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Is This the End of the NFL?
NY Mag ^ | November 25, 2017 | Will Leitch

Posted on 11/25/2017 12:23:32 PM PST by EdnaMode

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To: LouAvul

And yet you click on the thread. Somewhere somehow it does matter to you.


61 posted on 11/25/2017 2:26:53 PM PST by discostu (Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
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To: calenel

‘some lovely and friendly people who will nevertheless be the first ones taken out when the revolution comes
Should the author be taken out preemptively? He’s not only plotting a revolution, he’s deciding who to purge already. ’

I caught that too. My money is on the “lovely, friendly people”.


62 posted on 11/25/2017 2:31:56 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom not more government)
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To: EdnaMode

I read the first two paragraphs then stopped.

It was boring. And I don’t care what this writer knows.

It is what I know that is important. And I know the NFL and their players aren’t worth bug spit.

To hell with them. In a nice sort of way.


63 posted on 11/25/2017 2:32:20 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: discostu

If I want to watch inner city thugs play, I just go on YouTube and watch “The Knockout Game”..... same quality of sportsmanship.


64 posted on 11/25/2017 2:34:07 PM PST by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: EdnaMode
Article says it's all Trump's fault, blah, blah, blah, BS, BS, BS...

Idiotic reasoning, but at least the premise is correct.

65 posted on 11/25/2017 2:38:20 PM PST by MCH
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To: EdnaMode

I haven’t watched an NFL football game since they fired Tom Landry, and proved once and for all that NFL football isn’t a sport but just another money-making business.


66 posted on 11/25/2017 2:40:09 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: EdnaMode

Let the brain damage class action lawsuits begin. The NFL is toast.


67 posted on 11/25/2017 2:40:14 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....Dirty Bob Mueller)
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To: EdnaMode
Complete disrespect and absolutely no regret for their customers. They are doomed, IMHO.

Once people get off of the pro-football habit, it will be easier for them to give it up.

68 posted on 11/25/2017 2:47:10 PM PST by dhs12345
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Agreed, it makes no sense to insult the customer. Way too many businesses are learning the hard way.


69 posted on 11/25/2017 3:05:24 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Doche2X2

I agree. For me, professional sports has lost the element of - small town poor kid becomes a star - and acts grateful and humble about it.

Without that element, which you hardly ever see that anymore, it’s s bunch of ungrateful spoiled brat millionaire kids running around on a field and I have no time for it.

I stopped watching most sports years ago for that reason. Basketball is the worst IMHO.


70 posted on 11/25/2017 3:06:28 PM PST by enumerated
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To: EdnaMode

The root of the problem — they have an entitlement mentality and forget that their customers are not forced to buy their product.


71 posted on 11/25/2017 3:12:15 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: EdnaMode
"...with some lovely and friendly people who will nevertheless be the first ones taken out when the revolution comes..."

There's quite a scumbag commie threat!

Her name goes on the list...

72 posted on 11/25/2017 3:15:19 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal

....and I meant “HER”...The PP.


73 posted on 11/25/2017 3:17:17 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SuperLuminal

....and I meant “HER”...The PP.


74 posted on 11/25/2017 3:17:17 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: fungoking

You’re exactly right.

Thing is players had been ignoring the anthem for years but it went pretty much ignored because they weren’t protesting or being flagrantly disrespectful. I mean you’d see a few players warming up, throwing the ball around, during the anthem etc.

Pre-Kaepernick there was no issue, but the league failed to act when that began and let it build to this point.


75 posted on 11/25/2017 3:39:02 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: EdnaMode

There’s no way the NBA will benefit from the NFL drought. If any sport gains from it, it’s baseball, which likely already has and precisely for it’s lack of racial and political identity.

The NBA is now all about racial identity, and it will only get worse as the BLM disease spreads from the NFL millionaires to the NBA multi-millionaires.


76 posted on 11/25/2017 3:54:11 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: factoryrat

Other than “chicken worship”, not much ball talk.

The aforementioned is my disdain for USC ball. Fwiw, I despise them all. College and pro.


77 posted on 11/25/2017 4:05:21 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: dhs12345

Agreed.


78 posted on 11/25/2017 4:26:42 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Not the highest rated sport. The numbers showing “only” a 10% drop in viewership are as phony as the “Hillary Clinton has a 95% chance of winning” “polls.”
The thugs are still rolling down hill and there is no end in sight to their self inflected wounds. The viewership/attendance problems are UNFIXABLE because they are the fruit of a poison tree of hatred for America these scumbags showed. That bell can NEVER be unrung.


79 posted on 11/25/2017 4:38:52 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Old Yeller

Yes, but the Bears v. Packers in CGO a week or two ago looked mostly empty. I heard that it was somewhat rainy and windy that day, but I’ve seen Soldier Field packed in a blizzard for Bears/Packers.


80 posted on 11/25/2017 4:42:48 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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