Posted on 02/09/2021 12:05:18 PM PST by Hojczyk
Former NFL star and freshman Utah GOP Rep. Burgess Owens says the NFL has gotten too political and he will continue to boycott the National Football League until Commissioner Roger Goodell is fired.
Owens played for the New York Jets in the 1970's and helped bring the Los Angeles Raiders to their championship Super Bowl win in 1984. Owens, who now represents Utah's fourth Congressional district, has since become a sharp critic of the modern-day NFL.
He told "Just the News AM" on Monday that Goodell is taking away the elements of sports that united fans and instead making the NFL game political.
Owens said politics in football is "something I just don't have a tolerance for this point. ... I'm one of those guys who has decided I'm done with the NFL for a while."
He said he didn't even watch the Super Bowl on Sunday and suggested to show host Carrie Sheffield that the league has allows too much political activism.
The league, for example, allows teams to stay in their locker room during the national anthem to call attention to police brutality, particularly against black Americans.
"Use another venue, or use another time. What we don't do is we don't attack those things that do bring us together," Owens said about the communion of sports in America. "If we're teaching our kids to do nothing but look at the worst of ourselves, then we don't move forward. ... For any of us to look back on the worst things we've ever done, focus on that and only think about that, we will never move forward. We'll never risk-take, we'll never think it will be better."
In a recent Twitter post Owens referred to Goodell as "America divider."
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Smart man.
Goodell will be fired when revenues drop for 2 years running.
How long has it been so far?
Didn’t watch a minute of it.
Didn’t even want to.
It was mentioned in conversations, but that didn’t tempt me
at all.
I only see the NFL these days, as part of the counter-culture
in the United States, whose goal it is to destroy our
Capitalist Free Enterprise system.
If they think I’ll ever be down with that, they 10x as
stupid as I already think they are.
I’ve like football for most of my life. No more.
These folks rank right in there with Fidel Castro, Fidel
Hitler, Mao, and every other destroyer of human rights.
Why would I want to feed something as destructive as this
pissant sports league?
Oops, Adolf Hitler...
Skipped a grove...
When the NFL goes broke Goodell will be gone.
Get woke, go broke....................
If NFL owners cared more about revenues than about their status as members of elite society, they wouldn't be in the football business.
I dropped my season tickets after 16 years. My terms to return:
1) Shad Khan apologizes to the veterans of Jacksonville, FL
2) Fire Roger Goodell
I agree, good man, I like him!
What did Shad Khan say about our veterans?
Jay Z’s in charge anyway - they would hire somebody equally as woke.
Goodell needs replacing since woke politics has taken the place of football in his mind. The sane goes for Jay Monahan at the PGA.
I have a guy at work who was an NFL player in recent times. He, too, said no more NFL for him. It is far too anti-American and anti-White politically. He disassociates himself from the NFL. He is also a great guy, just a wonderful human being.
Unfortunately, to get rid of Roger Goodall, the NFL has to pay him out several hundred million dollars.
I met Owens in the private sector back in fhe early 90’s. Great guy. He was wearing his Super Bowl ring, first time I had seen one in person and was amazed how big it was.
I heard him on Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. He came across there as a person of devout faith and very conservative. He had some deep financial troubles soon after his career and he dealt with those problems with hard work and personal responsibility. He didn’t blame anybody else for them.
I was very impressed with what I heard. I hope he has a long poltical career.
You didn’t miss anything. It was pathetic as hell. First they had professional extremely mediocre musician Alicia Keys come out and sing the black national anthem, then they announced $250 million would be going to the domestic terror group BLM. For halftime they had some fool jump around yelling gibberish while a bunch of guys wearing wearing what looked like jock straps around their faces jump around with him
This has gone beyond Goodell. The NFL is utterly dead to me.
Yes, Roger and the NFL owners just signed a new long term contract.
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