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Yes...I am one of those in spirit, but the thing is...my distress and disgust over it has removed my enthusiasm, and so...I haven’t been watching.

This has been difficult for me. I have been an avid pro football fan...and I mean avid...for over 50 years.

I loved it. Loved it. Loved the intensity, the physical contact, the strategy, the characters, the joy of success and the bitterness of defeat.

When I was at sea, long before the days of the Internet, on Sunday evenings, I would prowl around the radio shack on the ship, waiting for door to open and had a radioman tape a results printout on the bulkhead next to the door.

When in port, I would sit on the darkened flight deck, running up and down the dial of a small transistor radio, knowing if I came across a football game, I would immediately recognize the voice and cadence of a pro football announcer...though I never did, it didn’t stop me from trying.

I have loved it all. I had a huge group of people I socialized with, centered on pro football. We have traveled to games many times. Had Christmas parties. Been to weddings, and in the past few years...funerals.

We have cheered, yelled, jumped around like children, grinned, high fived, linked arms and danced jigs, and slumped in silent dejection...all together...all memorable.

But all of it...all of it provided us with an excuse to see each other as we enter a time of our lives where people begin to pull apart and spend more time outside the group, a natural thing.

And I loved it. And I miss it.

But I love my country far more, and the rage I felt watching these entitled pricks kneeling as the National Anthem was played, showing that disrepect in the presence of the flag my father and I served under and the one he was buried under, well...it made me want to spit.

So, I have watched five minutes or so here, glanced at an article about a game, but...I don’t follow it. Don’t know schedules, don’t know home games, no idea of away games, don’t know when the bye week is, standings, who is playing who, who is good and who is bad, who is rising and who is retiring or going to retire...none of it.

I hate and despise the Left. Anyone who reads me on this forum probably gets that. But of all the things they have done to this country over the years, the terrible, tyrannical, wrong, and anti-Constitutional things they have done...and they have done a LOT...the one I take more personally is their destruction of professional sports, and Football in particular. Even though they have done evil and heinous things to my country, the one that I feel that most keenly on an immediate and personal level, is their eradication of the love I felt for that game inside me.

May they all rot in Hell.