Let’s turn those “soft NFL ratings” in a hard crash and burn!
Apparently boycotts work.
Fox didn’t air the Anthem during the Bears/Ravens game yesterday. I don’t think that is helping the NFL improve their image.
Destroy the bigoted NFL
I was on the road yesterday and had completely forgotten it was an NFL Sunday.
It’s much easier than I thought.
Yup!
Hillarys’ going to help.
Regularly scheduled NFL events have been pre-empted by
“cops are pigs” events
Let’s pretend that the NFL is a different kind of business, say, a furniture store, in a free market economy.
OK...so there is this furniture store that is VERY popular. Either due to marketing, merchandising, or the high quality of its product (whatever!) the store gets bigger and bigger, richer and richer, and more and more popular. The prices go up, because the demand is so high. The owners can count on regular customers, who love the store’s furniture so much that they actually have mugs, T-Shirts, and ball caps with the Furniture Store’s Logo emblazoned upon it.
The management of the store ascertains that his customers are mostly patriotic Americans, so he has special decorations put up for American Holidays, and displays the Flag prominently. This brings in more and more customers, the prices keep going up, and everybody is happy.
Then, the owner realizes that the building is too small to house his furniture store. A new building will cost a lot more than he wants to spend, but, because his store is SO popular with the patriotic American People who patronize it, he is able to somehow get THEM to pay for it, through taxpayer funding, and, of course, an increase in pricing.
Because, for some reason, big African-American Men seem better at selling his furniture than others, he subsidizes their college, pays for their training, and gives them huge salaries to work in the store. The mostly white customers don’t mind the disproportionate numbers of black salespeople, because the customers are not racist, and the salesmen are performing, selling, the furniture, respecting the Flag, and generally providing the service they are being paid to perform.
Then, one day, the sales staff rebels, not against their employers, but against the CUSTOMERS, who are the ones paying their salaries. They do this by insulting what the customers hold dear, their Country and Their Flag. The customers find out that there are other furniture stores they can go to...ones that don’t insult them.
Or...everybody realizes that they have enough furniture, and don’t even need half of what is clogging up their homes. Then they have a big Yard Sale, of even burn or discard what they don’t need.
And there is NOTHING illegal, immoral, racist, or un-American in doing so.
The Furniture Store closes, and all the disrespectful employees lose their million-dollar jobs.
It’s called CHOICE.
The nfl, its "games", their "scores", the players are ALL totally irrelevant and utterly meaningless.
The nfl has become like the ancient gladiatorial games, the Circus Maximus; the famous gladiators and the charioteers of "renoun" from the ancient Romance Empire.
Their arenas are nothing but crumbling ruins and who can recall or name any of their "famous" gladiators or charioteers? The answer is no one! This is the fate that awaits the once "glorious" nfl:
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is the future that awaits the nfl, and they destroyed it all with their own hands!
ALL THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT IS THE MONEY, THAT IS ALL!
They literally strangled to death their fan base "goose that laid all of their billion dollar nfl solid gold eggs" with their own hands. The goose is permanently dead and they killed it! Now, all too late they want to put Humpty Dumpy back together again and resurrect the goose from the dead.
This is rich, the National Felon League chose to side and kneel with hate America, only blm, sjw, hate whitey, communist anarchists over America and their own nfl fan base and now their fan base has been totally alienated and the very monsters they willingly aligned themselves with have turned on them and are now eating them alive.
All too late the nfl has awoken to the reality that the entire league, has an INCURABLE CASE OF SELF INFLICTED FINANCIAL EBOLA and is hemorrhaging money out of every conceivable orafice to the tune of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A WEEK with no way out and no end in sight.
The once financially lucrative nfl is circling the toilet bowl into obscurity and is quickly becoming totally irrelevant and financially worthless.
We choose to STAND with Americans for America; we choose love of country, we choose patriotism, we choose to "Live Free or Die", rather than "huddle up", "bend the knee" and subjugate ourselves, our families, and our beloved nation to the black racist, socialist, sjw, PC tyranny and perverted ideology of the National Felon League.
They want us to compromise our patriotism, our love of country, flag and nation and symbolically join the NFL in show of rebellious "unity" but "What fellowship does light have with darkness, good with evil (and subjugation for the sake of 'unity')?"
The answer is a resounding NOTHING! We can have no "unity" with those who hate our nation, its flag, its values and with those who despise us.
The anti-American National Felon League has, to quote Admiral Yamato: "awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve".
We are at war; the NFL started this cultural war against US, against America and they are attacking EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR, BELIEVE IN AND HOLD NEAR AND DEAR.
Like WWII, there can not be any, truce, or "compromise" for the sake of their false notion of "unity", no "cessation of hostilities" with the nfl and those who have made themselves our enemies with out a cause.
We Americans who love our county more than any game have now taken up the fight forced upon us by the nfl and like "the greatest generation" we too will settle for only one outcome: NOTHING LESS THAT THEIR TOTAL SURRENDER!
But isn’t what these NFL players are doing even worse? They are essentially protesting outside all of fallen solders graves with a narrative of ‘Cops hate minorities’. I would even venture to say there are many veterans that would rather they protest outside their funeral than disrespect the flag that so many died for during our National Anthem.
The irony here is we are actually watching the NFL’s funeral due to the actions of these players. Their protest may cause future athletes, including minorities, to never have the opportunities that has been provided to them in this great country.
And the hits just keep coming. And they won’t stop till everyone attached has to run for cover to salvage their lives.
rwood
Advertisers are paying for filet mignon and they're getting yesterday's dog food.
Can you hear us Anheuser-Busch?
Gonna hurt the bottom line of any network that has a airing contract as advertisers see their money being wasted. Gonna hurt the NFL Sunday Ticket broadcast services too.
Out of nowhere, my Amazon emails are now encouraging me to link to things like “Patriots vs Buccaneers: Stream live on Prime Video.” Don’t remember seeing such ads before.
I’ll bet it’s a lot worse than what they’re saying it is.
I was born in 1948 and lived in walking distance from Yankee Stadium, in The Bronx. The Giants played their football games there until they moved out to New Jersey in the mid-1970s, after a couple of transitional years at the Yale Bowl, in Connecticut.
Seats were often available at the ticket office on Game Day, and, with a High School “General Organization” card, the cost was minimal, $3 or $4 a game for the bleachers. I went to a lot of games that way, and when I moved to New Jersey, I had several friends who were season ticket holders who would sell me extra tickets or take me along as a guest. On days that I wasn’t at the game, I never missed a down on television.
What I am trying to say is that I have been a die-hard Giants fan for most of my 69 years. I have hosted numerous Super Bowl parties, for 4 of the 5 of the games that the Giants were in, and probably a dozen more in which they weren’t. And now, they’ve lost me.
As LBJ said when Walter Cronkite turned on him during the Tet Offensive (1968), “If we’ve lost Cronkite, we’ve lost Middle America.” Well, if the NFL has lost a die-hard, 6 decade fan like me, they’ve lost Middle America.
I spent four years in the United States Air Force, 1970-74. That Flag means a great deal to me, way more than the NFL logo or the Giants’ insignia. And there is nothing that the league could ever do to get me back. The players could stand at strict attention, right hand over the heart, and they could play the National Anthem, God Bless America, America The Beautiful, and Yankee Doodle Dandy, and they still wouldn’t get me back. They could donate a billion dollars to the Wounded Warrior Project and they still wouldn’t get me back. The Giants could go 16-0 and win the Super Bowl every year, and they still wouldn’t get me back.
I just spent several hundred dollars on new fall and winter outdoor gear because I will no longer wear the Giants’ clothing that I had previously worn for every fall and winter. I will never wear them again, not even to clean out my septic tank, even if I had a septic tank.
I discussed the situation with a friend of mine the other night, another guy who has hosted many Super Bowl parties. He said that he is also done with the NFL, but he is still hosting a Super Bowl party this year. “How can you do that?” I asked. “Simple.” he said. “This year’s Super Bowl party will not have any televisions on.” What a brilliant idea! I’ll be having a similar party. At the very least, I’ll learn who the true patriots are among my friends.