I’ve got another reason to not like the nfl.  This morning about 2 am, I watched an ESPN 30 for 30.  It was one that had aired a month or so ago but I hadn’t seen it.  It was about the nfl players strike in 1987 and the team of scab players that the washington redskins put together.

These guys were the basis for the movie “The Replacements”.  I like that movie. It’s kind of cheesy and half-ass made but I still like the film and routinely quote lines from it.

Anyways, this group of scab players in ’87 played 3 games together and won all 3 games.  These dudes even beat the actual dallas cowboys whose team had already crossed the picket lines.  We’re talking about a cowboys team that had hall of famers Tony Dorsett and Randy White as well as Too Tall Jones and other big names.  Then the regular redskin players crossed the picket lines and came back to play.  Thus the end for the scabs.  The redskins went on to win the super bowl that year.  The 3 wins with the scab players counted towards the victory totals.  But the scab players didn’t get a super bowl ring.  That’s a bunch of crap.  If they are going to count the wins that those players earned, they should get a ring.  The trainers, towel managers, water boys and office help all get rings; therefore, the players that earned those 3 wins should get a ring as well.  I’m surprised that no lawyer has taken up this cause.  Looks like an easy win to me.

With it being the 30th anniversary, the redskins should bring those dudes back to a game and present them with past-due rings.

Even though most of these players only got to play 3 nfl games, there has been a movie and a tv show made about their experience.   These dudes got to live a short lived dream and their story is still around–30 years later.   Kind of cool.