Posted on 10/19/2016 2:13:20 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Silver spoon punk CEO of the ‘49ers, Jed York, has endorsed CK’s actions. Sound like CK may have got it cleared ahead of time.
Landry :) wow, the 80s :)
i’m 48 but i recall the steelers and cowboys mixing it up a few times
Imagine you're a 15 year old white kid in high school. You're big enough and athletic enough to play football.
Would you join a sports team with 90% black guys, that are bigger and stronger than you, in this racial environment?
I think the younger generation is tuning out the NFL.
Another reason:
The games ARE boring. A football "game" lasts almost 4 hours, with about 10 minutes of actual sports being played.
The rest of the time it just a bunch of guys standing around interrupted by commercials.
Not entertaining.
... anyone who thinks that disciplining him would violate a civil right does not know what a civil right is....
Anyone who thinks you have free speech on the job does not know what free speech is and who it applies to.
The average lineman in Knute Rockne’s day was about 200 pounds. Now the average is well over 300. The hits have way more force behind them, from elementary school age on up. It’s just a matter of course that the injuries will be way worse.
1. There are still plenty of boys playing youth football. Perhaps not so much in sissy communities but youth football is alive and well. Injuries are massively exaggerated compared with falling off a bicycle among other things.
2. The NFL has embraced the gangster culture similar to the NBA. That may appease ESPN and the players’ union but it upsets the fan base.
3. There are too many commercials.
4. The NFL rules are unnecessarily complicated compared to NCAA rules.
5. There is saturation not just of NFL games but also of college games. Vastly more opportunities to watch football is going to dilute broadcast audiences.
6. The Commissioner is a tool.
Not born in Texas (Pennsylvania), never been a Cowboys fan (Steelers) but I always had great respect and admiration for Coach Landry.
Has the writer checked to see the race of the sitting president for the last eight years? The Attorney General? The Secretary of Homeland Security? You don't get much more 'institutional power structure' than that.
There is nothing 'perceived' about minority aggression, which has seen cops targeted by snipers, thugs and, of course, media types. It has caused riots, arson and further lawlessness in cities already hollowed out by criminality.
Kaepernick's kneeling anthem protests take great courage, considering the backlash he has received.
Logically and chronologically fallacious. The protests came before the backlash.
It's a controversy the league would prefer to silence
Based on what evidence? As many have pointed out, the league monitors the most minute details of their 'product' especially uniforms, broadcasts, availability of video highlights, etc. If they wanted the protests stopped, they would stop.
except trampling Kaepernick's right to free speech would backfire and create a civil rights furor.
This is the lazy, naive formulation of lefties, especially sports types. KAEPERNICK IS AT WORK. Are McDonald's employees allowed to wear political buttons? Do grocery clerks give you a political lecture when ringing your purchases? Does the mailman kneel in front of your house if you have a Trump sign in the yard?
If civil rights supersede all other considerations why can't we carry our firearms to work?
So not standing for the flag isn't anti-American? What is then?
The anti-flag rant’s started by a QB did the damage for me. I would have watched it 7 nights a week. Heck I even spent 17-days with OJ Simpson in Florida while on a Medivac from South America watching football and talking pain every day; football was never second place until the QB Protests - Screw the NFL. Cancelled NFL Package and wrote DirecTV, the NFL 4 times and the 49’ers, plus ESPN twice - done, done, done.
Courage would be him standing up to the racist hate his girlfriend is spouting.
Sure, just when my Cowboys are looking like an actual football team. Sheesh...
I'll say. It's a game that is supposed to be a diversion for a couple of hours on a Sunday.
Last I heard, the ratings for college football were doing quite well. Hmmmmm....
“It’s a controversy the league would prefer to silence, except trampling Kaepernick’s right to free speech would backfire and create a civil rights furor.”
“I can’t watch the NFL they won’t let them protest during the anthem!” Said nobody. Maybe the real reason is the all the black players would protest and get the union involved.
“...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, especially in a sport where everyone wears helmets. Stifling individuality in this context feels dated and stuffy.”
What really makes the league feel dorky is that they actually need lame rules to stop swishy celebration dancing and chest slapping displays because the cool players can’t or won’t simply self police the jerk players. Modern penalties and replay and there only being 16 games makes each game too important to risk losing over gross fruity gyrations. It became too popular for sportsmanship.
Freegards
I have consciously decided to not watch games when in the past I would have for the heck of it. Even my home team I have sat out. Sick of this league.
We should all refuse to watch until the NFL "looks like America."
Michael Sam pushed in our faces
Public Service Ads with players lecturing men to not beat their wives
I've spent a few rainy days watching videotapes of old games from the 1980s during the height of the 49ers, Redskins and Giants dynasties. If you put the top teams in the NFL today back into that league, and adjusted the talent level to account for the better athletes today, you couldn't find a current NFL team that would do better than 8-8 in that era.
I'd make the case that the NFL hasn't had a "complete" team (multi-faceted offense, strong in all areas of defense, etc.) since the Dallas Cowboys of the mid-1990s. The salary cap and the NFL's idiotic strategy of forcing parity among the teams is the culprit there.
I started losing interest when the NFL imposed the salary cap and free agency. It simply became impossible to generate any kind of enthusiasm for a team when I knew that 50% of its roster would be turning over every season.
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