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For my health, sanity and productivity, I quit watching the NFL regularly on television about the time Clint Longley single-handedly beat the Washington Redskins on Thanksgiving Day, 1974.  I tuned in periodically in the early '80s, but gave it up entirely by the end of the decade -- in part because I was then living abroad. When I returned to the States nearly a decade later, I found I no longer cared, and eventually even gave up on the Super Bowl.

There was never the slightest chance I would go back, but even if I wanted to, I couldn't, as I cut the cable long ago and learned I can live quite happily and more cheaply without it -- no sports, no CNN, no Fox News. But even if I hook up the old satellite dish again here in my rural New England community, I still wouldn't watch pro football now that the NFL and some of its players have injected racial politics into a sport that, more than any other, pioneered on-field integration and got white America cheering for black athletes.

So I found the president's remarks in Alabama rather refreshing.

 

 

 

President Donald Trump has ratcheted up the national controversy over black National Football League players who refuse to stand while the U.S. National Anthem is played before games. During a Friday night political rally in Alabama, Trump called on fans to boycott teams that allow players to engage in that particular form of protest.

 

 

The league's TV ratings have slid since quarterback Colin Kaepernick, then the leader of the San Francisco 49ers, began the trend in September 2016.

 

 

'Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, "Get that son of a b***h off the field right now! He is fired. He's fired!"' Trump boomed. His crowd applauded and chanted 'USA! USA!'

 

 

 

There's no question that the has-been Kaepernick exacerbated the league's slide in the ratings, but he alone is not responsible for it. 

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The death of the NFL.

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In rebuke to Trump, Ravens and Jaguars take a knee in London during US national anthem

Published 1 Hour Ago  Updated 1 Hour AgoThe Associated Press

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About two dozen players, including Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs and Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette, took a knee during the playing of the national anthem before the start of the teams' game at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.

Other players on one knee during the performance included Ravens linebacker C.J. Mosley, wide receiver Mike Wallace and safety Lardarius Webb as well as Jaguars linebacker Dante Fowler, defensive tackle Calais Campbell, defensive end Yannick Ngakoue and cornerback Jalen Ramsey.            :snip: 

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4 minutes ago, Draggingtree said:

I have not nor will I watch (TV) a NFL game until this Bull Crap stops -

Just another professional sport that pushed itself out of my life....

I didn't leave it... it left me.

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THE NEW UNPATRIOTIC NFL

By Robert Steven Ingebo

 

 

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President Trump held a campaign rally in Huntsville, Alabama on Friday night, 09/22/2017, to support the election of fellow Republican Luther Strange to the US Senate. During the speech, Trump brought up a few points regarding the NFL and the unpatriotic statements made by them and the football players’ union.

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Kneelers Booed: Patriots Fans Rain Down Boo’s Upon 20 Hate-filled Players (video)…

Posted on September 24, 2017 by sundance

Approximately 20 New England Patriots football players decided to showcase their hatred for America and took a knee during the National Anthem.  The Foxborough Massachusetts crowd rained down a chorus of angry boos. Watch:

As many people are observing, this expressed and visible hatred for the USA is not going to end with a good outcome for the NFL. The league and liberal idiots in charge can try and hide from this, and the media will do everything possible to avoid reality, but the backlash is only going to get much worse and the NFL has only itself to blame.

The financial value of the NFL is dropping quickly.

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NASCAR owners say they won’t tolerate anthem protests at races

 

“Anybody that don’t stand up for the anthem oughta be out of the country. Period. What got ’em where they’re at? The United States,” Petty said in comments reported by The AP.

Richard Childress, a former drive who owns Richard Childress Racing, said any protests from his team members would “get you a ride on a Greyhound bus.”

“Anybody that works for me should respect the country we live in. So many people gave their lives for it. This is America,” Childress reportedly said.

 
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NASCAR Owner: Stand for the National Anthem

By Autumn Price  |  September 24, 2017, 03:47pm 


Famed NASCAR owner Richard Childress criticized national anthem protests during Sunday’s race in Loudon, New Hampshire.

Childress, who owned Dale Earnhardt’s team, slammed NFL protestors, warning drivers to refrain from joining the protest.

“It’ll get you a ride on a Greyhound bus.” Childress said, adding that he told his team that “anybody that works for me should respect the country we live in. So many people gave their lives for it. This is America.”

Hall of Fame driver Richard Petty concurred    with Childress’ statements. “Anybody that don’t stand up for the anthem oughta be out of the country. Period. What got ’em where they’re at? The United States,” he said.             :snip: http://theresurgent.com/nascar-owner-stand-for-the-national-anthem/

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here's what a lot of people do not "get" This unhappiness with the NFL is not about Trump it's about the Flag 1/2

4:09 AM - 25 Sep 2017 from Mount Lebanon, PA
 
 
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I have 2 words for the NFL.
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The NFL ought to be glad that no "Good Ol' Boys" drink beer and watch pro football. 

Otherwise revenue and advertising might be impacted.    

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1 hour ago, NCTexan said:

The NFL ought to be glad that no "Good Ol' Boys" drink beer and watch pro football. 

Otherwise revenue and advertising might be impacted.    

 

 

They have just given me one more reason to not pay any attention to them.

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Brothers in arms

Scott Johnson

Sept. 25 2017

 

On Saturday the Wall Street Journal published Michael Phillips’s devastatingly sad story about twin brothers Chris and Mike Goski. Both served with distinction in the armed forces following 9/11. Michael’s story is “Brothers in arms.” While the story is behind the Journal’s paywall, it is accompanied by an embeddable video with the following preface:

 

(Snip)

 

The video is based on Michael Phillips’s reporting and credited to the Journal’s Gabe Johnson. It serves up a dose of harsh reality that provides a brutal contrast to the self-glorifying theatrics of the NFL, or so it seems to me.

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Mike Rowe Blasts Everyone Involved In The NFL-National Anthem Protests

 

TV host Mike Rowe is known as a blue-collar guy who champions vocational education and avoids politics. But lately that has gotten more difficult, especially as he fields questions from fans. As the controversy surrounding protests over the national anthem consume all sports and media coverage, Rowe took on the issue Sunday in response to a fan query, and he spared no one.
The question, asked by a fan named Robert, was, “I know you avoid politics, (thanks!) and I remember your rant on the Colt’s leaving Baltimore. (As a former Brown’s fan, I feel your pain.) But I gotta ask – what’s happening to professional football, and what do you make of Trump’s comments about those who refuse to stand during the national anthem?”
Rowe’s response started off philosophically. “In democracies, we the people get the government we deserve,” he wrote. “We also get the celebrities we deserve, the artists we deserve, and the athletes we deserve. Because ultimately, we the people get to decide who and what gets our attention, and who and what does not.:snip:

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6 hours ago, Valin said:

 

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HH: I received a scathing email this morning, not directed at me, but at the NFL from a two-star retired Marine Corps general. Part of what he wrote, Kevin Nicholson, was “One of the lessons of 37 years on active duty in the Marine Corps is, military courtesy and obedience notwithstanding, respect is earned. Does Roger Goodell really think the NFL has earned the respect of our country? He and the NFL are the absolute last place I would turn to, to understand anything positive about the practice of respect. And in this ignorance, he and the business cannot grasp the decline and falling in interest. I mean nothing to them, but in previous years, the TV was always on and tuned in on Monday, Thursday and all day Sunday. I have watched only three games this year, following my team. I discovered I am no longer an NFL fan, but a Packers fan. As I look to Mr. Goodell, his leadership of the NFL and the insulting behavior of players, I doubt that is maintained through the year.” You’re no doubt a Packers fan as well, are you not, Kevin Nicholson?

KN: I’m a huge Packers fan. We bleed green and gold in our family. And I’ll tell you, I have, about the only reason I have not watched Packers games over the last, I don’t know, 15 years of my life, is because I was on a war deployment. And, but yesterday, we didn’t watch. We recorded the game. We went to a Brewers game, in fact, and the beautiful thing in the Brewers game was we saw, you know, players from both the Brewers and the Cubs stand up, salute the flag, and then we watched the whole stadium singing God Bless America during the game. It was wonderful. The Brewers lost, which was not so wonderful, but it was great to see the community stand up. And then as we were driving home, and we were going to watch the game, as we typically do as a family after it’s been recorded, we heard that at least three of the Packers had sat down during the Anthem. And you know, I can’t tell you how disappointing that is. This is Vince Lombardi’s team. And I’ll tell you, Vince was one of the most progressive civil rights-oriented coaches in the NFL at the time. The Packers have a long legacy of doing the right thing by the players and by the people. And we would have expected if the players would have all stood up and linked arms. That would have been fine. But they didn’t do that. And to us, our family, we just decided we’d take some extra time with the kids, working on school projects, get outside and enjoy the nice weather. But I agree with the general that wrote you. Here’s the bottom line. The NFL fines players for not wearing the correct shoe. It does that pretty consistently. I have a strong feeling that if he wanted to, Roger Goodell could make darn sure that all the players had it impressed on them the importance of honoring the United States of America and the opportunities we all have in this country. He has chosen not to. It’s a very, very strange moment for the NFL to decide that now, it’s so important that everybody have the “freedom” to do whatever they want at any given moment, and to not show the responsibility and obligations that we all have. So I’m not impressed.

 

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I laugh when I hear the Millionaire Athletes Complainers Union make statements like" "The President should unite people!" and "Trump has no business injecting politics into sports!" After 8 years of racial division from black Chicago jesus...who decided "diversity" was better than "unity" in the social life of Americans of all races and creeds...and used diversity to separate and crush different groups of people. It was also his ticket to the Wealth Redistribution and Reparations Tour...where other peoples money was used for faux "social justice"...that was his ticket to raid the US Treasury and repay his backers with "gifts." It is EXACTLY that attitude that is driving the butthurt and the whining about Trump and America. Simple question: Are these black millionaires...slaves? Another question: How many of these black millionaires used the opportunities & possibilities provided by America to attain their status, wealth and celebrity? Now...for all those hysterical, historical revisionists: How many of these black millionaire athletes...would be playing professional sports and making their millions...if African blacks, Arab & Portuguese slavers had not committed the atrocity of slavery and brought their ancestors to America? A horrible thing that provided a twist of serendipitous fate...a century or two later...under the American Constitutional Republic...has allowed a person of color to attain the highest strata of American society. So high a strata that some of them make as much as the economies of some of the African nations that their ancestors were enslaved from... So...who is being discriminated against when in America? Right now...more than half the nation hate and discriminate against white males. The same group that bled and died and built America...and ALSO made and ENFORCED the laws that made men equal in our Republic....except racial discrimination ONLY applies to blacks...and blacks for that reason..."CAN'T"...discriminate against whites! Bull Shiite. When the NFL league profits continue to drop...due the the loss of revenue and viewers...as well as buns in the stadium...I will watch with amusement as Progressive Socialist dain bramage ruins another sector of American business. It will be especially nice to hear the complaints of the Millionaire Athletes Complainers Union of America...as they whine about not making more money for their cribs & rides. The flag represents something essential...down to the marrow and even the DNA of American's. Their honored dead...bled and died under that flag...and dissing that...is pissing on their graves...and it's especially egregious because rich, elitist Progressives are using it to destroy the very basic part of what we believe this country represents...historically and societally. They are making America into a separation of classes, races and religions...to suit their need to move America toward a Global Progressive Socialist Democracy...(not Republic...where every vote counts)...one where the mob rules under enlightened Marxist oligarchs. I don't need football or professional sports...I choose other forms of entertainment...where I'm not required to endure petty & hollow gestures...as a way to "shame" me into agreeing with the false claims of wealthy idiots...as a condition of watching.

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1 minute ago, Draggingtree said:

Let’s get this straight, Cowboys which is American’s team will be playing tonight.

@Draggingtree! I will be reading a book or online during the game. Sweet E can't seem to make that choice...so it will be on while we have pizza and beer for dinner...but I could not give a rats patoot about the game...or who didn't come out/stand/sit/kneel during the National Anthem...although Jerry Jones has had some very straight things to say about what proper flag etiquette entails...

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