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Why I am boycotting the NFL and MLB and why you should consider doing it too (PC double standards)

Posted on 09/23/2016 11:51:09 AM PDT by Cubs Fan

For weeks we have been treated to "Its his right to free speech" as Colin Kaepernick and a few others have taken a knee for the National Anthem (or in the case of the Philadelphia Eagles, a black power salute by three players).

The NFL has backed these "protestors" even though the NFL has lost significant viewership, and hence, revenue, because of these antics. In addition, on a moral level, Kaepernick and company's "protest" has been on behalf of a hate group--black lives matter as well as other thugs who have called for murdering of policemen (several policemen have been killed because of it) groups who, on multiple occasions now, have engaged in rioting and looting in addition to hunting down whites in order to viciously assault them.

All through it I have been wondering-- what if someone in professional sports had protested in some way against black lives matter? What would happen to them?

Well wonder no more. Because now it has happened. MLB Mariner, Steve Clevenger, tweeted his dislike for black lives matter and the disgusting behavior of the rioters.So wnhat happened? Was there support for his free speech? No. Was there talk of his rights? Nope. Not even for second. He was fired almost immediately.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/09/23/steve-clevenger-suspended-racist-charlotte-tweets-seattle-mariners/90908618/


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To: major-pelham
3 hours? The total actual playing time for the average NFL game is less than 20 minutes. I have been boycotting the NBA forever and the NFL for the last 3 years.
21 posted on 09/23/2016 12:18:10 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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To: TruthWillWin

Well, the Cubs are pretty much eliminated on Day 1:-)


22 posted on 09/23/2016 12:21:33 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Cubs Fan
They wouldn't notice that I was missing. I have never watched any kind of professional sports.

Sort of lost my admiration for people playing games for money after my time in Vietnam.

23 posted on 09/23/2016 12:22:40 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

That’s when I gave up. Got tired of the player strikes and realized that life didn’t end without them.


24 posted on 09/23/2016 12:22:56 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Cubs Fan

As the Aussies say, “Good on ya.”


25 posted on 09/23/2016 12:23:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: TruthWillWin

NCAA. . Nothing collegiate there. Sports have turned into nothing more than a breeding ground for the non-academic pro wannabees. . . . many are taking up air, scholarships, etc. in the community colleges, colleges and universities. . .with NO intention of obtaining a meaningful degree (everything at the tax payer’s expense). It is an absolute joke with no role models for the young except to provide the impetus to steal sneakers!!!!!


26 posted on 09/23/2016 12:25:58 PM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Cubs Fan

Folks have figures out they can bully people for expressing the wrong sort of views. Hear the other day that some campus snowflake got his panties in a twist because of a picture of football players wearing sombreros.

I imagine hell flip his lid about whites eating authentic Mexican food next.


27 posted on 09/23/2016 12:27:28 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: major-pelham

I’m a big baseball fan myself. I played organized league softball and baseball for about 20 years. I love going to an evening game. The atmosphere at the ball park is just a great way to relax and enjoy your time.

Suck up some brews, get a few hot-dogs, maybe get some peanuts too...

I grew up listening to St. Louis Cardinal baseball games in the 50s with my grandfather. We lived in in the country. In the pitch black, you could hear the play by play on the old radio.

Harry Carry, Jack Buck did the play by play. It was a magical time for me, something I’ll never forget. It has stayed with me for sixty years.

I’ve had a bat and ball in my hands many times over the years. There isn’t another sport like it, the vernacular, the old stories, the colorful characters...

The chumps that run these sports are just that.

Too bad Chumps are so in vogue these days.


28 posted on 09/23/2016 12:28:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Forty-six days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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To: Cubs Fan

wow you all just made me
delete SI and NFL.com off my favorites
we lived in the middle of no where and order NFL next day.....at 70 dollars a year....not this year. that will hurt a little.

bastards take all my retirement fun away...ooo well they did move to MO then I moved to Mo ....then they moved back to LA...not moving back


29 posted on 09/23/2016 12:29:57 PM PDT by curdogmen (we got a dog in this hunt)
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To: Cubs Fan
Football – along with “professional” wrestling – is the Heavyweight Division of the Celebrity Worship Club where watching 300 pound men in tights making 6 and 7 figure salaries knock the piss out of one another will somehow make the lives of those who witness this activity better and more worthwhile.

The Beautiful People Division, which serves a similar purpose (occasionally sans the violence) is currently headed by some Armenian American Princess named Kim Kardashian. She is known for the substantial size of her gluteus maximus muscles, so large they have been assigned their own zip code and are believed to have an independent weather system. As is the case with the Heavyweight Division, watching and reading about the comings and goings of the members of this division is also believed to enhance the lives of the average citizen.

In the early days of the American Republic, there was also a Political Division. It was disbanded due to loss of interest after the election of “progressive” hero Woodrow Wilson, father of the One World forerunner of the beloved United Nations, the League of Nations, the Federal Reserve and – drumroll, please – THE INCOME TAX!

In that vein, a wag once lamented the numbers of “citizens” (and I use the term VERY loosely) who take no interest in politics by correctly remarking “You may not be interested in politics but, trust me when I say that POLITICS HAS A KEEN INTEREST IN YOU!' That's a variation of a comment by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who also correctly opined in 1884 “...as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”

Want to do something that might actually have some impact on YOUR LIFE more important than watching those 300 pounders beat the crap out of each other? You can start by visiting this site and learning how YOUR rep and senators are screwing you and your kids and grandkids out of their birthright:

www.gradegov.com

30 posted on 09/23/2016 12:30:00 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. DIDN'T WE IMPRISON TOKYO ROSE???)
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To: Cubs Fan

Not a problem. I gave up on collegiate and professional sports decades ago. Both cost too much and offer too little to both me and society. Both have produced misplaced importance for us all.


31 posted on 09/23/2016 12:31:09 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: rigelkentaurus

It is Fall now isn’t it? Has football season started yet?


32 posted on 09/23/2016 12:32:36 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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Social media will bite you in the butt every time.

We were told at my last job that: Social media can and will put you in a bind, if you start spouting off. And if the company gets involved somehow (because they employ the “offender”) than the company is going to let you go.

Not that necessarily disagree, but at that point they have skin in the game that do not wish to participate in.

So we just shut up on line, or went undercover.


33 posted on 09/23/2016 12:35:39 PM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: Cubs Fan

I quite NFL cold turkey. Time to throw out the baseball, too. Waste of time anyway. Time that could be better spent mt. biking, or skiing, or engaged in shooting sports.


34 posted on 09/23/2016 12:36:15 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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I watch a little MLB and NHL.

NFL and NBA got boycotted a couple of decades back.


35 posted on 09/23/2016 12:38:39 PM PDT by Clutch Martin
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To: Cubs Fan
Professional sports are just another arm of the liberal media, one of the most lucrative. The addiction to sports by conservative men helps subsidize the entire cable and broadcast TV industry. I've lost count of how many conservative men I've tried to convince to drop their cable TV who've said "But what about the (local sports team)?"

I gave up the few cable shows I still watched, everyone who hates the liberal media should do the same, even if it means missing "the big game". The people who run these media cartels hate us, the entertainers hate us, and now even some of the athletes hate us. We should return the favor.

36 posted on 09/23/2016 12:38:49 PM PDT by MaxFlint
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To: MaxFlint

It’s time for parents and grandparents and concerned citizens to start up after school and weekend intramurals again. Kids need role models and need to know someone actually cares about them instead of seeing the “illiterates” getting rewarded for bad behavior on and off the court or playing field.


37 posted on 09/23/2016 12:43:27 PM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Cubs Fan

I haven’t watch either for about 20 years already.


38 posted on 09/23/2016 12:53:03 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: JBW1949

I think people should know this is a new position for him...one that started when he started dating his new girlfriend who appears to be a radicalized Muslim. Colin just converted is Islam, so perhaps he’s buying into all that crap. I don’t know much about his girlfriend, but would like to know more from people who do know.


39 posted on 09/23/2016 12:55:14 PM PDT by econjack
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To: curdogmen

I hear you FRiend. I am going to miss watching my teams. But I know if I did continue to watch them, every time I tried to sit and enjoy them, I would be thinking about the liberal crap that has gone on (and is going to happen probably more and more) and it will destroy my enjoyment.

Plus every time liberalism/PC wins, we lose another piece of our country and its ideals. I just can’t be a part of that anymore, no matter where it happens, and what sacrifice I may have to make.


40 posted on 09/23/2016 1:00:53 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberalism is a cancer that destroys everything it gets a hold of.)
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