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Was at a bar watching NFL with the bros when they kept showing his fucking face.
We tried to ignore it at first but they just kept showing it.
We started loudly booing. At one point I shouted "WHY AM I BEING FORCED TO STARE AT A FELON RAPIST JUST TO WATCH FOOTBALL?"
This bar is in California, but I guarantee some conservatives were there. Too bad. They're filth and are putting felons and rapists on television during football games. I don't give a fuck if it hurts their feeling for me to say this shit in a public space. Decorum goes out the window when you're forcing sports fans to sit and listen to a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and insurrectionist.
The NFL is getting pretty fucking gross. Just in the last few weeks they've put a felon rapist on the air, one of their ex-quarterbacks stabbed an old man, and a new player ran from the cops and then blew his brains out.
The fuck is going on with that organization?
I feel like the problems you listed with the NFL have always been there, you may have just glazed over them since it only involved the organization and players\coaches and not a president.
You can destroy my country, subjugate it's people, but don't you dare mess with my football!
This is why we shouldn't have any monopolies on any sport. NFL is only big thing for Football, etc
My two-cents on the matter: The NFL's relationship with problematic decisions and/or optics, have been a thing for a long time now.
You forgot Pedophile.
One could stop supporting an already problematic organization.
My Dad had season tickets for an NFL team for 25 years, and we went to a LOT of games together. Then the team suddenly moved, and it was heart-breaking. We got another team, but it wasn't the same.
In the late-90s, I started my own company, and since I had to carve a lot of time out of my life, I gave up sports once and for all. I haven't watched an entire game of any sport in over 25 years, and I haven't missed it.
My only major sports indulgence today is the Olympics.
Thanks for the story. I played football in highschool but the adoption and amplification of jingoist bullshit in the 90s removed any interest I had in it.
Curious: Cardinals and Rams?
Hah, gotcha! It was the Cleveland Browns. I don't even care about sports any more but I still hate the Ravens and Bill Bellichek, who turned out to be even more of a massive dickhead than we always thought.
Yeah, a big part of why I was able to stay away was because of the whole commercial circus around pro sports. Now they have to have big parties for the drafts, etc. It's gross.
And frankly, the REAL reason sports is so big these days is because of gambling. The wealthy want to get your money any way they can, so now they have us betting on the Circuses part of the Bread & Circuses.
They market strongest to young men, hoping to turn them into gambling addicts when they are young, so they can waste their lives throwing away any disposable income they encounter.
They're also working on figuring out a way to get us to pay some exorbitant price for the Bread part.
Rich motherfuckers ruin everything.
That's where bankrupting farmers comes in. They bankrupt smaller farms and buy up the land. Billionaires have been buying arable land all over the place for a while now and then there's also the agribusiness conglomerates gobbling up farms and land wherever they can.
They've commodified every aspect of survival so now their only options are to squeeze and concenrrate. Fitting that there's an orange at the helm.