Posted on 08/12/2018 12:09:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan
On January 1 of this year, I penned a piece the gist of which was that despite the awful player protests during the national anthem, I was going to watch the NFL playoffs. The post garnered me the heaviest excoriation I’d yet experienced since starting at PJ Media in 2015. The essay provoked more disagreement and disapproval than any previous or subsequent submission. Out of hundreds of naysaying and sometimes nasty comments, both here and at Instapundit, I think a grand total of one person stated in cautious agreement that he wasn’t going to let a bunch of spoiled millionaire athletes keep him from watching the battle to reach the Super Bowl.
That’s OK. Excoriation comes with the turf, as it were. If you can’t take extreme blowback from the public at large for your published opinions, go blog for Better Homes and Gardens.
There was one comment in particular that stood out from all the rebuke and made me think about the protests and NFL boycott in a way I hadn’t before. The commenter opined that my take on the issue was dated, coming from an older generation for which sitting around watching football games together was an important aspect of social life. He or she suggested that because of all the ways we get information now, the shared sit-down in front of the boob tube is not the hearth fire moment it used to be.
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Agony of decision to boycott the NFL???!!! He has got to be kidding.
Done with the NFL. The anthem issue was the start and they’ve owned I’ll will at every step since.
Boycotting?
No, just not watching. Ever.
Done. Bengals or not.
The favorite pastime of Marxist Quizlings.
Yep, just can’t wait to spend my time and money watching a bunch of thugs, felons, wife beaters, that see everything in the world through the prism of racism and exhibit their true hatred for America and Americans in general on a daily basis. I guess it was to be expected since the Blacks surrendered to and then joined the KKK/Democrat party after MLK was killed.
pretty tough decision.??
Yeah really. Walking away from these dread-locked, overpaid, thugs is easy-peasy. In fact I derive great pleasure in watching America flush them the toilet... like the pieces of s*** they are.
The way the kneeling is coming across is the players are giving the finger to white Americans. It doesn’t matter if that wasn’t the intent, that’s the way it’s being received, and the players should have figured it out by now.
White Americans are responding on that basis.
since the Blacks surrendered to and then joined the KKK/Democrat party after MLK was killed.
pretty tough decision.??
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Too dumb to know MLK was a Republican.
I can’t wait to hear the excuses they come up with, to explain declines in attendance and TV ratings this season.
Among those from last year.
1. The sunny side of the 49ers stadium gets so hot, that nobody wants to sit there.
2. The LA Chargers temporary home in a 27,000 seat soccer stadium is holding down attendance averages.
3. TV ratings and attendance were down around Thanksgiving, because so many people were traveling for the holiday.
4. Ratings and attendance dropped later in the season, because so many people were Christmas shopping.
5. Ratings and attendance were down late in the season because so many teams were out of playoff contention.
6. Bad weather in many cities held down attendance, especially later in the season, there was supposedly unusually cold and rainy/snowy game days.
They came up with many such reasons, so that they could exclude the elephant in the room of the NFL player protests as turning off fans.
I watched the Eagles in the Super Bowl because I have been an Eagles fan all my adult life,and that’s something I’ll probably never see again. I have no regrets. It was no worse than a Rabbi eating a bacon sandwich.
No agony about it. The NFL is dead to me. Time to watch college ball if I need a football fix.
I still do not expect to see empty stadiums or TV revenue to the NFL taken away.
Watching the NFL is one of the few remaining things I enjoy...
Having played for 8 years on various levels, I'm not given up what I enjoy to virtual signal
I’m not boycotting anymore, I’ve simply moved on and I won’t be back. It was fun while it lasted but it turned out not to be fun anymore. Please, spare us the drama of the Death Of A Great American Institution or the loss of history. The players peed in their lemonade and now it’s not so easy to sell it. Best of luck to them and to the folks who want to continue to buy it.
Stopped watching the NFL about 10 years ago when they put that stupid arrow on the field with the down count.
Once you stop watching and do other things you have no desire to watch anymore. That’s the big danger to the NFL. Once people stop watching they will lose audience forever.
American football is a lousy game.
He was not a Republican. Fake news.
But that is just me. Watching a bunch of overweight pansies prance around in tight pants is not my thing anyway.
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