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Say Goodbye to the NFL
It looks like the NFL is going full “woke” this season, thus rendering it unwatchable:
Front Office Sports, citing unnamed sources, reported the NFL has a 10-year, $250 million commitment to combat systemic racism — and intends to promote social justice with on-field signage, decals on player helmets, and in-stadium public service announcements.
The NFL also plans to make ”Lift Every Voice and Sing” — often referred to as the Black national anthem — a prominent part of all big league events, and likely highlight victims of racial injustice with a ”Say Their Stories” project, the news site reported.
I turned off college games last year when players wore jerseys with slogans instead of names on the back, and I’m a huge college fan. If the NFL does this, they might as well fold. Politics ruins everything, but liberal politics ruin everything completely . . .
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They will be woke until it’s not profitable.
All of these woke organizations say nothing to the CCP about the treat of Uighurs, Hong Kong or the Handling of Covid
During lay month when it was LGB…. month, do you think any of these organization preached their support in the Middle east (outside of Israel)? Even in China, the CCP does not look to kindly on gay people.
This is what I don’t get. I just cannot accept the idea that it is profitable. I mean, have any of the people implementing these programs ever met an actual NFL fan?
Probably not. They could survive no fans in the stands because of the TV contracts alone . . .
Politics ruins everything, except for the people who rejoice in politics everywhere all the time. There are enough of those to keep a lot of woke enterprises afloat, alas.
Some of you are not embracing the unifying power of separate, but equal national anthems.
Shame!
I have been a New Orleans Saints fan since childhood when the fan uniform required a paper sack over your head. The team and I were born in the same era. Every summer and training camp my optimistic enthusiasm sprung forth – this would be the year! I was a grown woman with children by the time the Saints had their first playoff win in 2000. What a happy day! Then Hurricane Katrina – and Sean Payton and the crew: Drew Brees, Scott Fujita, Deuce McAllister, Jonathan Vilma, and of course, Steve Gleason (the blocked kick at the first game back in the Superdome). The Super Bowl win in 2010 was very satisfying. And having Drew Brees, role model/family man, as the face of the franchise – icing on the cake. Just so you know my bonafide, deep fandom, be it known that I’ve been to multiple games in the Superdome which is a half-day drive from home. We once rent a suite at the Superdome for a pre-season game/birthday bash. (Trust me, a sizable investment). Sunday, game days, were for cooking gumbo, gathering with friends, and watching the game. Saint’s Football season was definitely a beloved part of my rhythm of life.
Then came two things that decimated my serious fandom for the franchise: (1) Drew Brees walking back his comments about standing for the flag in honor of his grandfather that fought in WW2 and (2) the team, including Drew, wearing Jacob Blake’s name on their helmets. Jacob Blake was a low-life scum that abused women, was a criminal, and got himself shot by police for refusing to honor a protective order against him and showing up at a residence of a woman that he had previously digitally penetrated against her will, stole her debit card and her car keys. She called the police, Blake refused to follow police instructions, tried to reach in his car, and got shot. (He didn’t die). That the Saints organization would honor such a man with recognition was beyond me. I want to ask Drew Brees if, had his beloved wife Brittney been assaulted in such a manner by Blake, would he have been so quick to “honor” the jerk and wear his name as a badge of honor on his helmet? (As an aside, why are all the BLM martyrs typically women abusers? And why aren’t black women mad about it?)
That very day, I trashed my numerous Saints t-shirts, jerseys, etc, and have not seen or cared about the team (or the NFL) since. I am absolutely, positively done with the Saints and the NFL.
P.S. Not exactly true – I still care enough to hate on the Dallas Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons. But I never watched them anyway.
-DP
The opening lyrics to So Long, Farewell are quite apropos.
There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say, “Cuckoo”
Cuckoo, cuckoo
Regretfully they tell us cuckoo, cuckoo
But firmly they compel us
To say, “Goodbye”, to you
Glad I don’t live in a city that is collecting taxes to pay for a stadium it subsidized.
Eventually this stuff will just be so common as no longer to be noticed. They will then adopt rituals of actual human sacrifice as the only way to get attention.
Here is the general thought process going through the league’s head:
They believe that. . .
BTW: This isn’t going to work. NASCAR made this mistake; Harley-Davidson make the same one. Both of these companies attempted to expand their consumer pool by augmenting a tried and true formula to capture the youth. They rode ten year highs, and then the youth abandoned them because their fandom was never real in the first place.
For what it’s worth, I cancelled my MLB subscription, stopped watching NCAA, stopped watching the NFL, and never watched the NBA. I spend my weekends cooking out with my family instead of glued to an idiot box. I’ve never looked back, and my only regret is the time I wasted on sports.
That may be the thinking, but I think it’s highly questionable. They are trying to drive a certain demand, rather than catering to one. I agree that it’s not likely to work.
I’ve also, for the most part, tuned out sports. However, I don’t regard the time spent watching true greatness such as Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Nolan Ryan, Bill Russell, “The Big O”, Jim Brown and “Johnny U” as wasted time. These were athletes that did their talking on the field and were well worth the price of a ticket.
Its ok, I can always watch real football in the CFL.
😂😂😂
Oh. Wait. Were you serious?
Don’t you remember Warren Moon . . . and ummm?
Who needs football when you can see a camel drinking a Sprite at the ballpark on Irish night?
Doug Flutie!
It is so sad what has happened to our pop culture. We need escapism but we are running out of places to go. “Watch the old stuff” is great, but there’s only so much of it. I’ve given up on so many things that I used to enjoy.
J.C.Watts!
Oh my gosh, I just googled him because I only remembered that he played at Oklahoma and was in the House of Representatives for awhile — didn’t know he was in the CFL.
But the best thing I learned from his Wikipedia page is that JC stands for Julius Caesar!!
Yeah! And he had an afro for the ages too. A real thing of wonder.
That’s the dilemma for a lot of advertising. Older people tend to have already picked out the products they use, and therefore aren’t likely to change. Young people are still deciding what brand of beer to buy, shaving cream to use, and car to drive.
The dilemma? Older people have most of the money to spend . . .