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!
It’s beyond me why they trot out these in your face crappy artist that promote their sickessage.
Beyonce comes to mind.
Every year it’s some rocker.
Why isn’t TSylor Swift or Miranda Lambert types featured?
And I love the “Kitty Half-Time”!
I’ve been watching that since it first began. Sometimes we have the game on too- but for me to watch football, the Pats have to be playing... (my late uncle used to call them the “Pats”, not sure if it’s still used).
I’m a Pats & Red Sox girl, just like my late mom who LOVED baseball!
Haven’t watched a game since kapernit took a knee.
I haven’t watch the NFL all year but I thought about watching the Super Bowl. Falcons vs. Pats should be a good match up.
Then I remember that Lady Gaga is the halftime show and I said forget it.
Who watches the halftime show? It’s not nearly as good as the commercials. Halftime is when you use the facilities and reload the snacks.
I’ll watch the game...(we always watch football muted with Pandora soft jazz going). We take a break at halftime and go do other things. So I guess I’ll miss a Lady GaGa and her “political” statement. My feeling is, if that is allowed, the NFL won’t have a chance next year. It is on life support now, that would pull the plug.
I didn’t think I could live without the NFL, but after suffering for 30+ years as a Viking fan, something happened once I watched my kids’ Catholic school team win the state championship here in Wisconsin. It was awesome, and the high quality, low-cost product put on by the boys at the school made it really easy to never look back.
Two words... Puppy Bowl!
Last year's Puppy Bowl is even available in virtual reality on your Gear VR. Watch it from the perspective of your puppy!
-PJ
>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 league could punish him for his actions but refuses to do so. Instead they promoted the heck out of him and his cause.
Now everybody is going to watch to see what Gaga does. NFL execs are going to have a case of Prilosec on standby for the halftime show.
Actually instead they ignored him and by the time October came around it was a non-event. Much smarter move than taking sides. Really the only people that promoted Colin were all the people mad at him, if everybody had just STFU it would have gone by unnoticed. You guys gave him a month of free press.
>Actually instead they ignored him and by the time October came around it was a non-event.
A non event? Football viewership is in the toilet.
> Much smarter move than taking sides. Really the only people that promoted Colin were all the people mad at him, if everybody had just STFU it would have gone by unnoticed. You guys gave him a month of free press.
LOL, you’re a fool. Football was our most patriotic support and now the hardcore patriots who’ve watched football for their entire life are tuning it out because the people running the league spend their time promoting leftist causes instead of football and patriotism.
No, rating bounced back after the election. They’re back to inline with last year.
>No, rating bounced back after the election. They’re back to inline with last year.
Nope. 3.4 rating decline for the NFC championship game this year. That’s millions of people not watching.
That’s standard variation. Especially for a matchup that wasn’t that exciting and a game that was over in the first quarter.
Actually forget variation, you’re wrong:
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/tv-ratings-falcons-packers-patriots-steelers-1201966941/
NFC (27.4) was up from last year (26.8), AFC was down (27.6), but last year’s AFC game had insane ratings (31.8) thanks to the Manning thing, but still really good. Especially when you factor in that last year it was AFC first then NFC and this year’s AFC ratings (late game) were better than the NFC last year in that time slot.
So the ratings indeed are still fine once the election got out of the way.
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