Posted on 09/27/2017 10:13:16 AM PDT by C19fan
Following an NFL weekend that saw players and teams respond to President Trump's comments about the league with more demonstrations during the anthem, The MMQB received numerous emails from NFL fans who said they’d had enough of politics mixing with sports and are done watching the NFL. Here are some of those messages.
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I agree. Where do you think these NFL AH's learned all about 'social justice' and the evil white man?
Why not support your local rec programs. Watch the kids and maybe do a big brother, big sis thing. Volunteer to help in some way. Many kids do not have any encouragement from home. Let’s face it. . .if you haven’t played catch or hoops in the driveway, you are probably not going to be involved in sports in school. I am seeing it with the students at the school where I sub.
> The NCAA is even more PC mush-minded than the NFL. <
Oh, yes. I’m actually amazed that we are not seeing waves of protests during NCAA games.
Maybe the NCAA student athletes are too busy studying to worry about politics (I kid, of course).
That's the point. They hired political insiders and mainstream media cronies. This is the world they live in. These people are naturally leftist, statist, crony-capitalist - expert in monetizing government connections and PC media narratives.
Many of them probably despise mainstream America and flyover country, as they see it.
As for me, I BACK-THE-BLUE and PIGMAN (Colin Kaepernick) can go work in the Canadian Football League. He is a minor league player...
I wondered that same thing yesterday
The NCAA is even more PC mush-minded than the NFL.
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That’s true but the Alumni will have something to say about it.
“They think this will blow over.....I sincerely hope not.”
Just remember, THEY thought Hilary was a shoo in! THEY don’t know the American people.
College players will take notice of the NFL imploding and see their chances of a career in the NFL dwindle.
I think a lot of the ‘problem’ lies in the fact that the players started something in regards to the cops being murderers etc and nothing was said.
Dallas wanted to honor 4 policeman who were assassinated and the league FINALLY stepped in and said they couldn’t.
Then K started his BS and no one - open & Officially - said a word against it which just emboldened the rest of the ‘copy cats’.
I think the owners & NFL (asshats they are for allowing it to get this far) figured they would step in with the ‘solidarity’ by linking arms etc.
I really don’t blame the QBs and RBs for ‘supporting’ their defenders BUT once out of hand they found it necessary to chastise the FANS — Yeah, the suckers that buy the overpriced stadium stuff, buy products with the players names on it etc....
These IDIOTS - collectively and especially the ones that stand out by name - Brady, Popovich, Rogers etal didn’t even try to differentiate between the ‘good fans’ and ‘bad fans’, they just attacked all of them.
Good luck.....
I still say that if people show up at the next game and buy nothing once inside - that will send a message to the owners..
OR better yet, the POLICE that the owners and teams supposedly ‘hate’ just didn’t show up for traffic control and security at the park
Would really be good for once the players ‘take a knee’ that the FANS all join in the National Anthem then turn around and file out of the stadium.
I am looking forward to NFL Football next weekend with eager anticipation.....to see how much the TV ratings drop when compared to same weekend last year. If they are down 7% or more I will cheer loudly and crack open an ice cold can of non-Budwieser.
Here is the cat in the bag. Please let it out.
‘This is what real locker room talk is’: The NFL’s Joe Lockhart levels a shot at Trump
Joe Lockhart, the NFL’s executive vice president of communications, wasn’t messing around Monday.
A former White House press secretary under President Clinton, Lockhart used surgical precision in leveling a shot at President Trump
Lockhart was a strategist in the Clinton White House during the Monica Lewinsky scandal
Lockhart’s comment shows that sports and politics in the Trump era aren’t going to be untangled anytime soon and, frankly, that’s probably partly why he was hired.
Lockhart, a former TV producer and the son of journalists, joined the NFL in the winter of 2016, replacing Paul Hicks as the league’s vice president of communications. (Hicks is the father of Hope Hicks, Trump’s communications director.)
Clearly, he knows just what message he wants to send.
He also happens to have rented his home in Washington DC to a certain former president named Barack Obama.
The then St Louis Rams players doing their hands up protest. The hands up narrative was a known lie .
Most of them never will be multimillionaires
A few weeks ago, Michael Bennett of the Seahawks celebrated the his sack of a white QB with a Black power salute. He said it was for all the oppressed people of the world. In college ball at least this would be an unsportsmanlike penalty and would cost the Seahawks 15 yards. In pro sports, his conduct gets the backing of management.
The outrage?
I left pro sports (and show biz) long ago, and I am one happy man.
In one sense this is simply another manifestation of progressive social activists completely losing touch with the working class they preen themselves as representing, and football fans are overwhelmingly working and middle class. These are fans spread out over generations, who have found their patriotism dismissed with contempt in the media, their jobs marginalized, and their culture ridiculed, by an elite who is rich, arrogant, and racist. The guy with his knee on the ground for the Anthem earns a salary that in a single year is more than an order of magnitude greater than his fan stands to earn in an entire 50-year working lifetime. (Slavery, you betcha, where do I sign up?) And the game the game that fan is watching is predominantly on TV because physical attendance is no longer attainable on a working class salary.
So he is - we are - walking. It's something of a triumph of slick marketing that it hasn't happened sooner. Some will return, many will not. And that number represents a lot of money to people who should have been paying closer attention.
The only football that I watch all year are those rare occasions when Navy plays during the regular schedule, the Army-Navy game, and any post-season games that feature Navy. I'm not saying that I wouldn't also watch games for the other Service Academies, but I don't go looking for them (unless they're post-season games).
GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!
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