I wonder if the NFL isn’t in the twilight of its career?
Sadly, I believe it is.
I have been an ardent NFL fan since I first watched a game, a 1972 Saturday night game in 1972 between the Redskins and Bears where the Bears won the game on a broken play on the last play of the game where Bobby Douglass bobbled a high snap for a PAT, and ended up throwing it in desperation into the end zone where Dick Butkus somehow caught it lying flat on his back.
But I lost a huge amount of enthusiasm the last several years with this kneeling crap, but I kept watching because I didn’t believe the owners or the NFL leadership itself were into it, just being held hostage, and stupidly so. They seemed to be reluctantly paying lip service.
But now they appear to be fully into it with money backing it too, being given to the worst race baiting organizations. I don’t know if I can continue to watch in that light.
And I believe they are cutting their own throat in do so. The same people coming after them from everything ranging from concussions to player union rights are the same people behind making them kowtow and kneel to Black Lives Matter. They are going to eventually rub out the NFL anyway, and now they have the NFL helping to do it to themselves.
It is for me. I haven’t watched a game in years, and don’t plan to start anytime soon.