NFL being pushed to the financial cliff

Maybe the Washington football team formerly known as the Redskins can help the NFL stay afloat.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

Hahaha! Perfect.

And yes, the NFL will be extinct in ten years.

Seems like half the Patriots roster is opting out, while even the Philly's coach now has Covid. No way they finish/start the season.

NHL seems to be doing just fine though.

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No way they finish/start the season.

Taking a year off would probably be the best thing the NFL could do. They can blame it on Covid rather than their own idiocy. But the league has become so toxic to so many fans that they would be better off taking a year off and re-thinking their attitude.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

Taking a year off would probably be the best thing the NFL could do. They can blame it on Covid rather than their own idiocy. But the league has become so toxic to so many fans that they would be better off taking a year off and re-thinking their attitude.

Yeah, but if they take the year off, people may realize that they don't *need* the nfl, after all. . .

I also doubt they will have a full season. If they start it, they will have to cancel at some point as players drop out. It's bad enough losing the star quarterback due to injury; imagine multiple teams losing their QBs due to Covid (real or imagined) all at once. It would look like amateur hour.

NFL: Now the No Freedom League

I grew up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before they had satellite TV. As such, on the Monday after the Super Bowl, everyone on the entire base would try to get through the day without knowing who had won the game. That night, after a tape of the game had been flown down from the U.S., we'd watch the game and be riveted to our TVs. The military TV stations weren't allowed to show private commercials, so we would all greet a Pepsi or McDonalds commercial that might slip by the censors with wondrous applause. The NFL was my passion, along with my sainted Dolphins, with Gods Bob Griese and Dan Marino at the helm.

Today, however, I doubt I'll watch another NFL game, and I most certainly won't spend a penny on NFL merchandise.

Why? It's simple. The NFL, helmed by men who are ostensibly some of the smartest businessmen in America, literally helped bring America to the brink of revolution, maybe even led the way. We're talking about Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter.

The NFL, and to a lesser degree MLB and the NBA, used to be oases from which all Americans could seek refuge from the slings and arrows of daily life. Monday at the office used to be "Did you see that catch?" or "The zebras blew another one!" Since Kaepernick started his grandstanding, however, the conversations became more about who was kneeling, what star was lecturing America about this grievance or that, and ceased to be about the excitement or pain or joy of the actual games.

In a sad irony, Charlie Daniels once wrote an anthem called "In America" where he used an NFL team to demonstrate Americans' unity.

And we may have done a little bit of fighting among ourselves,
but you outside people best leave us alone...
Cause we'll all stick together, and you can take that to the bank,
that's the cowboys and the hippies and the rebels and the yanks...
You just go and lay your hand on a Pittsburgh Steelers fan and I think you're gonna finally understand.

It's almost apropos that Daniels died in the very year when it's not outsiders who have started a revolution, but other Americans, and they were set on that course by the NFL.

Had the "geniuses" who run the NFL understood anything about America and put a stop to Kaepernick's on-field preening four years ago, we wouldn't be where we are today. Freedom of speech had nothing to do with anything. Kaepernick had and has every right to say what's on his mind. The NFL, however, did not have to allow him to hijack its platform to trumpet it. Had they not helped him become a media darling, he probably wouldn't have walked away from is multimillion-dollar contract and become the least worthy "martyr" in the history of martyrs.

And just to be clear: it's not because they couldn't have done anything. The NFL controls virtually every single thing about its games and programs. It choreographs everything! Uniform colors...check. Shirts tucked in...check. Fines for faux cell phone celebrations after a touchdown? Check. Yet somehow they weren't able to tell players that they could not disrespect the American flag and National Anthem. They could have required standing, or required those not wanting to participate to stay in the locker room, or they could have kept all the players in the locker rooms and let the fans sing the song...but they didn't. Instead, they allowed what would have been a flash in the pan to become a raging inferno that has the potential to turn the United States and its Constitution into ashes. The fires and riots and attacks on police and federal buildings and America are simply the progeny of the boiling tempers fueled in part by the victim mentality emboldened by the NFL's wokeness.

Today in the United States, the idea of free speech is vanishing, and the NFL, by showcasing a struggling, marginal, spoiled quarterback with a chip on his shoulder, helped make it so. Today in America, everything is political: science; education; health care; and now, sadly, even sports. Sure, politics in sports has been around for a while — go back to the 1968 Black Power Olympic protests or Muhammad Ali, but those were news, not everyday life.

Now politics has infested every corner of American life, and you can't help but see it everywhere, from shopping to going to the movies to wedding cakes to science — not to mention workplaces. Up until about 2016, Americans had at least one refuge from the cancer of political rage. That was sports. Americans of different colors, of different religions, of different national origins could get together and cheer for (or against) the Cowboys, the Raiders, the Patriots, or the Steelers and feel as though they were part of something bigger than themselves, members of the same team. "How'd we do this weekend?" or "Where are we at this Sunday?" wasn't reserved for players or coaches; fans were part of the team, the twelfth man. They weren't just observers; they were family. Sports made fans' differences inconsequential, even if only for as long as they were cheering together or drinking beer together or wearing the their matching Giants jerseys.

In putting politics front and center in their offerings, in letting their platforms become a cultural litmus test, in actively turning their sport into a vehicle for wokeness, the NFL has destroyed its brand as an American icon. Never again will many Americans look to it for a welcome respite from the chaos of everyday life. Never again will it have the capacity to change American life the way the Heidi Bowl did.

The NFL may continue to be a viable business for some time, but its place in history will be sealed by its engagement in wokeness. The thing about wokeness is that there are always new victims to be supported, new causes to be championed, and new targets for expropriation and destruction. The geniuses who run the league shouldn't be surprised that eventually they will be on the wrong side of some victims' rights group, and their businesses will be targeted, their directors will be hounded and eventually their assets will be taken, one way or another. When that happens, they shouldn't be surprised that more than a few people might be whispering feelings of schadenfreude.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.co...e.html#ixzz6U3trdFBj

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
If this plandemic has shown us only one thing, it's that we can get along just fine without professional sports

Amen brother. Life goes on....

Victor Davis Hanson has written another one of his spot-on opinion pieces entitiled "Our Summer of Cultural Suicide."

From the article: "Professional sports, universities, and the motion-picture industry all know that what they are doing is bad for business. But they still believe they are rich and powerful, and thus invulnerable. They also are ignorant of history and cannot be persuaded that they are destroying themselves."

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Originally posted by fpuhan:
Victor Davis Hanson has written another one of his spot-on opinion pieces entitiled Our Summer of Cultural Suicide."

fpuhan: That's a really good article. Thanks for posting. I've shared it.

Killing The Redskins Ended My Love For The NFL
August 3, 2020 By Rubén Baldizón

Someone in my neighborhood greeted me two weeks ago with a reprimand: “Soon, you can’t be wearing that!” He did not look to be joking.

I was wearing my Washington Redskins cap, which I’ve had for years. As a native Washingtonian now living elsewhere, I wear this hat, like any sports fan, as a reminder of my hometown and my team — something that’s usually a good icebreaker. With the Redskins’ recent announcement to retire their name and logo after media and corporate pressure, however, it seems I can’t continue wearing my old Redskins gear without appearing to make the statement that I don’t care about racism.

Reflecting on how uncomfortable I felt after hearing the jeer, it hit me: The Redskins are gone, and now so is my last shred of appreciation for the NFL.

This is no longer the game I remember from my childhood, when John Madden and Pat Summerall were in the booth. I played countless hours of Tecmo Super Bowl, and Joe Gibbs made every Redskins fan proud to have such a dedicated coach who loved God and family more than football.

Football used to be about the players and the fans. Now it has become about peddling pornographic content during Super Bowl halftime shows, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on stadiums, and cramming in more advertising minutes between plays.

Growing up in D.C. in the ’80s and ’90s as a son of Nicaraguan immigrants and playing high school football, I loved cheering for the Redskins. I never associated their name and logo with racism.

The racism argument against the team name is not even rooted in historical facts. The Max Kellermans of the world never mention the Smithsonian’s research on the origins of the Redskins name. In all the media coverage, so many have ignored Ives Goddard’s 2005 seven-month study, which concluded that native people first used the term “Red-skin” to describe themselves.

As for the logo, WUSA9 reports, it “has been an Indian chief since 1971. It was designed by Native American Walter ‘Blackie’ Wetzel … [and] is a picture of John ‘Two Guns’ White Calf, a Blackfeet Chief who also appears on the Buffalo Nickel.”

I see a problem with racism in our world. When our desire to eradicate true social ills, however, causes us to throw out all references to race, even positive ones, the fight begins to lose meaning. Who names a sports team after something they want to systematically oppress? Who could orchestrate the design of a logo with such care and still be accused of broadcasting racism? Apparently the Washington Football Team, now with its name and logo stripped of meaning.

The Dallas Cowboys are named for the history of cowboys in Texas. The San Francisco 49ers are named after the men who came to California during the gold rush of 1849. The Philadelphia 76ers honor the year the United States declared independence from Great Britain. When we name sports teams after people, it’s steeped in historical meaning and admiration. It defies logic to suggest that when naming the Redskins, the intent was to promote racism and oppression. Unfortunately, few covering this story seem to care about original meaning, history, or tradition.

I will not support whatever the Football Team from Washington, D.C., eventually becomes. As far as I’m concerned, my fandom for professional football died the day the Redskins decided to erase their name and logo.

I will always remember the Redskins as the team with the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl. I will always remember the 1991 Redskins championship season, when they trounced the NFL with a 14-2 record (a team USA Today still ranks as the best Super Bowl champs of all time).

I will always remember the legacies of Sean Taylor and Slingin’ Sammy Baugh, and that Vince Lombardi chose to coach the Redskins in his final NFL season. I will always remember “We want Dallas!” and our fight song opening, “Hail to the Redskins, hail victory!”

I will always remember that Dan Snyder, Roger Goodell, corporate sponsors, and reactionary media erased the Redskins’ legacy.

There are a lot more important things in life than cheering for a professional football team. Spending Sundays at church, playing with my children, and having brunch with my wife mean more to me than the NFL ever will. So long, Redskins.

Rubén Baldizón is a native Washingtonian living in the Midwest.

https://thefederalist.com/2020...my-love-for-the-nfl/

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
NFL being pushed to the financial cliff

Maybe the Washington football team formerly known as the Redskins can help the NFL stay afloat.

Hopefully the nf will fall over the cliff and take the other pro sports with it. I say good riddance to them all.

the kneeling for the anthem has now spread to hockey, unfortunate because I only had hockey and golf remaining as sports I would support or watch.

It used to be that I did not support professional sports. I wouldn't watch but I would pick up blurbs from the news or ESPN and discuss the sports with my friends who are VERY into sports.

No more. Now when people ask if I saw this or that or watched this game or that I tell them not only why I don't watch professional sports but why they shouldn't either.

I know it isn't going to change any minds and I don't plan on beating people up about it but I will not remain silent about the idiots who are bombarding us and our kids with their ridiculous politics.

Sports are terrific, games are fun. Professional sports are a divisive cancer that should be cut from our society.

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Originally posted by FloydNC:
the kneeling for the anthem has now spread to hockey, unfortunate because I only had hockey and golf remaining as sports I would support or watch.

Not that I'm condoning it in ANY way, but only one (1) dude has knelt, and I think that's over and done with. I think the NHL got the message that it's predominantly toothless Caucasian women watching hockey, and they had better not piss in their Wheaties. Just sayin'...

there were several players kneeling before the Dallas/Vegas game

Not NFL, but this cracked me up. You may have heard that MLB is not allowing fans into the games. But for a price you can order a life size cutout of yourself that they will place in the stands. Whoever ordered this cutout deserves respect

^^^

thats awesome - brilliant

Not to be outdone by the NFL or MLB, the NBA is slowly (?) morphing into the CNBA.

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On Thursday, Stan van Gundy, the former head Coach for the Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, and Miami Heat, who now serves as an NBA analyst for TNT and NBA TV, issued a vicious attack on America in response to an article ripping the NBA that stated, “When National Hockey League games used to turn into brawls, the joke was ‘I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.’ Now you can tune into a social justice protest and a Chinese Basketball Association game might break out.”

Article: NBA Analyst Stan Van Gundy: Stop Ripping China, America ‘Committed Genocide,’ ‘Enslaved, Lynched’

None of these pro sports associations even faintly represent American values anymore.

“Mr.van Gundy, Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party”?

Hmmmm, just checked online.

NBA TV ratings - In the toilet
MLB TV Ratings - In the toilet
NASCAR TV Ratings - In The toilet

NHL Ratings - Quite good year over year
Pro Golf Ratings - Quite good

Guess which groups are dabbling in social justice BS and which are not... People are sending a message and these complete morons are ignoring it. I love baseball, but I will not be watching any of it this year or until they pull their collective heads out of their collective asses.