Posted on 09/25/2017 12:18:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
RUSH: I want to share with you first the way all of this affected me, because in many ways I think that I am fairly typical. I am smack-dab in the middle of the targeted marketing the NFL does to acquire and hold an audience, right smack-dab in the middle of it. And I have to tell you, I was so sad Sunday morning when all of this started falling out.
But if you’ll permit me first, I was personally saddened. I did not watch the National Football League yesterday, and it was the first time in 45 years that I made an active decision not to watch, including my team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. It was not a decision made in anger. It was genuine sadness. I realized that I can no longer look at this game and watch this game and study this game and pretend, you know, fantasize, everything a fan does. This whole thing has removed for me the ingredients that are in the recipe that make up a fan.
You can’t watch ESPN anymore and just learn about what happened during the day in football games. You can’t. You are going to be deluged with other things that are irrelevant to why you care and why you want to watch. You can’t open the internet in the morning — newspaper, whatever. You can’t. You just can’t watch and absorb and learn about the NFL the way I used to be able to. You have to be willing to accept all the other things now that people are using it for — and it is being used.
I’ve evolved a whole bunch of theories as to what happened, what is happening, who’s gonna win in this, who’s gonna lose in this, who is doing the right thing, who’s doing the wrong thing. I’ve been running all these different scenarios. I’ve got some input from some friends I want to share with you as well. Some of them have some quite fascinating takes. The upshot of it is, though, the sad realization that something I loved — and, look, this is not old man “get off my yard” stuff.
Not really. It begins in April 2018 when the NHL playoffs start.
No one is being forced to do anything regarding the professional sports brouhaha. But, if memory serves, those Christian Cake makers were actually fined and forced out of business through misuse of the courts and the authority that they wield. Suggesting that these players be fired is simply people stating an opinion or suggestion, which is their right as a form of protest and complaint against their childish, divisive and disrespectful behavior. You're comparison doesn't hold water.
I’m saddened that Rush feels this way. Why let a few BLM Pukes, in consort with The Enemy Media, push us around and tell us what to do?
They’re WINNING! The End Goal here is to stop the Anthem from being played at ANY sporting event, anywhere. They’ve already managed to get God out of our schools, our government and any public places. Heck, they’ve practically gotten God out of Old Time Religions!
The Enemy Media is promoting this. THEY are the ones giving these losers air time. THEY are the ones trying to push the Socialist agenda!
And guess what? Next week it will be something else! Whichever way the wind blows; whatever promotes the Socialist Agenda will be featured. It’s that way on the TV news 24/7!
IMHO, Rush is wrong on this one.
Rush is right!
Loudon, NH had my attention yesterday...
Formerly avid NFL fan here. I’m surprised at how little I miss watching the game. I wonder what the demographics are here. When I was growing up in the 70’s I watched at least one NFL game every Sunday. How many 15 year olds watch the game today? Do any? How will the NFL replace the fans lost to attrition, setting aside those lost because of politics?
No, it is not. It is tantamount to the baker's customers taking their business elsewhere over his refusal to bake the cake.
Stop perpetuating this bullsh!t that a private business making its own business decisions is the same as a government agency forcing you to conduct business the way it sees fit.
He stated it was the first Sunday he had not watched an NFL game in 40 years.
It is to late for the NFL to do anything..
There only hope is it stops in a couple of weeks and the fans drift back..
The fun is gone to many adds and to many rules..go back and look at a game from the 1970s
Viewership was down. I wonder how much lower it would’ve been if people didn’t tune in to see who knelt for the pledge and anthem.
You’ve got it all wrong. They have a right to protest when they aren’t involved in their employment. They have no right whatsoever to bring their political protests to their place of work.
I watched all the great games in the 70s when I was a wee lad, and you are right I’ll bet very few kids watch the NFL.
“Forced to do something they don’t believe in”
Like what?
When you think back on when Rush attempted to buy into an NFL franchise but was ultimately rejected by the NFL, it's now perfectly clear that the underlying reason was not only his nation wide on air influence but their fear of him.
Had he become a part owner, he would have taken a "You're Fired" attitude of anyone on his team that pulled this crap.
I am just amazed at how many did not see this progressing to this end. When they allowed this to start at the first of last year and did nothing, it was only a matter of time before leftists used this to piggyback hatred for our nation trying to shame people into sacrificing allegiance.
I watched no NFL last year except a a guest in someone’s home during the playoffs when making an issue of it would have impacted fellowship and family.
I have watched none since.
Actually that’s between them and their employer as to what’s allowed on company time. And they may have contracts that go beyond the traditional employee/employer relationship.
After our morning senior softball game yesterday and we were having a beer at the picnic table, I brought up the topic of Trump's comments to the NFL to a die hard Democrat (He's a typical UAW lifetime Democrat only because.......) and even he finally agreed to what Trump said......
And prior to today's game, he was even more disgusted at the NFL (and our pathetic Lions) and appreciative of Trump's comments.
Just like Hillary's months long predicted win by all the MSM, they've got it all wrong once again. LOL!
I was in college during the early 70’s. Dormitories on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights were full of guys watching the NFL non-stop. Those guys are the NFL fans of today (until now). Advance ahead to 2017 and what do you find? Colleges full of girls and fewer guys. Society telling guys to feminize. Many fewer dorm rooms with the NFL on the TV. And finally, many fewer young males entering into the NFL sphere for the future. The tipping point has been reached and there is no turning back. Kaepernick and Goodell did not cause this but they sure accelerated it. Oh, as for me, I haven’t watched the NFL in years. I still love baseball and would be horrified if the players and the executives wreck that game too. I sure hope not.
Just to say. It’s not just politics.
The flag absolutely transcend politics. It represents our nation, the constitution
Forgive me, But these guys and the ad execs, NFL execs and even the media, pretend it does but they are wrong. They do not have the power to change that
Anyone disrespecting the flag disrespects the country. That is just a fact and it’s why there’s no getting around this thing without taking sides
The sides are America hating and American
People can say that’s political but it is not.
politics does not include being able to hate America That’s called sedition
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