NFL to pledge $100 million dollars to SJW causes: Time to examine the bottom of the iceberg?

rlmorel | 11/30/2017 | rlmorel

[rlmorel]

With the news that the NFL is pledging $100 million to Social Justice causes, is it time to begin looking at how we, as consumers, make choices by purchasing or viewing that may support causes we don't believe in?

[rlmorel]

Yes...a huge part of it IS racial payola.

[rlmorel]

I respect my fellow Freepers and conservatives for their intellectual capacity, and willingness to make sure they are right on the issues.

We have introspection, and are forced by necessity to understand our issues, reexamine them constantly, and be prepared to defend them with logic and fact.

My feeling is, if you cannot take the time to see the detail that allows you to make the argument, you can do one of two things:

1.) Don’t Comment.

2.) Comment, but follow the time honored Freeper Tradition we have all engaged in of not reading about the issue, and not understanding the point at all. (and we have all done it, and occasionally do it from day to day...it isn’t a crime, after all...:)

IMO, it is how we have to operate. We don’t have the luxury liberals do, of just hearing someone make a point and yelling out “Yeah! No Blood for Oil!” or whatever...we have to be prepared to understand and defend it.

But...I am going to take your advice, and think about concentrating this into 500 words, just as an exercise, which I think, is a good and honorable one...:)

[ReleaseTheHounds]

One more reason, as if I needed one, to turn-off the NFL forever.

[timestax]

[rlmorel]

BTW, since you are Haiku Guy, I can see it is going to have to be really short to impress you...

I have never been much for Haikus (even though I lived in Japan for several years) though I appreciate their brevity.

I might try to write a limerick instead...:)

[rlmorel]

The Libs make our teeth grind and gnash
By funding their causes with cash
But with slight of their hand
With the guys who won’t stand
It’s the guys who won’t stand that we bash

[speedracerx]

Just imagine if you will...
Every Sunday there’s a new cause. Different colored towels, cleats, caps, jackets, jerseys. My, there’s a gold mine in revenue here! (sarc)

The few remaining football fans will grow tired and disgusted, and admit they’ve had enough of the BS and turn it off. Then the same media blockheads that can’t understand where the fans have gone will be perplexed. Some will say its the “Trump effect” missing the whole thing by a mile.

And why is it the libtards always have to put a number out there? Nearly $100M was mentioned. Why mention any number? Can’t they just say they’re caving and will take up more politcal and social causes? Well, because Libtards need a number to show they care, and care by $100M.

Wondering if the NFL will finally file the necessary papers to admit they’re a political action organization? Is it time to lose their tax except status?

[rlmorel]

Big Funds to Moon-bats
Are largely unseen by us
Crush only kneelers

[rlmorel]

You should probably be aware the NFL is not a tax-exempt organization and haven’t been for a few years.

They do have The NFL Foundation which is a tax exempt organization and is not part of the league, in the same way The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is not part of Microsoft, and gave $10 million in outright grants last year to organizations like the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of America and the American Heart Association. Don’t know who else they might give to, and there might be some in there I don’t like...have to check that out.

From Wikipedia, it says it supports these charities on an ongoing basis:

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Play 60- An initiative aimed at getting kids out and playing for 60 minutes to help fight obesity.

A Crucial Catch- The NFL foundation partnered with the American Cancer society in an effort to raise awareness. Every October the NFL also participates in raising awareness for breast cancer by wearing pink on their uniforms.

Salute to service- The NFL Foundation provides grants to supports those who have served or are currently serving in our military.

Player Foundation Grants- The NFL Foundation provides grants that give assistance to those currently in the NFL and to those who have previously played in the NFL.

Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award- This award recognized a players contributions on and off the field.

Super Bowl Legacy Grants- The NFL Foundation gives the city that hosted the Super Bowl one million dollars as a grant.
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I don’t know how good or bad these are individually.

[rlmorel]

They relinquished their tax exempt status in 2015. I don’t doubt there are deductions they make as an organization that decreases their taxable revenues, but don’t know.

They might be quite sizeable for all I know.

[Sans-Culotte]

The fact that it is discretional means you can give it up and things that aren’t you can’t, but in the end, am I doing more damage to our country by watching a game once a week even if I don’t patronize their sponsors or give them money, but do buy products from other people who have given outright support and real money to entities that are working to lobby legislation and actually DO the things we find destructive. I find it useful to take extremes to help define a point...would I still be a Verizon or ExxonMobile customer if they gave money to ISIS as our troops battle them? The obvious answer is no, I have choices, even in gasoline purchases. I still won’t purchase Citgo gas, even though Venezuela is in the rear view mirror.

I really don't have a problem with people choosing to watch the NFL. I do find it baffling that people still do, but I don't much care. It's a lot like continuing to watch Hollywood movies and TV shows even though they are produced by America-hating leftists. I can stomach the film or show as long as the subject of the film or show is not the filmmaker's hatred of me and the USA. The NFL unfortunately revealed itself to have contempt for their country and their fans at gametime. That was the end of the NFL for me. However, if my guests on Thanksgiving had asked me to turn on one of the games that were playing that day, I would have done so. Pleasing my family members is more important to me than "making a statement" about the NFL. I had Freepers tell me I needed to get better friends and family rather than "compromise my principles", LOL.

Even though the Astros' MVP 2nd baseman (and Venezuelan) Jose Altuve does commercials for them, I also stopped using CITGO once I found out that Hugo Chavez owned them.

[rlmorel]

That is quite a reasonable answer, Sans-Culotte...

By the way, I have always found your Freep handle most interesting...I suspect there are many who don’t get that at all...:)

[NormsRevenge]

I have no desire to be told to just shut up and watch the game.. and climb on the SJW wagon becuz it’s the thing to do.. or so says the NFL.

What a joke. Take your game or venture and stick it, Boys.

Oh and Roger, bangup job destroying an institution, with some assistance , of course.

Enjoy your bonus. I know a lot of us really appreciate all the time off your circuitous handling of this cluster f**k has been handled.. but we know you’ll find a way to Kap it off next year with even bigger and better fiascos.

If nothing else, you’re reliable.. to do the wrong thing. Screwing the fans.

[rlmorel]

I understand your viewpoint on this because I agree with much of it.

I am curious, though.

I made the assumption that many people who despise the NFL for not cracking down on a player disrespecting the American Flag might have as much (or more) outrage at corporations like Microsoft or Apple who actually give direct financial support from their profits to Foundations like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who disburse it directly to entities like for direct operational purposes:

United Nations Foundation
World Health Organization
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS
United States Fund for UNICEF
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
UNICEF Headquarters
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc
International Development Association
CARE
World Health Organization Nigeria Country Office
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Population Services International

That is a pretty heinous group there.

I thought that if I buy an XBox or have a Verizon account, it can be argued that Microsoft and Verizon are doing far more damage by direct monetary support (versus a symbolic insult of kneeling during the National Anthem) to the tunes of billions of dollars which is used to actually fund buses for protesting, professional printing of signs, lobbying of candidates, renting of buildings and paying for protest permits.

What do you think, NormsRevenge?

You have been here longer than I have...is it logically wrong for me to think this? Is a billion dollars from Microsoft to the United Nations Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative just the cost of doing business because we can’t do without them, most of us use them, and not worth the consideration, or maybe not as much of an intellectual bother as a subset of NFL players who have disrespected our flag and (up to today, at least) haven’t actually given money through their company to those entities? (That I am aware of)

I am certainly open to the possibility I could be off base on this.

[NormsRevenge]

Show me the audit trails of all those orgs and corps you listed.

Many are NGOs, non regulated.. some fronts for purposes other than claimed.

I don’t know. Charity begins at home they say.. and so does skulduggery.. especially when the results are never achieved and its claimed ‘if we only had more funding’.

Does where the funds come matter anymore when we know its all gonna get a big chunk of it looted away anyway?

[NormsRevenge]

Show me the audit trails of all those orgs and corps you listed.

Many are NGOs, non regulated.. some fronts for purposes other than claimed.

I don’t know. Charity begins at home they say.. and so does skulduggery.. especially when the results are never achieved and its claimed ‘if we only had more funding’.

Does where the funds come matter anymore when we know its all gonna get a big chunk of it looted away anyway?

[rlmorel]

I just went to The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation so I could see who they send money to (which they are happy to brag about) and I was also able to see who they get money from, and how much (Microsoft, Apple, Verizon, etc)

What those people do with the money after they get it, that is an unanswered question, but...we know the Clinton Foundation, United Nations Foundation and all the others aren’t going to do anything with the money we would like, that is for certain!

I find it nauseating. That is big money.

[reaganaut]

Most people are aware but don’t care. They want their convenience and look the other way. We moved to the farm so it’s a bit easier for us.

[rlmorel]

Well...I guess I have to agree with you then.

Sigh.

Thanks for that perspective, reaganaut.