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I am neither ignorant nor a drive by. My position is, and I was using your post to respond, is that the NFL (and for what it’s worth most of the professional sports today in the US) are staffed largely by Blacks (who are unquestionably better athletes) but who have a collective problem behaving like civilized people. And that their audience are overweight whites who like to spend their weekends in front of the big screen with a beer (that is my observation and has nothing in particular to do with you or your personal habits). If spending your time watching these guys floats your boat, knock yourself out, I could care less. But the black athletes in particular, have a poor track record when it comes to their personal behavior (i.e. O.J., Michael Vick, these turds who beat their wives/gfs, etc.) and should be held to account (they are not unlike their brothers and sisters in the music and entertainment business in that regard). Unfortunately, since they make a lot of money and make even more for their owners, they seem all too frequently to get a pass from both the leagues and the justice system. When you support their “businesses” with your time and money, you are in effect saying that it’s o.k. with you that they behave like animals because they “entertain” you enough to overlook what they do.
Beyond that, as a taxpayer, I don’t like the fact that these private enterprises manage to get local governments to go into debt to build infrastructure in which their teams get to operate in at less than the cost it took to create them. San Francisco built Candlestick Park, and endlessly renovated and added to it, all on the taxpayer’s dime. And at the same time, both the Giants and the 49er’s bitched and moaned about it for the thirty odd years they used it. Now the Giants have new digs in downtown SF, and the 49er’s have conned Santa Clara County into building them a new taj mahal, with out a nickel coming from either team other than a promise to utilize their new freebees. Now, with money still owed, Candlestick is being torn down. What a deal!