Posted on 10/03/2017 12:57:35 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
And don’t worry, we will still have major league baseball and the NBA.
Business-wise, I think the 32 NFL franchieses will be forced within two seasons to talk about a pay-cut and it’ll invoke some player-union episode of a strike. The owners won’t back down and I’ll predict an entire season is lost. After that point, three or four of the franchises will disappear and lawsuits by the former owners against the NFL will kill off profits. You can figure by 2025...with the concussion business, lawsuits, and franchise failures...it’ll dissolve and end.
The thing is...all those NCAA kids standing there and realizing the ultimate dream is over...then why play NCAA football? It’ll dissolve them out of existence and then high school football.
And Chess! Don't forget Chess!
Regards,
Remove the Federal anit-trust exemption
Ban using taxpayer monies to build stadiums for professional sport teams
Good riddance to the opiate of the inebriate.
Football is an American cultural icon. The demise of football was the left’s intent all along. We mustn’t let ourselves go along with it.
NFL is a now cultural icon for large black men making millions and living the thug lifestyle. Its demise had little to do with the left. The injuries were self inflicted by owners who determined that violent thugs made better players on the field than persons of character.
“The thing is...all those NCAA kids standing there and realizing the ultimate dream is over...then why play NCAA football? It’ll dissolve them out of existence and then high school football.”
I’ve been thinking that from the start. The kids that virtually kill themselves to get noticed by the coach, the parents in poverty who see a chance to get out with their kids going big-time...and it all over now, due to a bunch of MULTI-MILLIONAIRES who cannot constrain their hatred of the country that made them rich.
I do feel sorry for the kids...but, on the other hand, maybe some of them will be the next Thomas Sowell’s...kids from a dismal background who now see that memorizing physics formulas is MUCH MORE VALUABLE than memorizing the Playbook.
Bingo! (Especially the part about stealing er ah taxing for stadiums)
Re: “In college, the NCAA’s state-protected profiteering off of unpaid players’ physical sacrifice is increasingly criticized as well.”
Unpaid players?
Gimme a break. The average college football scholarship pays close to $50,000 per year (including summer school) in room, board, tuition, books, fees, and tutors. A good red shirt player can get a fifth year, which means one year of free grad school.
Only 2% of college football players are good enough to play even one full year in the NFL (minimum salary $465,000).
Bottom Line - getting a cost free bachelors degree seems like a reasonable deal for the other 98%.
Some get into trouble here and there but that has always been the case.
Yes, because everything is President Trump's fault. /s
No, the blame lies squarely on Colin K (can't remember how to spell his last name) and the NFL, encouraging this anti-American cr*p.
Football WAS an American cultural icon; it hurt itself badly with far too many commercials that stretched four 15-minute quarters into a 3 1/2 hour (at least) event. This latest nonsense is just turning it into basketball with a different ball...
There is much truth in what this says but for some reason the tone is off putting. He also neglects the large gambling component of the NFL. It is difficult to measure but some say if no gambling was involved the NFL would lose half its audience. He may be right about the predictions but the gambling part may be very resilient and keep the NFL going.
Gimme a break. The average college football scholarship pays close to $50,000 per year (including summer school) in room, board, tuition, books, fees, and tutors.
You are spot on. I went to a top ten college and because of my good grades, I got a job as a "tutor." I was under very heavy pressure to make sure that my football playing student passed his classes (i.e., write his papers for him).
It is quite the pampered lifestyle these guys live. Girls, grades...they have everything they want, as long as they can perform on the field.
Noticed the same thing. Author is stretching to tie gladiators,football, collesuims, etc. Its like he was going to make this illustration and football happened to be in the headlines, so he tried to make it work
NFL is dying BC of arrogance, greed, insulting its fan base, producing an unwatchable product, neglecting safety, enabling less than desirable culture, and ignoring the importance of the youth game.
Bumppo
“At sporting events, our government captures the nostalgia we feel for neighborhood friendship and family pastimes, associates it with the anthem and flag, and then converts it into passive, numb surrender to perpetual warfare.”
Statement is too dumb to comment on.
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