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Roger Goodell and Wokeness Have Ensured the Decline of the NFL
American Thinker ^ | William Sullivan

Posted on 09/15/2020 2:57:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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To: glennaro

Time for Congress to remove its “monopoly” protections. Let the NFL compete with new leagues. Let the fan base decide if it wants to watch “woke” football or football.


61 posted on 09/15/2020 7:09:50 AM PDT by Reily
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To: dp0622
Many people are feeling a very very dangerous emotion towards the NFL. Indifference.

The opposite of love is not hate - it is indifference.

Maybe the short, fat, purple-haired, tattooed, Gen Z white girls who make up the bulk of BLM supporters will become the new NFL core fan base. Hey, it could happen... :)

62 posted on 09/15/2020 7:11:39 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: RoosterRedux

What business could survive by calling its customers racist and Expecting them to grovel and beg for forgiveness for the color of their skin?


63 posted on 09/15/2020 7:11:49 AM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: RoosterRedux

I stopped a year and half ago and to be honest I don’t miss it anymore. I realized how much time it takes away from everything else. I have gotten more back into fishing and hunting which is way more interesting.


64 posted on 09/15/2020 7:20:31 AM PDT by bc42875
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To: RoosterRedux
I hope it totally collapses. Then rebuilds in an image of 60s pro football. Those were men. Men who played the game simply because they loved football.

That was football.

65 posted on 09/15/2020 7:22:11 AM PDT by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: hercuroc

Colleges are losing it too. Players from most SEC schools led marches thru campus to president’s house or student union to protest...something.
Boosters not happy; I know some have called to threaten future donations will not happen!
Constantly telling your biggest donors & ticket buying fans how evil & racist they are is not how to ensure future ticket sales & donations!
College teams stay in the locker room during the anthem. But we’re not putting up with any selfish player BS.
We’ll see.


66 posted on 09/15/2020 7:41:46 AM PDT by AnxiouslyWaiting
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To: EEGator

Completely agree.


67 posted on 09/15/2020 7:51:28 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Great timeline and summary, thanks!


68 posted on 09/15/2020 7:58:52 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions. He let our Country down. - President Donald Trump)
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To: mewzilla

Football has always been a metaphor for war, a practice ground for war, where young men train themselves for battle. When our town goes up against your town, people are going to get hurt. Football is a sub-lethal substitute for the warrior instinct.

But, that’s not very darned woke. In a perfect world, 300-pound men colliding at 25 miles per hour would rebound elastically without mussing their hair or dislodging an NFL logo from its proper place on their uniform. Regrettably, the laws of physics are not up to the standards of the NFL, so reality must be set aside in favor of noble ideals.

The thing that amazes me is how easily I have set aside the NFL. I’ve been reading commenters who say they gnashed their teeth and broke out in a sweat over the effort to not peek at a game just for a second. Not me.

Farewell, Santa Clara Niners.


69 posted on 09/15/2020 8:06:13 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: mewzilla
Fans need a new league.

'Fans' need to get a life.

70 posted on 09/15/2020 8:52:38 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: IgnorerOfLiberals
[T]he cardboard cutout fans are really stupid.

Just as bad is what I see on Univision's Liga MX soccercasts. They show stands filled with virtual moving images of fans in boxes, Brady Bunch style. To me they look like ants crawling around.

ff

71 posted on 09/15/2020 9:03:30 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: RoosterRedux

Goodfellas doesn’t believe in what he is doing. Like Drew Bree’s, he’s just kowtowing to survive.


72 posted on 09/15/2020 9:11:00 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Wuhan virus is the only thing ever made in China that has lasted more than 4 months.)
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To: kempster
Started watching Professional Cornhole in place of the NFL.

Did fabulous Broadway open again. MOh sorry, just can't get used to that word being used for something else. One good thing about the scamdemic, it closed down Broadway.
73 posted on 09/15/2020 9:18:09 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Wuhan virus is the only thing ever made in China that has lasted more than 4 months.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The sooner the NFL, NBA, MLB go belly up, the better.


74 posted on 09/15/2020 9:26:34 AM PDT by alarm rider (What's the frequency Kenneth?)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Brees folded like a cheap deck chair. He should have retired with respect unlike the coward we now see that he has become.


75 posted on 09/15/2020 9:44:27 AM PDT by alarm rider (What's the frequency Kenneth?)
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To: Colinsky
The thing that amazes me is how easily I have set aside the NFL. I’ve been reading commenters who say they gnashed their teeth and broke out in a sweat over the effort to not peek at a game just for a second. Not me.

I was already getting bored with football. I have been away from it since the Kaepernick BS started. The season before that, I had a free subscription to NFL Sunday ticket that I got when I switched satellite providers. I seldom looked at it. I could have several games on the screen at once and could click on one and watch it fullscreen if I wanted to to. I really didn't want to. There is a sameness to watching the same sports year in and year out. Don't miss them.

I became a bigger baseball fan the last 5 or 6 years, but that's over for me too.

76 posted on 09/15/2020 9:51:11 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: AnxiouslyWaiting

Texas A&M’s fundraising is down $150 MILLION because of the admin putting up with BLM vandalism and demands.

Old Ag big donors are not happy.


77 posted on 09/15/2020 10:01:08 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: Texas resident

Football program will not make up that difference.


78 posted on 09/15/2020 10:04:10 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Old Yeller

Lol.


79 posted on 09/15/2020 3:55:28 PM PDT by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: Texas resident

Oh yeah. LSU’S big supporters are fed up with being called evil racists all day long. They just won’t put up with it anymore.
Unfortunately the only thing Admin & Athletic Office understands is money.
Stop donating & see what happens. Stop giving money to the athletes who despise you!


80 posted on 09/16/2020 7:27:40 PM PDT by AnxiouslyWaiting
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