Wasn't Goodell recently trying to financially blackmail Texas into not passing religious freedom protection? The NFL is anti American and has been for a while.
Wonder how well the next city to be shaken down for a new stadium will respond.
Good point(s).
With the NFL choosing a side - the wrong side, to be certain - they are inadvertently casting off their mantle of good, clean, All-American fun played by charity-minded pillars of the community.
It will be much harder for them to play the White Hatted Hero when they are extorting cities for new stadiums etc.
A good recent book to read is ‘NFL Confidential’ by one Johnny Anonymous. Johnny (a pseudonym of course) is a white journeyman offensive lineman bouncing between clubs trying make weight (more, not less), dealing with unhinged assistant coaches who also fear the sack, and dealing with the wide variety of personalities, backgrounds, etc. in a locker room despite the relatively small number of players on a roster.
He doesn’t dwell on it but ‘Johnny’ notes that militant black players are often militant for reasons they themselves can’t explain. They are expected to have a chip on their shoulder so they play the part despite not having a clue about politics, government or life in general due to their long-term cloistered existence as elite jocks. ‘Johnny’ openly mocks them but usually in subtle ways that they fail to notice.
The biggest problem with the current situation is that nobody will sit these players down and ask them tough, detailed questions about their motives in order to ascertain their knowledge of facts. No doubt the amount of ignorance would undermine their cause so media types are keeping them at arm’s length and, as usual, relying on visuals rather than reporting.