Posted on 07/16/2020 5:26:05 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
The National Football League celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. This should be a time of self-congratulation for the brutal sport, which has no similar counterpart outside the United States.
The NFL's megaprofits dwarf those of other professional sports in the U.S. The Super Bowl, not the World Series, is America's national sports event.
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In 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem. He claimed he was protesting the treatment of African Americans. ....
Kaepernick's rejection of "The Star-Spangled Banner" eventually spread throughout the NFL. Even though he was a backup quarterback, Kaepernick became a resistance idol. Soon he was a corporate ad man pitching Nike sneakers.
Then game attendance fell. So did television viewership. Apparently, lots of fans had no desire to spend their Sundays watching 20-something multimillionaires lecture them that the American flag was not worth honoring.
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... NFL capitulation poses fundamental problems for the league. It has now essentially green-lighted the sort of activism that in the last few years has been eating away its profits.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The NFL is not football. The NFL must die. Long live football.
Let it die. The NFL should be no more.
“Corporate “America” is nearly all in on the progressive agenda.”
That’s because in a socialist paradise, big companies survive, and all competition goes away. Startups are nearly impossible. Couple that with much simpler bribing of party members, (no trying to figure out which candidate to bribe), and total control of the workforce, it’s a dream.
You are correct. When Tom Brady left the New England Patriots a few months ago to join some Florida team, we had grown men literally in tears all over New England. I was driving up in the Boston area last week and they still have the 24/7 Sports Talk shows on the radio. Even though there have been no games of any sort going on for months, you still have the local loudmouths calling the programs to vent about their teams.
There are definitely some overgrown boys who literally live for professional sports and obsess about it all day long. They will spend hours and hours crafting "fantasy" teams and putting their imaginary players through all the paces of a regular season.
Somebody ought to write a book on this phenomenon.
I’m a white American. Seems the Negros, Felons, and Liberals league doesn’t want my patronage. They insult me, my race, and my country and tell me I should die.
The NFL is the ultimate in fake community. If the NFL is on the brink, would somebody please give it a good shove.
Also the game has become less and less viewable. More stops of play, more replays, more official reviews, more sideline interviews, more flashy graphics and animated robotic football players and more pointless shots of the coaching staff and sidelines. I'm surprised they have time to show the play as it occurs. I watched a replay of Super Bowl from the 1980s. Although I missed high def, with fewer replays and fewer cameras it was a better game.
Anymore, when I do watch a football game I usually DVR it and start and hour or two into the game and finish about the same time the game ends. I can skip the commercials and endless replays. If I want to see a play again I can rewind.
I’m a die-hard Vikings fan. I bleed purple. However, when the kneeling started I stopped watching. That continued for two years, and then last year it seemed the NFL had moved past that. Now, it looks like they’ll be welcoming the kneeling back. If the NFL/MLB/NHL/NBA kneel, I walk. Period.
Go to your high school football games...I live in SW Florida and the games are great..your outdoors with your neighbors and there kids..
The NFL reminds me of Pee Wee Herman getting caught wipin his willy in a movie theater.
I think I may have watched one playoff game last year. I used to watch two games each Sunday.
What about the CFL? The game where when a player is tackled near the sidelines he is aboat oat of boands.
I like their restrictions on timeouts, players being out for three plays after an injury so there are fewer players falling down to stop the clock, running up to line before the hike, and a full yard between the offense and defense which makes pure size less important on the line.
I can help...
and kaepernick is and will remain a "marginal" player in perpetuity
I guess VDH has never watched rugby.
No more taxes. Fed up with these destructive progressive schemes.
As someone who had a very undistinguished Rugby career I might take a small exception to that statement Rugby Hits
Young boys and young men are no longer interested in football as we were.
Another coffin nail.
Yes, it's true that the NFL has lost many fans due to its anti-American and 'wokeness' players and associates. Conversely, it retains and attracts anti-American and 'wokeness' fans. Also, there are fans who are agnostic (no convictions) who will watch the sport no matter what.
It's true that we now have professional sports that have become politicized mostly along racial lines. How much this affects their business (profits) in the long term is TBD in my opinion.
It happened when the no. 1 w. receiver, Paul Warfield, was traded to Miami. The end of the Browns, together with the new stadium. The old stadium on the lake was brutal for opposing teams.
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