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.
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