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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
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Views: 3298
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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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
I agree with the essay !!! I think the NFL & players are making the fans look like chumps. CHUMPS !!!
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
I thought this was hilarious: 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... I think the NFL & players are making the fans look like chumps. I think the FANS are making the NFL & players look like chumps. Yet another writer who doesn't actually watch the NFL. The conservative types don't bother to pretend, the Lefties actually try to pretend they do watch NFL. I see this all over Twitter when I look. This is mostly a proxy war between the SJWs and cultural conservatives. What we don't hear that much from are the actual hardcore NFL fans themselves, the people who buy the tickets, buy the merchandise, buy the season pass via cable/Directv/internet. It's all just skirmishing between political types that seems to hardly involve any actual fans. That said, I did enjoy this delightfully meanspirited essay overall. Even if the writer barely watches a single Superbowl every year.
Chimps and chumps. What a great sport! LOL
I'm sure the Joe Six-Packs out there are too busy preparing for the next Big Game by purchasing beer and nacho chips and getting their fantasy teams ready for Sunday. 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. That pretty much describes the "average" fan. I think the whole thing is generally destructive to the NFL as a cultural icon. It takes one of the last neutral topics for people to talk about and turns it toxic and political. It tears at the social fabric. The article doesn't mention it but Kaepernick only got interested in all this protesting because his girlfriend was SJW and Muslim and has some radio show. DailyCaller: Kaepernick’s Communist-Sympathizing Muslim Girlfriend Believed To Be Behind Protest, 8/29/16 What's she doing nowadays? CBS Baltimore: Kaepernick’s GF Appears To Compare Bisciotti, Lewis To Slave Owner, Slave, 8/3/17 Nessa Diab is a New York City radio DJ and regular on MTV’s Girl Code. The picture she tweeted shows Lewis with his arms around Bisciotti, along with a picture of Samuel L. Jackson with his arms around Leonardo Dicaprio from the movie “Django Unchained,” in which Dicaprio was a slave owner and Jackson was his house slave. . . . This comes after an ESPN report that Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and general manager Ozzie Newsome support signing Kaepernick, but Bisciotti was against the signing. Lewis also posted a video on Twitter suggesting Kaepernick should keep his activism private. . . . The Ravens had consulted Lewis on whether they should sign Kaepernick. So she's calling Lewis an Uncle Tom when he's trying to get the team owner to sign up Kaep to play. And comparing Lewis to a house n__. And people wonder why someone like Kaep who isn't all that good a QB and has a troublemaker commie SJW Muslim girlfriend isn't being flooded with contract offers from NFL owners? He's trouble with a capital-T and she is even more so. And after she kills his career, she'll dump him. She's all about herself and no one else. And Lewis? He joined the team on the field (though retired) to #TakeAKnee. Now there's a petition with 16K signatures demanding that the team tear down his statue at the stadium. Won't happen but still... But, yeah, it's all about the cops shooting a few kids that may or may not have had it coming. The whole thing has turned into a circus. No one even knows exactly what they're supposed to be protesting any more.
Yes, for a long time the fans have been chumps for spending so much money on NFL. Now, as the fans quit spending their money on tickets, merchandise, TV packages, etc, the NFL & players will realize they are the chumps for following kaperdick down the toilet. Especially when their bank accounts shrink so much, that they lose their trophy women, big cars, houses, etc, etc. And for what ? Just to make the ghetto rats think they are cool, and to try to attack Pres Trump ? What a bunch of dumbasses !!! Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
A lot of the top NFL stars have already banked over $100M, many of them retiring in the next few years anyway. So what if they destroy the NFL? They've already got their money and fame. It's the younger players and the up-and-coming college players that are far more likely to be hurt by a big downturn in NFL ticket prices, merchandise, cable subscriptions.
What you say is true, but the NFL is going to go the way of the Titanic. No problem for the older guys that banked a pile, but not good for the newer ones.
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
Great toon. But the Steelers never knelt at all even if they stood in the tunnel. And they are vowing to all stand and pledge in their next game "100%". But since "Kneelers" rhymes with Steelers, it was a natural choice for Garrison.
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.
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.
Precisely correct. To know what to do, all they need do is look at the stands and do what the customers do. A half-assed attempt will not get it. Years from now, they will wake up and realize they were used by radical nutbags with a seperate agenda.
The next stunt the players will probably do will be to fling their feces's at the fans in the stands. Those guys are real mental giants - NOT !!! Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
I saw that Packers did stand and the team linked arms. I saw a few photos of the crowd and maybe a third did link arms as the Packers QB requested. The Bears also linked arms. It all looked even stupider to me than the kneeling. Kind of a chickenshit "I want to kneel or raise my fist to Black Power but I don't want to piss off the KKK fans and ruin my career, endorsement deals, merchandise deals, etc." It's half-assed, half-hearted protesting. So it looked cowardly and lukewarm IMO. And Trump already said linking arms was fine. Which was also kind of dumb because that is not in the flag code at all. But linking arms meant they were obeying Trump, not defying him. So if they're obeying him, why not just obey the classic hand-over-heart stand and make the old guys at the Legion and the VFW happy instead? I'm not up to decoding all this virtue signaling by the near-vegetative juiceheads of the NFL.
I think the armlinking looks half-assed. If you're really into it, you do hand-over-heart, the classic and the prescribed posture. And if you are going to protest, do the kneel or the Black Power fist. Armlinking is for pussies IMO. Don't have the guts to actually protest nor to defy the SJWs with the classic patriotic hand-over-heart. Neither hot nor cold.
See this one? The bar guy was apparently copying some other guy at a mattress store who had only a Kaep doormat. Inventive at least. Probably not so good for business but it might work okay in some places.
Location, location, location. It might work fine. In some places it might cause a brawl to break out. At tonight's game: Also, the second the singer finished, the tv feed cut away from the field.
That's pretty funny. The players stood there with a dejected posture, at least they looked more slumped than pumped. Looks like the QB didn't get the fans to "s'port da team" by linking arms up in the stands. The fans did hand-on-heart, like their governor did. Too bad we didn't get video of Scott Walker showing these bratty millionaire thugs the proper form for the pledge.
Looks like the QB didn't get the fans to "s'port da team" by linking arms up in the stands. The fans did hand-on-heart, like their governor did. Too bad we didn't get video of Scott Walker showing these bratty millionaire thugs the proper form for the pledge. Can't believe I forgot Green bay fans. Another union label Trump voting redneck audience. I think the GB owner knows he's screwed if this goes on for another two weeks. I believe deer season started or is about to start. Not hard for a good GB red neck fan to say "screw the game I'm going hunting instead."
I've wondered if some enterprising churches somewhere decide to take advantage of the NFL stupidity and start some father-son activities for Sunday afternoon to replace those NFL games. At least for a while. The NFL has to shape up soon or people will drift off to other stuff. The danger to the NFL is that after a month, people might be glad to be off their NFL habit and doing stuff that is more positive, more fun. Those would be customers truly gone, never to return. I notice that the crowd didn't link arms but I also didn't see a single empty seat there. The fans and their bond to the team is very strong there, much as it is with Steelers fans.
Crowder had some funny takes and good points, not too long to watch.
I think the NBA can't wait until tomorrow to take advantage of the NFL stupidity. It's a standup league. It's in the rules. This is an opportunity bonanza for the NBA. by Dominic Patten There were weather issues, national anthem protest concerns and a helmet-to-helmet hit from the Chicago Bears’ Danny Trevathan that put Green Bay Packers receiver Davante Adams in the hospital last night on the season kickoff of CBS’ Thursday Night Football. Despite all that, and a 47-minute delay after the first quarter due to lightning, Green Bay beat the Bears 35-14 at Lambeau Field. The weather couldn’t slow the Packers down once the game restarted and, with players and fans linking arms in unity, no one took an increasingly controversial knee last night during “The Star-Spangled Banner.” However, it still was not a good result for CBS and the NFL as the matchup went late and delivered 9.9/18 in metered market ratings. That’s down 13% from the 2016 TNF opener on CBS and NFL Network when the New York Jets beat the Buffalo Bills 37-31. In the first of five TNFs that CBS has this year, last night’s game was shown on NFL Network and made its live debut on Amazon Prime. On a night of no competition from the other nets and with the matchup being shown live on Twitter, last year’s September 15, CBS kickoff game ended up with 15.4 million viewers and a 5.4/21 rating among adults 18-49. The start of the third season of TNF on the House of Moonves, those 2016 numbers were a 27% and 29% fall, respectively, from the 2015 TNF debut on CBS and NFL Network. As for Thursday’s overnight numbers, the latest decline comes as the league, broadcasters and cable networks are biting already chewed nails over last year’s ratings and what could be coming down the line. [...] "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." Colin Kaepernick, 8/27/2016. It is about the flag.
I think they actually lost. I wonder how much this could cost them in their broadcast contracts. No way the networks want to eat the losses. Apparently, if they sell ads to someone wanting to run expensive ads for football, if they fail to deliver a certain threshold of viewers, the ad buyers can get partial refunds or get free ads in other shows on that network. We've had a few articles indicating this. If they're giving CBS a giant headache and threatening all those revenues, it really is hitting the fan. Big time. Add in that recommendation from the Wall Street expert that investors should short CBS stocks this weekend and it looks really bad for the NFL. They are slitting the golden goose's throat. For nothing.
There's a family at church which shows up with everyone but the grandpa in Green Bay Packers shirts and jerseys. I think the pastor does not like that given the family is basically saying "This is what we are doing once church is over so get on with the sermon pastor." This past Sunday I noticed no one wearing GB paraphernalia. I took that as a response to all the kneeling. But then realized GB played Monday night. LOL :) So it will take one more Sunday to round out my suspicions. :)
Now I'm curious. Don't forget to report back. : )
From, of all places, InfoWars. Spotted this on a very rare driveby of Jones' site. About 30 minutes in a studio panel format. Jones is a lot more sophisticated than he once was but, thankfully, Jones is not in this video.
I'm sure pastor Dave is as well. He's not so keen on kids missing baptism training for elite travel football games. As a coach he asked my opinion. I told him I gladly excused kids for weekly Bible study and catechism training. Said parents should just tell me a kid was not going to be at practice. His point is what are our priorities. Most coaches know Catholics and Protestants have important church functions on Wednesdays. So the league does not schedule games on that day and I personally don't schedule practices on that day.
#2. To: Stoner (#1)
I agree with the essay !!!
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
I’m a little embarrassed to admit how much time I spend watching NFL performances: about two hours per year.
#4. To: Stoner (#1)
I think the NFL & players are making the fans look like chumps. CHUMPS !!!
#5. To: Tooconservative (#3)
What we don't hear that much from are the actual hardcore NFL fans themselves, the people who buy the tickets, buy the merchandise, buy the season pass via cable/Directv/internet.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#6. To: Deckard, nolu chan, misterwhite, redleghunter (#5)
(Edited)
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Colin Kaepernick’s reported girlfriend tweeted out pictures Wednesday that appear to compare Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and Ray Lewis to a slave owner and slave.
#7. To: Deckard (#2)
(Edited)
" I think the FANS are making the NFL & players look like chumps. "
#8. To: Stoner (#7)
Now, as the fans quit spending their money on tickets, merchandise, TV packages, etc, the NFL & players will realize they are the chumps for following kaperdick down the toilet. Especially when their bank accounts shrink so much, that they lose their trophy women, big cars, houses, etc, etc.
#9. To: Tooconservative (#8)
#10. To: Deckard (#0)
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#11. To: nolu chan (#10)
#12. To: nolu chan (#10)
(Edited)
#13. To: Tooconservative (#12)
Report: All Patriots To Stand For National Anthem Against Panthers
Steelers’ Ramon Foster: ‘We Didn’t Ask For This’
#14. To: nolu chan (#13)
Report: All Patriots To Stand For National Anthem Against Panthers
#15. To: Tooconservative (#14)
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.
#16. To: Tooconservative (#4)
(Edited)
" Chimps and chumps "
#17. To: Stoner, nolu chan (#16)
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#18. To: nolu chan (#15)
A half-assed attempt will not get it.
#19. To: Stoner, nolu chan, Pinguinite, redleghunter (#16)
#20. To: Tooconservative (#19)
#21. To: nolu chan (#20)
#22. To: Tooconservative, Liberator, Nolu Chan (#21)
That's pretty funny. The players stood there with a dejected posture, at least they looked more slumped than pumped.
#23. To: redleghunter (#22)
I think the GB owner knows he's screwed if this goes on for another two weeks. I believe deer season started or is about to start. Not hard for a good GB red neck fan to say "screw the game I'm going hunting instead."
#24. To: redleghunter (#22)
#25. To: Tooconservative, redleghunter (#23)
I've wondered if some enterprising churches somewhere decide to take advantage of the NFL stupidity....
Packers Win As ‘Thursday Night Football’ Ratings Drop In CBS Season Debut
September 29, 2017 7:54am
#26. To: nolu chan (#25)
Packers Win As ‘Thursday Night Football’ Ratings Drop In CBS Season Debut
#27. To: Tooconservative (#23)
I've wondered if some enterprising churches somewhere decide to take advantage of the NFL stupidity and start some father-son activities for Sunday afternoon to replace those NFL games. At least for a while.
#28. To: redleghunter (#27)
So it will take one more Sunday to round out my suspicions. :)
#29. To: redleghunter (#27)
(Edited)
#30. To: Tooconservative (#28)
Now I'm curious. Don't forget to report back. : )
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