Richard Sherman: The NFL is a ‘bottom line business’ (Boo Freaking Hoo)

msn.com ^ | September 29, 2016 | Charlotte Wilder

[MuttTheHoople]

In a new segment for his weekly series with The Player's Tribune, Seahawks' cornerback Richard Sherman appears in a four-minute video on how the NFL treats its players. He says that the league sees them like race cars, doing just enough to keep them in good shape to perform, then dropping them once they're no longer on a roster.

[ETL]

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story

[ohioman]

I am hoping for a good ACL injury for Richard Sherman. He is one of the biggest douche bag, whiners in the league.

[ohioman]

To hell with Sherman.

[Alberta's Child]

There are a lot of adjectives you could use to describe the NFL (or any professional sport, for that matter), but "capitalist" sure isn't one of them. Their entire business model is built on things that are completely alien to capitalism -- a salary cap and an entry draft, for example.

The NFL is basically a cartel that would be illegal in any industry that is built on capitalism.

[Alberta's Child]

The big difference between the NFL and most other “successful for-profit enterprises” is that the work has had serious risks that may not even be known to the employees at the time they are working.

[Bryanw92]

>>As are all businesses

Not anymore. “Green” businesses don’t have to be bottom line businesses in the ObamaNation. A lot of non-profit “ foundations aren’t either.

[Sans-Culotte]

Gosh, Richard, I wish I gave a damn about how the NFL treats its players. But, I don’t.

[circlecity]

"They certainly pretended they gave a sh!t about the players, when they really didn’t."

Of course they did. The same way a rancher cares about whether his herd catches hoof and mouth disease. Injured players can't play at the level you've invested for them to play at. Athletes and Owners have known for 100 years as to the physical consequences of repeated blows to the head. The studies were done on boxers long ago. In the popular lingo it was called being "punchy" or "punch drunk". In medical terminology it was labeled pugilista dementia. It's nothing new. And virtually every ex NFL player who has suffered from this post playing career when asked whether they would do the same thing knowing then what they know now say YES. They know the risks and know the big benefits and they willfully assume that risk.

[GailA]

Here’s one to add. He’s donated $1 Mil and hosted a golf tournament.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/08/colin_kaepernick_hypocrite.html

Compared to the 6th most charitable LeBron James http://nypost.com/2015/08/14/lebron-james-pledges-87m-for-hometown-kids-to-attend-college/

Who IS STANDING FOR THE FLAG and ANTHEM http://townhall.com/tipsheet/justinholcomb/2016/09/27/lebron-james-standing-for-the-national-anthem-is-something-i-will-do-thats-who-i-am-n2224086

[zzwhale]

no sheet sherlock

it is only the fans that think they are rooting for something... go team go ... yea rah

its like rooting for IBM or Microsoft

hey if you enjoy it ... fine

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY ITS A BUSINESS FOCUSED ON THE BOTTOM LINE...
and for many its gambling and enjoying that more than the game itself or drinking to excess at the local bar....

hey if you got from 1 pm til near midnight on a sunday .... godbless

it is a multibilliondollar business that provdes competition and entertainment
modern day gladiators willing to take millions for their physical and mental well being ....
SHERMAN IS A BRIGHT GUY ..... HE JUST CAUGHT ON.... ???

[RayChuang88]

LeBron James has lived the life of an early bad childhood until his mother allowed him to live with a benefactor (a sports coach named Frank Walker) that eventually steered him to play basketball. That's why he appreciates all the opportunities afforded him and is now hugely giving back to the Akron and Cleveland areas to the disadvantaged living there.

[VideoPaul]

The race car analogy in right on the money. And too goddamn bad for them. They are paid more than what most Americans earn i a lifetime on one year. Most of them aren’t bright, they’re thugs who are paid for their thuggery. Yes, ya dummy, you are paid for what you can do and then you are left to fend for yourselves. LIKE THE REST OF US.

You can “protest” all you want. We don’t care about your problems, we care about our own. Go moan the blues to someone who cares. Take your monosylabbic ass onto the field and give us your thuggery until someone with more thuggery shows up. Then you’ll be left on the trash heap of eternity.

Which is where you should have been in the first place.

Hey, how’s that college degree that you “earned” while playing college ball? Didn’t get anything out of your free, 100% scholarship?

Ya get what ya pay for!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

He says that the league sees them like race cars, doing just enough to keep them in good shape to perform, then dropping them once they're no longer on a roster.

That's true. And...? It's up to the players to decide whether the fame and money are worth the physical toll. Plenty of them do, and those who don't are free to choose other lines of work.

[TomGuy]

The key word is “business”, not a social experiment, not a political organization.

That “business” is sports for entertainment, not for social experimentation, not for supporting certain political persuasions.

Lose sight of the key word “business” and you likely will lose the viewership/attendee numbers which sustain your “business” — sports for entertainment.

[Iron Munro]

The big difference between the NFL and most other “successful for-profit enterprises” is that the work has had serious risks that may not even be known to the employees at the time they are working.

I understand what you are saying but lets face it - in general professional sports figures are more than amply compensated.

Sure there are risks playing a game like football, but there are risks, usually much greater risks, in other fields.

Law enforcement, US military, logging, commercial fishing, steel workers, roofers, garbage pick up, farming and driving a truck or a taxi, to name a few.

I just checked the Bureau of Labor Statistics ranking for the 25 most dangerous occupations and professional sports is not one of them.

And most (all) of those in dangerous occupations don't usually get multi-million contracts in their early 20's.

Remember, the instigator of this disgusting movement, Colin Kaepernick, got a $114 million dollar contract at age 24.

He's still wet behind the ears yet dishonors the flag and country that made his fantastic success possible.

A flag and country that a million or more better men fought and died for.

[Enterprise]

I look at the pictures of the ladies and hear the theme to “Shaft.”

[who_would_fardels_bear]

It was one thing when the greatest thing to fear in American sports was the rise of soccer, the official sport of the UN.

Now we have to worry about the soccerfication of football.

So sad.

[Redwood71]

Bill Ayers was a friend and campaign provider setting up his home for campaign for Obama in 2008. He has been a frequent guest of Obama at the white house. And has been involved with a couple of committees in Chicago for schools and they worked together on the Woods Fund of Chicago.Ayers also sold a house to Obama in Chicago. They were pretty tight.

The Black Panthers supplied people at polls during both elections. The first one was with people with clubs who said they were there to make sure the election was on the square. The second election had a guy opening doors for people, whether they wanted it or not, in Philly. The doorman refused to answer any questions like the first election.

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[IrishBrigade]

the work has had serious risks that may not even be known to the employees at the time they are working.

so these players had no idea that crashing into each other at high speed, over and over, might someday create serious health risks...?

OK...

[ETL]

The Black Panthers supplied people at polls during both elections.

That was the New Black Panther Party, with "Billy Clubs"...

“Although it [The New Black Panther Party] says it sees capitalism as the fundamental problem with the world and “revolution” as the solution, the new party does not draw its influences from Marxism or Maoism as the original party did. Instead, in a carefully-worded, roundabout form of ethnic nationalism,[8] they say that Marx based his ideology and teachings on indigenous African cultures, and that the NBPP therefore need not look to Marxism or Maoism as a basis for their program, but can look to ideologies that stem directly from those African origins.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20160930202659/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party
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Source: National Geographic Channel:

http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/inside/4271602601-new-black-panthers

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/national-geographic-channel-new-black-panthers/3467174778
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Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007:
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/10/03/shock-photos-barack-obama-with-new-black-panther-party-on-campaign-trail-in-2007/