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2017-11-06 Home Front: Culture Wars

Legendary Sports Anchor Vin Scully Says He Will Never Watch the NFL Again

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-06 02:21|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 You won't hear of this via MSM but Dallas Cowboy players went to military installations and signed autographs, during the game today coaches wore military style caps, players had military style towels and military and police joined them on the bench during the game. Their NFL announcers wore not one but two different style flag pins on their lapels. It was an all out patriotic effort by Jones and team.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-11-06 03:43|| 2017-11-06 03:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Virtue signaling Threatch. Virtue signaling.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-06 07:02|| 2017-11-06 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 ...or damage control. However, I think they forget to seal the ~~blockheads~~ bulkheads.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-06 07:31|| 2017-11-06 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 I miss football. But the owners have seriously screwed it up. Too timid to enforce a little bit of discipline on their players? If they want to quit because the owner makes them stand respectfully during the national anthem then LET THEM QUIT, DAMMIT! There are certainly at least a hundred guys waiting in the wings for a chance to play in the NFL for every one of these kneelers.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-06 10:00|| 2017-11-06 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 The feel the burn where it counts, revenue projections and advertisers complaining. Don’t let them think for a moment they are forgiven. Some insults are forever.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-11-06 10:54|| 2017-11-06 10:54|| Front Page Top

#6 All the owners had to do is tell Kaepernick & company 'do it on your own time'.

Posted by Raj 2017-11-06 10:56|| 2017-11-06 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Raj is right, but once it moved beyond Kaepernick it became a problem. Owners didn't want to bench the best players and be non-competitive so they tolerated it far to long until the whole league began circling the drain. I'm not sure they can do anything now to save the NFL short of somehow taking College football off of the airwaves, firing protesters and replacing them with military folks.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-11-06 14:08|| 2017-11-06 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 I tried to at least read about the weekend's NFL games this morning and just couldn't get interested, even though the home team won and is doing pretty well. I guess 14 months is long enough to break the habit.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-11-06 14:25|| 2017-11-06 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Same here Glenmore.

Where oh where have the real sports casters gone? Heard a couple olde schoolers make the KSU/KU game actually interesting to watch. Morning news comes on and its gossip girl boy time talking about shoes and pretty things. Dedicated sports channels are even worse; local guy I can pass because local market guy, the sports channels have no excuse. Either two over the top personalities out yelling each other, pretty boys talking about personalities and nice hands, or a covey retired athletes who after drawing straws to pick a team mumble platitudes and generic stock phrases disguised as keys to the game.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-11-06 18:28|| 2017-11-06 18:28|| Front Page Top

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