Posted on 09/08/2021 4:26:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Here in Dallas Cowboys country, where I live, anticipation is building. Has quarterback Dak Prescott healed sufficiently to bring the promise of playoff hopes back to the franchise?
Prescott's first duel will be against Tom Brady, as the Cowboys travel to Tampa Bay Thursday night to kick off the 2021 NFL season. We are not out of the COVID woods yet, but actual fans will be in the stands as the season begins—a welcome prospect after last year's eerie, empty stadiums.
The Cowboys have enjoyed a particular visibility boost in the preseason as the subject of this year's HBO Hard Knocks documentary, an inside look at famous players gearing up for a new year alongside motivated youngsters scrapping to make the team.
Add it all up, and after a stretch of heavily dampened enthusiasm, I was ready to approach my lifetime favorite sport with fresh eyes. The new season brings the promise of caring as I used to care before legions of players began insulting my country by kneeling during the national anthem.
That seems like a distant memory. The NFL should be primed to welcome back fans after COVID and social justice activism drove so many away. But now comes news of additional scoldings delivered via NFL uniforms and playing fields. Ostensibly meant to inspire us to better ourselves, this messaging is in fact one more example of woke corporate America mobilizing to characterize us as a racist culture in dire need of upbraiding at every turn.
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The MFL lost me years ago. So they are getting worse. I wouldn’t have known.
What?!! The woke NFL has 81 million fans plus!
Far-left Newsweak allowed this article to publish? This must be the once-every-2 years “conservative article” to show they are “fair”..
As one witty person commented earlier, when NFL fans start chanting “F*** Biden,” the NFL will declare a Covid emergency and ban fans the rest of the season.
Die, NFL, die
The NFL has been dead to me since around February of last year. I was surprised how little I missed it on Thursdays,Sundays and Mondays.
The kneeling did it for me—forever.
They can’t put that toothpaste back in the tube.
They hate me and it is mutual.
Lessons from corporations that use slave labor overseas. Spare me. In fact only maybe Japan is more racist than China. It’s a close run thing. In fact all those Asian countries are pretty much “our ethnic grouping only”. Lecture them.
Once a Die Hard fan. Now, a Could Not Possibly Care Less former fan.
When is the wake for the woke NFL? We need to bury them because they stink of rot!
Sounds like the number of Biden “voters”.
NFL No Fans Left
I hope bender2 is wizzing on the nfl from wherever he may be.
The USFL is starting up again. The NFL and their stupid wokeness is giving them an opportunity. If the USFL plays their cards right, they could attract many former NFL fans.
Not a usual fan, but I’m going to watch every collage game this weekend and make a note of the home team.
The NFLDNC can do whatever they want.
The same number that supposedly voted for the biden.
Last year will be hard to top but give them an E for effort.
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