You know, I wish I could claim to be all worked up about the Dubai deal, or something that's at least more worthwhile than a game of chicken by multi-millionaires (see the quote in the Curran article in the Projo). Or maybe it's a face-off between the millionaires and the billionaires. At any rate the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement standoff, with Free Agency set to start at midnight tonight has got me all worried. At one level it's simply a concern for what happens to the veterans this season, it's a thought about rank-and-file revolt from the player's association, with all the actual drawbacks of an upcapped year. Decertification would be a mess. But even short of that, just having this year's free agency period screwed up at stuck at a smaller cap will make this total chaos.

I think the Boston Herald (Online) has subliminaly sent a message, and one that many football fans echo:

Settle it now, for the difference in money now is not worth the costs to the game, even this season, by messing with what works....or at the very least, the system we've all gotten used to.

And before all those folks at the Globe get smug about typos on the Herald website -- at least they didn't print that error out along with your credit card info and distribute it, actually, more like abandon it, at locations all around town.