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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
Ungreatful, mookabookers will be a cold day in hell before i turn the tube to the nfl again.
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.
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!!
A CONSERVATIVE wrote this???? I don’t think so.
In the space of 20-30 years it has managed to go from an exciting sport to a dull one.
Only a small part of this can be attributed to changes in the game itself (endless penalty flags, 3+ hours of TV time for 15 minutes of football, etc.). The rest is a cultural change in a modern society that simply prefers to have more constant stimulation than what a football game offers for entertainment. What used to be exciting several decades ago just isn't so exciting anymore.
The unintended consequences of proggie actions are something to behold.
Stupidity on parade, over and over and over again.
And we will be a weaker and sorrier nation for drifting in the direction that this pathetic author is pushing.
We are getting our competitiveness and desire to excel “nuanced” out of us, by being told we are oh, so too intellectual and sensitive, now.
This is all a plot, to immaculate the USA. And they try to blame Jesus for it!
