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| The Left's (Brilliant) Scam Behind The NFL Anthem Protests |
| 2017-09-27 |
| BLUF: [Hot Air] With that complete lack of engagement in professional football, why would Jonathan and so many of his progressive colleagues be so completely driven to support and gin up protests taking place on the gridiron? Why did they suddenly care so much about the intersection of racial identity politics and football? The answer is that they don’t. This has little or nothing to do with police shootings, racial profiling or any of the rest of it. What we’re seeing is an almost brilliant and concerted effort to damage, if not eliminate, the National Football League. Why? Because the activist Left has despised the NFL for years. They hate everything about it. It’s a game filled with big, tough, manly men engaging in the closest thing to warfare you can manage without guns. It’s a game rife with symbolism and, yes... nationalism. Even people who would never buy an album from a country singer could feel their blood heating up when Hank Williams used to sing, Are you Ready for Some Football. The military loves football and they fly jets over the stadiums in formation and send our nation’s finest out to pay tribute. And it’s not just the military. Our police and other first responders are frequently called out for honors at the games. Everything about it screams of apple pie, fireworks and patriotism. (Or, if you prefer, God, guns and flags.) And the activist Left hates it. Probably the only sporting event they despise more is NASCAR. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 I'm glad San Diego didn't pony up the money for a stadium for a team that will circle the drain like the rest of the NFL as this continues and fear of microconcussions start to starve the system of young players. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-09-27 22:32 |
| #2 As a Lifelong San Diego Chargers fan, I really now understand it's a business. FUCK the NFL. You run it like a business, then remember sometimes businesses fail. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-09-27 20:30 |
| #1 The NFL is its own creation and its own fault. It quite being sports competition for personality driven entertainment some time back, birthing fantasy football as a way to interest fans in games they would normally not watch or care about other than rankings. Sports entertainment coverage pushed this as well, and not just ESPN. The talking heads did not help as their coverage of an event strayed further and further from the event they were supposed to be covering and into politics and culture, but the NFL opened that door with the identity themes such as breast cancer month. They also let themselves be pushed around by the players' union which is why the NFL won't and can't do anything about this except ride the tiger. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-09-27 19:42 |