Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Mon 04/30/2018 View Sun 04/29/2018 View Sat 04/28/2018 View Fri 04/27/2018 View Thu 04/26/2018 View Wed 04/25/2018 View Tue 04/24/2018
1
2018-04-30 Home Front: Culture Wars
Confidential Meeting Reveals NFL Owners' Fear of Donald Trump
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Kaepernick killed the NFL for me. The first year, even before his protest was copied by all the other players. It was a big "FUCK YOU" to fans like me, and I got the message loud and clear. You hate us. You hold us responsible for all your problems, and you will happily divide us into warring camps who can't even agree on things like "We are all Americans here". So be it.

Now I'm just someone who used to watch football. And I'm OK with that.
Posted by  Herb McCoy 2018-04-30 00:58||   2018-04-30 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Well said Herb.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-30 01:00||   2018-04-30 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Take your weed, hoodies, rap music, and the bad habit of leaving your children fatherless and your games back to Kenya.
Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-30 01:15||   2018-04-30 01:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Too much color commentary. Too many, Way, way, WAY too many commercial breaks. Too many spoiled athletes, some should be in jail but aren't, and the sportscasters seem to hate the normal ones...
It's getting harder and harder to care enough to watch.
Posted by magpie 2018-04-30 03:40||   2018-04-30 03:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, speaking of the commentary, I wonder how much Bob Costas' nattering can be traced back as a precursor of the whole kneeling thing. The players, and now - in damage control mode - the league, are saying "our thing is a bigger deal than yours." Not so much, actually, they are now finding out...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-30 05:05||   2018-04-30 05:05|| Front Page Top

#6 What's funny about all of this - all Goodell had to do to nip this in the bud was instruct the owners to tell the players - 'You want to protest? Do it on your own time, not ours.'
Posted by Raj 2018-04-30 07:11||   2018-04-30 07:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Trump should see about banning taxpayers subsidising sports (including effective subsidies via treating it differently from other activities).
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-04-30 08:20||   2018-04-30 08:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Goody Goodell and his trained seals are afraid of the wrong thing. The fact that he was booed by fans at the Draft as long as he was on stage even though he was with two FB stars ought to be what has them all concerned.
Posted by Mercutio 2018-04-30 08:22||   2018-04-30 08:22|| Front Page Top

#9 If anyone sees Smith's CV floating around, please ring me up. Grounds keeping positions are picking up around here. He should be informed.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-30 08:25||   2018-04-30 08:25|| Front Page Top

#10 I wouldn't hire Steven A-hole Smith to scoop manure with his tongue, even though that is his stock-in-trade already...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-30 09:30||   2018-04-30 09:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Color Commentary about the Inner Urban Poor, Gun Violence, Spousal Abuse, Global Warming, or even If Public Schools should have Sodas or Not... I. Don't. Care. I am here to watch Football, not be bombarded by some twit's latest cause du jour. As far as I am concerned they are stealing the one thing that we all can't spare: my personal time.
Posted by magpie 2018-04-30 09:39||   2018-04-30 09:39|| Front Page Top

#12 All these people should be told "If you want to sermonize, go get ordained. Then get a congregation. Then give your sermon to them. Leave me clean out of the loop."
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-30 09:53||   2018-04-30 09:53|| Front Page Top

#13 It'll be interesting to see what happens the next time a team tries to get a city to pay for their new stadium.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-30 10:14||   2018-04-30 10:14|| Front Page Top

#14 rjshwarz, what I would like is that the city paying for the new stadium with public funds, from the taxpayer's pockets, require that the Team Owners sign over the Team Name and Logos. If the Baltimore Colts want to move, for example, then "Fine, it's a free country, but you have to change your name, logos, uniform, the works...How does the Indy Ink-Spots grab you?"
Posted by magpie 2018-04-30 10:39||   2018-04-30 10:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Any city that milks its taxpayers to give money to billionaire owners should cede all rights to have their voters eligible in all state and national elections. You can't vote to send middle class money to billionaires one minute and then vote for Marxists to run the country the next. Yeah, like they'll go for that...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-30 10:43||   2018-04-30 10:43|| Front Page Top

#16 M. Murcek
Neo Marxism is ALL about doing EXACTLY that.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-04-30 10:57||   2018-04-30 10:57|| Front Page Top

#17 Yeah, I get that. A fellow can dream, at any rate...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-30 11:00||   2018-04-30 11:00|| Front Page Top

#18 BTW, it wasn't Trump's tweets that made me stop watching football. It was Colin Kapernick and Marshawn Lynch. Trump only tweeted what I already thought.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-30 11:03||   2018-04-30 11:03|| Front Page Top

#19 How many NFL stars would last a month in Sierra Leone or Chad?
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-04-30 11:31||   2018-04-30 11:31|| Front Page Top

#20 Along the lines of what Bright Pebbles said, I'd like to see the Congress look into the NFL's special tax status.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-04-30 12:17||   2018-04-30 12:17|| Front Page Top

#21 I haven't watched pro football in a long time. Got tired of the end zone dances, the look-at-me-after a good catch. It wasn't fun any more. I still like to watch college.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2018-04-30 14:42||   2018-04-30 14:42|| Front Page Top

#22  Couple of points:
The Kaepernick crap started while Obama was in office. Owners could if addressed before it got out of hand. That is a mistake that Trump highlighted.

The SJW have taken their message to sports fans because that is where the audience was. Only the converted watch the main stream media. The SJW elite decided to send their message to sports fans and they would rather not watch. Again a mistake in the owners and elites.

The owners even resigned the commissioner at 50 mil a year. Yet another mistake.

Let the league rot.

Posted by Airandee 2018-04-30 16:34||   2018-04-30 16:34|| Front Page Top

22:22 trailing wife
22:11 Spike Milligan
20:31 Glenmore
19:59 Cluling Chealing4803
18:44 Rob Crawford
18:09 Silentbrick
17:43 M. Murcek
17:33 AlanC
17:31 M. Murcek
17:04 Besoeker
16:56 newc
16:50 Besoeker
16:46 Besoeker
16:34 Airandee
16:23 Iblis
16:07 Airandee
15:55 trailing wife
15:51 trailing wife
15:33 AlanC
15:21 AlanC
15:17 AlanC
14:54 DarthVader
14:42 Deacon Blues
14:39 Frank G









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com