DeMaurice Smith > Quotes

“wasn’t until a group of Colorado mine workers went on strike in 1914, eventually leading to strikebreakers led by the National Guard firing machine guns into a crowd and killing twenty-one workers and injuring dozens more, that public sentiment shifted and compelled the federal government to enact child-labor laws and companies to adopt the eight-hour workday.”
― DeMaurice Smith, Turf Wars: The Fight for the Soul of America's Game

“Every pregame flyover by a military aircraft, any time a service member returns home to surprise their loved ones on the field, the pageantry of every “Salute to Service” campaign—these are all rooted less in patriotism than in greed and entertainment. In 2015, it was revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense had paid the league $5.4 million in taxpayer funds to stage those events.”
― DeMaurice Smith, Turf Wars: The Fight for the Soul of America's Game