Why is the NFL Funding OPEN BORDERS?

The Hayride ^ | 8 Dec 17 | Bethany Blankley

[LSUfan]

In addition to protesting the National Anthem, the National Football League is now funding left-wing advocacy groups, including Dream Corps, a George Soros organization, led by a former Obama advisor, Van Jones. Jones states that he is a communist and two of the goals of Dream Corps is to advocate for the “Clean Power Plan” and open borders.

The NFL recently agreed to pay $73 million over seven years to various groups that the NFL Players Coalition supports. The coalition was created in 2016 as a way to “respond to perceived institutional bias among law enforcement agencies.” Its members are active and former NFL athletes. The $73 million will fund three major categories: 25 percent will fund the United Negro College Fund; 25 percent will fund Dream Corps; 50 percent will be allocated and controlled by members of the Players Coalition.

[stinkerpot65]

NFL and ESPN are leftist scum.

Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.

[4Liberty]

[nickcarraway]

All big corporations support the left now.

[zeestephen]

Re: “I’m a nearly life-long Broncos fan, but while the team itself seems to be trying everything it can this season to make me never want to watch them again...”

I can pour a little more gasoline on that Bronco dumpster fire.

Your new Head Coach, Vance Joseph, is an Affirmative Action mediocrity.

I'm a lifelong Miami Dolphin fan. Vance Joseph was our Defensive Coordinator for one year in 2016. Joseph was 44 years old when the Dolphins hired him, and it was his first job at the Coordinator level. John Elway hired Joseph as your Head Coach at the end of the 2016 season.

We had a pretty solid defense at the start of 2016. We had two starters who had been named to at least one All Pro team, and a total of four starters who had been named to at least one Pro Bowl.

That didn't help Joseph. Almost all of our team Defensive statistics were in the bottom one half of the NFL. Every one of our most important Defensive statistics (total yards, total points, etc.) was between #15 and #24.

On the bright side, Joseph was well liked by his players.

But, Joseph was in over his head as a Coordinator.

And, as a Head Coach, he has lost eight straight games.

[MarvinStinson]

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”

-—Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal antismoking campaign.

“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all the world, I can’t help but cry.
I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”

—Mariah Carey

[trisham]

He works for them. I’d say more but I think that might be rude.

[trisham]

Exactly right.

[Thibodeaux]

why

Because Black Ball is a leftist institution like Black Lives Matter or the Sierra Club or the AFLCIO

[CMailBag]

“”The NFL recently agreed to pay $73 million over seven years to various groups that the NFL Players Coalition supports. “”

I’d guess that the NFL will be history within 7 years.

[onyx]

THE NFL WON’T GET A DIME FROM ME AND I DON’T WATCH EVEN A MINUTE OF THEIR BROADCASTS ON TV.

I DON’T BUY THE PRODUCTS OF THEIR ADVERTISERS EITHER.
AND I HAVE WRITTEN TO INFORM EACH OF WHY.

[Rebelrage]

As yogi said, “”If the people don't want to come out to
the park, nobody’s going to stop them.”

Really weird I was hard core NFL fan for 30 years, yet I haven’t even watched on tv for over a year. And I just don’t care. Now I think about how all the hoodlum brothers on the field would love to play the knockout game with me or my family. Screw them all.

[rlmorel]

I find it interesting that people are fixated on the NFL, but other entities EVERYONE buys from contribute far, Far, FAR more to open borders and other things that we as conservatives despise. It is odd, because it isn’t just the NFL, but people seem unwilling because it is so easy to jump on the conservative cause du jour which this year is the NFL.

I have looked at this because I try to be consistent, when I can, and I wanted to evaluate (including NFL viewership) my consumer choices. It isn’t always possible. For example, I despise Google and all it stands for, but I am required by work to use the suite of Google products. But I HAVE made choices (personal and consumer choices) in my life (to the annoyance and smirking humor of some people I know) but for other people, those may not be the same choices they want to make or choices they can make.

My stance on these is that I generally, with few exceptions, won’t criticize others for their choices, because I believe those are personal decisions for everyone to make on their own.

For my example, I am going to use Microsoft, because they are one of the biggest donors to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation having given over a BILLION dollars of MICROSOFT money (not the donations from the employees, that is a BILLION DOLLARS OF MATCHING FUNDS FROM MICROSOFT’S OWN FINANCIAL RESOURCES to the foundation.

What you see below is data I have looked at on the Internet by going directly to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation website and downloading their own documentation.

I did not make this up or take it from some blogger. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is quite proud of the money they get from these corporations, so while it took a little scratching to get to it, it is available to everyone to see with their own eyes.

For what it is worth, go to the NFL Foundation, to see who they give money to. (The URL is: http://www.nflfoundation.org/)

Some of those causes the NFL gives to look a bit sketchy, but I don’t see The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on it, and none of the causes they give money to appear nearly as heinous and destructive as nearly all of them I have listed below.

I am as outraged by the disrespect shown by some of the NFL players and the weak and craven franchises and league who were too wimpy to stand up and put a stop to it as anyone.

But in my opinion, the more fundamental issue is, why are we not more consistent in this outrage to protect our American values and ultimately, our country?

Why isn’t the outrage I see here on FR and in many others that is directed at the NFL for the physical disrespect for our values, NOT ALSO DIRECTED AT Microsoft for the money that Microsoft has given outright to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? (I will use Microsoft as an example, but this goes for the companies listed below such as Apple, Exxon Mobile, Boeing,The Home Depot, Verizon, etc.)

Microsoft does a 1:1 match, and gave $47 Million dollars to the foundation in 2014. (Since they began matching, they have given over a billion dollars. THAT IS A BILLION DOLLARS.)

Other top donors to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are Apple, Exxon Mobile (Exxon Mobile gave over $269 million in 2014), GE, Soros Fund Management, GAP, State Street, Car Max, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, Chevron, Disney, Google, The Home Depot, JP Morgan, Merck, Starbucks, State Farm and Verizon.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in turn, gives money to the following:

Organization - Amount (US$ millions) GAVI Alliance 3,152.8 World Health Organization 1,535.1 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 777.6 PATH 635.2 United States Fund for UNICEF 461.1 The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International 400.1 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 340.0 Global Alliance for TB Drug Development 338.4 Medicines for Malaria Venture 334.1 PATH Vaccine Solutions 333.4 UNICEF Headquarters 277.6 Johns Hopkins University 265.4 Aeras 227.6 Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc 199.5 International Development Association 174.7 CARE 166.2 World Health Organization Nigeria Country Office 166.1 Agence française de développement 165.0 Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo 153.1 Cornell University 146.7 Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa 146.4 United Nations Foundation 143.0 University of Washington Foundation 138.2 Foundation for the National Institutes of Health 136.2 Emory University 123.2 University of California San Francisco 123.1 Population Services International 122.5 University of Oxford 117.8 International Food Policy Research Institute 110.7 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture 104.8

Some of those might not be bad, but there are some very bad ones.

The Rotary Foundation? Might not be bad, but WHO does The Rotary Foundation give money to? I haven’t checked that.

Cornell, University of Oxford, John Hopkins et al might not be bad either, but that is open to debate when one sees what goes on in institutions of higher education.

But the rest of them look like a Murderer’s Row of liberal, anti-American Entities, and few of us are going to argue that: World Health Organization, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, United States Fund for UNICEF, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UNICEF Headquarters, Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc, International Development Association, CARE, World Health Organization Nigeria Country Office, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, United Nations Foundation, Population Services International, and so on. (The ones I didn’t know anything about such as the International Food Policy Research Institute might not be in the “Murderer’s Row”, but that might be only because I didn’t look.

My point is, that every single one of those companies listed as matching donors to The Bill and Melinda Gates send far more money to entities such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that want to destroy what America stands for, than the NFL has done in the entire history of the league.

So why is it that people are outraged by the NFL because a segment of the player population protests during the National Anthem, but are both apathetic and ignorant of the huge financial support given by Microsoft and others to entities who antithetical to American values?

Why?

Is it simple ignorance? (Ignorance in the non-pejorative use...the information doesn’t bubble to the surface to be viewed like a kneeling NFL player)

Is it shallowness, that the visual symbol of a subset of NFL players kneeling far outweighs the financial transactions that take place that fund these entities listed above? These entities OPERATIONALLY FUNDED with BILLIONS of dollars support organization advocating wholesale abortion and others such as Black Lives Matter, Moveon.org, etc.

Is it the fact that many people use a computer running Microsoft software, on networks using Microsoft infrastructure to run servers to access the Internet using a Microsoft browser, to access online stores also running Microsoft software, and that is a bridge too far? A consumer sacrifice too many people don’t want to make?

After all, it is far easier to bash the NFL and people who attend games or watch the NFL on television, when one is either a casual watcher, or doesn’t watch sports at all. One doesn’t have any skin in the game there, so...this is far easier for that person to condemn the NFL by logging onto their PC running Microsoft software and typing their disgust into a website using Microsoft products as well.

Microsoft ALONE has given over a BILLION dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which simply disburses that money to the entities above (and many others NOT listed) to whom that money is not just a symbol of a player disrespecting the flag or national anthem, BUT IS REAL OPERATIONAL FUNDING.

I have seen the result of this operational funding WITH MY OWN EYES down in Washington DC at protests. Large buses parked in rows, protesters being handed professionally pre-printed signs as they get off, and though I have not seen the transactions myself, liberal anti-American protesters being paid a stipend to participate. SOMEONE pays for the protest permits. SOMEONE pays for all of this.

I remember standing with a bunch of conservative counter-protesters, looking at all these buses and signs, and all of us wondering aloud in discussion who pays for it, eventually mumbling it is MoveOn.org, Soros, or whatever.

But you know the REAL answer of “who pays for this?” It is Apple, Exxon Mobile, GE, Soros Fund Management, GAP, State Street, Car Max, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, Chevron, Disney, Google, The Home Depot, JP Morgan, Merck, Starbucks, State Farm and Verizon, just to name a few. THESE ARE THE TOP 20 from 2014 ALONE.

My point is, when are we going to begin directing this justified outrage at companies other than the NFL.

The NFL is a piker, an amateur with respect to ACTUAL FINANCIAL FUNDING AND BACKING of anti-American entities than any of the corporations such as Apple, Exxon Mobile, Boeing,The Home Depot, Verizon, etc.

If the symbolism only (of a player kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem) is the most important thing to you, and the actual funding of these corrosive entities (that actually do damage) to the tunes of BILLIONS of dollars is not important, then that is your choice, and I won’t criticize anyone for that choice. And, with the announcement that the NFL is going to give $100 million dollars, the NFL may soon enter the top 20 of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, so that is in play, too.

But shouldn’t we be paying attention to the REAL damage, the actual operational funding of organizations who are dedicated to causes that oppose the values this country was funded on?

Enties funded by the likes of Apple, Exxon Mobile, GE, Soros Fund Management, GAP, State Street, Car Max, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, Chevron, Disney, Google, The Home Depot, JP Morgan, Merck, Starbucks, State Farm and Verizon?

[Bodega]

I am astounded and really pleased to read all this. Thank you. I hope it is dispersed so others can read it also.

No wonder there is so much disrespect for conservatives...we just don’t count in terms of groups supporting our views and having the amount of money the Globalists have. I think we just have to stick to our guns, so to speak, speak our truths. I have hope that this country has enough common sense to know the value of our positions.

[usconservative]

Better Question: Why is any patriotic American still watching the National Felons League?

[rlmorel]

Thanks, Bodega. I wrote this and actually started a thread on this, but I came to the conclusion a lot of people aren’t interested.

They don’t seem to care that Verizon and Microsoft or Apple (a few companies they might very well use) give far more money to things far more disgusting and heinous than the NFL ever has or will (even with their measly and cowardly $73 million in pledges)

I liken it to people who have communist sympathies railing against the Nazis, when their buddies Mao, Stalin et al made Hitler and the SS look like pikers in comparison (tens of millions versus hundreds of millions) though to be clear, I am not making that comparison directly to criticism of the NFL, because these are different universes of things, but the concept is similar.

I got a huge amount of apathy or was outright ignored, and in looking at it, I think it is because many people don’t have to make a choice that is painful about the NFL (They don’t watch it) and they can make that choice and proselytize about it, but if they had to use a different OS on their computer or ISP, that is going to inconvenience them.

So they simply don’t care, ignore it, or rationalize it.

As I said in my post, I think these things should be personal decisions. The shaming of people who watch football is reminiscent to me in a bad way of what liberals do, and I wish I didn’t see it happening here.

[rlmorel]

Like I said, I was a bit discouraged...I know the body of the post is long, and a lot of people said it was too long and they didn’t want to read it.

I got several dozen posts on the thread, and it was clear not a person had actually read what I posted, but just wanted to jump on and say “Down with the NFL” without reading it.

I mean, I know this is FR and that is a tradition to not actually read the article (I still do that occasionally) but...it was a bit disillusioning at the same time.

I even wrote a limerick and a haiku (as semi-jokes) to make the point in a very brief format but didn’t even get a comment back on those!

Still love FR, and the Freepers who disagree on this...:)

[Tawiskaro]

[Tunehead54]

4 am - good work!

[joma89]

The more important question is why are so many people paying to see games, buying $9 beers at the game, buying $100 shirts with NFL logos on them and watching televised NFL football games, among many other activities, which then allows the NFL to fund OPEN BORDERS?

JoMa

[rlmorel]

Probably for the same reason so many people use Microsoft Windows as an operating system, or have Verizon as an Internet Service Provider...it is what they like, and it would be disruptive to their lives to change it.

It is easy to rail against the NFL if you think sports are useless to begin with, but if you have a significant social life tied up with other like-minded people and have for decades, those people being castigated for watching football might well ask the question “Why are people using Microsoft, Apple, Verizon, GE, Home Depot, et al who are giving every single year, and have been for years, ten times the money annually to these cases we hate?”