Posted on 10/19/2016 2:13:20 AM PDT by raccoonradio
11. American kids are becoming a generation of p*ssies.
Forget a tough hit by the defensive lineman; Junior can’t even endure a rebuke or two without seeking a “safe room.”
I don’t consider the Patriots a marquee team. I consider them a team that cheats and the NFL burned the evidence. They are one of the reasons why I turned it off.
The Kaepernick thing probably started this, but as the commentary indicates....it’s a snowball effect because there are lots of reasons why people are fed up.
I think as the season ends and owners sit to review salary offers for 2017....players will be shocked that there are no pay-raises in the deals....only to keep pay at the same level...even if you are a four-star player.
Players will go to the union and talk about a strike, and that will just pump up the anti-NFL feeling with fans to another higher level. Within three years, I think that most players will be making one-third less than they do today, and pretty frustrated over what Kaepernick started.
Thankfully, college football has been really good this year and my interest in baseball has increased.
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I have discouraged all the young boys in my family from playing football. It is just to risky. I know several college and NFL former players that suffer from serious medical complications due to injuries. I played for years and I also have some medical issues directly associated with the game.
Baseball: No taking a knee during the national anthem or 7th inning stretch God Bless America
others:
Fantasy football takes fans from individual teams to their team
Tax dollars to build stadiums, turned many off forever
Last player strike, turned many off forever
Paying full price for practice games is a rip off
Going to a game is very expensive and you wait a lot for commercials
Season is way too long
Once you watch a game in Compressed mode it is hard to go back to watching the three and half hour live commercial stuffed broadcast.
>Kaepernick’s kneeling anthem protests take great courage,
Bwaaaaaahaaa! When you’re getting millions of dollars a year you can laugh all the way to the bank while you pi$$ on the flag. Great courage indeed.
The Deflategate idiocy should have been included.
the league want all in for fantasy league popularity with the emphasis on scoring.. but you don’t need to watch to play fantasy football so there you go.
The league has too much pink IMO..
Tebow was ridiculed for showing his Christian beliefs and that didnt help the NFL image. Rush Limbaugh was run out of ESPN for giving an opinion, but the libs can say or do anything. Ray Lewis as the face of the game, and now this Bengal Burfict criminal is maiming people on the field. Very poor top level leadership as I see it.
Lack of diversity is why it’s banned in this house - all the players are black
The felonious nature of the gangstas on the field doesn’t help either.
Gone are the days of class acts like Mean Joe Green.
Who in their right mind would want their kids to emulate the thugs on the field today?
Anyone who says that Kaepernick’s kneeeling took “great courage” does not know what courage is. And anyone who thinks that disciplining him would violate a civil right does not know what a civil right is.
Kaepernick’s position doesn’t take courage - his is a whiny, entitled kneel brought to him by people with courage.
And he doesn’t have “freedom of speech” when in uniform - he has what his job allows him. Shame on the NFL.
Baseball is the national pastime.
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