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The NFL Is on the Brink (VDH)
Townhall ^ | 7-16-2020 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/16/2020 5:26:05 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

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To: Nifster

The NFL is not football. The NFL must die. Long live football.


21 posted on 07/16/2020 5:56:31 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Sir Napsalot

Let it die. The NFL should be no more.


22 posted on 07/16/2020 5:56:46 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: lodi90

“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.


23 posted on 07/16/2020 5:59:00 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: JeanLM
“I stopped watching over two decades ago.” Problem is FR posters aren’t typical. There are a lot of fans who live and die by the team they grew up with.

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.

24 posted on 07/16/2020 6:02:58 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Sir Napsalot

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.


25 posted on 07/16/2020 6:03:57 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

The NFL is the ultimate in fake community. If the NFL is on the brink, would somebody please give it a good shove.


26 posted on 07/16/2020 6:05:03 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Don't care. Still voting for Trump.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
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.

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.

27 posted on 07/16/2020 6:06:34 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

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.


28 posted on 07/16/2020 6:07:31 AM PDT by Kharis13
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To: KarlInOhio

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..


29 posted on 07/16/2020 6:08:44 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Sir Napsalot

The NFL reminds me of Pee Wee Herman getting caught wipin his willy in a movie theater.


30 posted on 07/16/2020 6:10:05 AM PDT by jetson (chiwowa)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I think I may have watched one playoff game last year. I used to watch two games each Sunday.


31 posted on 07/16/2020 6:13:04 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Sir Napsalot
This should be a time of self-congratulation for the brutal sport, which has no similar counterpart outside the United States.

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.

32 posted on 07/16/2020 6:13:43 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
The golden guy of the moment Patrick Mahomes, who is half black with a privileged upbringing, has chosen to go all woke. I think it's partly because he hangs with his TE Travis Kelce who has a woke black girlfriend.
33 posted on 07/16/2020 6:16:49 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Sir Napsalot
On the brink, eh?

I can help...

THE NFL HATES AMERICA, AND WOULD PISS ON EVERY AMERICAN IF THEY COULD!

and kaepernick is and will remain a "marginal" player in perpetuity

34 posted on 07/16/2020 6:20:20 AM PDT by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I guess VDH has never watched rugby.


35 posted on 07/16/2020 6:25:57 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: Brian Griffin

No more taxes. Fed up with these destructive progressive schemes.


36 posted on 07/16/2020 6:26:21 AM PDT by all the best (You)
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To: Sir Napsalot
This should be a time of self-congratulation for the brutal sport, which has no similar counterpart outside the United States.

As someone who had a very undistinguished Rugby career I might take a small exception to that statement Rugby Hits

37 posted on 07/16/2020 6:34:09 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Young boys and young men are no longer interested in football as we were.

Another coffin nail.


38 posted on 07/16/2020 6:36:22 AM PDT by setter
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To: SMARTY
NFL is courting a huge set back. I know people who will never again spend a penny on a ticket, watch the sport or spend anything on NFL gear.

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.

39 posted on 07/16/2020 6:41:49 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: brownsfan

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.


40 posted on 07/16/2020 6:42:56 AM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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