This to play as the Eagles take the field today.

Everything you need to know about the Super Bowl can be found in the rap hit “Dreams and Nightmares,” by Meek Mill. But which more truthfully could be named after a line in the song: "The Murder Game" or "All I Know Is Murder."

Everything about how far professional football has fallen and how the NFL celebrates the obscene, the vulgar, the dangerous, and the foolish will be on full display as that song blares as the Eagles take the field.

This song that the Eagle players have chosen is about guns, drugs, money, bitches, and murder, over and over and over. Just like the rest of Meek Mill songs, which also include a healthy dollop of the evils of the white man.

We do not know whether the Eagles will be kneeling prior to the big game as they have during the season. Or whether they will be following the dictates of their union which, after accepting $100 million from the owners, decided that white racism and police brutality were not so bad after all.

Meek Mill will not be there. He’s in the joint. The slammer. All for a violating his parole over and over and over. All for committing crimes over and over and over.

The Eagles don’t think that is fair. Don’t you know that crime is the new black entitlement? The mayor and district attorney of the City of Brotherly Love certainly do: That was their platform during their recent elections.

The Eagles and Meek Mill adopted each other, with the Eagles and other Meek Mill partisans selling eager reporters on one fairy tale after another of police misconduct, judicial corruption, and circumstantial evidence...

Fitting, thugs and degenerates.

FNFL

The NFL has lost its soul.

There was a time when NFL players were college-educated professionals. "College-educated" used to mean a LOT! In those times, the schools had an old-fashioned thing called integrity, and because of that integrity, a college football player couldn't play unless he had a passing grade point average, and also because of that integrity, the student couldn't achieve a passing GPA without learning the material.

After graduating from college, some of the ex-college football players still wanted to play football, so they formed a professional football league and called it the National Football League. For years, the NFL didn't attain much notoriety - Baseball was the national past time. But, then, television came along. Many (if not most) Americans found watching football on TV more entertaining than Baseball, and over time, the NFL gained a much larger share of TV viewing than did Baseball. Thus, the NFL became a very lucrative thing. Since there was now so much money in football, the colleges and universities became corrupted by the desire to cash in on the new lucrative football phenomenon.

Now, if a thug does well in football in high school, he will be drafted by a College or University and given a completely FREE ride to an undeserved, unearned college degree. The only requirement is that he do well on the football field.

The net result is an NFL filled with players who are thoroughly uneducated, entitled, and UN-American because the one thing that was successfully ingrained into the player's mind in college was the idea that he's been mistreated by an unfair, RACIST society known as the USA.

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Very valid posting.
I don't remember when I stopped watching pro football, but I was never a die hard football fan either. Think it was when that fellow named Johnny Unitas used to play in Baltimore. Does that tell you something. Or maybe back when John Riggens was the hot item.

But I do know, just from glimpses of games now, I can't stand all the shucking and jiving players do after every play, touchdowns, etc.

FTNFL is all I can say!!

All I know about the Eagles is that they hired the thug Michael Vick after he got out of prison for a felony conviction. Now he's being paid by Fox to be a commentator. The NFL is rotten to its core.

Synth you missed the part where ball players are getting the same treatment at the high school level.

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Originally posted by Ripley:
We do not know whether the Eagles will be kneeling prior to the big game as they have during the season. Or whether they will be following the dictates of their union which, after accepting $100 million from the owners, decided that white racism and police brutality were not so bad after all.
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It would have been nice if the author of that article had done any fact checking. Not one Eagle knelt for the anthem during the season.

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Originally posted by JJexp:

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Originally posted by Ripley:
We do not know whether the Eagles will be kneeling prior to the big game as they have during the season. Or whether they will be following the dictates of their union which, after accepting $100 million from the owners, decided that white racism and police brutality were not so bad after all.
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It would have been nice if the author of that article had done any fact checking. Not one Eagle knelt for the anthem during the season.

Well, then. The song choice is perfectly ok, knowing that.

I didn’t know what song that was...wow...ok then


I did say to my sons that the Patriots won the run out song (they took the field to the classic “crazy train”)


I wonder what the process is for choosing the song?

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by JJexp:

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Originally posted by Ripley:
We do not know whether the Eagles will be kneeling prior to the big game as they have during the season. Or whether they will be following the dictates of their union which, after accepting $100 million from the owners, decided that white racism and police brutality were not so bad after all.
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It would have been nice if the author of that article had done any fact checking. Not one Eagle knelt for the anthem during the season.

Well, then. The song choice is perfectly ok, knowing that.

Cry me a river.

No tears here, JJ. Stay classy.

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Now, if a thug does well in football in high school, he will be drafted by a College or University and given a completely FREE ride to an undeserved, unearned college degree. The only requirement is that he do well on the football field.

Not new.

I was on a teaching assignment at Hampton U as part of a corporate program to HBCU schools.

Had the girls softball coach approach me about the failing grades of 2 of the girls in my classes. Wanted me to raise their grades!

No deal! In my classes you got the grades you EARNED. Just to make a point about how that played with the students: As the Mrs. and I were pulling out at the end of my assignment I was stopped by a group of students.

Several of them were in tears. They had just heard that my assignment was over, and their question was, "Who is going to care about us now?!?

The accounting department averaged about 1/3 of their students cheating on exams. I handled that problem the first semester. Caught 3 students cheating, gave them failing grades for the course and threw them out of class.

The accounting department took another approach. They made up several copies of the exams and no student knew which one he/she had. So copying from your neighbor might not end well.

And that was back in 1991-92

Obviously, things have not improved.

I haven't read the thread, but if I understand the controversy- we're not upset at the horrid, shameful attitudes and actions of these pampered, SPOILED BRAT CRYBABY MILLIONAIRES. No, we're upset about the lyrics of some song. So, it's OK that these ASSHOLES shit on the flag, on our country, on our police and military. All of that's OK, but by God, they'd better choose the right song, huh? If only they'd chosen the right song, we could forgive all that other stuff, so trivial, you know. These 80 IQ imbeciles play their widdle game in stadiums funded by taxpayer dollars, all the while shitting on everything this country represents and all the opportunities afforded to them by this "racist" nation. No problem there, but hey, wrong song, so...

And don't try to make this right by telling me that no Philadelphia players knelt during the season. That's one Goddamned low bar for acceptable behavior.

You know what is their attitude. You know it. They hate us and they hate everything good about this country. So, who gives a fuck what song they choose? How can it possibly matter at this point?

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Pretty much sums up my feelings on the subject; I will never give the NFL a second of my time, ever again. I will discourage my kids from following the path of either watching or becoming involved in professional sports, especially the big three. I make my feelings on professional sports clear to anyone that brings it up.

Funny, no one I know talks about football around me anymore...

The song is just more evidence of how thoroughly the NFL is dominated by thug culture. But I think it also shows the extent to which black culture as a whole follows thug culture-- if not by imitation, by admiration. The gang banger, drug dealing murderer, surrounded by hos-- like Meek Mill-- is a culture hero.

It is also a great example of the way black men are exempt from any possible criticism-- unlike white men who have been attacked, ridiculed and blamed for three decades in academia, the media, Hollywood and the whole entertainment industry.

Sexism, misogyny, materialism, violence, racism-- these are horrible wrongs if you are white. But if you are black-- fine. Cool, even.

I can't speak for the whole team, but from what I've read the leaders of the team this year are very religious. When I click on the link the OP provided, I see no report, sources, or anything to support what he is saying. Nothing.

I like sources. If a website provides no sources, only their opinion, it is an opinion, not news, or fact, for that matter.

Websites without credible sources are no different than the emails we have been warned about repeatedly here. I noticed the article in the link said nothing about where they obtained their information. Nothing at all.

I'm not defending the NFL, but I wanted to post an article I read today. This article is from the Salt Lake Deseret News, not a Philadelphia newspaper.

I find it hard to believe men who held regular bible studies and prayers had anything whatsoever to do with what was talked about above.

Eagles' coach and players credit their faith after Super Bowl win

https://www.deseretnews.com/ar...-super-bowl-win.html

Moments after Philadelphia's 41-33 Super Bowl victory over New England, Eagles' head coach Doug Pederson began his postgame remarks by expressing his Christian faith.

"I can only give the praise to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving me this opportunity," Pederson told NBC's Dan Patrick.

Pederson was one of several Philadelphia team members to reference their Christian beliefs in the aftermath of their Super Bowl LII triumph.

"It's all about the faith, it's all about our family, and then it's all about the Philadelphia Eagles, and it's in that order," Pederson said in a post-Super Bowl press conference (see the 5:10 mark of the following video). "We have a great group of guys, resilient group, and that’s what keeps me grounded. My faith keeps me grounded every single day. I just come to work, I’m the same person, and I don’t ever want to change. I love this environment, however, and hopefully we can win a couple more of these."

When Philadelphia tight end Zach Ertz was asked about scoring the game-winning touchdown, he responded this way:

"I better score," Ertz said (see 6:00 mark of this YouTube video). "I mean glory to God, first and foremost. We wouldn't be here without him. This team is amazing."

Holding his daughter in his right arm, Eagles' MVP quarterback Nick Foles (see 6:45 of the same video) also gave "all glory to God."

"To be here with my daughter, my wife, my family and my teammates, this city, we're very blessed," Foles said.

Last November, the Eagles released a video illustrating the camaraderie of their team and how their Christian faith unified them. Players referred to their faith as a "binding force," according to newswars.com.

"Saturday nights, we actually get together the night before the game, and pray, just kind of talk through the word, what guys have been reading, what they are struggling with, and just kind of keep it real with each other," quarterback Carson Wentz said in the video. "To have that here, in an NFL facility like this, it's really special."

Backup quarterback Chase Daniel, who hosted a weekly Bible study, said the Eagles were "by far the most spiritual team" he has played for, according to ESPN.com.

The Philadelphia Eagles Locker Room's Binding Force

I get wanting a source, but I can tell you, personally, the original article is absolutely correct about the song

I watched it live as it happened

The song is “dreams and nightmares” by Meek Mill, a Philadelphia native...the song makes mention of Philly

The eagles took the field to it first, whereas the Patriots came on second to Ozzy osborne’s “Crazy Train”

I don’t know how much of a source you want than that. I, and 103.5 million people, watched it happen on tv

I also saw all the faith based reactions by the eagles players. I don’t know how the songs are chosen. The song, it’s lyrics, and it’s message definitely do not match the level of piety shown by some of the players and coaches. But the song they took the field to is indisputable.