NFL announces a super-awesome fan appreciation program!

Remember when the NFL threatened to not have a season? Remember when it was made really clear that the owners, in stockpiling loads of TV money, had every intention of trashing this season entirely?

Well, they're all really sorry about that. And to make it up to you, 90 of you might get a free jersey and get to (gasp) run out onto a real NFL field! Just like the grown-ups do!

That's the plan the NFL announced Monday. Each team is going to give 90 personalized jerseys to supporters, and some teams will allow those 90 fans to run onto the field, through the tunnel, with the players, before a preseason game. Other teams will just have some kind of a pregame ceremony, which I hope is fervidly booed.

More from the AP:

When the agreement to end the lockout was reached last month, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged that "we have some work to do to make sure (fans) understand we are sorry for the frustration we put them through over the last six months."

"We have to make sure we understand our bond with our fans is probably the primary issue all of us need to focus on, whether you're a player or you're an owner," he added.

Yeah, totally. That's why we so greatly appreciate that a tiny number of us will be selected to receive small trinkets and have the incredible honor of running onto your playing field, like we're at a child's birthday party at McDonald's and we get to go play in the balls with the real Ronald McDonald.

Even better that it happens during a preseason game, which you've spent the last year telling everyone that we absolutely loathed. Thanks for letting us share in what you admit is overpriced and meaningless! That's all we've ever really wanted; to be placated like children.

I really wish they wouldn't even bother. I mean, we're all going to come crawling back to your game like the spineless, brainwashed jellyfish we are. Please don't single out 90 of us and fool us into giving up what's left of our dignity by accepting your little prize.

We all value your product enough that we'll let you jerk us around however you wish, and we'll sit there and take it. We've all made peace with that, so let's just get on with it.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/NFL-announces-a-super-awesome-fan-appreciation-p?urn=nfl-wp4783

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