Unseen Victims of NFL Lockout: Gold-Digging Skanks

Break out the Kleenex for the women and children who rely on alimony from the multi-million dollar salaries of well-paid athletes whose paychecks are now uncertain given the labor dispute currently winding its way through...wherever it is winding. Now, I don't mean to minimize what may be potential hardship for any child, but in America in the 21st century, any child whose father makes a salary of $1.7 million dollars ought not to be in jeopardy and we ought not be working up sympathy as if these kids were falling through the cracks of society. There is such a long string of mistakes and pathologies evident in a story like this; but beyond that we are talking about resources so vast, after you view the mistakes as water under the bridge, still nobody should be suffering. And don't give me all that stuff about short-lived NFL careers, everybody knows the deal going in, you make the right choices or you don't. You use your time wisely to insulate yourself from economic distress for the last of your life or you don't and you become just like all the rest of us. That this piece of reporting took the sympathy angle is a little frightening.