What can save the National Football League?

Guava Cheese Puff | November 6, 2017 | Guava Cheese Puff

[Rockingham]

The NFL should get rid of Charles Goodell and his crew of Lefties and replace them with Tony Dungy and people like him who have good relations with the players and who have a practical approach toward divisive issues. The owners should also announce and fund the formation of the NFL Urban Institute, which is to be focused on improvements in the lives of inner city residents. The NFL Players Association will be asked to participate.

The Institute should aim to develop programs based on: (1) the Finnish model of intense, school centered encouragement and individualized assistance to inner city kids, which is also the approach used in the Tangelo Park effort in Orlando; (2) community wide, church centered improvements in the inner city lifestyle based on the work of Catholic Archbishop John Hughes among the Irish in New York; and (3) the NFL philosophy that combines team effort and accomplishment with individual improvements in skill.

Once these changes are underway, ever so carefully, meet in private with the Players Association and suggest that the kneeling protests have accomplished whatever good may come of them and that it is now time for the players to end them -- and to preferably become flag waving super-patriots for the sake of the game.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Everyone stand at attention for the flag as the National Anthem is being played, hand over heart, head held proud. Pretty simple solution.

[chris37]

That which is dead cannot be saved.

It’s too late.

[Vince Ferrer]

The political correctness is hurting the NFL, but isn’t enough to kill it. What will kill it, in 8-10 years, is the brain injuries. Already parents are not letting their kids play high school football, and a few schools have closed their programs already. This will continue on into the college programs, which will finally impact the pros. After fans see deteriorating quality because of a much smaller talent pool, they will finally completely stop watching.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks GuavaCheesePuff. And more from the "Who Cares?" desk:

• 'Sunday Night Football' Ratings Steady With Season Low As Raiders Win
• NFL Unhappy with Tax Reform Proposals that Cut Billions in Sports Stadium Subsidies
• Football Night in America crew implores Texans to sign Colin Kaepernick [former 3rd string QB, who is no longer in the NFL]
• Players seek mediation with NFL; Colin Kaepernick would attend [NBC, Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison]

[umgud]

Yes, ditto.

[Religion and Politics]

How did social activism creep into the NFL so aggressively? I don't have a problem with it, I am just perplexed how it is damaging the League?

The left's social activism contains a large component of peer pressure disguised as "responsibility". Social activism crept into the NFL aggressively because of the supposed "responsibility" of those otherwise extremely blessed to speak towards social ills in an overt political "in your face" way.

NFL and professional sports fans have shed racist memes and have no hesitation in rooting for "stars" of any race and nationality. The NFL until recently has not been about who you voted for, and watching and attending sporting events brought diverse people together in a positive way. To a large extent, the NFL and sports at large had become one of our culture's most colorblind institutions and a respite from divisive politics.

What can save the NFL?

For the NFL to survive, it will have to again embrace the colorblind and apolitical roots which have the ability to bring people together instead of dividing them. Bring back the "magic" by committing to avoid the divisiveness trap of contemporary politics.

[lee martell]

You have summed the whole situation up for those of us who don’t follow the sport that closely.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Tony Dungy would be good. A good coach. A good man.

[G Larry]

Adult Discipline!

Does anybody else get to bitch about politics on the company dime?

[gunsequalfreedom]

The League needs to take the N out of its logo.

[OldMissileer]

How did social activism creep into the NFL so aggressively? I don't have a problem with it, I am just perplexed how it is damaging the League?

I DO have a problem with it.

No matter what these ghetto thugs think (if they can even put together one single cogent thought) and no matter what the scum Press says and writes, these players have made it to the big time and big salaries in the greatest nation in the history of the World.

Their contribution to this country is to allow the hard working Americans to have a day where they can relax and not think of work or politics and have fun rooting for their favorite team. These teams are even over-represented by blacks and nobody watching cares, yet these same blacks must inject fake politics into the games and the American people are sick and tired of it.

The players are too stupid to understand this concept and the Leftists in this country love it because the left, throughout history, has always tried to take enjoyment out of life and inject politics into every single aspect or our lives, thus making everybody as miserable as them.

[Vision Thing]

I have a couple of serious questions about the future of American football and the National Football League

The future of phewtball is no future.

NFL: No Future League!

[WMarshal]

I love football but I personally would like to see the NFL crater and die. I think that this would be a good thing because after the NFL is gone it is natural that football will rise again in a new form and it will be better than what came before.

America doesn't need to create a new football monopoly to replace the NFL either. It could be as simple as having a law that stipulates that any team that has enough fan attendance and is willing to follow the rule book of whatever football league that arises is automatically a part of that league by law.

The biggest rule of any organized sport should have is “Keep the cucks out because they ruin everything.”

[Maudeen]

Was talking with an area American Legion member today and he said they have blacked out all games and also will not be hosting a Super Bowl Party. I told him that they are to be commended for standing up for love of country.

[jz638]

So many snarky and dismissive comments. Why shouldn’t mine be one more?

Football. Have they tried just playing football?

Seriously though, it’s a generational thing.

I grew up playing football. It involved neighborhood kids and a football. Maybe cleats, but never pads. If the kids were all roughly the same age, it could be tackle, but it was usually two hand touch. A parent was never involved. If we could only round up four kids, we would play catch or run routes with one defender.

Pick any player in the NFL and ask yourself if that sounds like their back story. Sandlots and pickup games. Even the country kids seem to all get pulled into big programs, lots of weight room work, the humanity is gone and worse than that, they are always trying to sell me something.

All of that turned me off to pro football before any anthem protest even started.

[Songcraft]

"I’m choosing to not let the actions of a minority of the players to piss me off so much that I boycott the sport."

Well, you are (of course) entitled to your own opinion, and I fully respect that.   The problem I have with that kind of thinking , is that the "minority of the players" are just like a turd in the punch bowl.   There may be a lot more punch there in that bowl than turd, but who the hell is going to want to drink that punch?

       

By not demanding that these jerks stop disrespecting the flag and the country it represents (which is their own country), and the people who sacrificed their lives for that flag and country, and letting them keep their lucrative American jobs while spitting on the people who pay their salaries, the NFL leadership in effect sanctions that disgusting and despicable behavior, and (like Vin Scully) I will never support those treasonous turds or their diseased product ever again.

To get some brief glimpses at just a few of the many reasons why they should show respect for their flag and the country it represents, watch these videos.   The meaning of our National Anthem, goes far deeper and way beyond that song, "The Star-Spangled Banner", and all of us Americans should learn and know that intimately.

Star-Spangled Banner
The New York Philaharmonic
September 20, 2001 Memorial Concert
(9 Days After 9/11 - Everybody Stood)

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United States National Anthem
(Star Spangled Banner)
(Tribute)

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U.S. Army Pilot Gary Linfoot
Stands For National Anthem
With Exoskeleton

[Nifster]

Nothing.

I quit watching pro football about ten years ago

[ScottinVA]

What can save the NFL?

If all players go on strike and are supplanted by replacements who respect the game and the fans who watch it.

[80skid]

NFL is an entertainment league, they cater to their base and lobbyists.

Going the ways of the NBA.

People are waking up, hopefully.

Until these sports are not held up as Religions, they will continue on.

Big money made and lost betting (fantasy) on them, also fills a social insecurity.

Who was your favorite Gladiator?