re: Good Luck, Goodbye, and Good Riddance!

I’m a huge supporter of 9 inch, but I can’t for the life of me even attempt to give two fricks over this issue. Let them protest. Who cares. I just picked up my box seat tickets tonight for the preaseason game.

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In my opinion, anyone who chooses to shite on my country over a bullshite narrative that doesn't even resemble reality, can go frick themselves with a cactus.

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We get it, your virtue signaling for your God Emperor is crystal clear.

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The NFL will carry on and those protesting it will eventually grow up and more than likely start watching again at some point.



The WNBA carries on as well. To each their own. All I know for certain is that the player's bullshite, and the NFL's reaction to it, has resulted in at least a dozen avid football fans in my family refusing to watch a single minute of NFL football for the last 2 years. At this point, I don't think I would watch it, even if they got their shite together.

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We're all so very proud of you and your accomplishment.

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The NFL will carry on and those protesting it will eventually grow up and more than likely start watching again at some point.

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It is those who are acting like "grown ups" that are pointing out how important to the nations fabric it is to honor the sacrifices made under the U.S. flag.

Protest on your own time and dime, not mine.

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It is those who are acting like "grown ups" that are pointing out how important to the nations fabric it is to honor the sacrifices made under the U.S. flag.

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Sacrifices for what, free speech?

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Protest on your own time and dime, not mine.

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That's exactly what they were doing. How is that your time?

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If you get paid ridiculous amounts of money to play a game, and can turn around and shite on the country and people who make that possible, you can't separate that from patriotism and decency. In my opinion, anyone who does it, or supports it, is neither decent, nor patriotic.

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You may need a history lesson as to what freedoms are available to us in the US and why the founding fathers thought they were important enough to take care of at the onset of the founding of the country.

I am not sure you understand what freedom is, nor do you seem to want to think outside your narrow little box.

No one is shitting on your country. The people that defend our freedoms have overwhelmingly said they support he rights of the players to do as they feel.

The NFL will continue to thrive.

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I'm going to actively withhold any and all support for anyone associated with it.

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So you boycott Nike, Budweiser, Miller, Coke, and every other sponsor of the NFL in every city, in every stadium? I bet you dont. I also bet you will say that you do.

And what does it matter how much money they make? Are some citizens of the US more important in your eyes if they have high earnings?

Damn, I clicked on this thinking it was an IB Freeman Goodbye Thread...

Carry on...

I liked Blondie much better.

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This isn’t the 1950’s and the protest just doesn’t resonate and it needs to be reconstituted in another form if they truly want to effectuate change, but I am not convinced that is what the players really want anyway.

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All the more reason for people to ignore it and watch what they want to watch.

At the best, there is positive social change. At the worst they are wasting their time.

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Honestly who gives a frick. All of pro sports is stupid. Watch it or don’t but don’t get in your feelings about it. Regardless of what anyone says, it doesn’t have to be bound up wire anybody’s sense of patriotism or decency. Not any more than hocolate cake or chewing gum does.

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This is where you and your side are wrong, and it is why you will undoubtedly lose. And by you , I mean the players are going to see the salary cap slashed when the next CBA is written.

But, and I just cannot understand why this is hard to grasp, Americans love their country. (Do I need to switch that to only Pubs at this point.) We love our country. We are PROUD of our Country. We feel BLESSED to have the freedoms and opportunities, that are RARELY found anywhere else in this world.

So, in order to protest non-provable black oppression, and DISPROVEN (by a black Harvard professor no less) racial police bias, you choose to kneel during the National Anthem. You choose to have the 1%, the richest of the richest, who achieved their fortunes through playing a children's game, as your ambassadors? And the absolute worst point of it all -- you do it at the one time, the ONE TIME, that makes this the issue.

What if players came out 15 minutes early and kneeled before the game? What if they did it at midfield after the game? No, they CHOSE the National Anthem. This was not just about Police brutality. They specifically chose to disrespect the entire country. And the NFL, they most stringent and strict league there is, ignorantly turned the other cheek. When a LAW is in the NFL handbook requiring players to be PRESENT and to STAND. It is already in the handbook. Every single player is held to these standards. Yet the NFL CHOSE to ignore this.

The deniers will not be able to keep denying forever. These protests have hurt the NFL. I have left the NFL, forever. I didn't even know the saints played last night. I am one of millions. And guess what, as long as these "oppressed geniuses" continue this nonsense, that number will grow and grow.

It seems to be the new American angle for liberally dominated entities -- piss off half of your customers (the paying half) and see what happens.