I will be the first to say that the NFL is hands down my favorite product of sports
to watch and follow.
Every year teams go from first to last, games are really decided by about 5 plays
90% of the time, and coaches and players spend 100 hours a week in prep work
for schemes, plays, and designs.
Every team is talented in the NFL. What seperates people in the NFL is
execution, desire, and being smart.
So Roger Goodell wants to protect players and has started fining guys like James
Harrision for hitting wide receivers and quarterbacks.
I don’t want to see all of the guys I watch on Sundays turn into vegetables either.
Concussions are a nasty part of the game and I hope there’s something we can do
to cut down on them.
BUT…
I do have a problem when James Harrision gets fined over $100k in a single season
for doing his job. He is a grown man that is a 6 foot 6 320 pound man who is
paid to hit people.
He plays for the toughest team in the league in one of the most grueling sports
in our world, throw in hockey and rugby and that is my top 3.
The problem with the fines??
They aren’t even illegal hits and they aren’t even warranting penalty flags in the
games!
So James Harrison is essentially being fined for doing the same job he has done
his entire life only his boss (Roger Goodell) changed the rules in the middle of a
work season and James is now being fined for hits that his boss deems illegal
under the new rules!
My point is sometimes it is interesting to compare sports to your job.
Imagine if you are working at your sales job and you make a sale one week.
The next week you make the same sale but your boss keeps half of your
commission.
WHY?
You came in to their office five minutes after the day ended with your order and
your boss decided that late orders would now carry a 50% fine with them.
Absurd?
Maybe….
Pretty much a similar comparison when you think about it…
Yes.
Before you change the rules if you are a manager or a owner of a business just
make sure you are doing it for the right reason, giving employees some sort of time
to adjust, and there are good intentions behind it.
If you don’t you may have a whole bunch of angry linebackers calling you out on
blogs, press conferences, and interviews.
That’s exactly what is happening to Roger Goodell right now.
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