Posted on 09/19/2014 8:16:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Many FReepers, unfortunately, are not grasping the underlying reasons why the NFL is suddenly in the news over recent incidents of domestic violence and subsequent calls for Goodell to resign. They are swallowing the leftist media narrative and seeing the issue through their microcosm rather than putting everything into context. I've been flamed on various NFL threads for merely pointing what Rush Limbaugh predicted several years ago, and I actually began to realize it when the demands for ex-players' compensation for concussions and other football-related injuries began to surface. This should have been obvious to even newbies here.
Please note: I am in no way, shape, or form defending the scumbags who commit heinous crimes on or off the field. I am specifically talking about an Alinsky-type leftist agenda that threatens the future of the league.
Ask yourself why the NFL is being targeted. The answer is that the NFL is the very definition of capitalism, hard work, merit, and freedom. All of these, the Left despises, so the game must be destroyed. The sidebar arguments - that the NFL has its share of thugs, that taxpayers cough up money for half-billion dollar stadiums, and that they pay out the nose for overpriced concessions and DirecTv packages so they can get the NFL Sunday Ticket - is missing the point and pales in comparison to the Left's overall goal of destroying the game.
If the NFL goes, what's to stop the Left from going after NASCAR under the guise of stopping climate change? Golf, under the guise of protecting land and wildlife? Hockey, under the guise of protecting "scarce" water resources? It will create a domino effect and will finish off what's Left of America.
You don't have to be an NFL fan to understand what is really happening. First, the Left spoke out against concussions. Then it was making the game safer than it already is. Now we have to have the first gay player drafted, and now it's off-field incidents. Crazy off-field incidents have been happening since the league was born. Broadway Joe, Bill Romanowski spitting, Ray Lewis possibly kills someone; all not a peep. Favre texts his junk to some chick, not a peep. Ray Rice beats his fiancé, 24/7 breaking news and demands for diversity training and for the commissioner to resign. Keep in mind that Goodell has pretty much given the Left wanted. It's never enough with these people.
Why, all of a sudden, are these coming out NOW? Is it because football provides an escape for the vast majority of people and the Left is pissed that these people are self-sufficient and don't need elites in Washington telling them what to do?
Also, keep in mind the secondary jobs that are created by the NFL. The advertising executives who produces the funny commercials, the mom-and-pop sports bars and restaurants, security, the folks who work the concessions and do stadium maintenance and grounds keeping. The military support - the planes that fly over the stadium and the national anthem. If football is destroyed, all of those jobs will disappear. But that's the Left's objective.
Also, there may be thugs in the NFL, but they're paying taxes. Look at all the black millionaires in the NFL. You don't think the Left hates the fact that poor blacks were able to get up out of the ghetto and become famous and make millions of dollars without the need of a Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton holding their hand?
Despite your plea, I still do not care about the NFL.
Of course they are taking over the NFL and raiding its money.
Have to say this is pretty spot on. I have also heard the leftists complain that football needs to be eliminated because its “too violent”. I’m willing to bet that if a big time soccer player beat his kid or wife, it would be nothing but a quick blurb on the nightly news and never heard again.
I started paying attention to the NFL again when Tim Tebow was playing, but then the NFL buried the guy, and I lost interest again.
I understand your argument, and I’m not saying there isn’t some merit to it. But the NFL has been disgustingly groveling to PC for years now. Cowering to lefties. The Michael Sam thing was the most recent and most vomitous example of this.
Hence, I can’t muster up a single shred of sympathy for the NFL. They opened this door themselves. And that’s not even adding the aspect of the repulsive gangsta-thug culture that’s now part of the sport. This is not a League nor a group of people I’ll stand with.
Yes, the lefties have football in their target. I don’t care a LOT about football, but I sure as heck care about capitalism. On Hugh Hewitt today, they were wondering why the NFL felt it had to provide a parallel court system. Do they have laws based on the Constitution? What about double jeopardy? What about just letting the legal system take its course.
How about that some of these players could be O’s sons? They look like him, right? But he’s not protecting them. It turns my stomach, I tell you.
The NFL:
Is a non-profit organization. WHOA!
Has a special exemption from federal anti-trust laws. Hidden inside a foreign aid bill put there by congressmen for special interests. KICKBACKS?
Receives special incentives from the local governments at the expense of the taxpayers.
The point made was that it isn’t about you.
Or me.
It’s about that saying,”First they came for the Jews, but I didn’t care or say anything. Next they came for the Christians, but I didn’ care or say anything. Then they came for me, and nobody was left to give a damn or say anything.”
(Paraphrasing badly, but you get the point.)
This. Forget the NFL and the NBA. Circuses to the government’s bread.
” but I sure as heck care about capitalism.”
Then why care about the NFL which receives protected status from our US Congress, non-profit status and special exemptions and funding from local governements.
To be clear, I don’t think you are defending them...I just don’t care. And I’m an avid NFL fan
Ask yourself why the NFL is being targeted. The answer is that the NFL is the very definition of American capitalism, American hard work, American merit, and American freedom.
They sing the national anthem at every game for crying out loud!
Football is an AMERICAN thing. It defines our culture. What country plays football besides America (and next door neighbor Canada)? Same for baseball and NASCAR.
America is so arrogant, donchaknow. They invented their own game. Soccer is the primary game. And soccer is called football everywhere else...arrogant scoundrels.
Rush is right. Football will be displaced in ten years.
I’m convinced that nothing short of extermination (either selectively or in mass) will deter these toads from destroying our culture and our very civilization. If we can’t get people to fight for their 2nd amendment rights, their economy, or their healthcare, how can one expect them to rise up over football?
The NFL deserves everything coming to them for jumping in bed with the PC crowd. They are not a free market.
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Well said!
All black players in the NFL will, or will not, go along with this orchestrated political attack?
Don’t they vote for these Marxists?
Haven’t they always?
Do they even “get” what is happening?
I can’t say that I did.
The NFL is under assault from the outside, AND from within. Components of the leftist PC crowd have positions inside the league headquarters, the front offices of probably every team, and the sports media.
“Our support” can’t possibly save the NFL now. That’s a battle that should have been fought maybe 10 years ago. The Left has already won this one. Football as we have always loved it is already gone. It may be gone completely within the next 25 or so years.
Agreed. And you left out the ramped up criticism of the Redskins’ name. I wouldn’t be surprised if all of this is orchestrated by the Democrat Party. They are looking for any shiny object they can find.
I kinda don’t care. Football is boring, overhyped and their divas, well... whatever. Hockey on the other hand... guys have their nose broken, go to the locker room, then come back out 5 minutes later with a face cage and their nose packed full of cotton. They lose teeth and don’t mind. And when they get in fights, they get 5 minutes in the penalty box and come back out. Don’t football players get fined for fighting and suspended some games? That’s lame.
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