profits of the NFL. Almost all have full time jobs outside of professional football; otherwise they wouldn't make enough to feed their families.
I've been listening closely and carefully to the coverage of the officiating in this first weekend of pro-football. Al Michaels, on his NBC broadcast on Wednesday night, (unsurprisingly) thought the scab refs did a fine job. This rest of the football anchors I've heard seem to be following suit.
But the Green Bay vs. San Francisco game has been just AWFUL in terms of officiating. It's been so bad that even Joe Buck and Troy Aikman (today's anchors) can't help but comment on it. There have been numerous awful calls, but the bottom line is that the officiating may have cost Green Bay the game. If there had been professional, trained, UNION labor officiating, the Wisconsin team may have won.
Labor is Labor, folks. Even if it's in the service of a game.
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and my beloved Packers played terrible also. 
and now it's Thursday's game and da bears..... 
I hope the Packers can bounce back.
There were a couple of bad calls, but every time the packers lose the officials get blamed. The packers just plain stunk yesterday.
