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American football could fall like the gladiators of ancient Rome
New York Post ^ | December 3, 2016 | Mary Pilon

Posted on 12/03/2016 10:57:12 PM PST by righttackle44

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Uh . . . of course it's only because of the virulent political season and not because many Conservative players and viewers have grown tired of being trashed by the liberal ESPN broadcasters.
1 posted on 12/03/2016 10:57:12 PM PST by righttackle44
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To: righttackle44

What you said and the fact that the ‘sport’ is designed to utterly destroy the human body that is.


2 posted on 12/03/2016 11:00:17 PM PST by txnativegop (One person, One Vote)
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I’m boycotting the NFL until players are not allowed to play football if they can’t stand for our National Anthem.

The other thing is once people realize they can get stuff done on Sunday and it is no longer part of their habit, the ratings will continue to tank.


3 posted on 12/03/2016 11:00:44 PM PST by TigerClaws
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After yet another year of watching the Gators’ anemic offense, I’m all for doing away with football.


4 posted on 12/03/2016 11:01:09 PM PST by dfwgator
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If owners don’t get rid of the kneelers, ain’t nobody gonna watch the Steelers...or anyone else for that matter.


5 posted on 12/03/2016 11:04:17 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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I can watch football and still get stuff done on the weekends. Imagine that.


6 posted on 12/03/2016 11:05:56 PM PST by Twink
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

This house will always watch the Steelers.


7 posted on 12/03/2016 11:07:36 PM PST by Twink
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This house will always watch the Steelers.

It was just a rhyme. Now, if they kneel during the anthem and you keep watching them, well, that is, of course, for you to decide.

8 posted on 12/03/2016 11:17:50 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Jeeze, it’s not the Roman Empire. The teams this year just aren’t very good. The only really good game I’ve seen this year was KC V. Denver. That was a great game, especially since Denver lost.


9 posted on 12/03/2016 11:19:00 PM PST by ozzymandus
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MLS is currently at 22 teams, and the league plans to expand to 28 teams, with Cincinnati, Detroit, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego and St. Louis as the current official expansion candidates.[1] The league plans to add its 21st and 22nd teams in 2017 – Atlanta United FC and Minnesota United FC. Additionally, MLS plans to add Los Angeles FC in 2018 and a Miami team, pending a finalized stadium plan. Expanding and establishing a bigger national footprint is seen as essential to securing television rights fees needed to reach MLS's stated goal of becoming one of the top leagues in the world by 2022.

10 posted on 12/03/2016 11:21:24 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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It really has been a boring season.


11 posted on 12/03/2016 11:25:03 PM PST by rdl6989
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By then, nobody will be able to afford to buy more than one seat.

Too many players getting too much money, including baseball and basketball. I’ll allow a couple million over the year for wear and tear. They have endorsements. I have bills.


12 posted on 12/03/2016 11:41:57 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

If they kneel, which I doubt, then of course.


13 posted on 12/03/2016 11:42:10 PM PST by Twink
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The ####ing budweiser commercials with gay marriage and transgender pushing.

Now some new f...t commercial about patriotism being more than loving America but loving diversity also.

espn’s liberal bull####.

Who the #### thought it was a GREAT idea to go after the gay/transgender viewership? All 3.

And the women empowerment commercials. Good luck with that. Cause that’s what guys love to see.

Pander to everyone except your base. Knock yourself out.

I LOVE football but it’s just a game and I’m glad budweiser had to rush “macho” commercials into production because their f....t commercials with seth rogan (used to like, now hate) have sent sales tumbling.

And the Coors commercial saying “we dont do politics, just beer” or something along those lines was great!! No more bud in this house. Ever.

NEVER again Target. Never again Bud. The Sicilian in me allows no forgiveness for their deviant decisions.


14 posted on 12/03/2016 11:43:45 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Baseball on the other hand is doing well.

Football should guarantee players contracts, the owners are scumbags and deserve everything that’s coming their way..


15 posted on 12/03/2016 11:45:16 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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MLS will never make it in the US. It isn’t in our nature to like it. If football falls UFC will rise to take it’s place.


16 posted on 12/03/2016 11:46:06 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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I have no idea why the rest of the country is tuning out, but for 49ers fans the reasons are obvious:

1) We have what is most likely the worst ownership in all of professional sports. Jed York forced Jim Harbaugh out of the HC position after Harbaugh took over a 6-10 team and won 47 games over 4 seasons, including two NFC Championship appearances and one Super Bowl appearance. By all accounts, York did this because Harbaugh was not sufficiently nice to him. Harbaugh has gone on to restore the Michigan Wolverines to national relevance and prominence while the 49ers regale their fans with a 10 game (and counting) losing streak.

2) We have to put up with Colin Kaepernick babbling radical nonsense he barely understands while the local and national sports media treat his incoherent ramblings like the utterances of a great civil rights leader.
17 posted on 12/03/2016 11:50:55 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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It is also the ILLEGALS. Do you think assholes from Honduras or Guatemala or Yemen or Syria or China are watching FOOTBALL?

20 years from now, what's the ratings gonna be?

18 posted on 12/04/2016 12:03:41 AM PST by Captainpaintball (It appears that we no longer wish to keep our Republic, Mr. Franklin...)
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I think all the injury crap is just a liberal weenie fantasy.

The real reason it sucks more is because it stopped being like it was in the 70s. Then it was just real men, playing a cool game and little else. The Super Bowl has become a joke, a caricature of itself.
The halftime Vegas style overproduced extravaganzas are annoying. The guitar playing football robots on TV. Way too many commercials. Unsportmanslike crap like icing the kicker. Instant play review on every other play. Why not just take the calls and breaks as they come? And its a bunch of unpatriotic thugs with long dreadlock hair hanging out of their helmets. Games every other day of the week. Games in London. And ESPN is a whole other story.

They have just overplayed their hand. Give me Cowboys and Steelers from the 70s. That was football worth watching.


19 posted on 12/04/2016 12:06:06 AM PST by DesertRhino (November 8, America's Brexit!!!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This thread was about football. Nobody cares about soccer. Its a boring communist European sport, and its boring.


20 posted on 12/04/2016 12:07:48 AM PST by DesertRhino (November 8, America's Brexit!!!)
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