Posted on 02/02/2017 11:09:24 AM PST by drewh
Whats a Super Bowl without controversy?
Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are in Houston for their record-setting ninth appearance in Sundays NFL championship game, but the biggest questions the future Hall-of-Famer faces this week have nothing to do with the Atlanta Falcons secondary, his receiving corps or coach Bill Belichicks game plan.
Instead, footballs best player has become the focus of a political debate between those, including many in the sports world, who insist the quarterback must explain or even disavow his friendship with President Trump, and others who contend Brady is as entitled to a political viewpoint as Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco quarterback who spent the season protesting police brutality by taking a knee during the national anthem.
Can we pls stop politicizing everything? (We came to the sports pgs to escape a politics-centric view of everything), Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse tweeted Tuesday while linking to a USA Today sports column headlined. Tom Brady has some explaining to do on Donald Trump.
In the column, USA Todays Nancy Armour writes that the 39-year-old Brady has forfeited the right to deflect questions about his relationship with the new president, especially in light of the presidents executive action Friday tightening travel restrictons from seven majority-Muslim countries to the United States.
Tom Brady no longer gets a pass on his friendship with Donald Trump. Not after this weekend, when the country boiled over in rage and indignation at Trumps decision to turn Americas back on refugees, she wrote.
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These friggin liberal sports reporters don’t get it. I work with and have friends in the New England area and the majority of them are libs and Pats fans. Some of them have said “what the heck does this have to do with football” - immediately taking Brady’s side. My response has been “the media politicizes everything, you’re only seeing it now, welcome to the normal”. It’s been enough that some of them have rethought President Trump and others have awoken (a little).
I was kinda rooting for the Falcons as the underdog and never having won a championship, but all this piling on Brady has made me change my mind.
In 10 years he’ll be running as the Republican Governor for California, or Massachusetts if Caifornia has seceded from the US and officially become Northern Mexico...
I don’t care one bit about the super bowl and I certainly won’t be watching it but I’ll be rooting for the Patriots to win. Why? Because a Patriot win will piss off the highest percentage of people.
ah, its ‘NRG Stadium’ now http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2017/01/17/lady-gaga-super-bowl-halftime-show-roof-nrg-stadium
He’s tied to Massachusetts like an anchor. They would elect him to any office he chooses, if any.
But he may just become a talking head sportscaster. Terry Bradshaw is getting long in the tooth...................
But Worthlessburger seems to agree with him re Mike Tomlin.
I had some access to exit polls that night. The barometer change didn’t surprise me, except how late it was. The numbers were moving toward the exit polls much earlier, but the media callers wouldn’t publish it.
So was the manufactured deflate gate. It took peoples’ minds off the horrendous calls in the playoffs to that point.
Tell us how you really feel! Lmao.
Go Pats!
It’s not mere politization. It’s a fascist feeding frenzy.
The ESPN reporters have been given their marching orders. Only talk about Brady in a negative light and build up the Falcons while not giving the Patriots much of a chance to win the game. I’m not watching the game because the NFL has turned it into a Trump bash. To hell with the feminized, sodomite loving, leftist ESPN and NFL. I’ll be watching the Western Channel.
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