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Title: Protests at the Fryer (The Current Football Foofaraw)
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The Kakistocracy
URL Source: https://kakistocracyblog.wordpress. ... 7/09/24/protests-at-the-fryer/
Published: Sep 24, 2017
Author: a vocal advocate
Post Date: 2017-09-28 08:01:49 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 3273
Comments: 30
I’m a little embarrassed to admit how much time I spend watching NFL performances: about two hours per year. I’m sure the Super Bowl actually lasts longer than that; but life is short and I’ve only got so much time to give. So I’ll donate approximately half my annual allotment to comment on the current foot-ball foofaraw. The conflict owes its genesis to former ball-tossing mediocrity, Colin Kaepernick. Reportedly, Mr. Kaepernick was the fruit of a fleeting union between a 19 year-old white girl and her black boyfriend, who customarily disavowed the relationship upon learning of her pregnancy. The girl subsequently put the child up for adoption, where it was claimed off waivers by a white family who apparently provided a loving and stable household. So to summarize: the black father of a mulatto boy abandoned him in utero, while an unrelated white family stepped in to raise him with care and attentiveness. So predictably his allegiance is exclusively to blacks. At any rate, his disdain for the ineffectually racist society that had elevated him into a lifestyle of wealth and fame inconceivable to 99% of its members, became a weight he could no longer bear in private. So he cultivated a roof-height afro to establish his aesthetic bonafides, and began kneeling in protest at the national anthem. Unfortunately for Kaepernick, his talent proved insufficient to buoy his convictions, and he soon enough found himself not worth the hassle. Though in his absence, equally oppressed millionaire imitators began to take up the protest. Eventually (and inevitably) this drew the wandering eye of Trump, whose subsequent criticism has impelled even more well-paid expressions of black contempt for the trappings of traditional American society. If there is any surprise here, it is only in that it has taken so long to occur. Blacks broadly do not like whites, and care even less for their history and its symbols. From their perspective, the American flag and anthem are representative of them not us. This intractable tribal division is a state of affairs the dissident right has been patiently trying to explain for decades. Though apparently it requires low IQ black prima donnas to articulate the concept effectively. Unfortunately mainstream bouncy-ball fandom is little inclined to absorb the lesson, and so finds itself perpetually disappointed by black expressions of separation and hostility. It is as if by supine fan-worship whites can extinguish the hatred their heroes hold for them. It’s an unlikely hypothesis, and one historical evidence continues to accumulate against. Of course stadium monkeys hold no monopoly on Sunday afternoon stupidity. The players themselves are even dumber. It simply does not occur how tenuous their own position is in this culture conflict. Their lavish livelihoods are premised entirely on the public’s continuing appetite for the same choreographed routines. It’s remarkable when you consider the huge industry that has blossomed around watching a skirmish line of armored mutants repeatedly crashing into each other for hours every Sunday. If we weren’t so inured it would seem surreal. Though these same commercial skirmishers indicate no awareness at all of how little those modestly compensated accountants, electricians, and plumbers in the stands actually require their services. Or, additionally, what salaries foot-ball players in less racist countries command–Cameroon, for instance. Thus players this afternoon will offer pious expressions of solidarity against the very people upon whose patronage they are utterly reliant. What they won’t offer are protests against their million-dollar paychecks. I guess there’s just some aspects of racist society a man learns to live with. But why should racist society live with them? That’s the question most minds don’t spend sufficient time contemplating. Despite what some think, fans don’t actually cheer for specific mercenaries. They cheer for a colored jersey. Whoever occupies it is their team. The next season it will be someone else. I once remarked to a friend that if all the players in blue exchanged colors at halftime with the players in red, he would spend the next hour screaming for the same performers he had just been cursing. He disgustedly told me I’d just ruined the game for him. I told you I was his friend. The point is that sports fan loyalty is extraordinarily elastic. And thus the cheers would rain just as hard for players wearing “Baltimore Ravens” jerseys if they were Mexican migrants being paid $7.50/hour on game days. This being an income level to which Colin Kapaernick may soon find himself adjusting. Now obviously the NFL syndicate has its own perspective on the matter. Like practically all big business, it has gone all-in for the left in America’s culture wars. As a result, you see no public criticism of its anti-American employees. Certainly not to the extent you would if they did something truly intolerable: like a touchdown dance, for instance. But the league is in as precarious a position as its players. Owners feel equal antipathy for the NFL’s conservative white consumers, while very much still coveting their money. So they must extract revenues from a customer base they would prefer didn’t exist. From climate-controlled box seats, to the sideline, to the offices at ESPN, there’s a uniform philosophy of Just pay me and go away. I personally don’t care for either condition of that deal. Hopefully NFL fans will eventually feel the same. None of whom actually need the mental novocain of professional sportsball. What they do need is an order of crispy fries. And whether Colin Kaepernick cooks those while kneeling is something we can look forward to taking up with the store manager. 
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#10. To: Deckard (#0)
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The Denver Virtue Signalers just announced that they would all be standing for the anthem in their next game. Elway was pushing this. No word yet on whether they would stand hands-over-heart or link arms. I think the Steelers saying they would all stand and pledge 100% is putting a lot of pressure on the others to do the same. Does your team really want to be among the last to keep disrespecting the anthem and flag? How can that be a payoff, no matter how liberal your fans are? Better to cave sooner than later. It will cost you less. Broncos will play Raiders in Denver at 4:25PM ET on CBS.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/patriots-national-anthem-stand/ September 27, 2017 8:21 AM The stupid Steelers did their hiding in the tunnel act at Soldier Field, named in honor of WW1 vets. Here is a tale of Steeler woe. http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/09/26/steelers-ramon-foster-we-didnt-ask-for-this/ Foster And Steelers Ready To Move On And Play Football September 26, 2017 11:02 AM PITTSBURGH (93-7 The Fan) – The Steelers lost in overtime this past Sunday to a winless Chicago Bears team while giving up 220 yards rushing. Of course, that wasn’t the story that has grabbed headlines in the fallout. Steelers guard Ramon Foster joined “The Fan Morning Show” in his weekly spot on the show and gave what he calls his final thoughts on the team deciding to stay in the tunnel for the national anthem and how fellow linemate Alejandro Villanueva was the only player seen saluting the flag. Foster said he was upset because he felt that the Steelers were being dragged into something they didn’t want any part of. “I was kind of pissed at how people reacted to it,” said Foster. “In a sense, that we didn’t ask for that. We were thrown into this by some comments outside of the business and the sport of football. To see the backlash that I’m getting from back home, from people in my hometown on something I had no idea was going to go over like this or to have to warn my kids about certain stuff that hey, if somebody says something at school you have to let me and your mom know. We didn’t ask for that, we didn’t ask for this whole situation.” Dude, if you [Foster] hid in the tunnel, you invited whatever fan reaction you earned. Did you stop to think that you were disrespecting the flag in a place known as Soldier Field, named in honor of WW1 veterans? You can be pissed all you want. You made a bad choice. Deal with it. The situation is that you can side with some bottom feeding jackasses and can join them in insulting the customers, or you can stand up like the paying customers. You chose to insult the paying customers. Make a better choice this week.
#14. To: nolu chan (#13)
They're folding, just like the Broncos. The test will be whether they pull that linked-arms crap and don't do hands-over-hearts. Or whether they pull the kneel first then stand for the anthem itself. If they play little protest games with it, then it isn't over. I think we'll see all the teams fold on the protests if Steelers/Broncos/Patriots have folded. Any of them who continue the kneeling and armlinking or Black Power fists will hear from the fans. Or have to watch as their fans choose more patriotic teams and they suffer pay losses due to losing audience share.
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Report: All Patriots To Stand For National Anthem Against Panthers
Steelers’ Ramon Foster: ‘We Didn’t Ask For This’
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