Posted on 09/23/2016 6:48:42 AM PDT by C19fan
NFL + MNF = Meh
Don’t forget the game replays on the NFL channel
Non-mainstream sport for an alternative: Rugby. I love it.
Good try at sophistry.
If you’re doing something that’s not working, and then you do something else that’s stupid, will that help your bottom line?
[But what’s a patriotic American supposed to do for a sport?]
Read the BIBLE, run the race, fight the good fight, win the prize that is set before you. JESUS gives the victory!
Gonna miss seeing all the ultra religious kneeling. /s
Agreed!!!
I think in part, football in general is suffering from over saturation of coverage. Too much football on TV. You can pretty much watch football non-stop from Thursday to Monday when you include college. Same thing could be said of most any sport.
No, it won’t. And singling out one of many reasons for the decline as being the only one is taking Occam to the extreme.
It’s probably harder than heroin.
The spouse is seriously addicted to sports drugs.
Glad to see you’ve observed this as well.
“Sports ~ the opiate of the People” is a phrase I’ve used for years.
On one such occasion, I got the coldest, most hateful stare from an elderly Christian lady who proceeded to launch into a 10 minute diatribe extolling the virtues of all sports, professional and non-professional alike. It was akin to listening to one being told one was Un-Christian if one did not bow down to the Sports God.
Needless to say, I terminated the “friendship” and never looked back!
I seriously had the habit for about 15 years, but like you I kicked it and don't miss it a bit. I became alarmed at the criminality and general loutishness of the players, and when leftist politics crept in I lost all respect for it.
Now that the NFL is disrespecting the flag and cops, I am exercising my right to disrespect them. Click goes the remote control.
Rather than destroy our pop culture I think the Left has come to completely control it. They use it to seduce young people (including myself an embarassing number of decades ago) and manipulate the rest of us.
I am a devote Steelers fan. Not watching is hard for me but not as hard as the sacrifices other men have made for me.
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21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Who said that was the ONLY reason? But it definitely had an impact that even management recognized, and I don’t think it’s a short term impact. I and my family have no intention of going back any time soon, and I’m sure most of the one million plus who signed that petition won’t either.
We on the right have been too lazy as activists, as a result we’re losing the culture war. But maybe people are waking up.
Let’s give the NFL some serious pain.
It was boring unless you were a Patriots fan...:)
Let’s find something else to do Sunday nights.
Are you a Nielson family? If not, what you watch or don’t watch doesn’t impinge on ratings. If you want to boycott all the sponsors of the NFL ... well, you’ll save a lot of money, I suppose.
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