NOOOO!!!...
Say it ain't so.
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?
HOWEVER, adults with conviction would have addressed the Rice situation up front and transparently...
instead, they had to sit around a huge table with their accountants, their lawyers, their publicity people, and probably their race experts and THEN formed an "opinon"...
The truth is always the easiest because you don't have to keep trying to remember it...
That was pretty much the breaking point for me. I have NO PROBLEM with fighting Breast Cancer. I've lost a couple of relatives and a good friend to it. However, just getting in our faces about it with all of the pink crap on the field is just overboard to the max!
....Do we really NEED a campaign for "Breast Cancer Awareness" in the first place?? You would probably have a difficult time finding an adult over the age of 35 that hasn't known of SOMEONE who has had it. Virtually EVERYONE is very well AWARE of it.
If they are wanting to really help people with awareness, why not do something more obscure, like Testicular Cancer? Oh wait, that affects guys....NOT the target audience.(no one gives a damn about us)
How about Ovarian Cancer? It tends to be FAR more deadly than Breast Cancer, because by the time it's discovered, it has already spread to other Organs, in most cases - and that means near certain death. I knew a girl that died from it at the age of 22 years old. Noticed abdominal pain. Ovarian Cancer was the cause. Had already spread to Liver and Stomach. Dead about 7 weeks later.
NOW et al think also that they can get a stream of extortion income out of the NFL and then the NHL and then NASCAR and on and on.
And...you lost me with your biased mis-characterization.
Pro sports is best described as a boat, metaphorically. Except there are small schools of fish to reap the reward of all the money thrown into the hole in the water. All sports has been corrupted, particularly football & basketball. Baseball, too, IMHO. It's simply an extension of the media: Mass manipulation. The NFL scandal is just another distraction from real issues and both sides are sucking it up, hook/line/sinker.
Frankly, I'm of the opinion if there were a football game on election night this year, 2016 would be assured the progs...
What a pathetic footnote.
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-cynicus-
Neither Martin Niemöller's original poem, nor the subsequent revisions ever said anything about coming for Christians. The part of the poem that resonates has to do with " .. then they came for the Jews ..." because the Jews were innocent.
Niemöller's poem is actually more apt than your metaphor, because it says: "First they came for the Communists ..." And why did people do nothing when they came for the Communists? Because they were NOT innocent. The biggest reason the Nazi's came to power to begin with was because of the mass slaughter in the streets, largely instigated by Communists in the early 1930's. In July of the year Hitler came to power, Brown Shirts and Reds murdered an astonishing 700+ people in Berlin in political turmoil that one ineffectual government after another was unwilling or powerless to stop.
In the case of the NFL, what you are saying is: "First they came for the thugs, and I did nothing, because I was not a thug." Trying to defend the concrete evil done by Ray Rice, Ray McDonald, Greg Hardy, Jonathan Dwyer, or Adrian Peterson on the abstract principle that the NFL (sometimes) represents (some) things that are good about America is an idiotic idea that will discredit conservatism, and plays into the narrative that there is a "War on Women."
You need to pick your battles. This is not a hill we can stand on, and there is no reason to do so: The NFL's business model is not an ideal of laissez-faire capitalism by any stretch of the imagination -- it is a government protected monopoly -- and there is no traditional moral value more essential to the preservation of civilization than the protection of women. These men are representative of a violent, misogynist culture that needs to be destroyed.
Let them fend for themselves. They have the money and the resources. And next up—the NBA. It is called the “thug league.” The average out of wedlock child per player is almost three. Correct me if I am wrong. Since when is that not an issue? Adrian Peterson has five kids from three different “women—read whor.... It is only an issue when we are forced to make it an issue by the lame street drive-bys.
We are being manipulated and controlled by those that really have no accountability over us except what they dictate we should be interested and absorbed in. FU. I do not need your relative morality dictating my thoughts and viewing habits. FU. Another reason I do not own a TV. Stick that up your bong and smoke it bastards.
Thank you for the corrections.
However your version is equally foreign to the common version that decorates walls and desks in the US, where I ever saw it.
I butchered the content, but couldn’t resist using the famed saying to make the same basic point as the original.
Not caring is becoming epidemic.
How vivid.
I’m boycotting all NFL games until the Minnesota team changes it’s racist name. There were no black Vikings from Scandinavia, Norway, Denmark or Sweden.
It’s not a question of apathy. The NFL needs to get rid of people like this, and make sure that the culture that produces them understands why.
NOOOO!!!...
Say it ain't so.
The Leftist agenda is to destroy mature masculine males....and they do it through conditioning and emasculating good role models and risk-taking or natural boy behaviors, and elevating pederasts and evil people, like Harvey Milk in Kindergarten class.
The Marxists attach emotions to concepts: NFL is Evil and homosexuality is Good. Embedded ideas (emotions) in childhood are almost impossible to dislodge. Media is flipping 2000 years of Wisdom: making Good into Evil and Evil into Good.
To help embed this erasing of Christian ideology, the Marxists have to destroy all Traditions (make them evil). That way any irrational thing they tell the kids is believed if they can’t understand history and the past and the ideology which created the USA. Common Core destroys Knowledge and posits lies and twisted truth so Reason can never exist.
They need to capture the minds of boys watching NFL with their fathers, and they have. They already have warped and destroyed the minds of fatherless boys.
Agreed. It is a blasted monopoly. But that is not why the Left is attacking it.
The left is attacking the NFL because the NFL represents football, and football identifies with manhood in all its brash and rough and tumbleness.
The left is looking to attack manhood any way it can.
Beating a woman isn't a sign of manhood, but the left is doing its best to associate men AND manhood, with women beating.
Of course you’re correct, but the point of the column is that law enforcement and courts should be taking care of these thugs and their infantile behavioral habits that in an adult are dangerous.
The NFL is a business that rewards talent and should have to do no more than pick up a phone and report knowledge of a crime like every other business who has knowledge of a crime by one of their charges, employees or contract staff.
Firing is made simple and deactivating an NFL player should be simple. But, the theatrics the NFL is being forced into by the pressure social politics looks juvenile and cartoonish.
Won’t anyone think of the feckless, musclebound multi-millionaires?
Exactly, maybe when Goodell is gone I will watch the NFL again if they start worrying about their fans not trying to attract non-fans.
The NFL is in trouble for it’s own hubris and is destroying the game!
“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.”
You can’t be serious. If you cannot master techniques, you cannot be a QB. Tebow would have had chance at TE, but his pride would not let him.
I hope that the NFL does not exemplify capitalism. With the support that NFL teams demand and get from the public in the form of discounted stadiums and other concessions, the capitalism that the NFL practices is crony capitalism.
Some of you have partially figured out why the NFL controversy is so important to the culture warriors on the left.
It’s about keeping the War on Women alive through the mid-terms, and then making it a major issue for the 2016 presidential election.
True it’s actually a non-issue; the NFL has a lower rate of criminal activitiy in every category than the general population. So it has to be hyped. The more it dominates the news cycle the less talk there is about the real issues: ISIS, Obama’s abyssmal ratings, ebola, open borders, Obamacare, etc., all of which favor Republicans.
The League is vulnerable — the leadership is weak in their responses to assaults by the left. It’ll get worse when the house floor speeches point out the NFL’s tax-exempt (non-profit) status.
And of course the War on Women issue will be the reason we ‘need’ a woman president, and it will be the reason Hildebeast can’t be held accountable during the campaign or afterwards (if she’s elected). Just as Obama can’t be criticized, let alone impeached, because he’s black.
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