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If you’re right-wing and you’re still watching the NFL, WHY?????

Tuesday, 26 September 2017, 16:44 BFH Uncategorized 95

The NFL is as anti-American as it gets.

You’re not only watching a goodly amount of millionaire thugs running up and down the field, idiots who are drug-addled wife beaters, who will most likely be broke the day they retire because they can’t resist running around looking like Liberace, you’re lining the pockets of owners who are subsidized by our taxes.

You’re also forcing people who do not watch football to pay for it in their cable bills.

The NFL has become more and more politicized because of their relationship with the government. And, as we know, there are only very few good guys in the government. The rest hate the principles of the founding fathers.

So, please, stop watching it.

Daniel Greenfield can explain this position far better than I.

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Oh, by the way.. If you are planning on continuing to watch the NFL, could you step up in the comments and explain that position so that maybe you can persuade others that we’ve influenced to change their minds and continue watching it as well?

We’ve made our case. It’s only fair we provide the forum to make yours.

 

ht/ annie

 

95 Comments on If you’re right-wing and you’re still watching the NFL, WHY?????

  1. I will watch the game Thursday nite, it’s the Pack vs the Bears, and my daughter will be visiting. Maybe the last game I watch.
    Notice how the networks are showing the Anthem now that some thugs are ‘protesting’? For years it’s been another commercial break.

  3. Death to the NFL.
    Rot in H*ll!
    (sounds like a cute chant;
    pity the Right isn’t into that sort of silly stuff…heh)

    What really gets me (and I’m not even close to what you’d call a football – or any sort of sports – fan…unless you call drinking a sport) was the PITTSBURGH STEELERS’ owner say* that, by not going onto the field, they didn’t *intend* to show any disrespect…. Fine! I hope Pittsburghers show the same degree of NO DISRESPECT by NOT SHOWING UP AT THEIR GAMES!!!

    * BS Money Quote: “The intentions of Steelers players were to stay out of the business of making political statements by not taking the field. Unfortunately, that was interpreted as a boycott of the anthem – which was never our players’ intention.”
    SEE: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/09/fire-your-players-art.html

  5. I find that my right wing NFL fanatic friends are a tad on the dumb side. They actually think that stupid stunt by Jerry Jones was “shrewd” and made all this bullshit okay. They love that stupid game so much that they don’t even give a shit that it is the most corrupt, trickle-up, fuck the average taxpayer in the ass scam since public unions.

  8. I’ve tried to think of a reason to watch NFL football and intelligently explain my position.
    I got nuthin’.
    I am ashamed even watching commercials touting the NFL’s next so called big game between the oppressed Kneelers Vs Squealers or the Wife Beaters Vs Felons.

  10. Never cared for it, myself.
    Only sports I watch are Tour de France and maybe figure skating. Classical figures, not the present day crap. They eliminated the classical figures because they are ‘too difficult.’
    So, does the left realize they are playing with a pig skin there? It is only name now, but it represents a pig skin.
    Hey mohamed- catch!

  11. We can cripple them overnight with a united front. MOST NFL fans are right-wing.
    And it shames me to still see the people in the stands cheering these FUCKING IDIOTS.

    To be honest, I was already not giving a crap about football because of the celebration dances and street thug element.

    The attitude is not at all like my own sensibilities, so what is it am I rooting for?
    You really, really wont miss it. I promise you.

  13. I watch football because I like football. The NFL has been pissing me off for years, not necessarily because of the politics, but because of constant rule changes and the never number of penalties they call during a game. There is becoming less flow to the game and it’s frustrating. It’s like getting on a roll watching Jeopardy only to have the game paused when someone picks the Daily Double square. It kills the flow.

    If assholes want to be douches and kneel during the anthem, have at it. I don’t like it, but I sure as shit don’t think people should be forced to show faux patriotism “or else” either. If showing patriotism to a flag, or anthem, or whatever becomes mandatory, then it basically becomes absolutely meaningless. Imagine if your boss required you to, I dunno, stand at attention every morning for 30 seconds to listen to one of Obama’s speeches, and if non-compliant, you would be fired. I don’t think anyone here would like that one bit. Before you get pissed off, I am NOT comparing the Anthem to one of Obama’s stupid speeches. I guess the question is: Can/should a company or organization force employees to partake in patriotic events? I love our flag, anthem and country. I would absolutely 100% of the time stand at attention and show a level of respect. Heck, even when Obama was president, I still maintained that level of respect towards our country. I don’t know how I would feel if the person standing next to me was only doing it just to keep their job.

  18. The way I see it, if you watch the NFL or any other sports team/enterprise — either on the tee vee or in the stadium, you’re not entitled to whine about losing the culture war in this country. You’re just not. So shut up about the rest of it because what is happening right now in stadiums across the land is as culture war as it could ever get — until McDonald’s and Coke-a-Cola take a knee, too. And if you haven’t yet watched that guy burn his $450.00 leather Steelers jacket and about $1,500. worth of the rest of his Steelers crap, you should. He is eloquent.

    CoD has it right about the BS Steelers statement. It’s a time for choosing, not for hiding in the locker room. That goes for the rest of us.

  19. I cancelled my football package today.
    It was the one thing I liked to do after Church and the liberals
    even took that away from me.
    Take a Knee and pee like a dog the GMEN are dead to me.
    Wish everyone would do what I did.

  20. …as an added bonus that will warm the cockles of your heart, lost NFL revenue/eyeballs will have a chain reaction on their advertisers AND Comcast. It’ll be a three- or four-fer.

  23. I said it before. The people in the stands have already paid for their tickets to the gamr. So whst good does it do to get up and walk out? Just dont go….dont buy tickets. Stsy home and watch reruns on television. You will be more happy

  24. Can you live without the NFL? Sure, Los Angeles did that for 20 years. Even during that period of time, there was no great clamor to bring back the NFL to LA.

    The NFL lost me a long time ago – even before the Rams and Raiders left LA. I can’t afford decent seats in a NFL stadium, and if I buy seats I can afford, I’m actually looking down at the Goodyear blimp. Add in the exorbitant parking fees and the outrageous concessions, and all of a sudden my $100 greens fees once a week seems like a bargain.

    As ESPN is learning the hard way, programming is changing and this will impact the NFL. More and more customers are ditching cable television, and eventually companies will have to go to cable on demand to compete with the internet providers. Personally, I think that catering to a left wing base in order to support sports and sports programming is a stupid business model – particularly in a changing programming environment – but I’ll let the NFL make that call. In the meantime, the only kneeling I plan on seeing on Sunday afternoon is my golf partner trying to line up a 10 foot putt.

  25. TO Just pass’n thru

    I dunno…you’re talking about season ticket holders, I assume?
    IF enough people went (anyway) and – when the players did their dumb thang – GOT UP and WALKED OUT after their insult, that would send a powerful message…but only IF the media were to show it (which they likely wouldn’t).

  26. You can still get scores without watching. lol

    I used to wonder how people could stand to not have a TV in their house. Then a few years back, I stopped watching mine. Sure I flip it on now and again for some background noise but I’m not really “watching.” Hollywood wants to spend more time telling me what to think and when to think it instead of providing quality ORIGINAL entertainment, so be it. But I’m not interested.

  27. The last full pro games anyone in our household watched were Da Bears when Ditka was coach, the Fridge, and Da Bears did the schuffle or whatever it was called.

    I never watched since then. DH has watched bits and pieces of Bears and Packers through the years. No way, no more.

  29. Somebody sent this to me:
    Dear Commissioned Goodell;
    We will not support millionaire ingrates who hate America and disrespect our Armed Forces, Veterans, and police.
    Who wins a football game has ZERO input in our lives.
    We stand with the real heroes, not a bunch of rich, entitled, arrogant, ungrateful, anti-American degenerates.
    Signed, We The People.

  31. What I would like to see is one player, just ONE, call it quits.
    ( It won’t happen). But I would love to see one high profile player rip up his contract, take the loss, and say, ” The game is no longer a game and I will not surround myself with people who choose to dishonor our country”.

  32. We covered this. Football is gay. If the gays want their own sport, I see no reason to deny them. Let all the proud gay football fans enjoy whatever it is they do at gay football games.

    insert wink wink here.

  33. I can’t join the NFL boycott because I haven’t been watching for years. I never turn it on at home, and when I’m in somebody else’s house where pro football’s playing, it just doesn’t grab my attention. Well, bouncing cheerleaders do tend to catch my eye but I prefer NHL’s ice girls.

    If I’m in the mood for mayhem and beer, I hit the refrigerator and stream a kung fu movie.

  35. Does the NFL make any money off fantasy football? Just wondering. I don’t know how any of that works. But if I did play FF, I think it’d be real hard to boycott real football.

  36. The NBA in the 80s was tough, brutal defensive combat in the paint, now each game is a defense-less all-star exhibition.

    The NFL used to be tough. Used to have a defense, now it is rendered toothless, and it’s pass pass pass every down.

    Both leagues have High School dumb jocks that act entitled. WASTE OF TIME to go to a game, and season ticket holders are fools. Yes, it’s hard to get them back, but it’s better to have your soul, more money, and lots of free time rather than support something that is destructive.

  37. No way would I watch. Never have never will.Don’t like it at all. I am all for the walk out, This is the perfect time to take a stand.We taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize any of this crapola.Time to turn off the TV
    as well. You’ll feel better.

  38. Abigail Adams: “CoD has it right about the BS Steelers statement. It’s a time for choosing, not for hiding in the locker room.”

    They’re stealing the narrative on that. They boycotted the entire ceremony- as in refused to participate, either positively, or negatively. It was an action through inaction as Chuang tzu would say.

  40. I think Jerry Jones and the Cowboys stunt was Jerry trying to have his cake and eat it too. Very disappointed, but I haven’t watched them play in years. I just don’t care anymore.

  41. Toby Miles — Precisely. And they can’t pull the old Artful Dodger play either by saying they only wanted to “keep out of the argument.” And I guess that’s what I was saying. They are in the argument and their absence was a tacit agreement with the kneelers.

  42. I’ve never been a fan of any sport. It always seemed idiotic to me to waste my time watching other people play games.

    Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Tennis, Soccer: all that shit puts me right to sleep. Football was at least mildly entertaining – there was something going on that wasn’t just “a bunch of guys running from one end of a field to the other”. But even so, I was just there for the beer and hot wings.

    So I won’t be watching any more NFL games. But for me it’s no great loss.

  43. “In a sign of the times, the National Football League recently became the first premier U.S. sports league to launch its own pay-to-enter fantasy sports contests. These NFL fantasy football leagues are being dubbed “NFL Fantasy Ultimate Experience Leagues.” They include league entry fees ranging from $10.99 to $124.99 and offer prizes that include pro football memorabilia.

    The NFL’s decision to enter the fantasy football marketplace is likely fueled by the rapid growth of fantasy football, as well as an increased understanding of the hobby’s colossal revenue potential.”

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/marcedelman/2014/07/22/nfl-launches-pay-to-enter-fantasy-football-in-43-states/amp/

    Another revenue stream to be dried up.

  44. I’m a huge Packers fan, but will not be watching the game Thursday night. I will go to a meditation class and relax. Will certainly be better than raising my blood pressure a few notches.

  47. I was a fan for decades. This goes back to when the redskins were the powerhouse of the nfl and the patriots were the worst team in the league. That’s a long time ago.

    I’ve been to many games. I was once a season ticket holder.

    It’s just over. I don’t care.

    Ours was always a curious and tenuous relationship.
    You distanced yourself from me while asking for more and more of my money. Let’s call it what it is.

    An abusive relationship. It’s over.

  48. @Aaron Burr – Most NHL teams have a squad of attractive and attractively attired young ladies who come out on the ice with big shovels and clean up the skate shavings during advertising breaks. Their job is to do a minor cleanup between the Zamboni runs between periods.

    Alas, they are on the ice while the teevee is telling us how to be happier people if we’d only buy their crap, so the ice girls are rarely televised. But if you DuckDuckGo search on “NHL ice girls” and ask for images, you will be pleased at what you see!

    You’re welcome

  49. Oh and that whole wearing pink for breast cancer awareness shit? You look like a bunch of queers.
    And this whole term “awareness” is stupid on
    Stilts. People have been AWARE of breast cancer for millennia. Not that they could do anything about it necessarily.
    And Like there is no other kind of cancer. Wear brown for colon cancer. I don’t know what color to wear for prorate cancer, blood cancer, and all the other cancers.

    Wow. Whoops. I’ve been triggered.
    There are a lot of pent up grievances here, and we haven’t even gotten to the excruciatingly awful
    National anthem performances and halftime shows.

    I’ll stop now.

  51. I’m out. The Giants are the only team I follow and it will be tough.

    Political tweets and statements by players have caused me to lose respect for some players but I always believed that they were a centrist team overall.

    Well, they have proved me wrong and the fish has been shown to rot from the head to tail. I want to be entertained and forget politics when I watch.

    What idiots ! All of them.

  53. I used to watch every game available during football season. Watched my Cowboys last night because I have for 57 years but that is the only game I will see this week.

  58. If they won’t stand for the national anthem, I won’t sit and watch them. And I was a huge Patriots (merchandise buying) fanatic. No more!

    NASCAR lost me with their hypocritical “green” initiative.

    Now it’s the NFL with this disrespectful crap. I’m not alone. Can you hear us NFL?

  59. A lot of people continue to watch because it’s a habit-,often a decades-long one,that has emotional and tradition components-sort of in the manner of
    Christmas traditions.
    .
    The other is that people attach their individual and community egos to these teams as if the paid athletes’ success or failure is theirs
    .
    Once you break the habit and also realize the emptiness and foolishness of relating your ego to the overpaid, no-neck, sweaty dummies playing an inconsequential game you’ll never look back.

  63. Dang. Looks like there’s nothing left but hacky sack and ultimate frisbee. (-:

    Just kidding. Decent fall-back positions include rugby, lacrosse, and hurling. And although it simply isn’t televised this far north (and not much way down south), there’s the terrific Argentine sport Pato. Think of polo without the mallets and with a large ball with leather loop handles. Click for some images. “Pato” is spanish for duck (the water fowl) and the game, which was first played over 400 years ago, was played with a live duck in a basket instead of a ball. Here‘s a photo of a player picking the ball up. Imagine an opposing team player riding in the opposite direction also trying to pick up the ball. It takes leatherier balls to play pato than to play rugby.

  64. Way back in January 1967, when I saw the first Super bowl, I made a commitment to watch the first 50, after which I would review my options

    I hung around for one last Super Bowl and boy was I glad I did. But now that the NFL has pulled this bullshit, I’m thinking, “Why not make that overtime Super Bowl the last game I ever watch — it’s perfect.”

  67. BTW, I knew SJW bullsh*t was afoot about eight years ago, when players were required to don pink for “Breast Cancer Awareness” Which got me to wondering about two things

    Is there actually a single woman in America who isn’t aware of breast cancer?

    If there actually is one, is making an NFL player wear something pink the best way to get this moron’s attention?

  71. Bman-
    Can/should a company or organization force employees to partake in patriotic events?

    No.
    But they could fire them for doing the exact opposite. Grandstanding to make the political point that
    America is racist is their right. And actions come with consequences in the private sector.
    If the owners are unwilling to request that they knock it off on company time, then we, who strongly disagree with their political point, should do the work the owners are unwilling to do.

  75. Why does EVERYTHING. I mean everything, Even the littlest things have to be so complicated? Watching the nfl on Sunday was as complicated as baking a frozen pizza.

    It’s gone beyond ridiculous.

    I hate the killjoy left. You fuck up everything you are near.

  77. The team owners meet every Spring.
    It is hard to believe that they weren’t smart enough to know this shit wasn’t going to go away.
    Did they think that if nobody hires Kaepernick the shit would stop?
    For fucking billionaires they are goddamn naive idiots.

  78. What pisses me off the most is that Black people in the US in 2017 are the most fortunate any Africans have ever been in history. It’s absurd to act like they are under attack from police or being systemically discriminated against

  80. Boycott watching NFL games? FUCK! Now I’m going to have to deal with more boaters staying on the water all day instead of leaving my fishing spots starting about 90 minutes before the sorry-ass Ain’ts play in the afternoon.

    Damn you, Those. Are. MY. Fish.!

  81. What we see is LBJ’s great society come to fruition. How many of the thug players and coaches grew up with a father. They use drugs, beat up women and ignore laws because they are “heros” hah. Started watching in the 70s but stopped when Pittsburg hire an affirmative action coach/thug. F em.

  82. I’m boycotting football games because the NFL is now a leftist plantation, enabling and manipulating black thugs who have absolutely no idea what a privilege it is to be an American. Thugs so ignorant they are clueless of the rich history, blood, sweat and tears shed by black American patriots from the beginning. These foolish, childish men humiliated the whole nation standing for the flag and anthem of a foreign country. On top of that, I’m sick of seeing all black sports teams – it’s trite. Where’s the variety?
    Evil catalytic leftist leadetship fostered this behavior as retaliation for conservatives and other normal people not allowing a monster, Hellary Clinton to become president. Well, buckle up, the fight for the soul of the United States of America is on, and everyone will have take sides.

  83. 99th — “…the fight for the soul of the United States of America is on, and everyone will have to take sides.”

    Besides being a great comment in total, this statement is completely true. In every great contest in this country, in the end, there is no Switzerland.

  84. I’m with BFH on this one, you truly won’t miss it. For many years my family were NFL fanatics. Our kids grew up watching the NFL, I still have many memories that make me smile, like my son when he was a year old and started dancing to Monday Night Football(eventually as everyone knows they had to punish Hank Jr and that ended all my rowdy friends, which was the start of me becoming sick of the NFL), something that continued through his toddler years. We all had our favorite team.
    We got Sunday Ticket the very first year it came out and kept it for years.
    Over the years though the rules kept changing and there was less hitting, less defense, it literally started turning into a pansy league. Then all of the politics that were being forced down your throat, it wasn’t as blatant and obvious as it is now, but it was there. The ignorance of players on the field and off the field.
    I was the first in my family to quit watching and family and friends laughed because I was probably the biggest fanatic, nobody thought I’d do it.
    I haven’t missed it at all. My husband and sons continued to watch, my husband slowly starting watching less and less. Sunday Ticket was canceled and it became even less, mainly just MNF and when his team was on tv. Then because of all the disrespect to the anthem, it became just when his team was playing. Sunday was his last straw and he says he’ll never turn it on again.

  85. I miss football, I miss Hack Saw Reynolds. I miss Deacon Jones, Roman Gabriel, Merlin Olson, Joe Montana, Bart Star, Etc, Etc. And I really missed Howie Long. What a bad ass. Until I watched his kid. Howie, you should have beat his ass a few more times.

  87. @Thirdtwin: I play fantasy football with my kids and their friends. Although the NFL is starting to jump into this particular pond, most of the FF geeks use non-NFL platforms and services for this particular form of entertainment, and most people play for free.

    Fantasy football is really not good for the NFL. Participants pick players from all teams, and whether or not the Bears or the Packers win or lose on any given Sunday is irrelevant. It’s not necessary to watch any of the games, and the FF platforms track each players statistics for you. You may care less about the Saints, but Drew Brees throwing for 400 yards and 3 touchdowns is good for your fantasy team; in fact, so long as “your” player is doing well, you really don’t care about the actual outcome of the game or the league standings.

    Many NFL players and most of the head coaches hate fantasy football. But, except for the die hard gamblers on Fan Duel or Draft Kings, its just entertainment between a group of people.

  91. blm will storm the field at halftime one of these days. Or the BB courts.

    @Jerry M, i watched as many USFL games as i could. It was more fun watching those than NFL even in the late 70’s.

  93. Can’t boycott what I’ve never watched.

    In Ann Barnhardt’s memorable (though recanted) phrase: Football is “A bunch of retarded giants chasing a ball around a field.”

    Enjoyed playing baseball, football, tennis, racquetball, and some other stuff, but never could get into watching them – seemed like a big chunk of lost time.

    izlamo delenda est …

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