re: Why is the NFL intent on destroying itself?

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I know this will sound unbelievable to some, perhaps most here. But there was a time when Monday Night Football was about football and only football.

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Cosell and the boys had plenty of celebrity guests.

Burt Reynolds, John Wayne, William Shatner, and Richard Long, the co-star of ABC’s sitcom “Nanny and the Professor” were among many who clogged the booth to promote new movies or shows.

From a 2006 article addressing similar claims of recent celebrity interruptions:

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Cosell and his ABC Sports partners, Frank Gifford and Don Meredith, and subsequent “Monday Night” teams often played host to stars, before and during the game and at halftime.

At ABC, the “Monday Night” booth was every bit as star needy as ESPN’s is now. It is fascinating, then, to hear cries that ESPN’s second-quarter celebrity fun house is a ridiculous distraction from the game or blatant cross-promotion of other parts of the Disney programming complex.

Nothing is new about this. ESPN is deploying the 2006 version.

In earlier days, celebrities talked while the action was ongoing and intruded on Gifford’s play calling.

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NY Times

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Do you not realize the irony behind what you’re saying here?

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Please explain it because I'm not seeing it

MNF was a real event, back then.

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but otherwise, football play included, it’s pretty boring.

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I have had that problem for quite a few years now. Gameplay is just boring despite at one time, being a heavy duty football fanatic. No real involvement left in game combined with the woke environment has basically killed off football for me.

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Please explain it because I’m not seeing it

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These overemotional tards want to melt and feel like victims. That's their raison d'etre in life now

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The same exact thing can be said for every professional athlete who has gone ‘woke’

The same… exact…. thing


Sick conservative burn though

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The same exact thing can be said for every professional athlete who has gone ‘woke’

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But you didn't read the rest of the post, apparently, and can't seem to understand irony either.

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Help me understand.

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There are people that watch the NFL that have different sensibilities than you, and they think he's funny.

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NFL's current race fetish did it for me. Watching the largest assembly of twenty-something black millionaires on Earth remind me to 'End Racism' is a tragic farce.

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The NFL does more to show support for the military than any other league. The NFL had that one period where they did the whole "end racism". They know their audience. And I think the idea is that because the players have a voice, they used it to show support towards something they thought was important.

And when all of that was going on, people paid attention to those who kneeled. There might have been two weeks where most of the players kneeled, but if you paid attention every weekend, it was maybe 25% of the players who did it.

If you saw a truck with the American Flag bolted to the middle of the truck and it hand Trump on the American flag would that offend you? BTW, there is someone who passed by my houses every once in awhile who has this. I don't care, people can do whatever they want.. But if you are concerned about people disrespecting the flag, something like that should piss you off more than people kneeling. That is, if you knew the code of the flag.

I just don't get all of this finding every reason to be mad at the NFL.

They do a lot to show support for breast cancer.

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Buck and aikman are lib idiots too.

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Yeah this isn't true.

It blows my mind that this shite aggravated people. He has a show on ABC so it’s simply a glorified ad. Who gives a shite?? It’s ok that people have different political opinions baw.