Posted on 09/10/2016 7:26:35 AM PDT by xzins
The NFL is also a “non profit” entity. What a laugh.
I am tired of seeing the celebrations, which really are in your face taunts, the mostly black players put on opponents and teammates. Watch the “tribal” moves, it is not entertaining but a turn off that is repeated throughout the 60 minutes of “play.”
Sadly too many dudes on our side will NEVER do it because they know “X player” is a good Christian patriot yada yada, and so it “wouldn’t be fair” to punish them, or something like that.
I dont give a toss about any level of the sport. It is nothing but bread and circuses that sucks tax dollars and makes a small group of people extremely rich.
The NFL, NBA, etc. are opium for the masses - kick the addiction!
Watching the Seahawk game tomorrow. Whether I’ll watch the whole game depends on what happens when the Star Spangled Banner is played. Political correctness is destroying this country. I am seriously considering emigrating.
Ask average American football fan who won the super bowl 3 years ago, and they don’t have a clue or they have to wrack their brains for a bit.
IOW, it’s irrelevant to everyday life.
The NFL had better get control of their workplace...because if they don’t, their audience will naturally bleed away. Plenty of entertainment options...many let you do more than sit on a couch...and the NFL has monstrous overhead. Protests of oppression by workers with multi-million dollar contracts aren’t going to cut it.
Omitting, for purposes of this discussion, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christians should have something better to do on the Lord’s Day than watch a professional football game. So you are appealing to the small subset of non-Christians and antinomians who are patriots.
No place really to go to.
Me too, brother, just cut my cable TV on Sep. 1st.
The final nail in the coffin was seeing my formerly beloved Seattle Mariners have a "gay pride" appreciation night recently.
Screw them and the NFL too!
I wish people would care about Wells Fargo cheating 2 million customers and the government being more interested in $175M fine instead of jailing people involved in the fraud.
NFL has Monday, Thursday, and occasionally, a Saturday game.
However, I get your point. You think Christians should have other things occupying their time on the Lord’s Day.
There’s nothing wrong with that opinion.
They think their vast knowledge of sports qualifies them to pontificate about other things as well. Its really a form of intellectual arrogance, and disrespect for the viewers whose reason for tuning in was to watch a game instead of being lectured to.
Everyone can do as they please, like always.
99% of fans will keep watching, just like 99% of the NFL honors the flag.
I climb the wall over that stuff.
What would the NFL do with a player who stated, “Homosexuality is condemned by God in the Bible.”?
The modern NFL product fits the state of the modern culture perfectly. It would be shocking if it wasn’t more popular than all the other pro-sports combined. It only became even more popular after the glitz and swishy celebration/chest slapping displays became the norm. The average casual fan digs that stuff, or at least tolerates it. And I doubt if they care about this controversy too much, at least enough to stop watching.
Freegards
I’m with you Navin. Of course, players have the right to protest, but, they’d be smart to do it in a more respectful way. And guess what? SO DO WE!! You can bet your bottom dollar that if football fans staged a national boycott, the NFL would take care of this problem overnight. I am prepared to sit out the entire season... and I have 6 season tickets to see my glorious Redskins play. (Yeah, I said my team’s name... OMG! Call the PC police!)
Sounds like you’re hooked to the drug. The boycott is to punish the organization and it’s leaders for not taking a firm stand against this idiocy.
As for the 99% they should be more active in denouncing the 1% if they want to safeguard their high paying gigs. I haven’t seen much of that.
http://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/0616_pride
June was DoD sponsored gay pride month.
How do you like those apples?
Closer to home - if more high school brats start mimicking this nonsense, be prepared to get up and walk out of the stadium.
Free speech works both ways.
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