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Good point. We have multiple games on any given Sunday, plus the Sunday night game, Monday night football, and Thursday night football. And for those college fans, there’s college football all day and evening on Saturdays. There’s only so much football anyone can watch.
You only have channels that carry the nothing but the NFL? I find that hard to believe!
No sir...we don’t have to put up with it. My friends and I have totally moved away from the NFL.
You can put up with it...I don’t have to.
The NFL’s underlying problem is discrimination against white players.
Frankly, most of these teams look like undisciplined mobs on the field. Compare any current team with films of the NFL’s glory days.
For example, the undefeated 1972 Dolphins. Don Shula didn’t out up with indiscipline. In a predominantly white roster there was a place for gentlemen of color like Paul Warfield and Larry Little. They played their hearts out for salaries that were modest by today’s stands. But they knew they were not bigger than the game, and that it was an honor to be a starter on a championship squad.
Baseball is America’s pastime, football is America’s passion. Just like The Donald is saying about Washington, it’s time to “drain the swamp.”
A lot of games are now streamed over the Internet, I don’t bother turning on the TV, when I can have the game going on in the background on my PC.
They probably thought only people without access to a TV would watch the games on their mobile devices, but I think they badly miscalculated there.
On the rare occasion I watch Scott Van Pelt, he was candid about the fact the Monday night game was a snoozer. He actually called it.
I have an interesting perspective on something that’s happening to the NFL right now:
People are looking for reasons to leave things.
The NFL has been bad for a long time. There are pockets of good like anything else, but I think the Patriot cheat machine has done as much to hurt it than anything else.
Back to the point - TV is a church. It’s a replacement for fellowship, and we used to look up to the people on TV.
Athletes have been pretty useful god surrogates.
Divorce rates have skyrocketed. It’s now up to 70 percent. Women blew up the old economic model of the nuclear family, and when that didn’t work they blamed marriage instead of themselves.
They are now rallying around someone we know to be everything we hate in a corrupt leader. She’s got no Y chromosome, and so ‘flawed’ or not, they are for her.
People are cutting the cable cord. Church attendance is down. Nobody trusts the media, or politicians.
It’s a strange time. The 1900s were a hot house of new political and economic ideas. Communism seemed like a pretty good idea to a lot of people for very good reasons. Novelists were getting people to talk about ideas. There were so many voices out there and passion behind the ideas.
The ideas even made sense on paper. They made sense when people got together and talked about them. Some of them tried them out, and like every good idea, somewhere along the way it gets co-opted, or hijacked.
Anybody on this forum who used to be a big R Republican can probably relate.
What seems to be different about this time is the silence in all of the noise. Everyone is talking like they never have before. Even WikiLeaks is out there delivering smoking-gun evidence on things that would have killed off governments 20 years ago, and nobody is listening in the maelstrom.
If Hillary is elected, its because we all gave up and are waiting for the shooting to start, because I think everyone is walking around wondering who’s going to start shooting first. This Black Lives Matter business is the match to a keg and it doesn’t surprise me that the D’s struck that match.
If there are no more families, what’s going to be left to fight for? We care a lot less about our kids than we all profess, given the fact we are perfectly allowed to rape their futures with cheap dollars and make them pay for educations that aren’t going to lead to jobs.
I think the people pulling the strings think that if they invite rats to a better shithole, they will nest here and destroy it for them. When the time comes to kill the rats, its going to make it much easier for them to do it.
And then there is AI and robots. The reason why I think we are a ways away from depopulation is that the robots are still in shelves in their boxes. The internet of things is still pretty young. The way to finance depopulation is to get the people you want to depopulate to finance it for you.
When robots are as ubitquitous as cell phones, and there is a government program that allows people who can’t afford it to have a robot, then I think we’re close. Factory automation is already here, but the robot revolution will be the next big thing, and the next big source of jobs.
When the elite have what they need, and Google/Amazon has collected all the knowledge required, the thing will happen pretty suddenly.
The planes will be streaming their ‘contrails’ as they have been for the last 15 or so years (who runs aircraft that fuel inefficiently that often?), the internet will go down for a week, and by the time its over 80 percent or more will be dead in the streets. They won’t even bother creating a cover story, because there won’t be enough people left to bullshit.
Like all plans, it won’t go as planned. It won’t matter though.
And God? Who knows. Pray like its up to Him and live as honestly as you can I guess. It’s supposed to get so much worse before it gets better, and we may be on the lineup sheet to pitch this game.
It’s not an opus. It’s not a manifesto. I just believe that the world thinks we got pogroms out of our system in the 20th century. By the time the end came, the Nazis were killing 60,000 Jews a day with xyklon B and CO.
Quaint technologies. Why would the elites be working on immortality measures, automation, and so passionately be hammering the global climate change meme so hard at the same time?
They want to live forever at a greatly reduced overhead, and maybe start over.
I don’t think the US has any enemies any more. The Chinese have this problem so much worse than the US does. If the elites there thought they could get away with eliminating all but 5% of their population, you don’t think they would.
It’s their wet dream. It explains Republican politics of the last 25 years (back to post-Reagan).
And it is not about hate. The one word epitaph on all of it is “Redundant.” They were redundant. Start over with the best 10 percent and see if we can do it better with better technology this time.
One more small observation about their chances of success doing all this:
Probably better than average, however . . .
Every new thing in the last 100 years came from outside the establishment elite. Natural philosophers. Guys who were in love, crazy, and never went to college. Tesla, Einstein, guys like that.
Something out of their control will threaten the whole plan and they will have cancelled out the original thinkers. They won’t get ahead of it and it will probably do them in as well.
God’s role in all of this? I’m betting on that passage in Thessalonians myself if it happens in my lifetime. Betting on that or a quick death. I can go either way on that.
Life is a beautiful thing. There is, however, always some Type A sociopath out there who wants the monopoly on it. I very hope I’m wrong about all of this.
One of things that makes me holler at the TV is all the stupid cameras that are covering football now. It seems the control booth thinks that filling my TV screen with some player’s eyes a split second prior to the snap makes for good coverage.
The networks need to get football people back in the control booth...prior to the snap, I really don’t care about a close-up of some defense coach up in the booth. It used to be the best place to watch a football game was on TV...not any more.
You may not be.
A large number of other people are.
My husband is the football fan in this family but I watch with him. We have not watched a NFL game this year and don't plan to. Not even if the Lions go to the Super Bowl.