Salute to the Runaway Slave Le’Veon Bell

A lot of people in and out of football have said that it was crazy that he would turn down that amount of money for any reason. Bell’s stance has been that he wanted a contract that not only pay him equal market value, but also give him long term security. Football is a violent game and the average career for most NFL players is only three seasons. On top of that, teams consider running backs to be disposable. Athletes who play at running back are thrown away like paper plates. Despite that premise, most players are not in a financial position because to walk away from their money.

In fact, most employees in general are not in a position to walk away from their job and forfeit their paycheck. Regardless if they are getting underpaid and mistreated; people got bills to pay. That sort of obligation to your own cost of living makes you feel like a slave. Not in a literal sense, but in a metaphorical way that means that you lack freedom. That’s why I called Le’Veon Bell a runaway slave, because he thumbed his nose at the status quo and F-U; pay me. What he did was not unprecedented, but rare. The great Jim Brown, who was also a running back, decided to retire in 1966 because his bss gave him an ultimatum that he did not appreciate. Beyond that, I’m sure a lot of more unnamed people, who know their worth, walk away from their jobs on a daily basis. Nonetheless it is refreshing to see when it happens and for that I salute Le’Veon Bell. And when you wake up and go to your job that you want to be at  and listen a manager who you don’t want to hear;  I suggest that you should salute him too.

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