What the attacks on NFL players and owners is really about...

[Ike Bana]

...vidictiveness and payback, like it is with everything for Donald Trump. Because he was rejected for an NFL franchise back in 1984.

Trump will never get an NFL franchise.

They arrive, and even before Pete can stop talking on a casual basis, Donald starts his diatribe on how great he (Trump) would be for the NFL, and what it would mean to the NFL to have him as a franchise owner. Donald is going on in his typical style, telling Pete Rozelle what he believes in, why he would be wonderful. It was typical Donald, in that Rozelle couldn't get a word in. When he realized what Trump was after, he turned cold and blunt. "Mr. Trump," Rozelle told him, "as long as I or any of my heirs are involved in the NFL, you will never be a franchise owner in the league.

"The NFL is in a box." - Donald Trump. Totally psychpathologically driven payback for being rejected for NFL team ownership over 30 years ago.