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?
I'm not asking you to care. I'm asking for you to understand the implications of the Left targeting a private organization.
Use of steroids are banned in the NFL.
The left didn’t take over the NFL - it surrendered willingly.
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