Posted on 09/25/2017 12:18:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
RUSH: I want to share with you first the way all of this affected me, because in many ways I think that I am fairly typical. I am smack-dab in the middle of the targeted marketing the NFL does to acquire and hold an audience, right smack-dab in the middle of it. And I have to tell you, I was so sad Sunday morning when all of this started falling out.
But if you’ll permit me first, I was personally saddened. I did not watch the National Football League yesterday, and it was the first time in 45 years that I made an active decision not to watch, including my team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. It was not a decision made in anger. It was genuine sadness. I realized that I can no longer look at this game and watch this game and study this game and pretend, you know, fantasize, everything a fan does. This whole thing has removed for me the ingredients that are in the recipe that make up a fan.
You can’t watch ESPN anymore and just learn about what happened during the day in football games. You can’t. You are going to be deluged with other things that are irrelevant to why you care and why you want to watch. You can’t open the internet in the morning — newspaper, whatever. You can’t. You just can’t watch and absorb and learn about the NFL the way I used to be able to. You have to be willing to accept all the other things now that people are using it for — and it is being used.
I’ve evolved a whole bunch of theories as to what happened, what is happening, who’s gonna win in this, who’s gonna lose in this, who is doing the right thing, who’s doing the wrong thing. I’ve been running all these different scenarios. I’ve got some input from some friends I want to share with you as well. Some of them have some quite fascinating takes. The upshot of it is, though, the sad realization that something I loved — and, look, this is not old man “get off my yard” stuff.
Yep in the 70s when the weather turned bad and I could not go out and play all day I as a kid was glued to CBS and NBC football.
The NFL has existing "game conduct" rules that make this protest out-of-bounds. The fact that they refuse to enforce the existing rules tells me all I need to know.
The corollary to cake baking is that the first amendment explicitly protects the free exercise of religion, with no exception for "unless you run a business". Your comparison notwithstanding, the two examples are direct opposites. The NFL has rules it declines to enforce to allow players to explicitly offend its customers. The Constitution has rules that are countermanded by subordinate laws in the states, and no one is willing to protect the business owners from being deprived of their right to associate (or not) and to freely exercise their religion.
We disagree profoundly, FRiend.
we are more in agreement than you think...
The Constitution has rules that are countermanded by subordinate laws in the states, and no one is willing to protect the business owners from being deprived of their right to associate (or not) and to freely exercise their religion.
i just take the constitution to include the nfl owners to let their employees do what they want.
you have a right to your opinions and i will protect your right to express them, like the nfl players.... good luck
No, we agree very little.
The NFL is not a governmental body. Therefore, it has the right to establish rules regarding conduct such as this.
The states are a governmental body, and therefore do NOT have the right to establish rules contrary to the Constitution.
The NFL chose to create rules against conduct such as in these protests, and they choose not to enforce their own rules.
States who prosecute bakers, florists, and the like choose to ignore the supreme law of the land (Constitution, including 1A) and punish people for behavior clearly allowed under the first.
You, also, are entitled to your opinion, and you are entitled to express it. I have the right to disagree, and to point out where part of your opinion (the percentage of agreement between us) is egregiously incorrect.
Be well, FRiend.
It’s not sad at all. I find life is better without the NFL.
The NFL chose to create rules against conduct such as in these protests, and they choose not to enforce their own rules.
...thus making new rules that they choose to follow...
States who prosecute bakers, florists, and the like choose to ignore the supreme law of the land (Constitution, including 1A) and punish people for behavior clearly allowed under the first.
...supreme law of the land... freedom of expression... i just put more weight on that freedom than you do and when the majority acts tyrannically towards the minorities, i stand up for the rights of the minority... not that i believe in their protests, but their right to do so...
be good.
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