Now That He's Officially Out For The Year, Steelers' Players Took To Looting Le'Veon Bell's Locker11/14/2018
I suppose this is fair. I have a not-so-sneaking suspicion that Le'Veon Bell has stepped his last fashionable foot into the Pittsburgh Steelers' facilities, so someone might as well blow the dust off the boxes of freshly-minted Jordan cleats wasting away in his locker. After voluntarily missing out on millions of dollars this year, I highly doubt it's any skin off his ass that a soon-to-be-former teammate in Bud Dupree is commandeering kicks of which he likely has duplicates littering his closet at home. What's foul, however, was how giddy Steelers' players appeared to be while openly mocking someone who did what they should all be doing in somewhat selfishly looking out for themselves above all else. In a whole hell of a lot of ways, Le'Veon Bell's holdout was a failure, as he lost as much leverage as he did money while his much cheaper replacement, James Conner, filled in somewhat seamlessly during his lost season. However, what he was successful in doing is highlighting the hypocrisy of a league that expects those that it chews up and spits out at its mercy to say "how high?" when they say "Jump, man". Whether or not it ends up working is inconsequential, because the only way to maximize your earning power while playing in a league that monetarily maxes out the minds and bodies of its players is to do what Le'Veon Bell did. At the risk of painting someone who is financially set enough to say "fuck it" to 8-figures as some average outcast, you'd think teammates whose professional efforts weren't at all compromised by his absence would understand that, regardless of whether or not they agreed with the guy whose sneaks they sportively seized.
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