I agree with the essay !!!

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.

I’m a little embarrassed to admit how much time I spend watching NFL performances: about two hours per year.

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.

I think the NFL & players are making the fans look like chumps. CHUMPS !!!

Chimps and chumps. What a great sport! LOL

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.

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.

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

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.

" I think the FANS are making the NFL & players look like chumps. "

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 !!!

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.

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.

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/

Report: All Patriots To Stand For National Anthem Against Panthers

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/

Steelers’ Ramon Foster: ‘We Didn’t 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.

Report: All Patriots To Stand For National Anthem Against Panthers

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.

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.

" Chimps and chumps "

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 !!!

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.

A half-assed attempt will not get it.

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.

Breitbart: No Stand No Service: Missouri Bar Turns Marshawn Lynch and Kaepernick Jerseys Into Doormats Over Anthem Protests

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.

At tonight's game:

Also, the second the singer finished, the tv feed cut away from the field.

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.

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.

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 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.

I've wondered if some enterprising churches somewhere decide to take advantage of the NFL stupidity....

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.

http://deadline.com/2017/09/packers-win-thursday-night-football-ratings-down-bears-national-anthem-cbs-nfl-1202179245/

Packers Win As ‘Thursday Night Football’ Ratings Drop In CBS Season Debut

by Dominic Patten
September 29, 2017 7:54am

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.

Packers Win As ‘Thursday Night Football’ Ratings Drop In CBS Season Debut

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.

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.

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. :)

So it will take one more Sunday to round out my suspicions. :)

Now I'm curious. Don't forget to report back.     : )

Now I'm curious. Don't forget to report back. : )

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.