Posted on 01/23/2018 7:19:29 AM PST by shortstop
We’ll still have a Super Bowl party.
There just won’t be any football.
We’ll leave the TV off, ignore the alerts on the phone, and enjoy the company of family and friends.
If the NFL doesn’t respect my country or my service, then I won’t respect it.
Yes, this is about the anthem. It’s also about the NFL’s attitude, and the recent insult it offered a leading veterans group.
Here’s the story.
A few weeks ago, the National Football League approached a veterans group of which I am a member – AMVETS – and asked it if it wanted to put an advertisement in the printed program commemorating whichever number Super Bowl it is they’re playing in a couple of weeks.
The NFL burned a lot of red, white and blue bridges this year and it is trying to rehabilitate its image with the folks who left its stadiums and telecasts in droves. Thus the solicitation of a veterans organization for a place of honor in the official game program.
All for just $30,000.
Donating the space to an organization representing veterans was apparently never on the table.
Which shouldn’t surprise anybody. Salutes to the military have always been huge money makers for the NFL. That organization has all the patriotism the taxpayers can afford.
So the NFL wanted to AMVETS to pay so that the NFL could wrap itself in AMVETS glory.
And AMVETS said yes.
The AMVETS executive director, Joe Chenelly, told me yesterday that he agreed to the NFL’s terms, and committed to buying a display ad.
A few days later, he sent it in.
That’s when the crap hit the fan.
The AMVETS ad is a simple vertical rectangle. It has a background of sky blue with a paragraph of text and the AMVETS logo at the bottom. In the left center, stretching from top to bottom, is the photographic profile of an Air Force color guard holding one flag – the American flag.
To the right of that imprinted on the sky blue, in black ink, is the hashtag “#PleaseStand.”
The NFL said no.
There was back and forth. There were efforts to keep from losing the $30,000 sale. But at the end of the day, the NFL wouldn’t budge. Apparently in its world, #TakeAKnee is free speech, but #PleaseStand isn’t.
Apparently, football players have a right to be heard but military veterans don’t.
And thus is demonstrated the hypocrisy of the NFL.
It cowered all year before its players, even tacitly offering them hundreds of millions of dollars to stop protesting, and saw between 10 and 30 percent of its customer base disappear.
And still it gets it wrong.
Still it disrespects a simple group of veterans who want to express a viewpoint.
Basically, the NFL told the veterans to go screw themselves.
So I’m going to return the favor.
I’m going to watch something else. I can eat chips and have fun with my family without there being a football game playing in the background. I can with the Super Bowl what an increasing number of people did this year with the National Football League – forget that it exists.
It’s a pretty easy decision, really. It’s like one of those elementary-school math problems, where you use little signs to indicate whether something is greater than, lesser than or equal to something else.
First question: My love of country and my interest in football.
First answer: My love of country is greater than my interest in football.
Second question: My respect for the judgement of professional athletes and my respect for the judgement of honorably discharged veterans of the American military.
Second answer: My respect for the judgement of professional athletes is less than my respect for the judgement of honorably discharged veterans of the American military.
Third question: My loyalty to the NFL and my loyalty to a pile of dog crap.
Third answer: My loyalty to the NFL is equal to my loyalty to a pile of dog crap.
You can go to war so a bunch of fat-cat millionaire jocks can piss on the flag and the country, but you can’t say what you want in an ad that you have to pay $30,000 for?
Apparently that’s how the NFL says to America’s veterans: Thank you for your service.
So I won’t be tuning in.
Next Sunday or next year.
Because I won’t stand for those who won’t stand for our anthem.
And I won’t support an athletic league that provides a forum for contempt for country but not for love of country.
Being a Patriots fan, I’ll be watching. Nobody on the team kneels and hasn’t for a long time. I haven’t had time to watch many of the games, if at all, because I’ve usually very busy around the farm in the fall and winter. I did watch the playoff game and it was darn well worth it.
#EFFTHENFL
I’ll do the same thing I do for the stupid bowl or any other foolsball game... something else, usually productive and often healthy.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3625129/posts - Murderer, “Kempis Songster was released last month after more than 30 years in prison for a murder he committed as a teenager. Now, he’s going to the Super Bowl, courtesy of Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins.”
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My answer: “Something else”
I’ve not watched a Superbowl since the mid-1990’s.
What is this “Super Bowl” you speak of, and how much punch does it hold?
Since I cannot stand either team, will go to the movies and hope for them both to lose while I am not watching. I did this election night 2012 also which allowed me to keep my sanity.
I might also DVR it so if it is good I can watch it in less than an hour! lol
Watching recorded programs. I have hours of them available. A pox on the NFL.
https://www.toddstarnes.com/show/nfl-rejects-pro-national-anthem-ad-veterans-group/
We will have nothing but films that celebrate our military on during the entire day that the “Sh*thole Bowl” is on.
The FNFL can go straight to hell.
Watch youtube videos about WWII, grilling and wood working tools.
Sort my socks...
Clean the litter box...
Watch "my pillow" Commercials...
So many choices, so little time!
>>We’ll still have a Super Bowl party.
>>There just won’t be any football.
Then, just call it a party. As long as you think in terms of “what replaces football”, nothing will ever replace football. The loss of football isn’t a hole in your life. It is life given back to you by an addiction that was cured.
What did I do this year instead of football? Whatever I wanted. I didn’t stop and think, “football is on, what do I do now?” No. I just lived my life as if football doesn’t exist. What will I do when the Super Bowl is on? Whatever I want. I won’t make a big deal out what “what replaces the Super Bowl”.
Football is not your life. You don’t need to replace it. Your very finite life flows on with or without it and you just gave yourself the gift of TIME when you turn the game off forever. Make yourself wish that you hadn’t wasted all of those hours before you gave it up instead of finding ways to help you forget what you are missing—because you aren’t missing anything.
I will not be watching the Superbowl.
I will hashtag #pleasestand on social media the day of the game.
Sort Sock Drawer
If its a nice day, go out on bike
Pester the kitty cats
Surf on FreeRepublic
It’s also because of the $100 Million shakedown to racist, far left, anti American POS organizations
We’ll either take the granddaughters to one of the local attractions or go out to dinner.
After what they did to AMVETS this week, I’ll be damned if I ever tune into an NFL game again.
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