The NFL Wins, Because The NFL Always Wins  There's no way that
any sensible, thinking person who's not an NFL owner can
honestly feel that the league acted justly in penalizing the
Cowboys and the Redskins for spending their money and
structuring their contracts the way they did during the uncapped
2010 season. But it doesn't matter, because the NFL plays by its
own rules and no one else's, and that's the lesson for today.
That's's Dan Graziano, summing up in two sentences what I spent
a few thousand words bunching my panties over. Now the Redskins'
and Cowboys' totally legitimate grievance with the NFL's
unilateral salary cap penalties have been dismissed without even
getting past the NFL's arbitration process. The arbitrator ruled
that it wasn't, in fact, unilateral because both a supermajority
of other owners and the NFLPA signed off on it, even though the
league strong-armed and blackmailed everyone into going along.
DC and Dallas have said they won't press their cases any
further, and if Dan Snyder and