Yay, we beat the Houston Oilers! Wait, what's a Houston Oilers again?

Yay, we beat the Houston Oilers! Wait, whats a Houston Oilers again?

  • Yay, we beat the Houston Oilers! Wait, what’s a Houston Oiler again?

Men of America, your Sundays will no longer be spent working around the house, attending church, or attentively listening to your spouse—cue that fucking Hank Williams II song—football is back! According to CBS Sports reporter Mike Newman the players union has agreed to the terms (lots of money, slightly less concussions) offered by the ownership committee and the NFL seaon will start on September 8.

Meanwhile, according to former Blazers’ executive Tom Penn the NFL lockout has nothing on the mess the NBA has gotten itself into. Ugh.

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

5 replies on “The NFL Lockout is Over!”

  1. It’s quite possible there will not be an NBA season next year. The NFL CBA played out the way I thought it would. The two sides were not that far apart. The distance in the NBA CBA might as well be a chasm

  2. @C&B, Clearly, you’re not an NFL fan. The dispute wasn’t over funding dog fights, it was about how to share the revenue from them.

  3. Will domestic violence increase or decrease now that there will be an NFL season?

    Also, I’ve got my Direct TV TBL (Turkish Basketball League) pass cuz this hoops season is fuuucked.

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