Posted on 02/02/2014 11:34:17 PM PST by Kaslin
While everyone was paying attention to the demise of the U.S. economy, the U.S. workforce, the checks and balances written into the U.S. Constitution, a terrible tragedy has ensued almost unnoticed.
Yes, while the rest of were working to “save” the country from galloping Big Government, the most perfect game in the history of the universe has brought itself to the brink of extinction.
The downfall of the National Football League is imminent
There are many signs and symptoms of the NFL’s impending doom there for the thinking person to see.
The NFL used to have the problem that there was more demand than there was supply of NFL games. But after a half-a-dozen years of expanding distribution, including game replays, games without commercials, games over the Internet and NFL on demand, there’s too much product out there.
And then there’s the almost forgotten fact that the average fan won’t spend the $500 it costs to go to a game.
But that’s not the worst of it.
Their leadership is clueless, too.
Take NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for example.
Here’s a man who wouldn’t be a bad commissioner if he didn’t want to be a commissioner so badly. But he does want to be commissioner so badly that he thinks that HE’s the game.
Goodell is the NFL’s answer to Barack Obama, a guy who thinks that just showing up and being a rock star is his job description.
Roger Goodell is certainly the worst commissioner the NFL has had in my lifetime. He might be the worst commissioner in all ofsports in my lifetime.
Under his lack of leadership, the play on the field is incompressible, with rules so complex and indefinable that the referees are having a tough time calling a clean game.
Rule changes, like those affecting the part of football that has to do with the foot—kickoffs and extra points—have been deemed practically superfluous, without a lot debate, thanks to Goodell.
You gotta get the product right on the field first and foremost, guys.
That’s what the game is about.
But these aren’t the worst things about the trend of the game.
The NFL has allowed politics to be interjected into the game repeatedly, running anti-2nd Amendment commercials on the one hand during the Super Bowl, and rejecting a commercial from a gun manufacturer—who by the way sells a perfectly legal product, guaranteed by the constitution.
But the sellout doesn’t stop there.
It gets worse.
As my friend Bill Rogan, sportscaster for KNUS AM710 Denver has noted: “Quarterbacks Kyle Orton, Curtis Painter, Michael Vick, Rex Grossman, Drew Stanton, Ryan Lindley, Colt McCoy, Tavares Jackson, Jordan Palmer, Shaun Hill, Scott Tolzien, Seneca Wallace, Josh Freeman, Christian Ponder, Matt Cassel, Sean Renfree, Dominique Davis, Derek Anderson, Jimmy Clausen, Luke McCown, Dan Orlovsky, Thad Lewis, Matt Moore, Pat Devlin, David Garrard, Matt Simms, Geno Smith, Mark Sanchez (injured reserve), Tyler Bray, Chase Daniel, Matt McGloin, Terrelle Pryor, Brad Sorensen, Charlie Whitehurst, Tyrod Taylor, Josh Johnson, Zac Robinson, Jason Campbell, Brian Hoyer, Alex Tanney, Brandon Weedon, Bruce Gradkowski, T.J. Yates, Matt Hasselbeck, Ricky Stanzi, Blaine Gabbert, Chad Henne and Rusty Smith were all on NFL rosters this past season. But Tim Tebow wasn't.”
“Well they say Tebow isn't an NFL quarterback. He can't throw. He can't read defenses. He can't play,” Rogan continued. “I'm glad I watched the video to confirm that this guy can't play. He can't complete a pass. He doesn't do anything to help his team win. What a loser. No wonder he wasn't on an NFL roster. All those guys listed above have proven themselves to be NFL greats with highlight reels hours long. Yep, watch the video. This guy can't play.”
He can play. But really he CAN’T play… because he’s Christian.
"And just as I feel compelled to call out the league when it comes to injustices like the dearth of minorities in offensive play-calling roles,” wrote Yahoo NFL writer Michael Silver last year, “the apparent blacklisting of a quarterback who went 7-4 as a starter in 2011 and won a memorable playoff game over the Pittsburgh Steelers doesn't seem kosher to me.”
That’s because it’s not kosher.
Imagine the NFL blacklisting someone who is outspoken about global warming, or anti-poverty programs or women’s and minority issues.
They wouldn’t dream of doing it.
You can rape and abuse a woman, be an accessory to murder, get nailed for doping and as long your play on the field is acceptable, the NFL has a place for you.
But being a Christian?
That’s where they draw the line.
Of course they’re in trouble.
When the game that helped America kill the color barrier has no more room at the stadium for Touchdown Jesus, the end is near.
(P.s. While I was editing this column a commercial for Scientology appeared during the Super Bowl. It’s a good thing the NFL has standards. I rest my case.)
Very cool!
Here’s where I’m going to disagree with you DoodleDawg. Tebow presents a different problem that players like Reggie White, Russell Wilson and most other Christians in the league do not. He is very outspoken about a number of “touchy” issue like Right to Life and has aligned himself with pastors who are very outspoken about homosexuality.
He’s a much different cat than most Christians in the league who are expressive about their faith, but don’t really touch on social issues.
So yeah I think some teams are a little hesitant to touch Tebow and the media circus which comes with him. However, given his work in the off season and his ability to win games I would not hesitate to bring him in for a look.
It doesn't matter what I want. The Broncos didn't want only to go to the playoffs, which is why they brought in Manning.
One of those wins I can explain. Fourth quarter wins against the Minnesota Vikings shouldn't count because they aren't gained against an NFL defense.
That sounds like a rational theory. First one I've seen so far in fact...
“and bought a defense.”
And an offensive line!
And yes a defense.
The Seagulls quarterback had all day to throw, and he was darn good!
Sure. Other than winning games, he had no ability at all, and all 64+ quarterbacks in the NFL are better than him. Yep, that’s easy to see. Anyone could have stepped in at Denver on a bad losing streak, turned it around, and even won the first playoff game. Yep, dime a dozen talent right there.
And as I said, CNN is only interested in improving their bottom line.
On a separate note, tell me why the NFL vetoed the Daniel Defense commercial. Does their money not spend as well?
Forget it DoodleDawg. Tebow has been declared a “Saint” by some. It doesn’t matter whether he was up to par as an NFL starting or even backup QB or not, it doesn’t matter how slow and indecisive he was in the shoot, how bad he was at calling or following plays as you pointed out or how badly he performed in practice as I did or no matter how much time he was given to develop, no matter how hard he worked to improve his timing and footwork, that he simply didn’t.
Tim Tebow Loves Jesus so that is all that matters to some.
It would seem some are in favor of some sort of NFL Christian affirmative action plan – “he’s a good Christian and an all around nice guy” so his employers should just overlook the fact that he wasn’t performing up to their expectations.
FWIW a few years ago I had a senior payroll specialist reporting to me. She was a very devout Christian and didn’t hide this, which was not in any way a problem for me or for my superiors at this company as the owners of this company were also openly Christian.
The problem was that she wasn’t very good at her job. She usually did OK if she had very specific and well defined and documented tasks assigned to her and had a lot of supervision, but she couldn’t think on her own, couldn’t make good decisions or know when to bring something important to my attention vs. the very small and inconsequential issues that at her level and with her years of experience and at her job grade, she should have been capable of handling on her own and not constantly bringing me into. And when she did make decisions on her own, she made bad ones. She didn’t make a lot of mistakes as in every day but when she did make them, they were spectacular.
I tried to work with her, mentor her and teach her some things especially when it came to the new PR software system we had just upgraded to and about DOL rules regarding OT and shift work and tipped employees. But she was stuck in a mindset of “this is how I’ve always done things” even if it was wrong and was very resistant to learning new things, new ways of looking at things, more efficient ways of doing things and seemed to resent me as her “new boss”. Several times my superiors wanted me to write her up and or fire her but I still wanted to give her time considering how long she’d been with the company. I had several meetings with her and talked to her and documented the areas where she was not meeting expectations and where she needed to improve but she didn’t seem to take it very seriously, she kept making excuses for why she couldn’t do what was expected of her, why it was “too hard”.
My thanks was that when one day she made a very bad error in importing time from the clocks that caused about half of our hourly folks to be paid incorrectly, she tried to throw me under the bus, saying it was all my fault because I didn’t train her even though I had and this procedure was unchanged from what she had been doing long before I got there and happened months after we transitioned to the new system and that she hadn’t followed the documented procedures nor had she done the documented cross check of her work.
I felt bad letting her go, she cried and I cried but at the end of the day, she had to go. We found a very competent replacement for her and she was great.
Yes. The Seattle defense racked up 9 points, and Denver got 8.
THEY WERE WINNING!
You said they were NOT.....
Uh....the subject was the Tebow season...
The claim was Tebow didn’t win....it was the defense....
but, thanks for jumping in....
The difference being, of course, that Seabiscuit had the talent to prove them wrong. Tebow doesn't.
Inability to play his position at the professional level. But that simple fact is overlooked by those insisting on his martyrdom. The simple fact is that Tebow could spend his entire offseason picketing abortion clinics and if he were a decent quarterback none of that would matter. But he isn't a decent quarterback, he's a mediocre quarterback at best. That's the only reason why he's out of football.
Not this **** again. Why is it so hard for people to grasp that Tebow is not a good QB?
Yeah the other 44 players on the team had nothing to do with it. And apparently the teams have decided that the QB they've got is better than the QB that's failed.
On a separate note, tell me why the NFL vetoed the Daniel Defense commercial. Does their money not spend as well?
You would have to ask the NFL that.
Maybe we need to put it in language they can relate to?
"Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not. Verily Tim Tebow passeth not with accuracy and is not a good quarterback."
Admittedly the last sentence was not from Jeremiah. But had Jeremiah been an NFL fan then I'm sure he would have added it.
Explaining to some why Tebow is not on a roster It’s like trying to reason with climate alarmists. “Tebow was blackballed because, because, well, he just had to be.” Their minds are made up, the science is settled. And no one takes them seriously, either.
No I didn't. I said he didn't keep winning. He didn't take them to the Super Bowl, did he? That means he lost a game. Doesn't it? Apparently you think what he did was good enough. Apparently Denver management thinks it was not.
Yea, that's why they were doing so well before he started at QB. By your logic, the 44 players suddenly got a lot better than they were, so much so that they went from losing with a good QB to winning with a bad one. That is much easier to accept than Tebow being a factor I guess.
c. Daniel Defense, You would have to ask the NFL that.
Why's that? I thought you were perfectly up to speed on the NFL's business decisions. Didn't you say that they put winning first? Isn't making money winning? Obviously there is something else at play concerning the Daniel Defense decision that doesn't fit into your paradigm.
The NFL has been making business decisions based on political correctness for quite a while now, and more so every year. Tebow might have been able to overcome that if he had entered the NFL as a top-5 QB (quite a feat for a rookie), but simply being in the top 75% was never going to do it for him.
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