re: Super Bowl Halftime Boycott Underway

When Sundays roll around now I rarely think of the NFL and don’t watch it anymore. Once they went all in with the left it became unwatchable for me.

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Are you really boycotting something if you don't do it anyway?

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Not if you were not planning on watching it in the first place. However, many people that would otherwise watch it, won't. The NFL screws its target audience again. Seems they never learn from history.

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However, many people that would otherwise watch it, won't. The NFL screws its target audience again. Seems they never learn from history.

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Or... People that say they do not watch it, do.

Being a straight, American male, the NFL has made signals lately (with things like their woke slogans in the end zones, flamingly gay male cheerleaders and now this) that they either consider my interest such a lock that they can do anything they want without losing me as a viewer or else they simply don't care (believing it's more lucrative to appeal to fringe audiences).

Why am I going to continue to watch when they've decided to show that they either take people like me for granted or actively don't want us?

Ever since the sociopolitical BS several years ago, along with the ridiculous, skyrocketing salaries nowadays, (which led to me to season ticket cancellation), I’ve slowly weaned off and favor college football way more now. I never got into “halftime shows” anyway.

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Boycotting the halftime show and watching everything else?

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Yeah, that wouldn't be effective. The better approach would be to boycott the Super Bowl advertisers. That's were the big money is coming from and money is king.

Isn't this the waiter in Happy Gilmore 2?

I really dont get the NFL watchers. There are very few more anti-American values corporations than the NFL

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I feel like prince was a dei musician

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What?

Prince was hounded by record companies since he was 15. They pursued him for two years with him holding out because he wanted permission to produce his own records and they didn't want to give it to him.

*Finally, Warner Borthers caved and signed him telling him he could produce himself. At age 17.

On his first album, at age 19, he played every instrument on the record (**supposedly 27 different instruments) and effectively produced it himself even though Warner Bros. assigned Tommy Vicari as an "executive producer." Any advice Vicari gave, Prince simply ignored.

So on his second album they didn't even try. He played all the instruments again and this time was the official producer of record.

And so on, through a career that spanned 39 released albums and roughly 8,000 (yeah) unreleased songs in his vault were discovered after his death.

5 #1 singles, 19 Top Ten hits, 47 songs in the Hit 100, and over 150 million records sold. And that was him writing all of it and playing almost all of it by himself. Oh, yeah, and he had a 4 octave-plus vocal range. Wider than Freddie Mercury's.

Prince is the complete opposite of a "DEI musician." I don't think you could name one other musical artist in modernity who was more talented in more things and accomplished more essentially all by himself than Prince. That's frankly an absurd statement.

*Prince was notoriously good at basketball, even though he was only 5' 2". He was so good that the legend is that Warner Brothers finally caved and signed him because he threatened to try out for the L.A. Lakers if they didn't come through with an acceptable contract, and they were afraid he might make the team. Probably just a legend, but he was good enough at the sport for it to be plausible. He used to regularly challenge other bands to basketball games during the Revolution years. No one else on the Revolution could play basketball worth a flip, and Prince would play in the high heels he wore at the time, and they'd still win.

**Admittedly, the statistics of how many instruments Prince could play were padded. What they would do is list every single thing he played separately, so instead of crediting "percussion," they would list cowbell, hand cymbal, bongo, djimbe, wood block, etc. to pad the number they could claim. They did the same thing with the keyboard instruments. The keyboard is the same regardless of what model synthesizer you happen to be playing, but they would list every different synth he played.

That said, he could play all of the usual ensemble instruments for a rock/pop band: guitar, bass, drums, keyboard. He was especially good at the keyboard and was a very athletic guitar player.