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The NFL: Now a Case Study in Destructive Leftism
Seriously, Colin Kaepernick? You’re really doing this?
Yep, he’s filed a grievance against the NFL owners under their collective bargaining agreement, alleging that they have colluded to “deprive Mr. Kaepernick of employment rights in retaliation for Mr. Kaepernick’s leadership and advocacy for equality and social justice and his bringing awareness to peculiar institutions still undermining racial equality in the United States.”
“Mr. Kaepernick’s leadership and advocacy for equality and social justice?” So now this guy is up there with King and Gandhi? Gag me with a spoon! Who composed this treacly legal copy?
Actually, Kaepernick is being represented by Mark Geragos, attorney to the infamous. Former clients include Michael Jackson (who fired him), wife killer Scott Peterson (who got the death penalty anyway), and a former president’s brother, Roger Clinton (who cares?).
Congratulations, Kaepernick, you are now officially the mess stuck on the bottom of America’s shoe that can’t be scrubbed off and continues to stink up the place.
Oh, and by the way, it’s not collusion. It’s simply that every team owner in the NFL made the individual and rational decision not to unnecessarily bring into its midst the insoluble problem that is … you. With your protests and persecution complex, you’re nothing but a liability with absolutely nothing to gain. No team in its right mind would touch you with a ten-foot pole.
Although, paradoxically, the NFL continues to double, triple, and quadruple down in other foolish ways. For instance, the NFL is apparently going all-in on social justice, albeit without Kaepernick. The NFL is reportedly going to finance a “social activism boot camp” for professional athletes in February. (Of course it is!) According to a recent report by ESPN’s Jim Trotter, “the league has agreed to finance a social activism boot camp at Morehouse College in February.” It will take place over two days, will include professional athletes from other sports as well and “the organizers of that curriculum will work with the players throughout the year to try and teach them to get their message out and be most effective with it.”
You see, there’s more to this kneeling business than just the cops’ alleged war against black men. According to Donte Stallworth, former NFL player and CNN contributor, all that unseemly but misunderstood kneeling during the national anthem is about “a broad spectrum of issues.” (Are you ready for this?)
“It’s also, again from what I’m hearing from players … they’re telling me it’s also about the gender pay gap, it’s also about housing discrimination, they have so many things that they are interested in and advocating for and they want the NFL to take ownership in and help be able to use the NFL’s platform.”
Are you freaking kidding me? This crew is worried about the “gender pay gap?”
Well, did you hear all that, NFL? The players aren’t in it for the money or the glory or the love of the game, they simply want to use you as a platform for social justice! So, let’s see, gender pay gap, housing discrimination … Might as well throw in climate change, transgender rights, single-payer healthcare, green energy, impeaching Trump, you name the leftist cause, they’re bound to be for it. And it’s all on you, NFL, to help make it happen!
But before you do, here’s a very simple message to the NFL from all football fans who love this country: If you become yet another vehicle for infecting America with destructive leftism, you’re done, finished, kaput. As Dandy Don Meredith used to melodically intone on Monday Night Football, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.”
America is sick and tired of being told that it is no damn good by the media, the academy, Hollywood, minorities, and now, a bunch of millionaire ingrate football players whose analytical thinking skills are, to say the least, wanting. It was already hard enough to watch the NFL before the kneeling. Between the pointlessly outrageous hairstyles, the arms plastered with tattoos, the skullcaps, the boorish behavior, etc., the typical NFL playing field looks more like the set of a gangsta rap video. Can you understand, NFL, that Middle America just isn’t down with that culture and that this idiotic protesting may be the last straw?
Since when does an organization’s business model include offending its customers regarding their most cherished beliefs? Most Americans believe that their country is the most decent, most fair, least racist and least unjust country of any consequence in human history. The kneelers, who appear to be among the most privileged and ungrateful people to have ever lived, are, in effect, spitting in the fans’ faces as they support the idea that America is still racist to the core.
Here’s what Kaepernick said was the reason for his protest: “I am not going to stand up to show pride … for a country that oppresses … people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people … getting away with murder.”
It gets so tiresome to have to repeatedly dispute this despicable lie, but here we go for the gazillionth time. The U.S. Department of Justice statistics show that twice as many whites as blacks are killed by cops in an average year. Given that blacks commit approximately fifty percent of all violent crime in America, you would expect that the number of whites and blacks killed by police might be about equal. But again, twice as many whites as blacks are killed. Also, a cop is 19 times more likely to be killed by a black person than vice versa.
That’s it, Kaepernick, case closed. The premise for your divisive protest is crap.
And now, the NFL, which could have easily shut this thing down from the get-go before it got out of hand, finds itself between a rock and a hard place. If it continues to go along with the protests, the fans leave in droves. If it shuts down the protests, it will be accused of racism, which, come to think of it, it already has been by the NAACP, for not rehiring Kaepernick, who originally started this entire mess. So it can’t win. But it could cut its losses.
Isn’t leftist politics fun? What the NFL needs to understand about leftism is that it poisons, ruins or destroys everything it touches. Right now the NFL has been poisoned, but it may not be ruined quite yet. It all depends on what the NFL does from here on out. But so far, it doesn’t look good.
So, all the fed-up Americans boycotting the NFL should keep it up and not give in. It’s a shame that it’s come to this, but it’s best to remember that the purveyors of leftism despise average Americans with their traditional values and are relentless in their efforts to fundamentally transform the country. The only way to keep leftism from infecting everything you enjoy or cherish is to financially hurt the people pushing it.
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I’m not a sports fan, and I don’t watch football, so my views don’t really matter. But, I found a couple of items amusing:
The social justice advocacy camp “will work with the players throughout the year to try and teach them to get their message out and be most effective with it.” They’re going to get players who can’t even articulately get their message out about the sport they play to get some other message out?
If they’re so concerned about the gender pay gap, they are free to divert as much of their multi-million dollar salaries to professional women’s sports teams on which the players subsist on beans and rice level incomes. @miffedwhitemale suggests one mechanism in Comment #9.
You forgot “bag” . . .
Donte Stallworth?? Didn’t he kill someone driving drunk? (Checks google)…. Yes. Same guy. What a great representative for the players CNN has put forth.
Since when did ostentatiously kneeling during the anthem and wearing lefty t-shirts represent “leadership and advocacy for equality and social justice”?
When Bob Stoops was hired as the head football coach at OU he requested that part of his several million in salary be given to his assistant coaches. Assistants usually just get enough to get by but these guys were well compensated. He also told them to go home to their families in the evenings, that if they couldn’t get their jobs done without working 16 hours a day he needed to find some coaches who could. He never had any trouble keeping competent assistants except for them being constantly hired as head coaches elsewhere. And he retired when HE was ready to retire having been the head coach of only one program. Funny how that works. Even funnier how most managers can’t seem to grasp it.
If the NFL owners persist in their kowtowing to the Left, I would love nothing more than to see them lose their fans, their advertisers and eventually their TV contracts.
But besides that, at the very least, their ridiculous tax ‘charity status” needs to be eliminated so they pay their fair share of taxes along with taxes on those” gifts ” we call stadiums many of them get.
I’ve been watching baseball more and more and football less and less. World Series right now. I hope this ailment does not infect baseball players.
One thing to note, the 49ers stink (full disclosure they are “my team”). They weren’t likely to put up much of a match for the Cowboys and the fans hate the stadium.
Not only will they have to stop kneeling, but probably start winning and figure out how to move the sun as well.
Great Post Mr. Strange! I never thought the NFL Owners could be so stupid as to go along with this crap. What on Earth were they thinking?? They are getting what they deserve.
Now more football fans should do like me, and follow the World Chess Championship!
Kaepernick turned down a $13 million contract from the 49’ers.
That has to sting a bit.
I am a BIG Philadelphia Eagles fan. I use to love watching football every Autumn. And now it looks like this is the year where Philly will finally win the whole thing.
My wife and I stopped watching the game early last year. We really just stopped caring when they brought politics into the game. Now we walk in the beautiful fall weather and the gorgeous leaf changing colors of upstate NY.
Win the super bowl or not Philly, we will not watch another game or buy another football related item. (At least until they stop the madness.) We have decided to have an old movie marathon on S.B. Sunday this year.
We do however love hockey. That game is filled with people who love the sport they play and the countries where they play it. I recommend a switch for those of you who wish to watch a sport where they stand for our anthem.
Bravo Sierra
And that’s your real fear isn’t it – that Trump could get credit for bringing the leftist NFL to its knees? Your TDS really does warp everything.
Who would have thought that the first Black President of the United States would set race relations back 40 years.
Yeah, I was thinking that if they are this concerned about pay inequality, all the SJWs, the cheerleaders, the concessionaires, etc can contribute their income into a common fund to be paid out equally to all of them each payday.
I was already watching more baseball, and this has ended my watching football. If it infects baseball, I will be done with pro sports.
Because that has almost as much excitement as a football game? (Oh!! Did you see that en passant?! Brutal hit!)
Excellent idea.
I’ve just never been able to get into hockey. (Shhh, in Minnesota that’s tantamount to treason.)
For a chess fan like me, there is plenty of action. Theoretical opening novelties, endgame triangulation, piece sacrifices, positional sacrifices, exchange sacrifices, king-side attacks, pawn gambits, material imbalance, Queen dominance, blitzing, zugzwang, Checkmate! Oh, the excitement!!
Beats watching a bunch of ungrateful millionaire crybabies.