Exceptional review.
I don’t think the League was really in trouble until two things happened, almost simultaneously-—and you mentioned one, the penalties. The other is the feminization of football, which you alluded to, but which was really pushed out front with the pink/breast cancer stuff.
Note: NOT prostate or testicular cancer, which is a threat to the overwhelming percentage of the viewing audience, but breast cancer. I would bet money that the NFL (with its SJW female “advisors”) deliberaterately chose breasts because of the sexual connotation it stirred in men. Ovarian cancer? Good luck getting a buy-in.
The breast cancer /pink week was, in retrospect, the SJWs’ cleverly planned foot in the door to destroy the league. Kapernick was an unexpected bonus for them.
Now, the penalties are a different issue. This by itself may have been insurmountable because the players have gotten so much bigger, faster, and stronger in the last 20 years that collisions that might not have destroyed someone in 1980 could almost kill them now. And yes, I remember Jack Tatum paralyzing Daryl Stingley.
So the NFL tried to limit hits on so-called “defenseless” players ( which is nonsense—the PURPOSE of such hits on WRs and QBs was to distract them & make them think about survival). At any rate, I don’t know if you can reconcile the increased violence level with reasonable penalty calling. One has to go.
But your biggest point, that this is a culmination of TONS of SJW meddling (especially in the announcing booth) is 100% accurate.
And you just don’t walk back from these long/slow developing grievances.
Ask the Sons of Liberty.
Another reason for so many flags,with so many blacks who are so g damned stupid they can not grasp what the rules are.
All great points there, Larry. Thank you!