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Agitate to collectivize the NFL!
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| Kommissar Brainiac
Posted on 03/01/2014 8:12:58 AM PST by ReformationFan
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This is satire but it would serve the NFL right if something like this did come to pass after the stunt they pulled in favor of tyranny and against religious freedom this past week.
To: ReformationFan
Of course, the NFL already is largely socialist in design. Profit sharing, worse records yield high draft picks, millionaire union members, begging for the government to pay for their stadiums, etc.
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:16:40 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: Dr. Sivana
Indeed. I think they should lose their tax-exempt status. Then again, football is in fact many people’s religion.
To: ReformationFan
I actually would like to see more “Green Bay Packers” - ie) community-owned teams.
Right now, the NFL is a cabal of a few owners, using tax-payer money, political and PR ability, to line their pockets.
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:24:01 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: ReformationFan
As a Viking fan, I’m down with calling Packer fans Communists. :)
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:26:39 AM PST
by
Colonel_Flagg
(Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Sports leagues by definition are socialist, even if they don't get any outside taxpayer assistance in the form of stadium deals.
The principles of free-market economics break down completely in sports because a sports league can't exist if a sizeable number of its teams are going out of business. So a sports league like the NFL must walk a fine line between competition on the field and financial equality off the field.
Personally, I think the NFL goes way overboard when it comes to equality, to the point that is has practically legislated equality into its operations. Nowadays, an NFL team doesn't have to do much to build a competitive team. Between the salary cap, non-guaranteed contracts, and draft rules, you're almost at the point where a team just has to sit around and wait for its turn to be a Super Bowl contender.
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:27:05 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
To: ReformationFan
:: We must also demand that all points are distributed equally. ::
Sounds good to me; maybe now my Daytwah Lions can get more than “1-deep” in the playoffs?
To: ReformationFan
I really like the Cube's all red Rubik's Cube, "equal outcome for all!".
I think last season was my last for NFL football. They are getting stupid with their new penalties and their threat to Arizona was the last straw.
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:34:10 AM PST
by
bubbacluck
(America 180)
To: ReformationFan
Well here in Indiana, us taxpayers collectivized the Indiana Irsays (formerly known as the Baltimore Colts) for a $750m stadium.
Unfortunately we don’t get any of the profits.
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:37:05 AM PST
by
nascarnation
(I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
To: Alberta's Child
Nowadays, an NFL team doesn't have to do much to build a competitive team.
Between the salary cap, non-guaranteed contracts, and draft rules, you're almost at the point where a team just has to sit around and wait for its turn to be a Super Bowl contender. Fans in Detroit or Cleveland might disagree.
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:37:31 AM PST
by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: ReformationFan
Every team should get a trophy at the end of the year. It is only fair. It's my turn to decide what is fair! My turn, my turn, my turn.
1st Quarter FReepathon
Less than $5.4k to go!!
We can do this.
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:42:00 AM PST
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: ReformationFan
A fine plan, comrade, but unfortunately the people aren't ready for its full inception. As a temporary measure - only temporary, mind you, until the people are better acquainted with the nuances of advanced social thought - the referees will receive all the points and distribute them according to the axioms of class solidarity and the proper management of the relations of production. There will, naturally, have to be quite a few more referees to see that all of the rules enacted by a benevolent state are applied, and certain...penalties...administered to players who object to the arrangement.
The necessity for the referees will diminish as the players gradually come to accept the precepts of social justice, and the referees as a class will slowly wither away, leaving behind them a new, fairer, and more equitable game. In the meantime, though...well, it will be very good to be a referee. Up the revolution!
To: ReformationFan
The one thing I can agree with is with respect to advertising for particular team by wearing branded clothing.
Whenever I see some adult pot-bellied male sporting a $150 Patriots jersey or a $35 Jets cap, I want to scream out at him to have some pride and self-respect. You are not "on the team" just because you purchased some overpriced piece of merchandise. You are being a tool! You are also being a fool! Grow up.
To: ReformationFan
NFL ? After PC insanity, fags on parade, and $128,500 per family for tickets/parking/concessions ?
Not F'n Likely
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posted on
03/01/2014 8:59:18 AM PST
by
tomkat
(3%+1)
To: ReformationFan
City of Green Bay does not own the team. It is owned by hundreds of thousand of individual stockholders like myself.
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posted on
03/01/2014 9:01:05 AM PST
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep rigsupreme Splasht)
To: SamAdams76
Whenever I see some adult pot-bellied male sporting a $150 Patriots jersey or a $35 Jets cap, I want to scream out at him to have some pride and self-respect. Agree ... especially with the jersey part. Get it with kids or young adults not middle aged, or older people wearing the jersey of some professional athlete half their age.
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posted on
03/01/2014 9:08:47 AM PST
by
BluH2o
To: ReformationFan
Still love HS & college football, despite their often sordid shenanigans. But the NFL? Never more, quoting some Raven.
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posted on
03/01/2014 9:32:51 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: ReformationFan
after the stunt they pulled in favor of tyranny and against religious freedom this past week
Why wasn't the NFL charged with extortion when they threatened the AZ Gov with pulling the SuperBowl if she didn't veto the bill?
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posted on
03/01/2014 9:39:08 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
“Nice Anti-Trust Exemption you’ve got there....hate to see anything bad happen to it.”
That explains why the NFL is so PC these days.
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posted on
03/01/2014 9:40:55 AM PST
by
dfwgator
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