Byline: Dan Lynch
There's a wonderful scene in `Dallas North Forty` in which an NFL receiver is being berated by other players for lacking sufficient team spirit. The other players criticize him because he's not sufficiently loyal to the team, and they are that team.
The player explains to his colleagues, ``You don't get it, do you? We're not the team. We're the equipment, like the helmets and the shoulder pads and the jockstraps.'' Then the receiver points to the door of the owner's office and shouts, ``They're the team, you morons.''
In a quite literal sense, that was never more true in pro sports than it is these days. Baseball is the most conspicuous example.
There was a time when …
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