Maybe Goodell and the rest of the NFL should remember this.
Johnny Cash
Ragged Old Flag (Super Bowl 2017 intro?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH7no9FCDoQ&list=RDLH7no9FCDoQ&t=1
Maybe Goodell and the rest of the NFL should remember this.
Johnny Cash
Ragged Old Flag (Super Bowl 2017 intro?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH7no9FCDoQ&list=RDLH7no9FCDoQ&t=1
Athletes gain celebrity “status” for making big bucks in big leagues when playing with their small balls. They are then courted by smug, opinionated celebrity hucksters from pop culture, Hollywood and social media. With that backdrop, athletes become more ego-centric. They then instruct us in the error of our ways because we do not accept their political or societal opinions. Listening to them we hear that we mere taxpayers, and one time fan base, are not relevant. Why? Because our opinions may differ from theirs.
The athlete’s vast political partisanship is on abject display when they turn stadiums into theaters of the absurd by “taking a knee” in tax payer funded stadiums. Colin Kapernick deserves note for writing the ultimate self-serving script for disrespect. Celebrities see we taxpayers, we members of their once thriving fan base, we members of American society in the lowest of low terms. Athletes see us as ill-informed, misogynistic, spouse beating, child abusing, drug abusing, animal mistreating, burglarizing, murdering, social misfits; oh wait that’s the NFL players rap sheets. In Hollywood, those items are considered resume builders.
These athletes and celebrities are people who screech they want “equality.” They want to end “oppression.” They want to end “mistreatment.” Yet their behavior reveals what they really think of us: we are not “equal” to them in their rarified existence. They oppress and mistreat we everyday Americans by attempting to force their negative, often vile, hate filled, celebrity view of us in whatever venue they have: sports, film, television, newcasting, print and social media.
If the inhabitants of celebrity world, sports and Hollywood truly believed the equality rhetoric they espouse from their security gated, wall surrounding compounds they would look no further than their own industries. For true equality, sports teams should either be comprised of an equal number of players from all races or as representative percentages of races in the United States of America. Where’s the equality of representation in major league sports, social media, the social media moguls, Hollywood and the gated communities in which they live?
In the end, let us say athletes went from jocks to jerks and Hollywood is still on the casting couch.