Posted on 12/18/2017 4:54:51 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Edited on 12/18/2017 7:47:42 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
These continue to be trying times for the NFL. While most teams continue to announce their games as “sell outs”, thanks mainly to corporate ticket-buying programs, games all over the NFL were played to sparse attendance on Sunday as actual fans choose to stay home in droves. This week’s Thursday Night Football game between the Denver Broncos and some other team that no one cares about received the worst Thursday game ratings in years. The player protests of the national anthem go on and on, though their coverage has been muted by the TV networks desperate to move on from the matter, but the damage has been done. The sub-moron team owners recently chose to extend the contract of Commissioner Roger Goodell, saddling the league with a raging nitwit-in-charge for another five-year term.
If you want another reason why many fans have abandoned a league they supported for many years, all you need do is look at what happened at the end of the game between the Steelers and Patriots on Sunday. After Tom Brady had led his team on one of his 50+ 4th quarter TD drives to apparently put the game away, the Steelers stormed right back down the field in 3 plays, scoring what appeared to be the winning TD on a pass from QB Ben Roethlisberger to TE Jesse James with 28 seconds left. This was a play that would have counted as a clear and unambiguous touchdown at any other level of football – college, high school, jr. high or Pop Warner – it was a TD anywhere else on earth as soon as the ball crossed over the plane of the goal line with the receiver in firm possession of it.
But, because the receiver lost control of the ball when he slammed to the ground in the end zone, the replay officials called the play an incomplete pass. Roethlisberger threw an interception on the next play, and the game had been literally given to the Patriots by the officials. This is the same horrible, idiotic rule that was invoked to hand an apparent Dallas Cowboys playoff win in 2014 to the Green Bay Packers instead. The fact that this lunatic rule is still on the NFL’s books three years later tells you all you need to know about the morons who run this league.
The fake editors and fake reporters at CNN will get this story wrong, too. – The UK Guardian reports that Pope Francis “has criticised journalists who dredge up old scandals and sensationalise the news, saying it’s a “very serious sin” that hurts all involved.” In response, fake reporters all over the fake news media here in the U.S. were assigned by their fake editors to look into the Pope’s background and see what, if any scandals they could dig up.
Speaking of faking the news, the national news media and the Democrat Party coordinated all weekend long to push a fake story about President Trump supposedly planning to fire Robert Mueller. Faced with having to make the GOP’s pending passage of the largest tax cut in American history the lead story of the weekend, the Democrats and fake news outlets did what they do anytime they’re faced with having to cover a positive story about the Trump Administration – they made a fake story up that they could focus on instead.
Late on Friday, the Democrats sent obscure California Congresswoman Jackie Speier out on TV to push out the claim that there was a “rumor” going around congress that the President planned to make a nationally televised speech right before Christmas announcing the firing of the Special Counsel. Once Speier had made that claim – a claim no one else in congress was making, a claim put out into the public space absent the slightest shred of evidence, a claim made despite the consistent, repeated denials from the White House every time the question has been asked since March – it became the lead story on every fake news broadcast, headline news in every fake news paper across the country, and the lead story on every one of the Sunday morning fake news programs.
Thus, for an entire weekend, when responsible, real journalists would have been working to inform their readers and viewers about what this new, gigantic reform of the U.S. tax system – the first such major reform in more than three decades – means to them, the fake news media focused instead on coordinating with the Democrat Party to promote a myth.
Granted, there are all sorts of great reasons why Robert Mueller deserves to be fired, including 1) his appointment by Rod Rosenstein was illegitimate to begin with, 2) Mueller’s massive personal conflicts of interest related to the case, 3) his stacking of his staff with an array of hyper-partisan hacks, and 4) his resorting to illegal means of obtaining the Trump Transition team’s email records, to name just a few.
Despite all those great reasons that would fully justify Mueller’s firing, there has never been the slightest indication that the President had any plans to do so. As he has been since Day 1 of his presidency, Donald Trump appears perfectly content to let the media fake up all the fake stories it wants to fake, while he and his administration just keep executing radical change for real Americans with little notice.
Winning. So, so, soooo much winning.
Just another weekend in So, So, Soooo Much Winning! America.
That is all.
You’re wrong. And yes, I do it often. Get a grip.
They cannot control Trump and that scares them. He is in the driver seat to expose fake news, fake sports, fake phony politicians, rhetoric, etc. He has three more years to work around the clock, as they chase their tails like a bunch of cats. The media has become a circus full of clowns. They all act as if they know something, when they are all yelling talking points to preserve their own selfish jobs. It is dog eat dog. Trump is hated and loved. He is shaking up the system.
Yeah, that’s good chow right there, boy. What time? I’ll bring some Mexican Orange Fanta, a six of Miller Beer and maybe a ha pint of Jim Beam / couple cigars
I’d LOVE it if Trump trolled ‘em all
“that the President planned to make a nationally televised speech right before Christmas announcing....MERRY X-MAS”
Leftists heads would explode w/ the anticipation, then the big ‘let down’
Yes, Mueller is exposing the swamp dregs to the cleansing light of day. The more Mueller exposes the evil in the DC swamp, the better Trump looks in comparison. Perhaps this is taxpayer money well spent?
Because JimRob wants it that way.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=557#552
And also because there are a lot of FReepers who read the Forum while at work, on company or government computers with firewalls that will not allow them to access blog sites.
Don’t know about Marv, but I got a tingle up my leg from it.
Paging Chris Matthews..
You Bros take care now.
Milo is on call if you need pointers.
Didn’t take him long, did it? Sure looked like the whole thing to me. He couldn’t gripe about it being an excerpt so he decided to go for broke. Maybe he needs some help understanding the difference between “whole” and “excerpt”..
Where was it designated as an excerpt? Me thinks some folks need their eyes checked...
JimRob runs a great site that is not a walled garden.
Did you actually read the link?
It has been un-excerpted by the Moderator.
You would think that homey-the-blogger would take the hint.
Yup. HG saw it and I saw it. Must be true.
Ground beef but otherwise sounds the same.
Good stuff at 9494’ and 15F.
The formatting is a lot better over there.
I'd have thought that had been obvious for years.
Rewarding bad behavior with hugs and kisses just never seemed to work for me.
Like one commentator said, they keep lighting the exploding cigars he so thoughtfully provides to them.
Like one commentator said, they keep lighting the exploding cigars he so thoughtfully provides to them.
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