Posted on 03/16/2011 6:51:35 AM PDT by RoadKingSE
>These premadonas better be careful
Okay, I had to think a bit after reading that one
I believe “prima donna” is the phrase that you are looking for.
Premadona isn’t a word.
The NFL is socialism, pure and simple. The “rich” are punished with low draft picks, everyone has the same amount of money to spend on salaries, just about all the revenue is split up by the teams, and they rely on the state to build their extravagant playgrounds.
>By the way, can anyone explain to me why the NFL isn’t an illegal trust?
Sure. An Act of Congress set up the exemption for the NFL, much the same way that the USOC was set up as a monopoly over American Olympic sports.
Why is there such a negative connotation with minstrelsy? Is there a reason “Mr. Bojangles” is tragic, moreso than other aging, washed-up, drunken, criminal showmen? Or, more to the point, more than your average oppressed black person? A particular sort—the same ones known to harp on Uncle Tomism—speak of minstrel shows as if I’m supposed to automatically perceive something pathetic and sinister about them. I don’t get it.
We’re supposed to shed tears, I gather, because black people made fools of themselves for our amusement. Reminds me of how they speak of certain 70s B movies as “blaxploitation.” To which I might respond, who’s being exploited? The audience? They’re enjoying themselves, and if that’s “exploitation,” were Burt Reynolds’ Southern anti-hero hillybilly romps “whitesploitation”?
But I digress. The point is, Bill Robinson was a song and dance man, people liked him, and also he was black. Since everything from the past looks fuddy-duddy to us, when we see his black face in a straw hat dancing with Shirley Temple, we cringe. But it has little to do with race, exploitation, or whatever, actually. There’s no reason to believe he was exploited, degraded, or whatever, more than white tap dancers nowadays considered lame. Or any more exploited than Sammy Davis was relative to Dean Martin. Or Steve Urkel relative to Screech.
This whole “minstel show” thing is PC nonsense. It’s the same thing with how “negro” or “colored” suddenly became insulting. Things that were once acceptable must be made unacceptable. Otherwise, we eventually wouldn’t need cultural commissars to guide us to the promised land of milk, honey, diversity, and tolerance. If unsuspecting white people were allowed to tune into a movie from 1935 and not be shocked by the portrayal of black people, they might stop trusting that contemporary PC is necessary.
I’m sure black minstrels had as gay a time as medieval (white) minstrels, other things being equal.
I scarcely have the words.
Peterson, not Favre, cost the Vikings the 2009 NFC Championship game - by putting the ball on the turf “All Day.”
He got a pass on it, largely because of Favre’s late pick.
“I thought modern-day slavery was illegal aliens hired by Americans for less than minimum wage?”
Voluntarily working for less than minimum wage is not slavery, it’s freedom.
Because the franchises aren't competing against each other, they're competing against all other forms of entertainment.
That'd be like saying that individual franchisees of a chain like Domino's is an "illegal trust" because the majority of policy and menu is dictated by corporate, even though the franchises are individually owned and operated.
I used to be a big sports fan. I was particularly a a big baseball fan. I used to watch Astros games in their entirety even when they played on the west coast and the game started after 9:00 P.M. Once I stayed up till after 2:00 A.M. watching an extra-innings game that went over 20 innings (one of the longest ever played). I FREAKIN' LOVED IT!!!!!
I stuck with baseball until the last major strike in the mid-90's. Baseball ended at around the halfway mark of the season of the strike. By the time it returned the following fall, I found that I....didn't miss it at all! I tried to get into it again; but in the months since I had last watched baseball I found I had lost interest and started using my time for other things. I began to find baseball dull and boring (after years of defending the sport against people who said the same thing). I have scarcely watched ANY baseball since then, save the Astros' disappointing World Series appearance 5 or 6 years ago.
I am certain that after this strike, I will find that I do not need football either. I started watching a lot less after the league blackballed Rush as being "too racist" in his quest to own a team and when they let Vick return to become a star again. Comments like these from this Peterson dweeb just reinforce my feeling that my days of loving sports are over.
As a kid, I loved football. I was a fan of the Baltimore Colts. I thought Johhny Unitas was heroic on the field. I just don't get that vibe anymore.
“What is the definition of ‘modern-day slavery’”
Probably similar to “neocolonialism,” i.e. something that is not what the word suggests.
Being a Viking fan is cruel and unusual punishment.
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Wow, you did finally figure it out.....that’s great!
What a joke.
I think instead of money, the owners should offer them 40 acres and a mule.
Those tests are culturally biased...in favor of guards.
Now, I could see a College Football player making that argument, about slavery, but certainly not the professional players?
College Football and other sports take all the money, and meanwhile adult athletes get zippo. I’m always astonished when even conservatives support that kind of thing.
The college finance machine, is exactly what democrats would like to do to ALL professions, and create a socialist utopia where we get room and board, while the “staff” gets all the money and perks, and can build glorified towers to honor their visions and heroes.
I would love to see the owners ALL fire the entire team roster and hire those willing to work for their pay without bitching and moaning like crack whores.
is this what black men have come to? (some)
serial breeders with tens of millions dollars or more
and still complaining of slavery
something they only read about in history books
do they like cry over it?
anyhow...what would Bob Hayes say?
so what is Peyton Manning’s excuse?
I’m pretty sure his folks family’s in Mississippi were pretty much the slaveowner..like mine admittedly..not the slavee?
maybe it’s the guilt for him...poor Peyton.
slavery...the gift that keeps on giving..that’s what we do with bad things now...we turn them into fun things to exploit and cry over from the perspective of the future
we do the same with the Holocaust too
even the Crusades....
next it will be how my ancestors the neanderthals were abused by sapiens...here’s hoping..fingers crossed
” your honour, I robbed banks and beat my wife because my ancestors ..neandethals from Europe..were oppressed and our women raped by those mean Homo Sapiens from Africa and I just can’t seem to shake it...can I have some more recompense ..and mercy..please”
If you have naturally red hair, you got the genes from Neadertals, so you now have a license to whine and moan that you deserve reparations ...
If you have naturally red hair, you got the genes from Neadertals, so you now have a license to whine and moan that you deserve reparations ... but you’ll have to take your whine to Europe, where Neadertals were possessing the land and the modern men took it over.
“Because the franchises aren’t competing against each other, they’re competing against all other forms of entertainment.”
A) Actually, they are competing with eachother under the rubric of general cooperation, but let’s not get too technical. Of course they’re not in competition; that’s the point.
B) The NFL is not the only professional football league in America. Ever heard of the Arena Football League? Remember the XFL or the USFL? Probably not, but they existed.
C) Yes, they are competing with other forms of entertainment, many of which wouldn’t feel comfortable colluding across state lines to create giant monopolies.
“That’d be like saying that individual franchisees of a chain like Domino’s is an ‘illegal trust’ because the majority of policy and menu is dictated by corporate, even though the franchises are individually owned and operated.”
No, it wouldn’t. It would be as if Dominos, Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Arbys, Wendys, etc. got together and erected a National Fast Food Council (NFFC) to set prices, oversee contractual agreements, and generally regulate the industry.
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