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At some point NFL fans are going to have to realize that they are subsidizing Leftist extremism when they buy tickets and go to games. If you buy NFL merchandise you don’t have the luxury of denial. You are funding Soros.

Well looks like Goodell is fine with it and the owners are fine with Goodell.

Because 4’11” Guatamalans are the future of the NFL?

Football:

Undignified, no class.

PAST it’s prime, uncool.

Any so called conservative, who attends any NFL game or watches them on tv is a _______________________ (fill in the blank!)

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, the league has definitely cinched it. I’ve had way more than enough of the coddling of dumb street thugs who falsely believe themselves to be important.

I hope their revenues continue to sink to the point where the players have to seriously weigh a job at McDonald’s against an NFL salary (though most would likely just go back to selling drugs).

Probably 50% of the fans don’t even know who the vice president is. The rest are lefties who lean Communist.

Because the NFL is nothing but a Trojan horse for hard left agitprop. NFL delenda est.

“The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance!” (please read the date this was published)

“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.

They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important… so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)”

To Sail Beyond The Sunset (1987) – Robert A. Heinlein Posted on 11/27/2017, 5:57:44 AM by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)

Van Jones laffin all the way to the bank

AND...I’ve heard funding for Women’s breast cancer and vet programs will be reduced...

Got a bunch of them here on FR that have their own little fagball thread.

The NFL and it’s great ideas...

Now fans can walk out on the field mid-game?

Shouldn’t they be able to dictate NFL rules from there as well?

Killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

NFL and ESPN are leftist scum.

Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.

All big corporations support the left now.

why

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

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.

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.

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?