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The NFL and Politics
« on: November 15, 2016, 10:28:24 AM »
Maybe some of you can explain this to me. I don't follow any team sports at all, so I have no background here. Why is the NFL and what looks to me like their ridiculous political statements making the news? This seems like it should be a non-story, just like "old man yells at cloud".

I don't understand why we are listening to, or giving credence, to generally low IQ people with zero political knowledge. I just saw where this other football player is now refusing to stand for the anthem because of Trump. They were playing a sound bite over the last couple of days, and this guy sounds like a moron, but he made it into the main news cycle. Now the (a?) NFL commissioner is making news because he "has to explain Trump to the women in my family".

These guys are almost more irritating to me than the celebrities.

http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2016/11/15/nfl-commish-roger-goodell-goes-full-hypocrite-with-comments-on-donald-trumps-election/
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2016, 10:38:48 AM »
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is “struggling” to explain to his two daughters and his wife just how Donald Trump was elected president...

Because all the wife-beater States conspired to obtain an overwhelming Electoral majority by means of a loophole in the outdated and irrelevant Constitution?  
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2016, 10:43:50 AM »
Mainstream TV especially but really nearly all modern media is anti-male anti masculinity.

Hipsters, wimpy "men", pajama boys, androgynous "males" and increased bi-sexuality are the fruit of modern media.

Some men are just more resistant to the brainwashing than others.   
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2016, 10:53:46 AM »
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2016, 10:54:44 AM »
Though I do like this quote from the article:
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And we wonder how exactly did Goodell explain to these same daughters and wife all of the drunk drivers, wife-beaters and child-beaters that the NFL continues to employ. That we want to know.
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2016, 11:04:27 AM »
I should clarify that I know there are smart people in the NFL and other sports organizations, but it seems like the morons are the ones that get all the "they're great and you have to listen to them" press. I'm guessing the smarter people are just smart and generally don't open their mouth and do stupid stuff.

Coincidentally, I just heard on the news as I write this that the latest player to refuse to stand has now apologized and said he won't do it again. Apparently there was some military related backlash.
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2016, 11:34:00 AM »
IMO, there is the NFL and what they do and there is the media coverage of sports athletes.  Those are really two different things IMO.  The NFL has been PC for a while now and tip toes around trying to avoid upsetting any social justice types.  The current commissioner is just part of that.  The NFL owners have a profitable thing going and are afraid to say anything reasonable for fear of a media backlash.  However, their ratings are down and it seems a lot people are just sick of the PC crap and self righteous athletes thinking they are special outside of sports. 
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2016, 11:34:35 AM »
I think the beginning of the end to the NFL started a few years back when Rush Limbaugh was blocked from buying the St.Louis Rams. He outed them as fanatical liberals with this move.

Between kaepernick shitting all over normal everyday Americans, and the NFL blocking the Dallas Cowboys from making a small symbolic showing of support to police after a group of cops were murdered, my feeling is the whole NFL can go bunkrupt and and go to hell.

If I wanted to listen to a bunch of liberals grunting and talking about nonsense that doesn't matter to anyone, I'd watch 'The View' instead of NFL football on Sundays.

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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2016, 11:53:46 AM »
I think the beginning of the end to the NFL started a few years back when Rush Limbaugh was blocked from buying the St.Louis Rams. He outed them as fanatical liberals with this move.

Between kaepernick shitting all over normal everyday Americans, and the NFL blocking the Dallas Cowboys from making a small symbolic showing of support to police after a group of cops were murdered, my feeling is the whole NFL can go bunkrupt and and go to hell.

If I wanted to listen to a bunch of liberals grunting and talking about nonsense that doesn't matter to anyone, I'd watch 'The View' instead of NFL football on Sundays.
You'll probably find it heartwarming that this year, NFL viewership is down by double digits.

Surveys have indicated that the single biggest factors in their falling viewership are the anti-American displays by multimillionaire players like Kaepernick, with excessive commercial time-outs following. Idiotic leftist pronouncements by owners and officials are in there, too. 

Personally, I quit watching football years ago, when it became blatantly obvious that in many cases field officials were actively directing outcomes of games, rather than "merely" influencing them.
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2016, 12:05:16 PM »
He should explain it the same way he explained Obama, with all of his much more significant character flaws, and backward political views.
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2016, 01:02:42 PM »
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is “struggling” to explain to his two daughters and his wife just how Donald Trump was elected president...

Maybe he could let them put some shoes on and leave the kitchen so they could find their own explanations.

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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2016, 04:10:14 PM »


Maybe he could let them put some shoes on and leave the kitchen so they could find their own explanations.
That is the general attitude I got from that comment.  If his daughters were young I can see that, but his wife?  Anyone with a high school education ought to be able to grasp the electoral college.  But I guess he may be referred to people having the audacity to vote for a {insert insulting word here} like Trump.  I am sure no one he knows voted for Trump.
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2016, 04:24:04 PM »
That is the general attitude I got from that comment.  If his daughters were young I can see that, but his wife?  Anyone with a high school education ought to be able to grasp the electoral college.

And his wife is a former Fox anchor and daughter of a former SecTrans.  I'm betting she's the one that should be doing the explaining.

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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2016, 06:33:28 PM »
pro sports are irrelevant to me.  Don't watch the 'product', don't care even a little bit about what they think about anything.   Just white noise.

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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2016, 07:38:19 PM »
Sigh - never mind.
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2016, 08:22:44 PM »
Is it football season again?
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2016, 09:20:17 PM »
This reminds me of something I heard.  I heard there might be changes coming to the way cable and satellite TV is done forcing companies to offer a la carte type channel selection.  Or maybe it was just better alternate access allowing the same thing.  IMO, if that happens, a lot of the automatic cable money going to ESPN and the other sports channels drops off considerably.  That means the NFL and other pro sports will get a lot less money when the next set of TV broadcast contracts come around.  I am not sure how this would happen.  I recall someone referencing a lawsuit.  If nothing else, the alternate providers will just get bigger.  I have heard ESPN's profits have dropped off the last few years already as more people get away from cable/satellite. 
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2016, 10:35:06 PM »
I don't watch sports. I'd prefer not to have the "sport of the season" package included in what ever entertainment package I choose to purchase.
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2016, 11:07:05 AM »
I don't watch sports. I'd prefer not to have the "sport of the season" package included in what ever entertainment package I choose to purchase.

I'm peeved with my cable company for bundling The Outdoor Channel with tons of cr@p like Bolivian soccer and Indian elephant polo . . .
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Re: The NFL and Politics
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2016, 11:10:21 AM »
I'm peeved with my cable company for bundling The Outdoor Channel with tons of cr@p like Bolivian soccer and Indian elephant polo . . .

This is what I hate. It's almost always the one channel you want bundled with 50 team sports channels. I don't really see any other genres getting the kind of help that the sports channels get.
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