LOL! Liberals are such goofballs. Can you imagine the meeting between Goodell and Fox?
"We can't let the people know that the Packers aren't owned by a single billionaire! It would be a disaster for our gravy train, for reasons that are difficult to decipher outside of the mind of a scatterbrained leftwing sportswriter!"
It's the logic of a mental patient. Kinda funny though.
I guess the Packers are the southpaw great white hope for socialism in sports, or something like that.
Cheesehead Nation...
Anybody know what this moron is talking about?
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Career
Zirin’s column, Edge of Sports, appears on Sports Illustrated’s website and he is the host of XM satellite’s weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. Zirin is a frequent contributor to The Nation, a columnist for SLAM Magazine, and The Progressive, as well as being a frequent guest on ESPN’s Outside The Lines and Democracy Now.
His first book, What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books) has entered its third printing.[1][2]
Zirin has also published Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports, and “A People’s History of Sports in the United States,” a sports-related volume in the manner of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States series for The New Press.
In addition to “What’s My Name, Fool?” for Haymarket Books, he has also published “The Muhammad Ali Handbook” for MQ Publications. Zirin is also the published children’s book author of “My Name is Erica Montoya de la Cruz” (RC Owen). In addition, he is working on a sports documentary with Barbara Kopple’s Cabin Creek films on sports and social movements in the United States.
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[edit]Calls for political boycott
Zirin has repeatedly called for sports boycotts on certain players, teams, states, or nations for non sports related, political reasons.
On April 27, 2010, writing for the Guardian, Zirin called for a boycott against sports teams from Arizona, in particular the Diamondbacks, to protest the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act — aka S.B. 1070 or the Arizona immigration bill.[3][4] He did however express tremendous enthusiasm and support during the 2010 NBA Playoffs for the Phoenix Suns, who went by “Los Suns” as a statement against the Arizona immigration law.
On June 2, 2010, writing for the Nation, Zirin justified the decision of the Turkish U-19 soccer team to boycott a match against Israel. He described the Gaza flotilla raid as an act of state terror committed by the Israeli government and proposed a boycott of Israel.[5]
Who won the Puppy Bowl? I can’t find it anywhere!!!
I may be the only guy on the planet that doesn’t give a monkey s**t about the pregame or halftime or the ads or the postgame. Zirin is just one of thousands of “notice me!” overwrought “journalists” acting stupidly. I turned off my Pandora radio blues channel and switched to the game just after that glittering jewel of intellect Christine A finally screeched out the end of the anthem and a football game appeared..........
Going against unions helps industry you twit.
They say misery loves company, what a bunch of losers, all three of them.
“They want it hidden because the team from Green Bay stand as a living breathing example that if you take the profit motive out of sports, you can get more than a team to be proud of: you get a Super Bowl Champion.”
Because the owner is corporate that does not mean their is no profit motive. Every Player, coach, and staff member goes there for profit.
Oh, now THIS is real sports analysis. I don't guess the years of double digit inflation were a factor. Or Carter handing most of the scarce loan guarantees he would allow to Wisconsin Steel (a Chicago company who shortly thereafter went bankrupt when their major customer went on strike) was a factor. Or Carter refusing any import restrictions or tariffs like those Reagan imposed in '84 was a factor.
That the fans own the Packers is no different than shareholders owning anything else so shareholders part of the evil capitalist system as well. They must be, because the ever benevolent Barry shafted anyone holding GM shares in the interest of outright fascist control. So, there goes that convienent lying socialist line crap. Maybe the state will decide it should own the Packers and can make a nice deal with the current owners the same way.
But it is good to have a team situation that can be distorted into helping spread the propaganda and create opportunities for fearless media volk to teach the masses socialism.
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Mr Zirin is proof that the ability to string words together in a clever way does not guarantee that their meaning will be either accurate or truthful. The only football fans unaware of the peculiar aspects of the ownership of the Packers are those still being bounced on their parent’s knee.
Uh, that is Mark Murphy. And back in the day, a brutally hard-hitting safety for the Redskins.
I guess Nation must pay by the word. Laborious read/screed.
Agree with him about the Black-Eyed Peas, at least.
I hope a few dozens of tens of thousands of Wisconsin voters remember this Obama snub of the Packers come November 2012.
Further testimony that something right happened in the Superbowl is that President Wrong, disciple of the very irreverend Jeremiah Wrong, hasn’t as of now called to congratulate the winners.