People will watch anyway. It’s a drug.
Rush never learned his lesson about messing with the black quarterback, eh?
I don’t always agree with Rush lately but he’s on point with this. The Obama/media assaults the American people at every turn. They won’t allow us to have hope or joy, they beat us senseless.
This football skirmish is just another instance of destroying the American soul. No more turning on the game to escape, to have fun, to get away from the 24/7 political beating.
If there is one thing Limbaugh knows, it is the importance of sports to the American psyche, and he is absolutely correct on this. Americans do not watch sports for political messages, they watch sports to get away from them.
Anyone who tries to use sports as a political platform is going to get a backlash. Retires sports stars can run for office; that’s OK, because they have separated from the game. But if they are still playing, politicizing breaks the rule.
My analysis is a little simpler. An athlete or an actor ought not be using his celebrity to make political points. It’s an abuse of power. His political viewpoint is no more valid than anyone else’s. He’s paid to play the game, not to give his political opinions. If he decides to give his opinion despite the fact that no one asked him his opinion, then he’s inviting ridicule and disgust. Ultimately, that erodes the bottom line.
I turned him off for the day.
The league forcing players to wear pink during the entire month of Oct. is bad enough.
Well, as long as we have the PATRIOTS - the team the liberals love to hate, football will be fine with me.
I used to love basketball, but the gay bathroom thing has me completely turned off.
Already stopped watching, the very day whats his face lectured us during half time on why the Washington Redskins was racist. Turn the TV off, don’t watch it.
Why is the NFL allowing Casperdick to do this while not allowing the Dallas Cowboys a US Flag on uniform to Honor the 5 murdered police officers in Dallas? any possible answer?
This is one thing that Rush has been correct on in this election year.
I’ve always been more of a college football fan myself. I don’t often watch pro unless it’s a playoff game involving a team that I like, or the Super Bowl. So, I don’t know much about this guy, but it appears to me that this country has been very good to him. I suspect people who watch pro football are at least nominally more prone to patriotism than average. I also suspect people who watch pro football are very annoyed with political grandstanding. He’s going to get a “shut up and play” reaction, that is if he isn’t cut from the team.
These players need to grab a beer, sit down and watch the original version of Rollerball to gain some perspective on the purpose of professional sports.
Something like this won’t really alienate fans from the sport.
MLB alienated many fans not for these types of antics, but for a player strike.
Already done, I am a former fan.
Too late—I stopped watching professional sports years ago.
I’m about to pack it in on college athletics as well.
I enjoy it, but if the NFL closed up shop tomorrow and never played another game it wouldn’t bother me in the least.
Actually, Rush is correct. It will take time, but people will quietly start looking to other entertainment.