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.
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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.
Lack of diversity is why it’s banned in this house - all the players are black
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.
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.
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 .