Many unions help give rights, benefits and adequate living wages for workers. However, having a union for highly paid professional athletes is like organizing one for CEOs. NFL players made an average of $1.3 million last season, and total compensation for the players exceeded $2.5 billion. Growth has been astronomical with a 20 percent increase in the last two years, and player salaries have more than doubled since 1994 when the average was $627,000.

Why ruin a good thing?  In many other lines of work, owners are less generous and even stingy, and few or zero opportunities are given for outside sources of income. Is it a right for players to have more money? Popular or not, at the same time, owners have a right to give less.

Who needs the NFL more? Without the NFL, many players would need to find other sources of income or line of work. The owners don't need the NFL for income. It's a hobby, not where they make a living. The NHL players lost a year's salary in the hundreds of thousands in their short shelf life of a pro athlete and didn't receive more with their holdout. The NFL is not the place to battle for worker rights.