Posted on 08/10/2017 4:11:51 AM PDT by C19fan
Several years ago, the Hillsborough County, Florida though that it would be cute to tax the people of Hillsborough County via a sales tax and give it to the Bucs owners. Many objected, but they enacted it anyway. The result was that each Commissioner as they came up for re-election was voted out of Office and replaced with a new face. We still had to pay the Bucs tax, but we got rid of those who inflicted it upon us.
I was glad to see Cam Newton get absolutely destroyed in the Super Bowl.
They really need to stop taxpayer-funding of the NFL. $7 billion in taxpayer funds (see the chart I posted).
Why the Welfare for a supposedly popular sport?
Shut it down.
Your assessment is EXACTLY why Romo was tearing up the league UNTIL...Romo played against the New Orleans Saints. He was playing against his old QB coach, a man who KNEW Romo’s short comings and defended against them, like a hawk. After that game, the other teams studied that film and started making the same adjustments.
It took him another year to change and work on some of his skills to get back into a winning pattern. That’s why MOST QBs have a sophomore slump - they can’t do the same things as usual, because the defensive coordinators have figured them out and they either adjust their style of play, or they get replaced - PERIOD!
Unfortunately, Romo was never able to rise all the way, but he obviously got better as he progressed. If it wasn’t for injuries, I think he could have been one of those Rivers, Moon type QBs - maybe never get to the Super Bowl, but put up massive numbers and wins.
Players can do this if they wish. As long as they are not paid for
skipping that week of play.
Many black players are earning up to a million dollars a game.
Most are earning less than that, but still a substantial amount per
game.
If they want to lose that weekly paycheck for The Kap, more power to
them. They will only be hurting themselves AND their own families.
And in the long run, hurting a game they are paid quite well to participate
in. Is The Kap really worth losing a paycheck?
We live (to a lesser degree now, but still do) in a capitalistic society. If people want to make money doing it, and people want to pay, then it is legitimate.
And I think you are very wrong with respect to GNP (I don’t think “directly” has much meaning as you said it). The NFL generated $14 Billion in revenue in 2017. At least $2-3 Billion is in merchandise. Someone has to sew those Gronkowski jerseys together. Someone has to make packaging and tags for the hats. Someone has to operate the kilns for the ceramic Minnesota Vikings mugs. Someone has to staff the stores that sell those things.
That people are willing to spend dollars on those things means there are jobs created, federal, state, and local taxes paid by people working at those jobs, who also buy products from other companies (some still actually American)
I don’t think it makes a difference that the athletes themselves do not contribute “directly” except by paying their own taxes. All these things contribute to our economic well being. Jobs are provided, people buy things they like. Everyone wins.
I don’t think we want to fall into the “Well, a teacher only makes $XXXXX a year, and they contribute more than an athlete who makes $XXXXXXXXXXXXX...” or the Marxist “Well, they don’t produce anything directly with their own hands, so they shouldn’t be there” point of view.
I think they all have a place in an economy.
Well, I'm white, I'm people...and I've looked deep down and have come to the conclusion that Colon Kraponadick is a worthless turd with muslim aspirations...and in further reflection, have decided that Skip Bayless is a babbling idiot.
(I had to google the fool to find out who the hell he was.)
(And I still don't care about either damned one of them.)
I don’t really follow football, but my understanding is this guy isn’t really all that good of a player, plus he is an asshat. But I guess the story is that racist white team owners won’t hire him because he is uppity.
He needs to learn from Bama QB Jalen Hurts. Last year, he had a great season, but by the end of the year, good defensive coordinators had already figured out his weaknesses. Hurts spent the summer working on the weak points in his game. Early reports from practice indicate that he is doing a much better job with his reads and progressions. Hopefully, he will keep doing that in the season. Hurts worked on his game. Kapernick should shut up and do the same. Go to the Manning camp and hire a QB guru to fix his bad habits, and then maybe he can get a look from the Browns.
I can clearly see football being eventually replaced by soccer.
The sport is dying. Fans no longer care nor do they have the patience or attention spans to sit through a 4 hour commercial-laden spectacle where the action is only seconds at a time.
Throw in the SJW mentality to the mix and I can see this sport gone in less than 10 years.
Who wants to pay $100 per ticket to see this anymore?
Some might even make an argument that Fantasy Football started the death spiral. Perhaps. It hasn’t been enjoyable to me since the Rozelle days.
“This safe-helmet might come....but by the time you figure the cost, and the court fights on high school football, NCAA football, and pro-ball....it’ll be too late. You could be looking at tens of billions to pay off the lawyers and players. TV advertising will never be able to pay enough for the NCAA or NFL to survive this...my humble opinion.”
Lacking the creation of a “safe helmet” which would require a re-write of the laws of physics, the NFL will die from the bottom up. Pee Wee ball participation is already down which will work its way up through middle school, highschool, college, and eventually the NFL. The essence of football is that it is a violent intense game. If this aspect of the game is eliminated the game will die.
By all means, cave in to a at best a backup with an awful team because he disrespects our country, our values and our country.
But Tim Tebow got the Donald J Trump treatment because, gasp, he was a Christian. Seriously, has anybody seen the statistics on current NFL QB’s? Good for a beer league, maybe.
White scabs. There’s your answer.
I can’t believe I agree with Allahpundit... let the NFL die. Bigots.
I think for the successful ones, that is what they do.
I just read a thing about Brady, where before this season began, he drew up a list of everything he needed to work at that was deficient in his game (using his own experience and that of his coaches) graded them by importance/impact, and works on those specific things during the off-season and camp.
Last year, his major thing was being less effective outside the pocket, so he worked on how to handle that.
I doubt someone like Kapernick is doing anything like that.
It’s a shame that Skip Bayless is still being paid to embarrass networks.
They became so political that they turned this Tom Brady hater into a fan in the second half of last years SB. I enjoyed watching the Twitter twits eat their crow.
I saw my first pro football game in 1952 at Forbes Field in the Burgh, where the Browns kilt the Stillers {it cost $2 for general admission}.
I've been a Stiller fan {was a season tix holder for 40 years} and hated Brady, BUT, this year became a Brady rooter...even after he kilt the Stillers.
The PC police don't have a clue how much we hate them, and fools like kaepernock are ruining the NFL.
I've already cut my viewing time to almost nothing, and I was an original founding member of Franco's Italian Army in 1972, and never thought I'd be this down on Pro football.
The Pens all show respect for our National Anthem, and most of them aren't even Americans.
Kap should get signed as a reward for his help in electing Trump.
That also kind of explains why the Giants have gone 2-0 against superior New England teams in Super Bowls in recent years. Tom Coughlin — who was the Giants’ head coach in both games — was an assistant on Bill Parcells’ staff when Bill Belichick was the defensive coordinator years ago, and he just never bought into the “Belichick mystique” like most other NFL coaches have done over the years.
If Skip Bayless for one week wore a tie and socks portraying black men as feral apes, took a knee in protest every time a Muslim was introduced at an NFL or NBA game, and on every broadcast mentioned how many Blacks kill other Blacks in the course of a week-—then I might give him a serious listen.
The issue all these sports are now facing is very similar to what you saw with television over the last 35 years. As cable and satellite TV made it easier to get more and more options on the screen, it diluted the viewership to the point where nobody gets substantial ratings anymore except for occasional spectacles like a Super Bowl or a presidential debate.
Perfect case in point: Los Angeles. It's one of the largest metro areas in the country, and yet sports teams often struggle there because -- well, because there are so many sports teams and entertainment options for people there.
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