Posted on 09/19/2014 8:16:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Despite your plea, I still do not care about the NFL.
Of course they are taking over the NFL and raiding its money.
Have to say this is pretty spot on. I have also heard the leftists complain that football needs to be eliminated because its “too violent”. I’m willing to bet that if a big time soccer player beat his kid or wife, it would be nothing but a quick blurb on the nightly news and never heard again.
I started paying attention to the NFL again when Tim Tebow was playing, but then the NFL buried the guy, and I lost interest again.
I understand your argument, and I’m not saying there isn’t some merit to it. But the NFL has been disgustingly groveling to PC for years now. Cowering to lefties. The Michael Sam thing was the most recent and most vomitous example of this.
Hence, I can’t muster up a single shred of sympathy for the NFL. They opened this door themselves. And that’s not even adding the aspect of the repulsive gangsta-thug culture that’s now part of the sport. This is not a League nor a group of people I’ll stand with.
Yes, the lefties have football in their target. I don’t care a LOT about football, but I sure as heck care about capitalism. On Hugh Hewitt today, they were wondering why the NFL felt it had to provide a parallel court system. Do they have laws based on the Constitution? What about double jeopardy? What about just letting the legal system take its course.
How about that some of these players could be O’s sons? They look like him, right? But he’s not protecting them. It turns my stomach, I tell you.
The NFL:
Is a non-profit organization. WHOA!
Has a special exemption from federal anti-trust laws. Hidden inside a foreign aid bill put there by congressmen for special interests. KICKBACKS?
Receives special incentives from the local governments at the expense of the taxpayers.
The point made was that it isn’t about you.
Or me.
It’s about that saying,”First they came for the Jews, but I didn’t care or say anything. Next they came for the Christians, but I didn’ care or say anything. Then they came for me, and nobody was left to give a damn or say anything.”
(Paraphrasing badly, but you get the point.)
This. Forget the NFL and the NBA. Circuses to the government’s bread.
” but I sure as heck care about capitalism.”
Then why care about the NFL which receives protected status from our US Congress, non-profit status and special exemptions and funding from local governements.
To be clear, I don’t think you are defending them...I just don’t care. And I’m an avid NFL fan
Ask yourself why the NFL is being targeted. The answer is that the NFL is the very definition of American capitalism, American hard work, American merit, and American freedom.
They sing the national anthem at every game for crying out loud!
Football is an AMERICAN thing. It defines our culture. What country plays football besides America (and next door neighbor Canada)? Same for baseball and NASCAR.
America is so arrogant, donchaknow. They invented their own game. Soccer is the primary game. And soccer is called football everywhere else...arrogant scoundrels.
Rush is right. Football will be displaced in ten years.
I’m convinced that nothing short of extermination (either selectively or in mass) will deter these toads from destroying our culture and our very civilization. If we can’t get people to fight for their 2nd amendment rights, their economy, or their healthcare, how can one expect them to rise up over football?
The NFL deserves everything coming to them for jumping in bed with the PC crowd. They are not a free market.
Read this for more:
Well said!
All black players in the NFL will, or will not, go along with this orchestrated political attack?
Don’t they vote for these Marxists?
Haven’t they always?
Do they even “get” what is happening?
I can’t say that I did.
The NFL is under assault from the outside, AND from within. Components of the leftist PC crowd have positions inside the league headquarters, the front offices of probably every team, and the sports media.
“Our support” can’t possibly save the NFL now. That’s a battle that should have been fought maybe 10 years ago. The Left has already won this one. Football as we have always loved it is already gone. It may be gone completely within the next 25 or so years.
Agreed. And you left out the ramped up criticism of the Redskins’ name. I wouldn’t be surprised if all of this is orchestrated by the Democrat Party. They are looking for any shiny object they can find.
I kinda don’t care. Football is boring, overhyped and their divas, well... whatever. Hockey on the other hand... guys have their nose broken, go to the locker room, then come back out 5 minutes later with a face cage and their nose packed full of cotton. They lose teeth and don’t mind. And when they get in fights, they get 5 minutes in the penalty box and come back out. Don’t football players get fined for fighting and suspended some games? That’s lame.
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