With Thursday night's Steelers victory as an appetizer, the National Football League hit its stride on Sunday with a full slate of games. I flipped between six matches, but I spent most of my time watching the Browns and the Vikings to see how Brett Favre would play. Now, I cannot claim to have heard every syllable uttered on the broadcast, but I did catch, on two occasions, analyst Brian Billick complain about his salary.
I have a lot a time for Mr. Billick, former coach of the Baltimore Ravens. But when a man grouses that his last contract, one which paid him $5 million a year, has been replaced with only a six figure deal to make televised observations about football once a week, I cannot help but notice.
Nearly ten per cent of the American workforce is still unemployed, right?
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