Three little maids from school are we
Pert as a school-girl well can be
Filled to the brim with girlish glee
Three little maids from school
Noble cause. Barfalicious implementation.
Posted on 10/19/2016 2:13:20 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Don’t Kneel; Stand Up.
Kaepernick’s kneeling anthem protests take great courage, considering the backlash he has received...
Kinda makes the whole article garbage when he writes that.
I dont give a #### either way. The jets are 1 and 5.
Just give the Trophy to the Patriots and call it a season.
“I think that most players will be making one-third less than they do today, and pretty frustrated over what Kaepernick started.”
And I hope they put the blame solidly on Kaepernick, even if it may not be 100% his fault.
People want to feel noble.
People want to flatter themselves with highbrow notions of why they are doing what they are doing.
If people can latch onto a high-minded, America-and-Apple-Pie reason to do what they were going to do anyway, it makes that action assured.
Which brings us to the NFL.
There are a lot of reasons people are starting to wander away from the NFL. The concussions, the commercials, the parity, the lack of compelling games, the ridiculous penalties, the contradicting feelings that it is unfortunate that these men whom you admire are being crippled vs. the frustration that the new rules are turning a man’s sport into Flag Football for Pussies. These are all good reasons for turning off the tube and finding something else to do on Sunday Afternoon (and Sunday Evening... And Monday Evening... And Thursday Evening... And Saturdays in December...)
But they lack the feel-good hook. The self-flattering notion that one is doing what one is doing for high-minded principles and in defense of some greater moral purpose.
Enter Colin Kaepernick.
Colin Kaepernick permits people to do what they were going to do anyway, turn off the game, with the gloss of defending the Flag, Family, Motherhood, and Apple Pie. His pathetic and irrelevant protests give people the opportunity to do what they were going to do, but for all the Right Reasons. That is why his puny actions are having such an out-sized effect.
Thank you, Colin Krapperneck, for helping to free up my time on Sunday afternoons!!
“...but what really makes the league feel old is its pointless insistence on limiting celebrations. Robbing the league of its personality is never a good idea.......”
Celebrating in the end zone and taunting opponents is not the kind of individuality that I want to see. It is poor sportsmanship.
The idiot with the Afro is the reason the ratings are down.
The NFL has gone full-bore, Leftist PC, and the organizers, being dolts, simply don’t get that the American people - in their sports, at least - hate that.
Those who want hillary watch soccer.
Stupid analysis who give a fu** what Mark Cuban says .
Good! I dont follow NFC. Good at all positions this year?
Is Romo out for good, back, or/and will he start when he comes back.
Three little maids from school are we
Pert as a school-girl well can be
Filled to the brim with girlish glee
Three little maids from school
Noble cause. Barfalicious implementation.
The league’s salary structure is ridiculous. A star QB can earn a huge chunk of the teams entire salary budget — making him in effect the owner’s key asset. We see this in the NBA, too. Kobe Bryant getting a coach fired/hired because he’s ‘unhappy’. Professional sports are teaching all the wrong lessons today.
Romo is probably out as starting quarterback. Prescott is doing to well to take him out of the lineup, and my personal opinion is that Romo’s injuries are a little bit worse than what is being talked about.
The lineup is good, not great, but Prescott seems to be able to adjust to his team and make the plays. A really good whooping of the Packers showed some good line reading abilities.
I was born and raised in Dallas, used to watch the Cowboys at the Cotton Bowl. Still miss Landry.
I hate that aspect of the game, that some of the greatest athletes in history get crippled as a result of it.
Oh, here we go again!
Noble person of color versus eeeevvvviiilll white people.
Throw in some vague Trump/Deplorable comment (tenor of our current election) and you see exactly this idiot's politics.
So what color is Hillary? Will she be our first black woman president?
Boycott is just #7 ha ha NFL is essentially the same as it has been for last several years the difference is the mutts who disrespect America. We vote with our remote.
Last I checked, the Seahawks were 4-1. It will be interesting to see the numbers for Sunday nights game between the Hawks and Cardinals. The ratings may be down, but will it be a historic drop off?
Kaepernick’s right to free speech ? The First Amendment constrains GOVERNMENT action. Kaepernick is an EMPLOYEE of a private firm. If he does not follow management direction, and as a result, damages the team, they should dump him for cause. No severance, contract voided.
The author forgot to mention the thug/gang culture that pro football presents. And then these thugs call me a racist.
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