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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Agree...1000%
Seriously, why do guys wear the name of another guy on their back? Or better, why do they let their women wear the name of another guy on their back. No respect when I see that.
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As far as I’m concerned they can do whatever they want to cater to their street thug audience.
Been gone and uncaring since that fuzz head Koperdink showed up.
The NFL is gay. I don’t watch gay sports.
I happily left the NFL in 2016 after Kaepernick’s anti-American prank and the NFL caving and kissing his ass.
The NFL doesn’t care about its players. Once they are done playing, they are out on their own. From worn out hips and knees to head trauma, the NFL doesn’t care. Making employees, players, coaches who have natural immunity is hateful. The NFL “compassion” is so fake. I haven’t watched for several years.
Something is in the water at Newsweek the printed this yesterday:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3992813/posts
I live in Super Bowl central. Tom Brady is finishing his GOAT career HERE and added yet another ring for the last season. After those YEARS of Johnny Carson jokes on the hapless Bucs, there is a franchise that is more than a flash-in-a-pan, good ownership, good coaching and good players!
I have not even listened a single game in the past 3 years, NOT EVEN THE HOME TOWN Super Bowl. Emotional but the NFL is the responsible party. You do not desecrate the nation by desecrating the FLAG with misbehavior.
Mark is the same guy I heard this morning defending the nfl for dropping victory for not taking experimental jab in order to sing at their game. Hypocrisy is normally a liberal thing.
All those marketing geniuses that the NFL pays.... have they not realized that this
arrogance and lecturing drives fans away? In droves. *************
A lot of them may be Alphabet People and wear blinkers and are playing to their
own brethren. Mentally deranged identifying with the mentally deranged. More
Nero’s.
Good... Brain dead jocks are idiots anyhow... Now or back then....
You do not get a grade or credits for Football. In fact there is a minimal IQ requirement to participate. Very few who entertain the sport meet that requirement Anyhow...
NFL (league, not teams) had major layoffs recently. An insider told me they took a $4 Billion revenue hit last (fiscal) year.
“Far-left Newsweak allowed this article to publish? This must be the once-every-2 years “conservative article” to show they are “fair”..
Don’t know if they’ve all been op-eds, but I’ve seen some really good pieces from that old rag lately. And they were the worst of the worst, in print.
Decent writing too, which is always a nice suprise!
I am stunned.
This is printed in NEWSWEAK?
Go Woke... Turn into a joke.
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