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Is This the End of the NFL?
NY Mag ^ | November 25, 2017 | Will Leitch

Posted on 11/25/2017 12:23:32 PM PST by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode
I'm a 60+ year fan who hasn't watched a minute of the NFL since Week Two, and I'm now ashamed to admit that it wa a bunch of flag protests that got me to stop watching this collection of wife-beaters, rapists, and murderers play games. (And for a long time suffering through commercials which portray white men as dolts; and blacks of all kinds as erudite and way out of their proportion to the population.)

ML/NJ

81 posted on 11/25/2017 5:05:24 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: EdnaMode

82 posted on 11/25/2017 5:10:26 PM PST by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: EdnaMode

What a whiney __________ of an article. And this jack-wagon thinks the NBA is where it’s at? Laughable!


83 posted on 11/25/2017 5:31:34 PM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: jdsteel

I stopped reading there. The writer is plugged into antifa and that sorry lot. He’s mistaken if he thinks lovely, friendly conservative folks will be taken out quickly or easily.

The author is a complete idiot and not worth the time to read.


84 posted on 11/25/2017 6:23:40 PM PST by 1scrappymom (No, I am not a Republican. I am a CONSERVATIVE. PROUD ARMY MOM)
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To: Let's Roll

Lifetime bears can here, and I left years ago. Why? It was the 2nd or 3rd year of jay cutlers long term contract, and I realized that I probably won’t live long e tough to see the bears win another super bowl. Then I dropped the whole thing col turkey.


85 posted on 11/25/2017 6:29:59 PM PST by Bernard (If we could tax Stupid, Congress could balance the budget)
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To: discostu

There rating is 0 at my house. Its college football for us.


86 posted on 11/25/2017 7:07:14 PM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I’ll take Goodell’s job and charge $20M with no private jet.


87 posted on 11/25/2017 7:17:25 PM PST by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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To: EdnaMode

The brain damage from playing is probably why they can’t forecast the consequences of their anti-American protesting.


88 posted on 11/25/2017 7:29:37 PM PST by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: blam

Rotor Rooter -Loser rooter


89 posted on 11/25/2017 7:44:07 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: factoryrat
No talk of football at work this year. And no football squares

The only ones still interested at my place of work are those who do fantasy fb. Nobody else cares.

90 posted on 11/25/2017 7:44:42 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: wrcase

“...It may bring back the days when the service academies were among the top teams in the country. It would be nice to see teams be successful with real students ...”

Perhaps citizens should rethink the entire concept of spectator sports. If we’re spectating, we’re not doing anything useful.

Organized team sports grew out of collegiate athletics in the 19th century, when physical fitness and team activities were believed to contribute to the formation of good character.

These notions are still given lip service at the federal service academies, but team members (especially football) are often recruited in everything but name despite regulations banning the practice. Cadets slated for a team enter service academies marginally qualified in other areas, then get showered with tons of extra help in academics when they falter (and they enjoy a number of minor perks all along). Many still get dismissed for poor academic performance. Hardly any stand high in academic ranking.

More troubling are the infirmities of character apparently induced by athletics: until the rise of sex harassment complaints in the 1990s, every major honor scandal at the United States Air Force Academy was centered on academic cheating. Entire cheating rings sprang up. The ringleaders were intercollegiate sports team members.

The notion of organized team sports as enhancements to the learning of military leadership has been moribund for decades. And the least military of sports took pride of place, over sports with more direct military relevance.

I attended USAFA in the early 1970s and as a member of the intercollegiate rifle team endured unending disrespect, from other intercollegiate team members and cadets in general: shooters were sneered at routinely, put down as “not real athletes” - despite the fact that by that point in USAFA’s existence, the rifle team alone had earned more All-American awards that all other teams combined.


91 posted on 11/25/2017 10:44:34 PM PST by schurmann
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To: EdnaMode
A lot of this is attributable, like so much else, to the president. Dozens of players were protesting the first two weeks of the season, but no one seemed to care …

Mr. Lietch is another one of the bubbled tone-deaf. Trump said something because Americans said something, not the other way around. But Mr. Leitch is right on one thing, he would be one of the first to go in a revolution - because he'd never hear it coming at all.

92 posted on 11/25/2017 11:27:39 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: EdnaMode

What was the NF’n L


93 posted on 11/26/2017 12:13:55 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Tallguy
Cleveland or Philadelphia wins the Superbowl. Sign of the apocalypse.

Minnesota.

94 posted on 11/26/2017 3:46:10 PM PST by xone
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To: EdnaMode

Thugs - nothing more.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2746135-michael-crabtree-aqib-talib-gabe-jackson-ejected-after-broncos-raiders-brawl


95 posted on 11/27/2017 8:25:25 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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