Great point about Joe Thomas. I didn't even have him in mind when I made that comment, but you are correct. Think about this......say you are a marginal guy not making a ton of cash. You have a family. You are fighting and clawing to stay in the league and your team intentionally tanks. The culture is absolutely toxic because everyone knows the powers-that-be are intentionally trying to lose and ridding themselves of good players in order to obtain draft picks. Your stock falls and soon you are out of a job. You have a wife and kids to support and you worked your entire life to make a living at the game you love. You find yourself on the streets.......yet again.
There is a line from Pink Floyd's Us and Them that is about war, but is apropos here:
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the general sat
And the lines on the map
Moved from side to side
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