Posted on 09/10/2016 7:26:35 AM PDT by xzins
Great Players, Coaches and they were pretty much class acts compared to today's players. They had respect, they wore coats and ties and looked like what you would want players to look like.
Today's NFL is just nothing but a money machine and what they pay these players is unreal.
I have slowly become disillusioned with pro football with college not too far behind. At this point with everything becoming so PC and so many other things I could just give it up and not watch anymore.
While it may be a players right not to stand for the Anthem, there is something about it that almost reeks of disrespect. Now I read that others players, teams, who knows who else, now feel they need to show this disrespect en-mass. Well that may be their right but then again I and millions of others don't have to continue watching and/or supporting the NFL. The NFL has, in my opinion, saturated the market with too much of their product. I wonder if the game has reached it's peak.
Well I don't have to watch.
I may offend a lot of Freepers here, but anyone who sits in front of a television for three and a half hours just to watch 15 minutes of football really ought to get a life.
FYI and FReepr Info, tonight in Bristol Tennessee the largest attendence game in football history will take place in Bristol Tennessee. The city of Bristol Tennessee/Virginia claims the largest stadium in the world said to seat 160, 000 NASCAR fans at the Bristol International Speedway
The game will feature the Volunteers of the University of Tennessee playing the Hokies of Virginia Tech. The game will take place before a sold out crowd of 150,000 rabid fans.
The festivities began last night and will take place pretty much all day today. The stadium opens at 4:00 pm for the game kickoff at 8:00 PM
Contractor began as soon as the infield was vacated after the last race in August to transform the racetrack infield into a foot ball grid iron. The revenue to Bristol and Kingsport and Johnson city is humongous. People arrived in Campers earlier in the week and began a multiday party that will last for who knows how long. (for a typical big race, there are literally thousands of RV campers that come and stay several days)
The first annual event is a story for the ages
I think they actually make their real money off of TV contracts. So actually I think the TV ratings are more important than actual attendance numbers as far as forcing the NFL to do something.
Freegards
I agree, but there should be indictments and jail for a lot of people.
There is the New Glarus brewing company here in WI. I haven’t heard of the Packers pulling anything like this yet. I could see that stupid Aaron Rogers opening his yapper, though.
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Seahawks fans for sure should just get up en-mass and leave the stadium if any of those overpaid useful idiots refuse to stand for the anthem of the nation that gave them the opportunity to become rich and successful by playing football. Just walk out! We don’t need the NFL. We have College and Friday Night Lights. Vote Trump!
I used to watch every game on TV, pre-direcTV and Thur, Sun night games.
One year I was invited to tefl with two lovely ladies to LA and see Phantom of the Opera and have a very nice weekend. I missed the super bowl for the first time in my life. And would do it again. : ) It was Denver VS someone and I taped it. VHS.
When i got home sunday evening, I watched the first half of a blow-out. I fast forwarded it and it took about 25 minutes. Since then i have been taping games and fast forwarding through the time outs and huddles. I can watch an entire game in about 45 minutes.
Now that thug ball has become fake protest ball I am no longer interested in the sport., If they want to let players offend the country, the dead military and veterans and what we stand for and base it on lies, I don’t need to sit through it. I will let Budweiser and the others know my feelings about this. My son likes European football (soccer) and maybe I’ll check it out. I can fast forward that too.
Thanks for writing this. Yes it is time for a financial boycott of the NFL and it’s sponsors at least until the NFL changes its anti-cop, anti-military and anti- American ways!
Don’t spend any $$$ on tickets or merchandise. Don’t watch he games on TV. either - many cable boxes do track and transmit what you watch to the networks.
Also, you should contact their sponsors and let them know you won’t be doing business with them while they sponsor the NFL. Also, if any of these vocal cop hating players have an endorsement deal with a local company, you can contact and let them know you will not do business with them while they have a cop and America hating player as their spokesman.
That clown from the Broncos Brandon Marshall has already lost an endorsement deal from a local bank within 24 hours of his disrespecting our anthem.
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Any owners fit that description?
Yeah, I think the modern NFL owner is pretty ball-less also.
I am going to have a ‘wait-and-see’ attitude. I am going to watch all of the pre-game on NFL Red Zone and if there are protests then I shall change to the weather channel or the Cartoon channel.
For those who have paid for tickets then when the protests start they should not boo. They should simply walk out of the stadium. While the NFL would not be directly hurt, the vendors surely would be. The NFL would then have to wake up and pay attention.
There was a report on Faux News last night which said that the entire 49ers team is planning to protest during the anthem. If that happens then the NFL will be killing itself. Goodell would do nothing and at that point I would forget that the NFL exists.
On the other hand, I wonder what would happen if a NASCAR driver chose to sit or kneel during the anthem. He just might get beaten to death by the other drivers, right there on the track!
I say lets stop being reactive and be proactive. Let’s wear and show our flag with pride...remember after September 11, how everyone was wearing the colors of the flag, hanging a flag outside their homes, putting bumper stickers on their cars...let’s do it again! Let’s show that we are excited about America being great again. I think Trump should encourage all of us to lift up our nation, especially now, when it is being attacked from within. Let’s stop sitting around complaining and DO something.
“Makes more sense to boycott games on Fox because the same corporation hires Juan Williams.”
Your thought is good but conservatives are already abandoning Faux in droves and it has absolutely nothing to do with football. ;-)
I know that f no case in which Juan Williams has shown disdain for the country or its symbols. The entire NFL is responsible for not disciplining that 1%, which will grow.
“it is his lowlife character and stupidity that is the issue.”
BINGO!
He is being led around by the nose by his Muslim girlfriend.
I hate that they will ban some demonstrations of support but not protests.
How can I boycott something I have not watched in years?
The NFL would be a victim of their own success if our current culture wasn’t like it is. Each game is so important that the players can’t self police themselves very well because of the modern penalty system. So today you get weirdo celebratory gyrations over recovered fumbles in a blow out game where otherwise they would have had their guts stomped out next play. And the huge number of average casual fans seem to generally dig the spectacle, as do the sports media, which is pretty much driven by NFL coverage.
Freegards
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