Rhetoric ramps up in NFL labor dispute

With the NFL’s biggest game of the year just around the corner, both sides of the ongoing labor dispute have been making major PR efforts to persuade fans to their particular side.

Jets Cornerback Antonio Cromartie recently dressed down NFL and the Players’ Association leaders in a not-so-thinly veiled attack on union head DeMaurice Smith. Cromartie, who is not necessarily known for his eloquence (or even the ability to remember all his children’s names said this: “You got our head union rep acting like an (expletive)… They got their guys acting like (expletives). So they…