Posted on 09/23/2017 7:17:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
For my health, sanity and productivity, I quit watching the NFL regularly on television about the time Clint Longley single-handedly beat the Washington Redskins on Thanksgiving Day, 1974. I tuned in periodically in the early '80s, but gave it up entirely by the end of the decade -- in part because I was then living abroad. When I returned to the States nearly a decade later, I found I no longer cared, and eventually even gave up on the Super Bowl.
There was never the slightest chance I would go back, but even if I wanted to, I couldn't, as I cut the cable long ago and learned I can live quite happily and more cheaply without it -- no sports, no CNN, no Fox News. But even if I hook up the old satellite dish again here in my rural New England community, I still wouldn't watch pro football now that the NFL and some of its players have injected racial politics into a sport that, more than any other, pioneered on-field integration and got white America cheering for black athletes.
So I found the president's remarks in Alabama rather refreshing.
President Donald Trump has ratcheted up the national controversy over black National Football League players who refuse to stand while the U.S. National Anthem is played before games. During a Friday night political rally in Alabama, Trump called on fans to boycott teams that allow players to engage in that particular form of protest.
The league's TV ratings have slid since quarterback Colin Kaepernick, then the leader of the San Francisco 49ers, began the trend in September 2016.
'Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, "Get that son of a b***h off the field right now! He is fired. He's fired!"' Trump boomed. His crowd applauded and chanted 'USA! USA!'
There's no question that the has-been Kaepernick exacerbated the league's slide in the ratings, but he alone is not responsible for it. The games have lengthened from three hours to four, while providing the same minuscule amount of "action" -- eleven minutes. The players have grown ever more interchangeable; the teams might just as well field squads of tattooed robots. To illustrate just how far off the rails the league has gone, Los Angeles -- a city that has no use for pro football and proved it could live without the Rams for years -- now has two teams,
And the injuries -- always the game's dirty little secret -- have become ever more damaging, even as the rules are constantly tinkered with, and the refs throw more flags. The players have simply become too big, too fast, and too heavily armored. Even though it's unlikely to succeed, the recently announced lawsuit by the family of the late Aaron Hernandez will surely focus national attention on the issue of brain damage:
The Boys ain't gonna have no one to play if this keeps up.
FUNFL
I don’t think so but let’s find out!
I gave up my 4 PSLs to Titans games last season and will stop watching their games and all NFL games beginning tomorrow.
The GOOD NEWS is that maybe — JUST MAYBE — the American people are finally weaning themselves from the “Bread and circuses” mentality that destroyed Rome and many other civilizations and will start paying more attention to the IMPORTANT stuff.
You know, like how we’re being betrayed and ROBBED by the feckless politicians and their Deep State handmaidens.
It is time for every American patriot to boycott the NFL.
I suspect the top management of every major professional sports team in the U.S. is scheduling conference calls first thing tomorrow morning to figure out how to deal with this nonsense. There’s nothing more discretionary to American consumers than our entertainment, and the financial losses these teams may face just in the declining values of the franchises and their brands could be staggering.
My TrumpGrin has grown exponentially today.
My Dr. says its incurable.
Looks like a Cowboys loss to the Patriots in the Super Bowl by default, then.
Heh
An average of one arrest every week since 2000. Imagine that.
I’ve noticed a pattern here. President Trump seems to send out his absolute best Twitter messages when he’s spending a weekend at one of his resorts. He’s up here at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey this weekend. LOL.
Goodell is much stupider than his late father Sen. Goodell, a leftist, wishy-washy fool who the KGB and their American operatives tried to influence re the war in Vietnam.
Looks like stupidity runs in the family. Time for it to run out, just like I’m “running out “ on watching footballs games on TV.
I’ve decided it is more interesting to watch my beets and corn grown. At least I can get something useful out of them.
Same here. Not watching at all starting tomorrow.
Rank | Team | 2016 Value ($B) | 1-Yr Value Change | Debt/Value | Revenue ($M) | Operating Income ($M) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
#1 | Dallas Cowboys | 4.80 | +14% | 8% | 840 | 350 |
#2 | New England Patriots | 3.70 | +9% | 6% | 575 | 247 |
#3 | New York Giants | 3.30 | +6% | 15% | 477 | 131 |
#4 | Washington Redskins | 3.10 | +5% | 8% | 482 | 145 |
#5 | San Francisco 49ers | 3.05 | +2% | 16% | 458 | 130 |
#6 | Los Angeles Rams | 3.00 | +3% | 33% | 370 | 82 |
#7 | Chicago Bears | 2.85 | +6% | 4% | 416 | 114 |
#8 | Houston Texans | 2.80 | +8% | 2% | 433 | 141 |
#9 | New York Jets | 2.75 | +0% | 20% | 431 | 92 |
#10 | Philadelphia Eagles | 2.65 | +6% | 7% | 430 | 63 |
#11 | Denver Broncos | 2.60 | +8% | 4% | 411 | 81 |
#12 | Miami Dolphins | 2.58 | +8% | 17% | 376 | 65 |
#13 | Green Bay Packers | 2.55 | +9% | 4% | 421 | 91 |
#14 | Baltimore Ravens | 2.50 | +9% | 11% | 403 | 78 |
#15 | Atlanta Falcons | 2.48 | +16% | 34% | 367 | 94 |
#16 | Pittsburgh Steelers | 2.45 | +9% | 8% | 401 | 102 |
#17 | Seattle Seahawks | 2.43 | +9% | 6% | 399 | 85 |
#18 | Minnesota Vikings | 2.40 | +9% | 24% | 392 | 105 |
#19 | Oakland Raiders | 2.38 | +13% | 13% | 321 | 41 |
#20 | Indianapolis Colts | 2.38 | +9% | 3% | 360 | 78 |
#21 | Carolina Panthers | 2.30 | +11% | 3% | 385 | 102 |
#22 | Los Angeles Chargers | 2.28 | +9% | 7% | 355 | 60 |
#23 | Arizona Cardinals | 2.15 | +6% | 7% | 370 | 87 |
#24 | Kansas City Chiefs | 2.10 | +12% | 3% | 365 | 60 |
#25 | Jacksonville Jaguars | 2.08 | +6% | 4% | 377 | 89 |
#26 | Tennessee Titans | 2.05 | +2% | 7% | 366 | 79 |
#27 | New Orleans Saints | 2.00 | +14% | 10% | 395 | 97 |
#28 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 1.98 | +10% | 9% | 367 | 80 |
#29 | Cleveland Browns | 1.95 | +5% | 11% | 365 | 97 |
#30 | Cincinnati Bengals | 1.80 | +7% | 6% | 355 | 77 |
#31 | Detroit Lions | 1.70 | +3% | 15% | 341 | 48 |
#32 | Buffalo Bills | 1.60 | +7% | 12% | 352 | 53 |
Total | 80.71 | 13,156 | 3,244 |
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