Posted on 02/14/2022 4:11:36 AM PST by RandFan
Leading up to Super Bowl 56, most of the negative attention surrounding the halftime show was about Snoop Dogg for his recent anti-police song.
But it ended up being two of the other performers — Dr. Dre and Eminem — who ruffled some feathers and reportedly bucked the NFL during the halftime show.
In the final song of the performance, Dr. Dre repeated an anti-police lyric in his song “Still D.R.E.”
“Still f—- with the beats, still not loving police,” reads the lyric in Dr. Dre’s hit 1999 single. Dr. Dre did not say the expletive during the halftime show, but he kept in the mention of police.
The NFL told Eminem he couldn’t kneel in support of Colin Kaepernick. He did anyway.
They told Dr. Dre he couldn’t sing the lyric “still not lovin police.”
He did anyway.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I watched part of the half time show because I like Eminem. I didn’t take the kneeling as anything other than part of the show. Dre sang one line of his song, “still not loving the police.” You would have to try real hard to get offended over that line because this song has been around for twenty years.
It is ok to dislike rap and rappers but to make a big deal over these two things is silly.
Goodell controlled the mikes and stage. He could have cut this garbage the second that he realized it was in fact garbage. Would he have cut the 'entertainment' if one of the loons jumping about on stage grabbing their crotches actually stripped naked? That form of jungle music might be entertaining to that 13% of the population but it sure as hell is not entertaining to the other 87%!!!!!
I watched it all . start to finish
And for you sopranos fans..david chase answered what happened to AJ and Meadow
No, we took a break during the halftime show, the pandering all black commercials did us in. We were hoping the second half would feature a few white people. But when the Google 6 phone commercial came on, with thinly veiled accusations of racist phones designed to “black out” dark skinned people, we knew all was lost.
Not only did I refuse to watch the stupid Super Bowl, but until the score popped up in my news feed this morning I didn't even know which teams were playing in it.
But I bet the NFL has lots of Covid rules that are strictly enforced.
The NFL... No more men, Peggie Sue, apple pie, and American flags. They’re just keeping up with the times. Race, homo, feminist, emasulated men (what do you think all that concussion BS what about?), globalist ideas dominate the message.
I also enjoyed the Super Bowl.
The “Sopranos” Commercial was cool. Where has the time gone.👍
Well, apparently Harry and Eugenie showed up to watch.
Nice to see the House of Windsor’s Epstein Problem rages merrily on.
Sadly, it was my turn to scrub the toilet bowl.
There is not one reason why you, nor I, nor anyone else on this forum should ever watch an NFL game, purchase or wear an NFL product, nor ever discuss football again.
It is a sad, corrupt, pro-ChiCom, anti-American game of fools.
Screw my old “Redskins.” Never mind the Cowboys. Forget the Packers.
They don’t like you.
They think you’re a sucker.
Walk away.
I’d rather watch “women’s swimming.”
I got my root canal done.
No. I looked at pictures at the Daily Mail, that’s all.
“Still not loving police,” says the near-billionaire with 17-foot gates and 2 armed security men guarding his Brentwood mansion.
I watched the GAME..
National Anthem, I did not see any kneelers.
Halftime, went to make dinner, did not watch the crotch grabbers.
Finished watching the GAME, cheered for Stafford and the Detroit Rams.
nope, no a second of it.
Yup. I liked that stuff back in the day.
Yesterday was a day of simmering anger for me. I cannot deny it.
I would like to write professional sports off as meaningless and not impactful on my life, but I cannot reject the reality of what I experienced in the past, which was a huge amount of fun and an excuse for social gathering with like minded and enthusiastic people.
That is not an aspect for everyone, and I don’t judge people at all for denying or rejecting that themselves on that basis. Not everyone is set up the same way. And I try not to take it personally if someone personally criticizes me for enjoying a sport, keeping that same sentiment in mind.
I had watched pro football since 1971, was a huge fan, went for years with a large cadre of friends centered around it, went on road trips, even had a piece of a season ticket for a few years. It was wild fun with like-minded people of all ages of both sexes, and I enjoyed that.
When the kneeling thing began and progressed from 2016-2017, and after looking closely at it, I defended the NFL organization (not the franchises) during that time frame since AT THE TIME it neither gave encouragement to the kneeling nor donated money to those kinds of causes that would support it. I investigated back then, and the NFL was studiously not involved at that time in giving money to those kinds of organizations.
Organizations like Microsoft (the worst) were far, FAR worse, giving huge sums of money (to organizations and causes Conservatives abhor) both directly and through employee matching (when their employees gave to organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation with at one point, up to 3:1 matching, though last I heard, it was at that time 1:1 matching) but they were by far not the only ones. But the NFL was not on any of those lists. I don’t doubt individual franchises gave time and money, but the NFL as an organization was very narrow in its official donations and support.
At that time, I assumed the NFL would allow the individual franchises to wrestle with the issue, and would stay out of it from a support/donation or a ideological aspect. I predicted they would let the franchises weather the storm, impose disciplinary action as needed and that kind of thing. Was I ever wrong on that estimation.
In the years since it began, I changed my outlook 180 degrees.
Instead of taking a hands-off approach, over a period of 2-3 years they transitioned from marginally hands-off in these matters to full and complete craven financial and ideological support of an anti-American agenda.
But what really cemented it for me and destroyed the NFL in particular for me was the prevailing attitude by many of the players that, with the contempt they felt for the majority of people who paid their salaries, they would openly spit on us, while at that same time holding out their open hand for money with the expectation that we would be addicted to putting money into it.
I have had to come to grips with this, as in the last thirty years I had a wide group of friends and acquaintances who would gather and throw parties to watch games, and coupling that with this COVID BS has cut me off from many people in both a voluntary and involuntary way, and has left me steaming.
Yesterday was hard for me. My wife, who is apolitical (but not a huge historical football fan like me) watched the game, but I studiously worked on projects and cleaning my workbench. Every time I walked by the television while passing by, I could feel my anger and disgust rising in me.
I know there are many things the Left has perpetrated that are far more serious and negatively impactful on my life than sports and I wholly despise them for those things, but on a personal level, their complete leftist politicization of sports, Pro Football in particular, is something I harbor a deep, and concentrated personal grudge over.
Didn’t see it and no longer care, but it sounds like something that would’ve had me longing for the old days of the “Up With People” halftime shows.
My wife watched it, and she tried to give me updates which I politely acknowledged, and on the half-time show, she observed in relaying to me that it was not “family friendly”.
Oh well.
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