Posted on 10/03/2017 12:57:35 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Totally agree. The NFL has become the symbol for disrespect for the American flag. Those obscenely overpaid players need to suffer the consequences.
Ungreatful, mookabookers will be a cold day in hell before i turn the tube to the nfl again.
A free college education has no monetary value to NCAA players who have no interest in it and/or are incapable of really putting it to any use.
If the Raiders offensive front line threw the game as rumored, there will be a money trail a mile long and half a mile wide.
The DOJ should investigate immediately.
The NFL management and team owners who support, or condone, the players who disrespect the National Anthem took a gamble.
They made a bet that supporting the anti-American players would bring in more fans from the political left without losing fans who are patriots and pro-America.
And they thought they could jump on the leftists anti-Trump band wagon and safely defy and insult President Trump.
It’s already obvious that they realize they made two bad bets.
Now they are looking for some sort of middle ground (ie: arm-linking)to avoid open conflict with the players and as a sop to Americans disgusted with them and the players.
But it is just making things worse.
They have shown their true colors and can never regain the loyalty of the Americans they have treated so shabbily.
The DOJ should investigate immediately.
Maybe - someday.
If we ever get an Attorney General with a backbone and some fire instead of a white glove graduate of the Emily Post Institute.
What you said!
Fine. But let's limit the number of scholarships awarded each year to the number of players a college graduated the prior year with real degrees in real academic fields, honestly earned.
Then we'd see how the football powerhouses would fare with about 10 scholarship athletes on the field. The rest of today's "student athletes" could go back to whatever manual labor they are capable of doing. Or the NFL could set up its own farm system.
Football itself will remain American, but the NFL can go to hell.
What is your suggestion then? That we tolerate the thugs that are kneeling on the sidelines and disrespecting us, our country and our flag?
https://twitter.com/search?q=marcus%20peters&src=typd
Marcus Peters cursing a Chiefs fan and Marcus was the sole player on both teams to keep sitting during the anthem
I can live with Golf - and spending time that used to be used watching anti-Americans play by playing some sports/golf myself...
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!!
“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.”
Well, there’s flag football. And, the girls could play. Hmm, I’m kinda liking this. Put them in cute shorts, tight tank tops? You know, this just might sell, lol!
Liberal indoctrinators will become more strident as the consequences of their activism runs full-circle and costs them their lifestyles and livelihoods.
-PJ
You mean like this: http://www.lflus.com The LFL “Lingerie (I mean “Legends”) Football League”.
I don’t believe athletic money funds the academic side directly. Football helps fund the other sports programs. If football goes, then a bunch of other sports go with it. If you have less student athletes, then you don’t need as many professors unless student athletes are replaced by regular students.
Perhaps the gamblers can solve this problem.
Some of them could sit down with the owners and explain—you keep politics out of the game or we break your knees. :-)
It also affects enrollment; kids want to go to the school with exciting reputations. Take away football Saturday, and maybe fewer students will choose that school. Maybe rich alumni won't donate for that next building.
-PJ
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