No one wants to be the butcher that kills the golden goose; it's simply too irrational not to solve this.

Nobody wants to kill this golden goose. I don't like the salary-cap system. There's nothing I like about it except that it's a system that both sides have been able to agree upon. But that has meant that football's been able to concentrate its energies and efforts at the union and management level on developing new revenue sources and promoting the brand with the general public.

Don't kill the golden goose.

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

We're very sensitive to not killing the goose that laid the golden egg here. But with that said, we also want to be appropriately responsible if there's a threat.

Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.