Posted on 01/23/2017 8:10:25 AM PST by areukiddingme1
Okay Commissioner, you have decided to go with Lady Gaga as this year's Super Bowl entertainer instead of a Patriotic American...got it, clearly that is your prerogative.
But we the fans that watch football want you to be on notice, that we have tolerated the BS kneeling of Colin Kaepernick during OUR nations National Anthem, we didn't agree with your decision to allow one of your employees to do that, but that was again, your prerogative.
Why did we tolerate this blatant disrespect to our nation and continue to watch NFL football you may ask, well, we are a very large family of veterans, 12 total and we have served a combined total of 312 years of active military service to our nation, we use Kaepernick's disrespect as a "teaching moment" for our young men and women in our family to point out what a coddled whinny petulant child looks like and how someone that has received nothing but God's grace in his life can let himself be used.
Kaepernick is able to excel and achieve having offered NOTHING personally in the defense of freedom under the very protection of the military personnel that he is disrespecting by kneeling...trust me, our future knows how disrespectful his kneeling is and they will carry forward the message of their family.
So, Mr. Goodell, if you allow Lady Gaga to make a political statement during the Super Bowl -- I submit to you that all 107 of our family members have made a commitment to each other to swear off NFL football at the very moment that Lady Gaga makes a political statement or says anything derogatory against our Commander-in-Chief, Donald J. Trump, we will literally shut the TV off at that moment and not finish watching Super Bowl LI -- This, I swear to God.
Mr. Goodell, this is on you...You can either allow your halftime entertainment to drive away 107 NFL fans (SO WHAT, RIGHT, IT'S JUST 107 FANS), or you can ensure that our views are also respected and we are allowed to watch the Super Bowl without being subjected to an "entertainers" opinion, thus ruining our Super Bowl now and forever -- NO POLITICAL STATEMENTS, PERIOD!!!
Everyone gets to make choices -- Choices are not without consequences.
Your job is to oversee the NFL, coaches jobs are to coach, players jobs are to play the game, half time entertainment is to SIMPLY entertain and not make a political statements -- The fans job is to watch the game and root for their team and buy the products that your advertisers pay a lot of money to advertise during the game. When you disrespect the fan you break the trust and we don't have to come back.
Here is to making the Super Bowl Great Again...Cheers!
Who watches football any more? I watched one playoff game this weekend - the first of the season.
To me, the NFL (National Felons League) is dead....
I was finished with the NFL when they sabotaged Rush Limbaugh.
They’ve already told Gaga no politics. And technically Kaepernick is not an employee of the NFL, he’s an employee of the Niners, and highly ignorable.
The NFL, NBA, NCAA everything, etc, ship has sailed long ago for me. Don’t miss it, never looked back.
What is this “NFL”??
So it’s okay for GaGa to make a political statement and for another team to wear a political T-shirt but not okay for the Dallas Cowboys to wear a memorial decal on their helmets honoring the five slain cops. Okay, got it. So you’re now in the same camp as ESPN. The NFL is controlled by a bunch of liberal hacks, cowards.
“I watched one playoff game this weekend”
That musta been the steeler/patriot one. The other one was nothing more than a beat down. lol
“I watched one playoff game this weekend”
That musta been the steeler/patriot one. The other one was nothing more than a beat down. lol
Make that 108
117 family members? I don’t think they were watchin football
I always wondered why the NFL doesn't bring in the best of the college marching bands and do a traditional American football show sometime..
A friend told me these contemporary groups pay big bucks to be there.
“Who watches football any more?”
Can’t help it...it’s in our blood and soccer/basketball do nothing for our family.
I won’t watch it . . . have more fun watching the Puppy Bowl
So...are you an Arbitron or Neilson family for the coming weekend? If not, your threat rattles in the “winds of clattering”.
And, recognize that both Arbitron and Neilson have the opportunity to pick-and-choose their respondents.
Look! A windmill to which we should tilt, Pancho!
I agree.
But, Super Bowl half time shows have sucked for a long time.
I haven’t watched one in years. Too easy to find other programming that is far better.
I won’t watch anyway this year, because I’m #BoycottNFL
Cut the NFL off already. Jeez. It is a racist anti-white, anti-American organization. What more do you need? If everything else the Negros, Felons, and Liberals organization hasn’t caused you to bail on them then nothing will.
There were no playoff games this weekend.
There were two teams that got their backsides kicked off the fields, but no ‘games’.....................
Goodell is paid way too much money to dismantle America's interest in professional sports. He already is responsible for a considerable reduction in attendance and viewership. He certainly is not increasing attendance and interest.
Barrack Obama is no longer the president for him to please. What is Goodell's connection to the leftists in this country? Are they paying his salary?
... we have tolerated the BS kneeling of Colin Kaepernick ...
NOT ME !!!
I have not watched a single NFL game since the anti-American displays by several members of the NFL. I have also stopped purchasing any and all products from the NFL sponsors.
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