The best reason yet for boycotting the NFL
As a fifty-year follower of the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys being my team, and someone who waits eagerly each year for the season to start, I really thought it would be like going cold turkey on a booze addiction to ever give up my favorite sport. This year, adding to the anticipation, there was a brand new 65-inch Sony sitting just a few feet from the recliners and the waiting fireplace. I was set for the season.
And then those foolish young black players decided imprudently to follow the league’s biggest loser in his flag- and anthem-disrespecting protest against supposed oppression of blacks in America. Like many in the NFL fan base, I was initially angered but unsure what to do about it. My uncertainty didn’t last long – on week three, when my Boys linked arms and knelt prior to the game, with owner, Jerry Jones, right in the middle, this ol’ Cowboy fan changed channels and hasn’t watched anything from the NFL since.
I confess that there have been times when I was tempted, like the boozer in rehab, to take just one little taste, but I have managed to remain steadfast. Now, as we are treated to weekly images of evermore empty NFL stadiums and declining television ratings, I no longer have to fear falling off the wagon, for just this very morning I read this:
“Well, I think it’s deeply troubling that the president would be attacking black athletes for expressing their opinions peacefully,” [Hillary] Clinton told Sirius XM host Zerlina Maxwell. “Protest is a part of the American way of life and it’s something that I’m very proud of whether I agree or disagree peaceful protest is part of what has helped us make progress, learn more, be a better country over time.”
“I just couldn’t help thinking that he has attacked these black athletes for peacefully protesting, but he doesn’t really attack white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klanners, or Vladimir Putin, who interfered in our election and I think it’s all part of his political calculation and I really think it’s bad for the country. He wants to set people against each other, he wants to divide us,” she added.
Yep, that Clinton, hateful Hillary, the despised doyenne of defeat, the lame, lying lioness of losing, that selfsame, swamp-side elitist who last year looked me square in the eye through my television screen and contemptuously sneered that I, me, a poor kid, combat veteran, college graduate on the G.I. Bill with a successful career and retirement, an American success story, am a deplorable human being, has just given her blessing to this Democrat-induced racial cancer growing within the bowels of the NFL.
Well, folks, that’s good enough for me. If Cankles is for it, then it goes without saying that I am dead-set against. If liberals wanted to inject progressive politics into football, they just did so with a partisan turkey baster, and in a way that firms up this conservative patriot’s resolve like nothing before. If Hillary supports anything political, I’m viscerally opposed – a response, I suspect, is widespread among the largely conservative white male fan base, her weakest demographic. So if any of you need additional resolve in turning your back on the NFL and its gutless owners, remember that Hillary is in full support of those players kneeling while our national anthem is played.
Once again, twice in less than a year, Hillary has made decision-making easier for me.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: Politics
Of COURSE she is in favor of the players doing what they are doing. It denigrates the US, erodes a means for grown men to act like men and support themselves and their families, and generally supports the proggie agenda which demeans minorities who attempt to leave the plantation.
The news last night was that Green Bay is so desperate for a win this season, some fans have started a petition to hire Kaepernick, who got fired and is looking for work. I’m sure he won’t go hungry any time soon.
If Green Bay is that desperate, then when the Bears/Packers game comes to pass, da Bears might win this time.
I have not watched NFL football for some time because it bores the crap out of me. If it’s failing as a spectator sport, fine by me. I’d rather watch rugby or soccer. And anyway, figure skating will be coming up soon, so there’s that.
@ EX-PH2:
My recently deceased stepmother, the United States Army Second World War veteran, LOVED watching figure skating.
I always wondered how my father endured it, having to sit through all those figure skating broadcasts, over and over?
But, they truly loved each other.
Here in Vernal, Utah, football is still big among the kids as a family activity, but they’re equally enthusiastic about soccer.
Don’t worry about klapperdick ( or whatever his name is ) . He can always move into his (white) adaptive parent’s basement .
I dunno, his adopted mama is pissed at the whiny little pussyfied, overindulged p.o.s.!
Totally with you on rugby (esp rugby league) and soccer…
Although Aussie Rules Football is still my favorite
I remember the bumper stickers most College Rugby Players had, “GIVE BLOOD, PLAY RUGBY”.
Soccer is a gentlemen’s game played by hooligans
Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.
Played a little for our little colleges team. Not unusual for us to show up minus a few players and the other team loan us a couple so the game could be played. The after keggers were epic
As much as he’s paying lawyers to try legal routes to get a job, he won’t have as much money as he thinks he will for too long.
Lawyers make things add up way too much.
LaCross is a fun game to watch, as well.
Try hurling if you can find it – kind of a more brutal form of lacrosse. For some reason the Micks love games that entail broken teeth.
Re. your comment about CTE among football players – I thought having their lifespans shortened was one of the few PLUSES about thugball. However, I m a little biased – I was raised with the Cardinals football team, so I never had professional football.
I heard that the NFL has begun to consider consolidating teams starting with a merger of the Packers and Tampa Bay, to be known as the Tampackers. They won’t last more than one period and have no second string!
Yo NFL!
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Yo! I Agree! Great Job CPO.
Interesting that you should use dollar signs for that one, as that’s all the NFL knows.
In the meantime, who’s up for some NCAA ball?
I found it on the interwebz. I did think the dollar sign was a nice touch of irony though.
It definitely works.
“despised doyenne of defeat”!!! Well done, PT.
I turned my back on the NFL last year when Colon knelt, and I haven’t been back. And won’t be.
By the way, H. Wideload claims she fell off her high heels and broke a toe. Does anyone believe she could get those overstuffed gunboats into a pair of heels?
For the Despised Doyenne of Defeat [ht: Poe] “high heels” are any shoes she wears while on her meds.
“Does anyone believe she could get those overstuffed gunboats into a pair of heels?”
If she did, she’d probably strike oil.
See below, my response to your question about shrillary.
Hillary Clinton, talk about a bitter washed up has-been LOSER!
I’m agin her running again just because she will then whine bout losing – publicly – till 2050.
I was never much for watching a lot of games, to be honest I haven’t watched a full game of football since 1982 so this current round of stupidity has done nothing to alter my viewing habits which didn’t involve the NFL anyway. What I do find interesting from a purely observational standpoint is how folks never cared that the players contained some reprobates, would-be rapists, wife-beaters, child-beaters, guys who committed assault with deadly weapons….none of that bothered any fans. As long as these assholes could throw, catch, run, or kick the fans loved them regardless of how they behaved off the field. I’m not sure what that says about the moral compass of the fans, but I remain unconvinced that this new round of angst by the fans will amount to jack shit in the long term…I’m seeing a few things indicating viewership was down, but that has been headed down for a couple of years now, mostly because there are so many other options that don’t involve steroid enhanced monsters bashing their brains into long term CTE disease. Three and a half to four and a half hours to play a one hour game is all you need to know about the action sport of football…it’s an entertainment vehicle designed to sell merchandise to people. Nothing more, they get a lot of these guys to put some money into their communities so they can use that to seem like they give a shit…and no doubt some of those players do care…but in the end it’s a huge business that tried to ruin an honest man’s reputation when he blew the whistle on just how devastating this sport is to the human brain inside these players. I’ve been ridiculed in years past for saying Fuck the NFL(on this very website no less)…and it makes me laugh that some clowns kneeling finally pissed off a few more people to the point where maybe they might stop watching for a little bit… If the NFL ended tomorrow I’d be happy as hell to see a company that ruins the lives of… Read more »
I quit watching NFL after Tom Landry retired and Bum Phillips got fired.
The off-field actions of the players definitely did not entice me to return.
I still enjoy a good HS football game and the occasional college football game, especially when I know the players.
It may cost me a corner of my “True 100% Texan” card to say it, but I’m not that big on sports. (Still love me some bronc busting rodeo, tho’.)
Rodeo, now there’s a competition sport that’s FAR more dangerous than football and let someone sit or kneel when The National Anthem is played at a Rodeo, then see how quickly they fall up and down several staircases!
They may get to cushion the ground in the pen for the bull, so he doesn’t hurt his hoofs.
I was bred, born, and raised a rodeo fan. I live a rodeo fan. I will die a rodeo fan.
And when this anti-American bullshit started, PRCA cowboys (including quite a few Canadians, Mexicans, Argentinians, etc) signed a unanimous declaration that they would stand and respect the flag and anthem of whatever country they happen to be competing in, no exceptions. Rodeo is a sport in which bad behavior is dealt with out back of the stock pens.
Yep.
Yep, my son is a college level bull rider, so I’ve been to plenty of rodeos, and the only time I’ve ever seen an athlete at one of them kneel was when he / she was giving thanks to God! As API says, not only does such behavior as with the NFL not happen at rodeos, it damn sure would not be tolerated if some idiot tried it.
Is he in the program at Sam? They have a great rodeo program, and a popular AgriBiz school.
Nope, OJC here in Colorado. good rodeo program, and hes working on Livestock Production degree.
This is the best comment I have ever read on this site. I am am Foosball hater as well… oh you just picked this sport up last week and you 6’6 270? Welcome to the pros! Low skill sport has no business being ands popular as it is. Hopefully the NFL will fail, but I doubt it. People will forget and go on handing their money to the many players that are criminals.
My problem with the reprobates was that they were convicted in the court of public opinion as soon as they were accused/investigated/arrested for any transgression. “OMG Player X was accused of assaulting a woman in a bar, he should be banned for life, the NFL needs to institute mandatory sensitivity and diversity training to prevent the actions.”
Now as soon as Player Dirtbag is convicted, pleads guilty or otherwise has some sort of legal sanction imposed, by all means, toss his ass out.
I’ve found the easiest way to avoid watching NFL this season is to be in Iraq. Games are on in the wee hours of the morning and I’m not that much of a fan that I’ll get up that early. Now college football….
Stacy,your point is understood. I find the fans sudden morality over the issue of kneeling somewhat at odds with their(the fans) previous acceptance of a relatively low bar of behavior from the players. The number of convicts playing in the league led directly to the joke that the name of the league was actually the National Felons League.
Those convicted still had jobs if they were good and their convictions didn’t matter to the owners or the fans.
I tend to take this new round of offense over the kneeling with a rather large grain of salt…it’s the latest dog whistle to keep the pack howling together. As usual the dog whistle never fails to deliver an amusingly good time.
Best wishes for your continued good health while overseas.
I am probably as guilty of this as anyone, though I had turned my back on certain players over the years.
Good post VOV.
I stopped watching the NFL way back in the 1970s when I realized that the teams get taxpayers like my dad to pay for their stadiums and when they don’t get big dollar upgrades every few years they just up and leave.
All of the rest of the scum and villainy in the professional sports is fruit of the pocket picking mentality at the center of the business model.
I agree with most of what you stated.
A possible alternative explanation, re: why now vs not for all the thug-life crap from before.
When player X committed thug-life act (fill-in-the-blank), it was an individual act against another individual(s). Even as the thug-life conduct became ever more widespread, it was still against individuals.
The kneeling thing is against the entire nation, and, it seems to me, against all the Republic stands for.
Yes.
C’mon, VOV, you are a better writer and a better man than to write such broad generalizations as this:
“What I do find interesting from a purely observational standpoint is how folks never cared that the players contained some reprobates, would-be rapists, wife-beaters, child-beaters, guys who committed assault with deadly weapons….none of that bothered any fans. As long as these assholes could throw, catch, run, or kick the fans loved them regardless of how they behaved off the field.”
“Folks never cared?” Of course they cared and they were getting fed up with it which is why the NFL is getting such a strong backlash on this anthem issue.
“Fans loved them regardless?” No, VOV, the fans didn’t love them regardless. the fans were growing very sick of such shit.
Millions of NFL fans were complaining of these issues long before this anthem brouhaha broke last year. Ditto the too-long games and the over-officiating. When you try to make it sound like we only became angry when the black players started their protest, you’re being intellectually dishonest, a very unusual thing for you, VOV.
Average viewers per year for weekly games ratings: 2012 22.5 million 2013 21.8 million 2014 22.4 million 2015 24.4 million 2016 21.2 million 2017 is yet to be determined as we are still gathering the data. If you think last year was based on Kapernick as opposed to the firestorm of the election you are welcome to that thought process. I remain unconvinced those numbers show a fan base getting fed up with anything… I believe that what you are seeing in the NFL along with most major league sports is a declining viewership for a variety of reasons very few which have anything to do with how the players behave. It has far more to do with the increasing levels of viewership of pay services like Netflix, Hulu, etc…providing original and interesting content. Every sport is seeing a slow decline as people move towards those other services. I’d love to be wrong on this PT, but so far the moral compass of the average NFL fan has been more than a little suspect. “Millions of fans were complaining” you say I’m being intellectually dishonest and claim I’m writing at a substandard level of quality…the numbers above would disagree with you just a bit…1 out of 10 fans is hardly the death knell to the NFL…the successful markets are still successful. The teams that are struggling are also teams that tend to play poorly. New England has no problem filling every single seat at top dollar, they are not unique in this league. Successful clubs fill the stadiums and mediocre clubs do not. I’d love to believe it’s because folks are finally fed up, but it’s far more likely due to the team’s performance. We can agree to disagree on this issue, as I said I’ve been called worse on this website when I dared to condemn the NFL previously. People loved the NFL even after it was clear the NFL knew about CTE and was trying to stifle the information. What kind of person knows a company is slowly depriving those who work for a decent quality of life… Read more »
My criticism of your writing was not directed at the quality rather toward your usage of such broad terms, sweeping millions of NFL fans into your waste bins of criticism with such generalized evidence. As for the quality of your writing, VOV, my own frequent lapses amply demonstrate that I am in no position to criticize yours.
Of course, you are right about other factors such as cord-cutting having their impact on NFL viewing. I may soon be joining that cohort myself.
I do think you tar us fans with a very broad brush. The criticism of player thuggery has been rising steadily for the past several years among NFL fans as were calls for the NFL to develop better means of preventing CTE. Remember, it’s only been a little more than a decade since the first studies of CTE showed what and how the injuries were occurring. Since then, the NFL has been developing means of significantly reducing the incidence of occurrence.
Lastly, I’m suspicious of all data coming from the media regarding the media. They have too often demonstrated their willingness to lie blatantly to support their own political views. I am more inclined to trust fan-taken pics of empty stadiums and even those are highly suspect.
I further concur that losing teams will lose greater audience shares. Fans will put up with more from potential championship teams but those in the cellar are likely to face even larger drop-offs. For instance, I think Green Bay, with their star quarterback out for the season will likely join the club of empty stadiums.
The numbers shown above are Nielsen averages over the seasons shown, they are a consistent arbiter over the decades which is why I used them…
If 90% of any group doesn’t change their habits Poe, the 10% that do hardly represent the average and that was my point…that 90% includes a lot of people paying lip service to being pissed off but not actually doing anything meaningful about it. If that’s tarring with a broad brush then so be it…as always I enjoy these types of discourses with anyone here who likes to engage in them with me. Also as always I much prefer we were drinking an adult beverage and having some wings while we discussed this…but this works at the moment.
Thanks for considering my points, and as always thanks for making me consider mine more carefully as well. Always enjoy your writing, even if I don’t see eye to eye with you on a given issue.
VOV,
You are correct in your assessment of the typical NFL player. Probably 80% of them are street thug, drug dealing/doing, wife beating pieces of shit. However, I think the main reason why most of us tolerated watching them was because, most of them kept their mouth shut, played football and waited until their career was over before showing the world what true assholes they really are. And we as fans let our love of the game overshadow what we really knew. Now, however, these scumbag assholes are being activists and politicians right on our TVs on Sunday afternoons, but are disrespecting our flag, our country and our military. Fuck them and the NFL. I’ll never watch them again.
As a kid growing up, I always loved playing football.
As a student at Brigham Young University, I enjoyed being among the crowd in the stadium, caught up in all the cheering and excitement.
But, watching football on television?
It’s boring, and puts me to sleep.
I don’t know any of those guys.
They aren’t even native to the communities they allegedly represent.
And being an unapologetic prejudiced white man, I have no interest in watching teams composed of mostly black players.
Plus, the folks who run the NFL have ruined football by creating too many rules, and making it too commercial, taking all the fun out of playing the game.
The whole thing is just totally phony.
“And being an unapologetic prejudiced white man, I have no interest in watching teams composed of mostly black players.”
Why would you post a statement like that here in this forum?
Sadly, this is not uncommon in the Mormon Church, and I know, and worked with many Mormons.
IIRC, this view became institutionalized when somebody high up taught that the mark that God put on Cain to show what he did and not for any to kill him, was deduced by this individual as black skin.
This is NOT to say they are all like that. I know many fine Mormons who are better human beings than I am.
Mick, he prefaced that with the self- descriptive “unapologetic prejudiced white man,” so he’s simply presenting his honest view. You may not like it, but when we here at TAH imply that Mallernee has no right to express himself honestly, then we become the very “easily offended snowflakes” we so deride here.
As far as the facts of what he said, I would wager most white American NFL fans share that view to some extent or the other. Numerous racial studies have shown repeatedly that members of a race always select preferentially for their own race. There’s nothing inherently evil in that, it’s simply the nature of homo sapiens. Even in such forced multicultural settings as the military, the races tend to self-segregate during periods of off duty. You’ve seen that I’m sure although, if you are/were an officer, you’re supposed to act like you didn’t.
Copy all, Poetrooper.
However, I wasn’t trying to imply that JRM shouldn’t be able to express himself honestly here.
I was just genuinely surprised that he actually said that.
Sorry, this old geezer just misread you…
No worries!
Semper Fidelis.
Poetrooper, I agree with Mick’s ??? to JRM because I thought the same thing.Mick asked a reasonable question and as you can see, JRM has yet to reply. This is not the first time JRM has used TAH to express his personal views/beliefs on race which he interjects into a post that has nothing to do with race: http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=37363&cpage=1 He has his own Blog (click on his name), where he shares his personal beliefs on segregation. That is his right, since that is HIS blog. JRM has admitted he was asked to leave the Old Soldiers Home in DC because of his personal beliefs on race. I just don’t understand what his intent was when he made that comment or why he used TAH to post his PERSONAL views on race. I cringed when I read it, because I have Black friends/co-workers who are very consersative, could not stand BHO when he was in office and disagrees with what the NFL is doing (not all NFL Players who kneel are Black and I have seen NFL Black Football players put their hand over their heart just as I have seen White NFL Football players not putting their hand over their heart ). And they read this blog. I think there is proper time and place to be vocal about our opinions. I am not a Snowflake. I feel Race topics just as Gender topics are sensative subects. Not Taboo. Just sensative. We did not choose our Race or Gender when we came into the world, just as we did not choose our ecomonic backgrounds when we were born. We all became adults and made our own decisions, our own choices of which road we travel. To include joining the Military. And to be either open minded or closed minded when it comes to other peoples races or gender. Thank you, anyway, for your feedback. My opinion does not make me right, just as your opinion does not make you wrong. I just think JRM was not thinking when he made that comment just as on another Post he stated that… Read more »
AnotherPat – as far as I am concerned, it just allows us to identify the idiots when they say something like this.
So: for everyone who may be cruising by TAH – JRM is a very small minority here, and does not represent TAH with his personal beliefs.
Thank you, Graybeard, for your feedback.
In my eyes, there is a difference between “Class” and “Crass”..and it is not the letters “l” and “r”.
desert got hit with moderation for expressing his views on race (similar to JRM’s), but JRM gets a pass. Why?
I think the players who are kneeling are the ones making their false narrative a race issue.
JRM go fuck yourself you Santa Suit kilt wearing poser.
I was baptized in the Mormon church. Later in life I had my name stricken from the rolls of membership. People have asked me in the past when did I stop attending?
My reply, “when I was old enough to say NO!
I think that goes for other churches too.
Oh, yeah. There’s plenty of sin to go around.
As a kid I was baptized and later Confirmed in the Episcopal Church which I left during earlier adulthood. If anyone asks why I’ll tell them that I didn’t abandon that Church, it abandoned ME when it decided to embrace political correctness as fast and hard as it could.
Roger that 3/17..same with me. Baptized a Mormon till I got old enough to make my own decisions. When a faith looks down on people due to race is not worthy of G!d’s dominion. Just my 2 pesos worth.
I do have to add here that when you’ve had too much plastic surgery, you start to look really weird. REALLY weird. It won’t be long before that happens with shrillary.
In case anyone at all needs a really good laugh this morning, watch this video. It’s the yoga nostril stuff at the start that fascinates, and then you start laughing.
Twins separated at birth?
I’ve only been a fair weather fan of the NFL in years past, so the antics of these overpaid jocks made me say “FUCK THEM!” in no time flat, standing for a legitimate cause is one thing, but intentionally disrespecting our Flag and National Anthem IS NOT a legitimate form of protest IMHO. I myself get a kick out of seeing pictures of all those empty seats in NFL Stadiums and I hope it happens to the next Super Bowl! I’ve read accounts of NFL game tickets suddenly selling for less than the price of a pretzel and a beer in the stadium concession stands!
I love it! Yes, the true test will be the Super Bowl.
I played football in HS (third stringer but it was great for the girls!) and have always loved fall and football. But then when I retired and moved to my farm we unplugged and only get tv over the airwaves…so only get a game or thurs and one on Sunday and my interest diminished.
Then last year as kopperdicks protest spread I just kind of stopped watching without even realizing it and havent been back. For me its the protests, its the criminality, and its the hijacking of the game by the refs and a league intent on destrying their own brand. I actually do not miss it.
I also stopped doing Face Book because of all the politics and poor pitiful me posts and dont miss that either.
These semi literate athletes are accomplishing nothing except destroying their brand and the NFL will never recover.
It would be very interesting to hear what Vince Lombardi and George Halas would have had to say about all of this.
Lombardi: “Let’s start with the basics. THIS, gentlemen, is a football.”
Which means that first, Limbardi would not let most of the criminals now in the NFL on his team, for they do not fit the definitions “gentlemen.”
It’s true that free speech comes in many forms and is constitutionally protected against legal repercussions. That doesn’t change the fact that what they’ve done and continue to do is douchey as all hell. And considering the valid points VOV makes, it’s not all that surprising that this kind of douchery has come from the NFL’s lineup, as there are some real shitbags playing professionally. There are some good guys, too. And some who seemed good enough until they jumped on this douche bandwagon to cry about how “opressive” it is that they get payed more money every year than the average American of any race will see in their lifetime to play a goddamned game. I honestly love football. I enjoyed playing it in school, even though I sucked at it, learned some invaluable life lessons from it, and will support my son if he wants to play. But over the years the NFL has become more and more off-putting. I could still watch my favored team, the San Diego Chargers, for a while, but the blatant dishonesty of the owners and many players as they tried for years to scam their way into moving the team to LA grew appalling to the point that I stopped even watching them, and the closest I would get to watching would be to catch the final scores on the evening news, and even that soon lost my interest. Now that they’ve got their LA deal (spit), fuck ‘em completely. Football, like most sports, is supposed to be a gentleman’s game, but that hasn’t been true at the pro level in ages, certainly not in my lifetime. Hell, even the college level is dirty, as seen a couple years back when Boise State (a school I like) had their best season ever sabotaged by the NCAA because they’re not a big-name school that would generate more revenue. The fact that many schools won’t enforce acedemic standards and will recruit and graduate players who are functionally illiterate as long as they do well on the field, and that quite a few will overlook… Read more »
When was the last time anyone saw NFL players take a stand against say, Domestic Violence and/or Animal Abuse, ditto with illegal drugs?
One tried to take a stand against domestic violence, and was fined by the NFL for wearing shoes that were not an approved color.
I burned out years ago on pro ball…what probably did me in most was watching those primal celebratory displays in the end zone…I can watch the same shit on the National Geographic channel for much cheaper…
“When you go into the end zone, act like you’ve been there before.”
As my coaches used to say:
“Don’t be an asshole.”
My coaches would say 20 laps around the practice field. the catch was full gear(helmet on) and the practice field was eight inches of sand. Joe
I remember my last game. The coach said “Some of you will never play this game again. Tonight we are a team, but as we part ways and you go out in life… don’t be an asshole.”
The words still echo with me to this day.
Sounds like a really good dude.
Oh you brave, principled person you. I give you a few weeks before you fold.
Joey, we all know you’re a two-faced pussy and a coward with a Commissar-esque level of self-importance. Assuming everyone, or anyone, is like you would be a mistake.
Nothing feels better in the morning than saying, Fuck You Joe!.
Sparks, Watch it. Joe
Lookie here, it’s the Boulder Bigot doing another drive by posting…
Still blowing hobos and winos behind the local Quickie-Mart, Joe?
Joey moved up in the world, he blows transients behind the dumpster at the local Burger King now.
I just wonder what he was doing during the Obama years – he disappeared after the 2008 election and the showed back after the inauguration this year.
I’m thinking it involved a lot of ass kissing and tissues…
Maybe it had something to do with prison time for Joey and having to sign up on the Sex Offender Registry?
He’s back because he can’t suck on the tit of Cankles McPantsuit while she’s sitting in the Oval Office… that wet dream of his is gone.
I need brain bleach after that mental picture.
Eeewwwwwww!
Joe, you and bags of fuck like you are why I get the hives on the rare occasions i have to drive through the peoples republic of boulder
Hillary Clinton probably knows as much about football as my dog knows about quantum physics.
Years ago I worked as a sportswriter, and it always seemed to me there was a tangible divide between pro football, and the prep and college levels. A difference, without putting too fine a point on it, between love of a game, and the performance of dancing bears.
I remember a night at a state football championship in Paris, Kentucky one year. Never having been to the town before, I was hoping to stop someplace, and get directions to the stadium. And it was strange, because it took about one Twilight Zone minute to realize there was not a single business open, no one walking the streets, and no traffic. Everyone was at the game.
While it’s possible to sit in a recliner in front of a 60-inch Sony, and convince yourself that the NFL is football, real football, at least it seems to me, is a whole other thing.
Just follow the Friday Night Lights?
Your dog knows more about being a leader than Hillary does as well.
“Hillary Clinton probably knows as much about football as my dog knows about quantum physics.”
Dang! I almost peed myself laughing too hard …
Oh come on, Perry, quit playing the purist here. I can sit in front of that big-screen TV and catch far more of the details of the action than you ever did as a sportswriter in the press box with a pair of binoculars.
And whether you want to admit it or not, these pro players, just like pros in any other sport, got here by showing they are the very best at what they do. Proof of that is their relatively short time in the limelight. As soon as they begin to slow or miss the block or tackle, they are replaced with someone who doesn’t.
Oh you brave, principled person you. Maybe you can start your own all-white football league?
Wow. You really stretched that out like a rubber band, Joey. You just proved that you are functionally illiterate.
Just what part of “If liberals wanted to inject progressive politics into football, they just did so with a partisan turkey baster” is racist?
Keep crawling further out on that limb. It’s already cracked in a weak spot. Some day, it will break and take you with it and then we won’t have to put up with your drivel any more.
I know about Poetrooper….
I noticed that you had to post that drivel crap of YOURS twice before anyone paid attention, JOEY.
And we all know what a generous, open-hearted, benevolent soul you are, don’t we? Yeah, go on telling yourself that.
You can thank Jonn – he’s intermittently blocking me. Posts disappear, then reappear.
You could make hate my name. TOO MANY ROCKS FALL ON YOUR HEAD? Pt did not make the statement you are refering to. Joe
Oh yeah, you know so much about me don’t you, Puss?
Funny, you talking about drivel and all….
Are you talking to the mirror, Joey? Window-licking fuck.
HEY JOE, do you still like nature despite what it did to you?
The swamp mud has burbled again, releasing a waft of methane into the atmosphere.
So Joe – you’re OK with players beating girlfriends/wives and embracing other elements of the criminal life while being paid millions for their athletic prowess?
Doc, Yeah, he must be OK with all of this: ‘Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Many NFL Protesters Have Lengthy Arrest Records’ http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2017/10/02/unsportsmanlike-conduct-many-nfl-protesters-lengthy-arrest-records/ ‘While NFL players who protest the anthem, cast themselves as upright crusaders for the rule of law and equality. The arrest statistics for the NFL paint a far different picture, of how a lot of these social justice warriors truly regard the rule of law. Arrest statistics for the league show that an NFL player is arrested every seven days, on average, for crimes as varied as domestic abuse and rape, gun violations, drug offenses, disorderly conduct, burglary, breaking traffic laws, and occasionally even murder. About three to four players are arrested every month according to Patrick Murphy at NFL Arrests, a website that tracks the NFL’s arrests and charges. The site notes that since the year 2000, the longest the NFL went without an arrest has been 65 days. The site also notes, for instance, that a player was arrested seven days ago as of October 2. Since 2000 there have been 218 drunk driving arrests, 100 drug offenses, 98 players arrested for domestic violence, and another 44 arrested for disorderly conduct. The team with the most arrests and offenders is the Minnesota Vikings, according to Murphy’s database. The next four are the Denver Broncos, the Cincinnati Bengals, the Tennessee Titans, and the Jacksonville Jaguars falling in with the fifth most arrested players. The total number of NFL arrests for 2017, stands at 32. Here is a list of the various offenses: •Assault and battery – 7 •Drugs – 6 •DUI – 5 •Domestic violence – 5 •Disorderly conduct – 4 •Resisting arrest – 2 •Guns – 1 •License/traffic – 1 •Other – 1 The arrest breakdown by position is as follows: •Wide receiver – 140 •Linebacker – 119 •Cornerback – 116 •Running back – 99 •Defensive tackle – 80 Many of the players who have knelt in protest during the anthem, have arrest records as well. As week 4 began, over a dozen players took a knee for the playing of the anthem, over a dozen raised the… Read more »
In 2012, the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray;
They also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his blackout to avoid glare and made him take it off.
In 2013, the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.
In 2014, Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said “Know Jesus Know Peace”, but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
In 2015, DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing “Find the Cure” eye black for breast cancer awareness.
In 2015, William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem…)
In 2016, the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
In 2016, the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression, all of a sudden…..
In 2017, taking a knee, “Well, I think it’s one of those things where I think we have to understand that there are people with different viewpoints. It’s something that I think everybody wants. The national anthem is a special moment to me. It’s a point of pride. That is a really important moment,” Goodell said. “But we also have to understand the other side that people do have rights and we want to respect those.”
Very good points.
I am shocked, shocked at the hypocrisy of the NFL! /s
Not to be pedantic, but you’re only in the deplorable basket if you identify as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.” I would hazard a guess and assume that most people here fall into the other, less talked about basket:
“But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”
Not that any of it matters now. Similar to that intern and her husband, she blew her chance big time.
The fact that the Jaguars, while playing a game in London, took a knee during the National Anthem and stood for “God Save the Queen” is beyond disrespect..Really, do they even know what that meant? If they don’t want to stand for OUR national anthem, quit the NFL. I’m sure any of you guys can find work somewhere else. Funny thing…The Dixie Chicks said things about President Bush while on tour overseas and every radio station stopped playing their songs.. Guess kneeling for the National Anthem on National television while in a football uniform, getting paid to play “A GAME”, in a stadium that tax dollars helped to build and fans look to watch is not as bad. I’m confused. Guess I will stop watching until I win the lottery.. Seems about right..
Funny you mention The Ditzy Chicks, I remember going into a music store that was going out of business some years ago and in their Country section the pickings were slim until you looked at the part where their albums were, they couldn’t even give them away!
The only sports I was involved in as a kid back in the 50’S was punch ball, some stick ball, asses up (NYC Chinese box hand ball) and shooting hoops in my friend Elliot’s driveway where the net was on top of the garage door. I tried touch foot ball once when someone threw me the ball and I ran the wrong way then got a bunch of head nooggies from my teamates. I do not watch base ball or foot ball on TV. Does not interest me at all.
I always thought Trumps campaign tag line should have been:
Ever wanted to bitch-slap Hillary?
Vote Trump!
Well not only have we bitch-slapped Hillary, we are bitch-slapping the NFL. Anyone who knows the history of the 2016 election should be smart enough to know taking the road approved by Hillary and the democrats is a road to bankruptcy.
I also think Google, Facebook Apple and most of the Silicon Valley enterprises would do well to watch and heed what happened to Hillary and what is happening to the NFL.
Being infected with a virus of the mind can manifest itself in many different forms of aberrant behaviour.
The particular strain that causes Libtardation results in a hyper stimulation of emotional sensation causing irrational reflux. It is a form of mental incapacity that assures its host that it does not have the infection. Denial is a catalyst that condemns the Libtard to an existence of septic emotional turmoil.
Because Libtards are unhinged emotionally, they tend to react to the symptoms of problems and are incapable of the attention span required to address the actual cause of any particular malady.
Insofar as the NFL is concerned, they take a knee over the issue of racial profiling that results in disproportionate arrests and shootings by law enforcement. A hysterical reaction to the symptom of the malady.
Attempt to keep solutions simple for the Libtarded. Use colorful memes when possible and be succinct.
Try using things they can relate too, like this:
During the time it takes to play one NFL game, three black men will be killed…by three other black men. 7% of the population commits 50% of the violent crime. So, while you take a knee in protest the lives of 6 black men in this country are forever ruined. The reason they are profiled is because they are 40 times more likely to become criminally violent than say…a middle aged white guy sitting on his couch watching an NFL game.
Get rid of the culture that causes this epidemic of violence and there would be no reason to profile anyone.
Be kind to liberals, but do not enable their behavior.
Baseball playoffs have been just a blast. Well played, and most have been nail biter down to the last inning type games. Yea, and the players (even non citizens) stand for the anthem. Guess it’s pizza, wings, and beer again for tonight’s games.
HH6 LOVES her some baseball (especially the Dodgers)!!
If we had the coin, we’d have season box seats.
I went out for a drink last night with one of my very liberal classmates who happens to be a big football fan. Even he was pretty incensed by the stupidity of the players and more importantly the owners that this has gotten out of hand.
The reason for protesting is irrelevant. You don’t do protest or advocate on political causes when you are at work, your paid to represent your employer. I doubt that the founder of Home Depot (current Falcons owner Arthur Banks) would have been pleased if his orange smocked employees were protesting in front of his customers.
JUST MAYBE it’s way past time for the NFL to lose its monopoly as well as its tax exemptions?
What?! But they’re a non-profit! Just imagine how much less good they could do for… whomever if they suddenly had to start paying taxes!
They call the protestors brave. If they were truly brave, they would say that they refuse to play football until things improve in this country. Seriously, I would admire them for taking that stand.
Or, be like Pat Tillman and enlist.
And Glen Coffee, who left the San Fransicko 49ers to enlist.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/jaguars-apologize-military-protest-anthem-london-175537570.html
The Jaguars are apologizing for taking a knee in London
Maybe this had something to do with it:
‘Florida man pays pilot to fly ‘Boycott Jags and the NFL’ banner above stadium’
http://myfox8.com/2017/10/17/florida-man-pays-pilot-to-fly-boycott-jags-and-the-nfl-above-stadium/
‘JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Florida man took his issues with NFL players kneeling during the national anthem 1,000 feet over the Jacksonville Jaguar’s stadium Sunday afternoon.
Terry Smiley hired a pilot to fly a protest banner of his own over EverBank Field before their game against the Los Angeles Rams.
The banner read, “Be American, Boycott the Jags and the NFL.”
As part of his campaign, Smiley is giving away bumper stickers in hopes other supporters will join him.
“I have the right to protest and I’m going to protest it with bumper stickers, airplanes – whatever I go to do. I will continue to protest,” Smiley told Action News Jax.
In recent weeks, players have refused to stand during the anthem to protest racial inequality. The protests started after former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling to protest police mistreatment of African Americans.’
If I were to ever have the pleasure of meeting Mr. Smiley face to face, his next shot and a beer would be on me!
I saw that “apology”.
That was written by the Jags president. Not the players.
It’s BS.
Figures. He’s worried about his revenue, that’s all.
Who wants to see a team that is a perennial loser? I imagine that they are having problems giving tickets away.
I just want to see them all take a knee together as a team….in the fucking groin!
A thought crossed my mind the other day when I was watching a news clip of the players.I couldn’t help but wonder out of the players who knelt how many:
Can actually articulate what they are kneeling for (other than everybody else is doing it).
Are personally involved in community programs on a regular basis.
Donate a percentage of their million dollar salaries to programs to help whatever cause they are supposed to be protesting for…….of those that do; how much do they donate ABOVE that they get the maximum tax deduction for?
Served in uniform.
Take the time to vote in every election.
Just curious.
I would recommend adding:
– Have read and understand the Constitution.
– Paid attention in junior high school Civics class.
– Read at least two different newspapers every day.
– Can name each of their respective Senators and Representatives in Congress.
Uh oh. I must be a slacker, because I don’t read any papers at.
Me, either. I get my news from places other than the MSM.
JUST MAYBE it’s also time for local Police and Sheriff Departments to stop providing security at their stadiums and make the NFL spend a few more million of their dollars?
“Well, I think it’s deeply troubling that the president would be attacking black athletes for expressing their opinions peacefully….”
Hillary the harridan actually means the black Neanderthals in tights who use our national anthem as a prop for a ‘protest’
The same mentally challenged who hauled out ‘Hands Up Don’t Shoot” before the full facts were known.
She will use anything/anyone to push her agenda
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NFL arrest record by team since 2000
Team # of Arrests Since 2000
Minnesota Vikings 42
Cincinnati Bengals 40
Denver Broncos 36
Tennessee Titans 33
Miami Dolphins 28
Kansas City Chiefs 28
Jacksonville Jaguars 27
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 27
Cleveland Browns 26
San Diego Chargers 25
Indianapolis Colts 24
Chicago Bears 23
Seattle SSea hawks 20
New Orleans Saints 20
Washington Redskins 18
Oakland Raiders 18
Baltimore Ravens 18
Carolina Panthers 18
Green Bay Packers 17
Pittsburgh Steelers 17
Atlanta Falcons 16
San Francisco 49ers 16
Detroit Lions 15
New England Patriots 15
Buffalo Bills
14
Dallas Cowboys 13
New York Giants 13
Arizona Cardinals 12
New York Jets 11
Philadelphia Eagles
10
Houston Texans 9
St Louis Rams 8
Total 656
Looks like the pic’s of the NFL players didn’t come out when I tried pasting them.
So my take is that most of the NFL ineligible (felon) or to lazy to show up and vote.