"The perception that it's just a bunch of millionaires battling it out with some billionaires isn't exactly correct-despite the seeming economic parallels between those two parties, this is, at its core, just another labor versus management squabble."

Well, perhaps it's not quite that simple, but in his column this week for the AV Club Denver / Boulder, John Reidy compares the current NFL labor crises to any other.  John sees both sides of the issue and states the case for each.

"The players don't make it easy to sympathize, but if these were doctors we were talking about, would we be so quick to dismiss them?"

"I can more than relate to the side of the owners. They paid the cost to be the boss, as the old saying goes."