Well, we learned from the expert on Greta tonight that Øbama was told for more than a year about ISIS/ISIL in his Presidential Daily Briefings – you know, the ones he didn't need delivered verbally because he was such a good reader? – and furthermore, lizard tongue Kerry told the Senate hearing that we've been tracking ISIS/ISIL from their inception. OK, so why the sudden rush to "manage" or destroy ISIS/ISIL, was it because of a beheading video that suddenly revealed the horror??? Øbama knew and did nothing. Well, using the Goodell rule, Øbama is very bad and must resign.
Mainstream that comparison and the media will STFU in a heartbeat.
Funny to hear Dick Morris on Philly talk radio this afternoon all in a dither about the NFL and how they haven’t punished all those nasty footballers enough for being so abusive and disrespectful - this from the guy who helped give us and propped up Bill Clinton, the guy who masturbated a young woman less than half his age with a cigar in the Oval Office and very probably raped a couple of other women along the way - fraudulent outrage up and down the line.....
The commie lib ‘RATS coming up for reelection on November 4th would prefer that the talk around the “water cooler” is about football players than the crimes they’ve been committing against the American people.
I think your article is largely correct. But, I also think the NFL is the NFL’s biggest enemy and needs no help from The Left.
I am as far from The Left as you can get on the political spectrum. Indeed I’m hanging on the opposite end of that spectrum by my fingernails. But, I don’t give a damn what the left thinks about the NFL. They don’t influence me AT ALL. I do know that for what ever the reason I, and millions like me, quit watching and going a couple decades back. To me, it’s that simple.
Moreover, if anything, lawyers are going to kill the NFL. The NFL farm teams are thousands of Pop Warner leagues and Jr high and High School. Many of those leagues and schools are shutting down due to lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits. Lawsuits mean no insurance. No Jr. HIgh and high school football means no NFL. The one good thing is that Jerry Jones will get his!
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...
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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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.
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.
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.
Won’t anyone think of the feckless, musclebound multi-millionaires?
The NFL is in trouble for it’s own hubris and is destroying the game!
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.
Amazingly, stupidity begets stupidity.
1. Many of the team owners are liberal Democrats.
2. Most are crony capitalists who loot the taxpayer with subsidized stadiums and other goodies.
3. Hollywood dingbats can own equity in teams but Rush Limbaugh can’t?
4. Quotas must be applied based on skin color when interviewing for coaching positions.
5. Pink must be worn to support pro-abortion groups under the guise of fighting breast cancer.
Nope. The NFL has self-destructed. Let them reap what they’ve sowed.
The NFL needs to be under assault. For so many reasons.
The amount of lawlessness that is tolerated and accepted because of the money factor is disgusting.
Then lets go to the play on the field. The league is rapidly turning Pro Football into tag football. A defender looks at a receiver wrong and a flag is thrown. Why have kick offs? The vast majority are flagged with some silly penalty. No the NFL needs to get its act together in many areas.......
I’ve come to regard the NFL as a ridiculous circus and very much a part of the rotten establishment. Taxpayer-funded stadiums are welfare for billionaire owners and multimillionaire players. Men are more wrapped up in the whole soap opera of professional sports. Not just watching the games but spending multiple hours a week on what happened in games already played and what will happen in upcoming games. Time better spent with family, etc. And all a distraction from what is going on with criminal and corrupt rulers.
THAT SAID (AND MORE!)THESE ATTACKS ON THE NFL ARE BECAUSE IT IS MALE AND CAPIATALIST. IT IS STRENGTH AND WEALTH ON DISPLAY. THEY HATE THAT.
I don’t have the time to waste watching a bunch of steroid freaks bash each other.
Nor would I spend any of my hard earned cash supporting a league that’s makes crap loads of cash while being a non profit group.
No. The NFL is under attack because they have seriously misplayed a couple of situations. First the Redskins, while all the smart folks in the world (including the vast majority of Indians) don’t find the name offensive once the meme started standing “strong” against it wasn’t the right play. The right play was to begin a “study/ survey” of Indian tribes in the region to find a name “they would agree honored their heritage”. 5 years later you come out and say “turns out they’re all cool with Redskins”.
So then, while they’re still misplaying that comes the Ray Rice thing. Quite simply botched. From not doing a good job of getting all the evidence, to the joint press conference for the Rices, to not having any domestic abuse experts involved at any level. Basically they made every possible screw up.
And part of the problem is that Goodell has always kept punishment his bag. Smart leagues “out source” suspensions to some title other than commissioner. Head of officiating is a good one, or make it the sum total of one guy’s job. Smartest play would be to make it a committee with somebody from the league, somebody from the PA, and some lawyer type. What makes that work well is when they botch something as badly as the Rice situation was they can just fire them.
But this too shall pass. Goodell ain’t stupid, though he has definitely been playing one on TV lately. He’s put together the people, he’s throwing around the money, he’s timing his press conferences for Friday afternoon so they get the smallest amount of play, he’s got the teams onboard for strict harsh punishment from first indictment. The furor will die down, new policies will be in place, players will clean up their act. And the NFL will get to stand tall as the only major sports league in the world taking domestic violence seriously.