Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Maybe this is intentional

A crazy thought crossed my mind during the night. The NFL has been beset with a myriad of problems. The league has shelled out millions to prima donna's who squander the money. Many leave the league with little or nothing. Then they run head first into reality, they wasted four, sometimes five years in college and never got a marketable skill, they are beat up from injuries, and most of them aren't going to become sports casters.
Many of them have suffered traumatic brain injuries, many others didn't have much to begin with. They are coming back, suing the league, and owners are set to be on the hook for billions of dollars owed to people who with out football would never have gotten beyond garbage collectors to begin with. It could be only a matter of time until colleges also are in the spot light. While the NFL contains only a thousand or so players, many thousands more vied for those coveted slots and failed. Some of those kids suffered injuries as serious as the professionals. What happens if they sue the schools? What happens if they sue the league pointing out that they were injured while competing for one of those coveted slots? Even if they lost, it could cost the NFL millions to defend.
This could turn into the next big tobacco, just on a smaller scale.
We used to think the NFL was about the money. The value of the teams has sky rocketed in recent years. Jerry Jones has the most valuable team in the NFL and he issued a proclamation that his players would respect the flag. He capitulated when a nothing player, David Irving was blatantly disrespectful and did not bench him for it.
The NFL is hemorrhaging fans like they have been guillotined. Lost fans means lost advertising revenue. The stadiums are emptying out and viewers are discovering they have other better things to do than watch a bunch of anti-American rabble gladiators. Jerry's team, once valued at $4.8 billion might soon be back to his original purchase price, $150 million, and not adjusted for inflation either.
This may sound crazy, but maybe they intend the consequences we are seeing. Two year from now may see an entirely different NFL, Teams may be paying only a small percentage of what they shell out now, $10 million instead of $196 million.
Will fans forgive them in a few years? I know I won't. I used to love watching football. I have switched off even the college games. I alone will not hurt Pepsi, Budweiser, or McDonalds, but millions of fans putting heir money where their mouth is will cost them much.
Virtue signaling is important these days. It is a trade mark of the leftists. The team owners are globalists, the advertisers are mostly globalists. I am beginning to think they would go broke before they would admit defeat. The notion is nothing new, our founding fathers pledged their lives wealth and sacred honor to the cause of liberty, these ass hats seem to be doing the same to the cause of Satanic globalism. I think Jerry Jones is a committed Marxist cloaked as a capitalist. Their actions speak volumes, and their inaction screams like a banshee.

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