This Thanksgiving, let's give thanks to God, and the middle finger to Roger Goodell

10/23/16 | The Fop

[The Fop]

I know that Thanksgiving is still a month away, but if we want to wage an effective NFL boycott, then a little community organizing is in order.

Thanksgiving is the most important day of the football season for American patriots to send a message to Roger Goodell. On this day, we give thanks for the greatest country in the world.......a country that Colin Kaepernick says was never great.

Kaepernick is entitled to his opinions. But by allowing Kaepernick, and other players who share his sentiments, to use NFL games as a venue to express these views, Goodell is tacitly endorsing them.

Goodell's behavior is in line with the rest of modern day corporate America. If the NFL, or any other big corporation, does something to upset the Black activists, the Feminist activists, or the Gay activists, the corporate suits will jump through hoops to appease them.

But because of the media's mantra about how the Left has won the culture wars, big corporations no longer have any fear of offending Conservative consumers. The conventional wisdom is that we've been so beaten into submission, that we're no longer capable of speaking in a powerful, unified voice. Instead, we'll just shrug our shoulders and say "that's the way the world is today, nuthin' you can do about it anymore".

I'm sure Goodell knows how Left wing ESPN is. And sports fans still watch it. Some of them may complain, but they still watch. So why would he assume that these Black Lives Matter inspired National Anthem protests would ruffle Conservative's feathers much more than all the other Liberal preaching that sports fans have to put up with when they tune in to watch a game?

In the weeks following Muhammad Ali's death, ESPN reporters must have asked every single Black athlete in every single sport what Ali meant to them. If Ali didn't burn his draft card and identify with the Black Power movement and the Hippies, ESPN and the rest of the media would've treated him as just another boxing champ with a big ego and a big mouth (just ask George Foreman). So if we can stomach this kind of stuff all year round, year after year, why wouldn't Goodell be tempted to test our patience a little further?

I'm old enough to remember when football players would politely hand the ball over to the ref after scoring a touchdown. These days, between the vulgar showboating and trash talking, the WWF style TV coverage, and seemingly weekly incidences of football players either beating up their wives/girlfriends or getting involved in posse/gang related violence, it's been getting increasingly more difficult to get excited about the NFL for many years now.

You could argue that some of us having been looking for the perfect excuse to let Goodell, and the rest of the corporate sports world and sports media, know that we've had about enough!

So this Thanksgiving, let's do everything in our power to force Roger Goodell to do some serious soul searching. Unlike Left wing social justice warriors, we Conservatives are not constantly looking to express outrage. We just want to be treated with a little respect.

And the truth is, like America as a whole, it really wouldn't take that much to make NFL football great again. Maybe if enough of us stop watching long enough, Goodell and the networks won't be left with any other choice.

[NorthMountain]

Hah! Concussions and long term knee damage were the least of their concerns ...

[GailA]

I like this better, Trump insist on National Anthem being played when told it’s to late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfe1s4HpJQ