Posted on 11/13/2017 5:00:26 AM PST by EyesOfTX
And whitey pays their salary. How stupid can they be. These owners don’t have a clue what the average fan experiences in their day to day life. Thugs running wild and commiting crimes mostly against whitey. And the players are protesting that the thugs are being locked up. Mind bogling.
I see it a different way. They're successful to the point of being billionaires. Their NFL teams are their toys. They don't want trouble, and as a result never looked beyond the protests and forward to the negative impact it would have on their investment.
What happens when the more responsible of owners decide that the investment isn't worth the grief or the downside risk? When the best of them cash out and move on to other diversions, the results will truly be catastrophic and irreversible. Now, the inmates are running the asylum. Will the next step be the inmates owning the asylum?
He could add the GOP to the list
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!
All good points. After reviewing your list, it’s pretty clear there’s no logical way for this to work itself out. Each party is coming from a totally different point of view. It will not end well — for anyone.
Since Benson was mentioned I’ll add that he recently was involved in a lawsuit over mental competence. I believe he won but I think it was more cause he had a previous will.
“The owners of teams in the National Football League are, as a collective group, not very bright.”.........
Seems to me that they are making a hell of a lot of money by hiring hoards of players less bright than they. Not to mention, they have been “stealing” from the public for years. Now that to me shows they are brighter than given credit for.
I've kept an eye on the slow-motion disaster that is the NFL's self destruction. I've been hoping for a ray of sanity, an end to the disrespect, so that sometime - maybe as early as next year - I could go back to being a fan. I would like it if the players stood respectfully for the anthem because they wanted to. I'd settle, maybe, for them doing it because they were told to and that rule was enforced. That's not going to happen under Goodell's ah "leadership."
I can understand the players acting and actually being as stupid as they apparently are. They got where they are by physical prowess, obviously not mental acuity. The owners actions (or lack thereof in letting this BS go on) is truly baffling. As someone else pointed out, in a few years the NFL will be used in business schools as a case study in how to destroy your brand.
The negotiations with Goodell are just the latest example. Why are they even talking about extending his contract? Why wasn't he summarily fired months ago? The notion of actually extending his contract, letting him continue to destroy the business is incredibly stupid. The idea of actually increasing his compensation in any way is insane. But the level of compensation and perks he wants are just literally mind boggling. I don't understand why the owners or their agents - when presented with Goodell's demands - didn't simply burst out laughing and walk from the room. Seriously, how could you keep a straight face when presenting those demands or receiving them? How could they even entertain this notion any longer than it took them to catch their breath from laughing?
As I said, I've been waiting, hoping for a sign I could return as a fan someday. If the NFL extends Goodell's contract, let alone rewards him with even a fraction of his demands, I will box up my Steelers stuff and turn my back on the NFL forever. Whether that box gets put in the basement, the trash, or burned is TBD.
Sadly, that is a very accurate summary.
Heh, the players are not exactly Mensa members either.
I good many of them probably have trouble signing their names.
But they all know EVERYTHING about social justice.
Good points, and are inline with my departure with the NFL this season. It was the Villanueva incident that ended things for me.
My Steelers stuff isn’t boxed, but the Greene, Lambert, and Polamalu jerseys haven’t been off their hangars this season.
Maybe I’ll frame them as a tribute to what was once a very entertaining sport.
Like a number of other deceased businesses, the NFL and its owners have come to believe that they own the fans. This is a dangerous worldview which kills businesses. Customers (fans) all have “gag points”. When the gag points are hit, the customer says “adios, vaya con Dios”. I have found many enjoyable ways to spend what was once NFL time.
Burn them, and frame the ashes.
“Yet, you put these people into a group setting, and they appear to have no better decision-making skills than the average 3rd-grader.”
Sounds like the senate.
Yes, except that the Senators are generally dim bulbs before the get elected into that group setting.
They are products of the public education system, a socialist/Marxist taint and no clue of the business world. The owners are the really stupid ones for letting this go on as far as it has. At this point a nasty strike filled with racist slurs and charges looms. The owners will fold and slowly die off one by one as they will not be able to afford the continued huge salary demands by their America hating players.
When the numbers come in and advertisers tell the networks, nope, not paying $100,000 a spot to advertise, you lost 25% of your audience. $50,000 or less. Eventually the networks have to agree and the check going to the owners goes down even further. Then comes the union’s contract renewal and the owners looking at the shrinking bottom line from network $$$ being down, to the empty seats to the vendors and their product sales down and they offer significantly less in salaries. The union thugs call this racist and the owners greedy and strike. The owners attempt to do a replacement offering and it is rejected by the fans who are left and in step the union and the NCAACP, BLM and other racist organizations call the owners slave owners and racist and they break and give the America hating thugs their big contracts.
One by one teams begin to go bankrupt and fold. This means less openings for NFL athletes coming out of college and the race card will be flung yet again. Eventually if they survive they will meander on with half the teams they have now in the back waters of national sports. If the concussion rap doesn’t take them out they might look something like the NFL of the 50-60’s.
Kraft did not inherit the Patriots, he purchased them
This writer don’t know shit.
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