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.
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.
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...:)