Seattle Seahawks May Stage Team-Wide Protest of National Anthem... On Opening Day, <i>September 11th</i>

Seattle Seahawks May Stage Team-Wide Protest of National Anthem... On Opening Day, September 11th

I approve of things which should die killing themselves.

The financial extinction of an NFL franchise will nicely set other dominoes falling as well.

Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane, who said he plans to continue to sit during the national anthem this season, may not be doing so by himself when the team opens the regular season Sunday against Miami.
Seattle receiver Doug Baldwin said Wednesday he is also considering sitting during the anthem before Sunday’s 1:05 p.m. kickoff at CenturyLink Field while linebacker Bobby Wagner said the team has been talking about a group action.

"I have (considered it)," Baldwin said before Seattle’s practice Wednesday afternoon. "I want to make sure I get all of my ducks in a row before I do so."
While Wagner said he didn’t know if he would sit down during the anthem he said "anything we want to do, it’s not going to be individual. It's going to be a team thing. That’s what the world needs to see. The world needs to see people coming together versus being individuals."
Wagner said he couldn’t say exactly what the team might do, saying "whatever we decide to do will be a big surprise."

There will be some surprises in store for the Seattle Seahawks as well.

But watching other men exert themselves is super-conservative and manly and we should continue being good little Entertainment Consumers no matter what.

LincolnTF commented in the last thread:

About an hour ago, Doug Baldwin of the Seahawks Tweeted this..."To express a desire to bring people together, our team will honor the country and flag in a pregame demonstration of unity.". Open to interpretation but seemingly a walk-back.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 04:50 PM (2cS/G)

I think the cowards should stop being cowards and Just Do it, as Nike says. Nothing would make me happier.

It's Not Give Up Something. It's Choosing Something Better. In the comments, free range conservative says:

39 I enjoy watching professional football. But I can also enjoy boycotting professional football.
So choose wisely guys.

What I learned from the Easy Way to Quit Smoking is that cognitive behavioral reprogramming really does work.

Don't think of "quitting smoking," Alan Carr says. Think of beginning a new life as something else -- a non-smoker.

If you think you're stopping smoking, you're defining it by what you're missing.

If instead you choose to think of it as "increasing my lung capacity, available supply of money, and free time (yes, smoking takes up a lot of time)," you're defining it in terms of what you're gaining.

It makes a big difference.

I gave up football some years ago because of two things:

1. I began to felt like a child cheering on Eli Manning and Co. to have a Really Great Day when I was pretty sure Manning and Co. were not similarly sweating my blog praying, "I hope Ace writes some really good content that gets a lot of "nice post!" comments and does such a good job people tell him to take the day off."

I just began to feel like a child hero-worshipping an adult -- an adult who was actually younger than me. (I was almost 27 at the time; Manning was 26.)

2. I realized that maybe I had a better use for four and a half hours (and sometimes eight, if I watched two games) of every Sunday.

I didn't give up on football: I chose instead to spend my time more productively and thoughtfully.

And, as with breaking any bad habit: After a month of not watching football, I wondered why I'd ever bothered in the first place.

Do you have any good use for an extra free four and a half hours each week of the most precious treasure of all, Time?

I bet you do.

Fuck the media. All media. All the stupid corrupt leftist Entertainment-Political Complex enterprises. Fuck them all. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

#War.

But, but, it's TV! Alexthechick and eleven are very peeved I would dare to suggest that watching TV isn't really a great use of one's time.

I addressed them in the comments, but I thought I'd clarify here:

I'm not saying you have an obligation to stop watching the NFL. I don't think smokers have an obligation to stop smoking.
But I think it's silly to say it's somehow evil to encourage smokers to read The Easy Way to Quit Smoking, or to let people know that an extra 4.5 hours per week is a pretty nice thing.
I guess you have to decide how much you like this thing.
For me, i didn't stop watching football to make some political statement. I just realized it was a habit I wasn't particularly enjoying -- it was a Zombie Show I was watching. One of those shows you keep watching long after you have stopped taking pleasure from them, just becuase you're in the habit of watching them, and they're still on.
Zombie habits are just bad habits. If you're not really enjoying something that takes up hours of your life: stop. You will quickly find some better things. The mind wants to be engaged and to have fun. You will find fun.
I think football watching is just a Zombie habit for most. A Zombie tv show that jumped the shark years ago but it's still on and so hey, still gotta watch. Gotta see how it ends.

So basically I would not say this is any kind of obligation; I would say instead it affords an opportunity -- and opportunity you can take, or ignore, at your pleasure -- to evaluate how much you really enjoy this repetitive and dull corporate product, and if that pleasure is really greater than the pleasure you could experience from a hundred other uses of that four point five to eight hours per week.

If you decide the NFL is really just terrific, fine, go with God. You've rationally evaluated the time invested versus the pleasure received and you've determined that the accounts balance in the NFL's favor.

If, on the other hand, you find they don't quite balance... well. Then that's something to consider.

Look, all I'm really trying to do is strip something important away from institutions that despise me: That they're "cool."

You can keep watching football. Or whatever dumb tv show is the Fave Rave this month.

But the idea that these things are "cool" is what creates a sort of social default position that these are great ways to spend your free time.

But are they? What is cool about them? Can that "cool" claim be challenged, or is it forbidden that it should be challenged?*

I don't think they've earned that "cool" designator (or lost it long ago). And I think there should be a permission structure not just for people to Opt In to these Corporate Entertainment Social Bonding Opportunities, but a permission structure to Opt Out of them as well.

* I have to confess I didn't read it, but I believe Greg Gutfeld's "Not Cool" was about the questioning of -- or outright denial of -- the "coolness" of many things that our common, leftist-mediated culture insists are cool.

Not Really Sure What All the Shrieking Is About:

If I convince 8 people to not watch the NFL, in what way, exactly, does that diminish the experience for the people who still watch it?
Is it that part of the point is that it's a Networked Form of entertainmnet/social bonding in which the value of the network is proportional to the number of nodes (viewers) that are attached to it?
The NFL is never going away, so sleep easy, NFL watchers. It will always be here.
What does it matter to you if it loses viewership? It shouldn't, unless you own stock or something.

Or, the other thing I can think of: When you've defined something you do as "cool" it feels like an attack to challenge the coolness of that thing.

Well, I get that. I got pissy when people would always question why I bothered watching movies. "Why I haven't watched a movie since John Wayne died!" was a crochety comment I saw six thousand times.

And I did get angry about it. So I can't mock you for getting angry about it.

But I do think it's legitimate to question the "coolness" factor of all the tentacles of the corporate Entertainment-Political Complex.

At any rate, you are entitled to your opinion. And I'm entitled to mine.

And no cops will be descending upon you on Sunday and issuing you tickets if they catch you watching a game.

But I don't think it's a terrible thing to say, "You know, there are better hobbies out there."

One Last Point: On Pleasure-Shaming:

385 >>>363 Interesting that a football post can generate so much... passion.
I really don't get it, but that's OK.

i get it, as I confess in a new update. They feel it's "Pleasure Shaming." It is that, partly.
But still, if the NFL is going to make itself controversial to the point where people now have to have political opinions about it, then 1, that's on them and 2, I get to have my own fucking opinion on it.

Posted by: Ace at 05:03 PM

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1 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 05:04 PM (uPt3V)

2 The Philadelphia fans were onto something with batteries from the stands ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 08, 2016 05:05 PM (zc3Db)

3 That is a big pile of stupid right there

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 05:05 PM (uPt3V)

4 Anti-Americanism is the new patriotism.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 08, 2016 05:05 PM (7ZVPa)

5 Quit watching the NFL a decade or so ago and haven't missed it a second.

I'll always have college football to satisfy any needs there.

Posted by: Jollyroger at September 08, 2016 05:05 PM (t06LC)

6 Like I needed another reason to hate sports. Especially football with all their warrior on the gridiron bullshit. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Dang at September 08, 2016 05:05 PM (k0G44)

7 From the post below...

About an hour ago, Doug Baldwin of the Seahawks Tweeted this..."To express a desire to bring people together, our team will honor the country and flag in a pregame demonstration of unity.". Open to interpretation but seemingly a walk-back.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 04:50 PM (2cS/G)

Doug Baldwin of the same Seahawks led by Russell Wilson who moved his wedding because NORTH CAROLINA!!!!

Posted by: Golfman at September 08, 2016 05:06 PM (48QDY)

8 Will Texas A&M revoke the use of 12th man by Seattle? Seattle pays them for the use of it.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:06 PM (dKiJG)

9 NFL better get a handle on this or they're going to see their worst ratings since the strike.

Posted by: random lurker at September 08, 2016 05:06 PM (+tRIN)

10 This is not a protest...

Its a F'n Publicity stunt.

Posted by: Don Q. at September 08, 2016 05:06 PM (qf6WZ)

11 on this or they're going to see their worst ratings since the strike.
Posted by: random lurker at September 08, 2016 05:06 PM (+tRIN)

Wish in one hand...

Posted by: Golfman at September 08, 2016 05:07 PM (48QDY)

12 Awesome. One more reason to not watch any football. F*** the NFL. F*** Roger Goodell, and F*** YOU to each and every player.

Oh, and let us not forget any and all the sponsors of these games. They need to hear from us -if they wish to continue to support teams/players in their endeavor, then they have seen the last of our $$$$.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2016 05:07 PM (jxbfJ)

13 What particular ducks does one have to line up in order to decide whether to sit or stand?

Posted by: Cantankerous at September 08, 2016 05:07 PM (326rv)

14 Go after every single sponsor.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:07 PM (dKiJG)

15 "I have (considered it)," Baldwin said before Seattle's practice Wednesday afternoon. "I want to make sure I get all of my ducks in a row before I do so."

Attaboy, chicken shit. Wait to see if you can do it with impunity, but first mouth off about it so you at least score some SJW points regardless.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:08 PM (SRKgf)

16 Ship these losers to a country more free and more generous than the US.

In fact, make sure they can never return here to this despicable nation that citizens of other countries avoid like the plague.

Posted by: Trump's Stubby Fingers at September 08, 2016 05:08 PM (SJ184)

17 Well after all their coach is that renowned 9/11 truther Pete Carroll.

Posted by: random lurker at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (+tRIN)

18 Sorry to go O/T so soon, but I got willowed on the last thread. Saw this over at Zip's place. It's heartwarming gives me hope for the future.
http://tinyurl.com/zzwtsxe

Posted by: Old Blue at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (9iR5/)

19 OH NO.

NO.

NO.

NO.

Posted by: Richard Sherman at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (xVRrG)

20 What particular ducks does one have to line up in order to decide whether to sit or stand?

--

AFLAC endorsement deal pending?

Posted by: scofflaw_x at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (f0RRr)

21 I gave up on Pro-football decades ago. I had already gave up on pro-baseball and never had an "up" on criminal ball. There are no pro sports that I follow now.

As far as I am concerned the NFL can die in a fire.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (mpXpK)

22 Doug Baldwin of the same Seahawks led by Russell Wilson who moved his wedding because NORTH CAROLINA!!!!
Posted by: Golfman at September 08, 2016 05:06 PM (48QDY)

Who was the lucky guy he married?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (SRKgf)

23 Fuck 'em.. go to fucking Canada or South America somewhere and see why kind of salaries you get there, you rich fucking pussy assholes.

That's one more team I will not be watching this year.. it's my personal protest.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (so+oy)

24 Yep. Nothing demonstrates individual freedom of thought like joining with other to carry off a protest.

Posted by: Trump's Stubby Fingers at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (SJ184)

25 I'm beginning to think an average IQ of 85 is off on the high side.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:10 PM (SRKgf)

26 "The world needs to see people coming together versus being individuals."
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That's funny, I don't see them going all "we are the world" when it comes time to hand out those multi-million $$ contracts they get.

Posted by: Azathoth at September 08, 2016 05:10 PM (NhQpw)

27 Yeah, you're right, just go ahead and let your activist flags fly.

There's nothing stopping them from talking about this off the field, buy hey, if they want to force it on NFL fans, then NFL fans can start a conversation about how awesome it is to spent your Sunday afternoons hiking, reading, whatever, and fun ways to spendg the money saved from cancelling their NFL season pass....

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:11 PM (NOIQH)

28 24 Yep. Nothing demonstrates individual freedom of thought like joining with other to carry off a protest.
Posted by: Trump's Stubby Fingers at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (SJ184)

"These are my principles, and I can do no other, unless of course others won't do with me, in which case I'll shut the fuck up and pretend I never said this."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:11 PM (SRKgf)

29 Stupid.

I can watch football on Saturday instead of Sunday you know.

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:11 PM (xVRrG)

30 The Seahawks should all line up in front of a brick wall, lower their helmets and charge forward screaming "[i}Hut 123 fuck Amerikkka!"

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 05:11 PM (jBuUi)

31 The world needs to see people coming together versus being individuals."
***
So...standing together for the national anthem isn't people coming together versus being individuals?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2016 05:11 PM (X7E8f)

32 24 Yep. Nothing demonstrates individual freedom of thought like joining with other to carry off a protest.

Posted by: Trump's Stubby Fingers at September 08, 2016 05:09 PM (SJ184)

I want to be different... so I dress just like all my friends!

Posted by: Typical Teenager at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (qf6WZ)

33 What exactly have any of these players done to improve the lot for the black community - especially since they have won life's lottery with there 7-8 digit salaries?

I refuse to be lectured by the likes of them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (jxbfJ)

34 Absolutely and throw your tantrum fellas.

I will make it my mission not to watch a single quarter of ball this year.

"Mission Accomplished"

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (SzZnW)

35 I hope no policemen work their security that day and I hope no military folks go either.

And I hope they get beaten 150 - 0.

Jerks.

Posted by: bluebell at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (xpSCc)

36

if only the fans would boycott going

if only the fans that show up Boo them until their eyes bleed

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (qCMvj)

37 These assholes are going to learn about the Dixie Chicks the hard way. They are in the "entertainment buisness".

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (mpXpK)

38 1) Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 05:04 PM (uPt3V)

'sup!?!

Posted by: 'sup!?! at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (SzZnW)

39 I enjoy watching professional football. But I can also enjoy boycotting professional football.

So choose wisely guys.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 05:13 PM (ZFUt7)

40 Now it is ESSENTIAL that the Seahawks and the Niners get absolutely crushed in every regular season game.

And I say that even as a resident of the Niners Fan Zone.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 05:13 PM (jBuUi)

41 About an hour ago, Doug Baldwin of the Seahawks Tweeted this..."To express a desire to bring people together, our team will honor the country and flag in a pregame demonstration of unity.". Open to interpretation but seemingly a walk-back.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 04:50 PM (2cS/G)

We don't need some retard temporarily on loan from the ghetto to "bring us together." We'll do the thinking here; you just play football. So the only people you should be "bringing together" are the 11 members of unit that is on the field.

What do you call that "get together?" Oh yeah, a "huddle."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:13 PM (SRKgf)

42 31) Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2016 05:11 PM (X7E8f)

It is a song of oppression...

no really they say that....

I am looking forward to being a defacto refugee in my own nation.

Posted by: 'sup!?! at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (SzZnW)

43 Hi bluebell - how was the beach and your trip home?

Posted by: Weasel at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (Sfs6o)

44 Stanford grad Doug Baldwin celebrated a touchdown by pretending to poop out a football in the end zone.

Posted by: joanie weston fan at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (m/Gc2)

45 I already struggle with having the interest to watch football. The Seahawks do this, they're dead to me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (6Rgp9)

46 And this hordelings, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (oiNtH)

47 Is the Women's soccer player who is doing this is from Seattle, too?

If the SJW'ers can boycott NC, how about we boycott Seattle?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (NOIQH)

48
The only reason I'd watch a Seahawks game is if I was assured that Pete Carroll would be rip to shreds and devoured on the 50 yard line by a pack of wild animals.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (493sH)

49 One amazing thing is these turkeys think we should care what they feel. The other amazing thing is that people will continue to pay them for thinking so.

Holy crap. Take off and nuke the stadium from orbit.

Posted by: HiHo at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (CPk08)

50 The newest Fredo approved commisioner will tacitly approve. There's already a month where they wear pink. Maybe rainbow uniforms next.

Posted by: OneIronMacGuffin at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (Djolt)

51 I want to be different... so I dress just like all my friends!

Posted by: Typical Teenager at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (qf6WZ)

You're unique - just like everyone else!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (SRKgf)

52 36

if only the fans would boycott going

if only the fans that show up Boo them until their eyes bleed
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM (qCMvj)

Considering the cost of tickets to NFL games, wonder how receptive the Seahawk organization is going to be to refunds?

Posted by: random lurker at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (+tRIN)

53 Ace
Megan Rapinoe when representing the US women's soccer team will continue her protest, She also called the Owner of the Washington Spirit a homophobe because they played the anthem before the players took the field and she couldn't do her protest and his team doesn't do Pride nights.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (dKiJG)

54 1
Yo!

Posted by: Yo!
........

Uno!

Posted by: Uno! at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (HgMAr)

55
I mean really.

You have a multi billion dollar property and you are just going to let SJWs just pee and poop all over it until its worthless?

Rodger Goodell has got to be one of the dumbest people on the face of the earth to make over 40 million dollars a year. He's stealing his pay check and so are these other idiots.

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (xVRrG)

56 ESPN orgasms at the thought of it.

Posted by: The NFL needs to be disciplined like Adrian Peterson's kid at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (ndGCC)

57 Is the Women's soccer player who is doing this is from Seattle, too?

If the SJW'ers can boycott NC, how about we boycott Seattle?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (NOIQH)

Starting with Shitbucks coffee

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (493sH)

58 >>>pregame demonstration of unity

Elephant walk.

Posted by: wooga at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (cbFFB)

59 So, if they're protesting against America -- doesn't that mean they are protesting against themselves?

Leftists control the government, the judiciary, the media, entertainment, academia -- just about everything, really. That IS America. So -- is that what you are protesting against?

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (jBuUi)

60 I wonder if Richard Sherman shamed them all.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (z/Ubi)

61

Wow

Fuck them

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (EzPgj)

62 I'll wipe all this away with a cloth, at least that's what my ear said to do!

Posted by: Hillary at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (IP3Af)

63 Kaepernik's jersey is the top selling NFL jersey right now. I can only hope that's because no other player has particular distinguished himself yet this season.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (ozZau)

64 Never forget that this is President Obama's Legacy.

Posted by: Fritz at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (HVQlX)

65 44 Stanford grad Doug Baldwin celebrated a touchdown by pretending to poop out a football in the end zone.
Posted by: joanie weston fan at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (m/Gc2)

Shouldn't that read Stanford "grad?"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (SRKgf)

66 I love watching NFL addicts act like they are going to do anything other than bow before for their masters.

They say funny things like, keep your powder dry. That means I'll watch football no matter how you destroy my country and culture.

Hollywood addicts do the same thing.

Lots of huffing and puffing but they will be there to watch no matter what.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (cAMfM)

67 We should start a petition to have The Dixie Chicks play the halftime show

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (uPt3V)

68 Rodger Goodell has got to be one of the dumbest people on the face of
the earth to make over 40 million dollars a year. He's stealing his
pay check and so are these other idiots.
***
All the big corporations are going SJW. The NFL seems to think they are getting more money from the GOPe class then they are the middle class and...they might be right.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (X7E8f)

69 I settle this for you Rodger. Rule change.

Anthem first. Then teams come out of the tunnel.

If they are going to act like aholes treat them like aholes.

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (xVRrG)

70 Pete Carroll is a lying cheating piece of shut who got tossed from college football, and then was rewarded with a head coaching job in the NFL. Says all you need to know about the league.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (6Ll1u)

71 Fire their happy asses and let 'em go to work at Starbucks.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (HgMAr)

72 It is a song of oppression...
--------------------
If they really believe that, then perhaps they should move to friendlier climes, say North Korea. Where they won't be oppressed.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (9iR5/)

73 Lots of internet addicts talking tough in here.

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (qUNWi)

74 47 Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (NOIQH)

I would, but it is the nearest Fry's Electronics and I am probably going to build a new PC once AMD's Zen APUs come out.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (SzZnW)

75 47 Is the Women's soccer player who is doing this is from Seattle, too?

If the SJW'ers can boycott NC, how about we boycott Seattle?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (NOIQH)

Yes

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (dKiJG)

76 They'll probably do a dance routine, and sing a number from "Hamilton," then sit out the anthem.

I just cannot fathom a rational adult listening to a single word these pampered douchecanoes utter. Who cares what you do (besides BLM)?

Posted by: Chi at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (uJy67)

77 Hi bluebell - how was the beach and your trip home?
Posted by: Weasel at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (Sfs6o)
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Howdy Weasel - we had a grand time and the temperature never got above the mid 70s. We weren't actually going to the beach, although it is a seaside town where my husband is from.

The drive back, which I thought would be awful on Labor Day, was as good as it could possibly be.

Today, with this disgusting weather, I wish I were back there.

Posted by: bluebell at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (xpSCc)

78 Bob Hope still has a great one in "I just left California where they made being gay legal. Wanted to get out before it was mandatory!" Easily substitute Seattle in there now but with more brownshirts.

Posted by: OneIronMacGuffin at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (Djolt)

79 As I said in previous thread, I really hope they sit. We need a trigger to get people out of their comfy space and fight back. I don't like the slow roll. Let's get it on now.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (cQd8v)

80 >>On Opening Day, September 11th

Well Pete Carroll is a 9/11 truther so why not.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (/tuJf)

81 Well, at least these pro football players have their college degrees to fall back on if they are booted from the NFL...

Posted by: HH at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (DrCtv)

82 The personal is per se political does not get any less ugly when I am being told that by people on "my" side.

ace, I get that you believe this. I get that you're sincere. I do. I even get the push back on this impulse. I, of all people, truly get that.

I also get that I think you have accepted the personal is per se political premise and I find it wearying to hear from all sides.

You know what? You (generic you, not you ace you) can shriek at me all you want about how I am being a good little Entertainment Consumer and how I must fight back and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

You know what I hear? How evil it is to allow a television into your home because you are supporting the works of the Devil.

You know what I hear? How evil it is to listen to secular music because you are supporting Satanists who take master pressings of a record into a secret room where sacrifices to Satan are done over the album to ensure that the secret messages backwards masked in the "music" will bring power to Satan.

You know what I hear? How dare your children go to the local public school since they are being indoctrinated in secular things and that is an abomination to the Lord.

You know what I hear? What kind of Christian are you to listen to Petra because rock music is of the Devil and it is heresy to use electric guitars.

You know what I hear? How dare you even think of putting a pumpkin on your front step or answering your door for trick or treaters because Halloween is a celebration of Satan.*

I hear all the trappings of being in the world not of the world that has led to people *waves at Bander* who hear me mention this and that from my life to think that I was raised by a cult.

Yeah. No.

To all the Hordelings who wish to boycott the NFL? Fine by me. It's your life. But to all the Hordelings, and, yes, I do mean you ace, who are lecturing me about how dare I not do so?

Let's just say that I have the same response to that as I did to being told that going to a movie theater to see a movie was a vicious sin. Which is to say profanity, eye rolling and bitter bitter bitter laughter.

Posted by: alexthechick - Skittle fueled Godzillette at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (mf5HN)

83 Leftists control the government, the judiciary, the media,
entertainment, academia -- just about everything, really. That IS
America. So -- is that what you are protesting against?
***
Pretty sure they are campaigning against Emanuel Goldstein.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (X7E8f)

84 Megan Rapinoe when representing the US women's soccer team will continue her protest, She also called the Owner of the Washington Spirit a homophobe because they played the anthem before the players took the field and she couldn't do her protest and his team doesn't do Pride nights.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (dKiJG)

No idea who this is, and don't care, but obviously she is ... uh ... personally invested, shall we say, in homophilia.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (SRKgf)

85 Leftists control the government, the judiciary, the media, entertainment, academia -- just about everything, really. That IS America. So -- is that what you are protesting against?
Posted by: zombie

There is always more power to be had, comrade.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (V3IFq)

86 Baldwin's dad was in law enforcement and his dad ran for county sheriff this year...

Posted by: Drewbicle at September 08, 2016 05:18 PM (p56C0)

87 47 Is the Women's soccer player who is doing this is from Seattle, too?

If the SJW'ers can boycott NC, how about we boycott Seattle?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (NOIQH)

The team they played against last ruined her protest. They played the anthem before the players left the locker room.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 05:18 PM (z/Ubi)

88 First Microsoft, then Starbucks -- and now this??

Goddamn Seattle is flooding this nation with bad ideas.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 05:18 PM (jBuUi)

89 while linebacker Bobby Wagner said the team has been talking about a group action.

Try the human centipede.

Posted by: then FOAD at September 08, 2016 05:18 PM (2WoCi)

90 Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (z/Ubi)

Richard Sherman has spoken out about BLM if IIRC. Not a fan.

Posted by: Golfman at September 08, 2016 05:18 PM (48QDY)

91
I'm so sick of these Shits.

Fucking protests, like they're children.

Everybody wants something. And they want it Now. And what they want is something from other.

Everybody has their hand out today demanding something from someone else. They want your money. They want your validation. They want your attention. They want your liberty. They even want you to think differently.

You know what these people used to be called?
We used to call these people INSANE FUCKING FASCISTS.

Today we call them "protesters" and "progressives" and "activists."

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:18 PM (9wdwt)

92 59
So, if they're protesting against America -- doesn't that mean they are protesting against themselves?

If they indeed are protesting against America - a GoFundMe page should be set up to ship these self-important little pricks back to South Africa where they supposedly came from.

Oh, and while they are at it - go ahead and renounce your citizenship. Come on you twits - show us some commitment here. Hate it so much, renounce it. Dare you.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 08, 2016 05:18 PM (jxbfJ)

93 So I'm already out on the NFL this year - Browns fan.

Last movie I paid to see in theatre was "Up".

Its shockingly low effort. Lot of surprised rich people going to get an education. Like I said, football is on TV on SATURDAY.

DUH.

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:19 PM (xVRrG)

94 Leftism is a suicide pact. Economic, actual, whichever.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 08, 2016 05:19 PM (9krrF)

95 74 47 Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (NOIQH)

I would, but it is the nearest Fry's Electronics and I am probably going to build a new PC once AMD's Zen APUs come out.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (SzZnW)

Newegg.com

Posted by: random lurker at September 08, 2016 05:19 PM (+tRIN)

96 >>I love watching NFL addicts act like they are going to do anything other than bow before for their masters.

>>Lots of huffing and puffing but they will be there to watch no matter what.

I notice internet addicts don't log off and starve the SJW who infest the online world either.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:19 PM (/tuJf)

97 Done. No more NFL, no more NBA (Steph Curry supporting Kapnodick), the sponsors can eat s**t and die too - do not need a single one of those brands. Had all I can stand...no pun intended.

Posted by: jestersix at September 08, 2016 05:19 PM (0NdPS)

98
Seattle Seahawks: You're a bunch of cunts. And the world is better off without you.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:20 PM (9wdwt)

99 >>>79 I don't like the slow roll. Let's get it on now.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (cQd8v)

THERE ARE STILL OPENINGS IN THE WINONA RIDERS!!

HAZING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT POLICY HAS NOT BEEN FINALIZED SO BE FLEXIBLE!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 08, 2016 05:20 PM (Z1U+Q)

100 Considering the cost of tickets to NFL games, wonder how receptive the Seahawk organization is going to be to refunds?
Posted by: random lurker at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (+tRIN)

---------------

Remember. It's Seatle.

Posted by: Soona at September 08, 2016 05:20 PM (Fmupd)

101 I notice internet addicts don't log off and starve the SJW who infest the online world either.

Nope.

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:20 PM (qUNWi)

102 I hear all the trappings of being in the world not of the world that has led to people *waves at Bander* who hear me mention this and that from my life to think that I was raised by a cult.

Ahem. You told me that someone else said it sounded like a cult and then you got super mad at me for repeating it.

Which is why I now say "sect".

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (mgbwf)

103 I approve as well.

But I have to say, I'm disgusted with my fellow conservatives that rarely seem to want to extend the effort to so much as boycott a company or franchise.

When the Left is offended, they seem to be much better at bringing down hell and making these people pay.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (x32Kb)

104 They're taking a good deal of crap on their FB page for this.

Posted by: Tami at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (Enq6K)

105 82 Posted by: alexthechick - Skittle fueled Godzillette at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (mf5HN)

Hey Alex, we get it....

there is no price too heavy and no burden too great to bear to get to watch pointy elbows and tight ends.

I was there for a long time myself until one day I took a hard look at how criminal the Cincy Bengals had become....

LITERALLY criminal in the case of Corey Dillon et al.

The oilers had died and became Titans and I just decided that it meant less and less.

You keep being you, there's a reason the left wins the culture war my friend....

the right refuses to say "fuck you" and retaliate.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (SzZnW)

106
93 So I'm already out on the NFL this year - Browns fan.

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:19 PM (xVRrG)

Jesus. Why do you hate yourself so much? Saw Johnny Football was back to being Johnny Park Ranger at A&M

Posted by: Jollyroger at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (t06LC)

107 Pete Carroll is a lying cheating piece of shut who got tossed from college football, and then was rewarded with a head coaching job in the NFL. Says all you need to know about the league.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 08, 2016 05:16 PM (6Ll1u)

I couldn't agree more. He is the scummiest of scumbags. Obama loving, whining, cheating POS

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (493sH)

108 I wonder how these big, brave crapweasles would react if they were on an airliner saying their last goodbyes before rocketing into a high rise?

Or perhaps standing at the ledge of a window of a high rise and having to make the awful choice of whether to jump or burn to death?

Maybe stationed in a ME shithole humping 100lbs with bullets flying around you?

Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (oiNtH)

109 Leftism is a suicide pact. Economic, actual, whichever.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 08, 2016 05:19 PM (9krrF)

Very true, because it's just nihilism. Leftists hate themselves and everything familiar.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (zc3Db)

110 Either the NFL respects the capitalist system in which the are privileged to operate, what with the publicly financed stadiums, and whatnot, or they'll cease to keep the crown as the largest single entertainment entity in the universe.

You can be good little social justice warriors, or you can keep raking in the cash. You can't do both.

Pssst, in case you haven't noticed, NFL, Hollowwood is no longer swimming in dough the way they once were.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (TOk1P)

111 Tonight's game should be at least interesting. Two teams who were at the top of the mountain last year, one coming back largely intact, the other with a whole new Offense. Gotta give the edge to the Panthers, but that Denver D. can stifle the best of 'em.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (2cS/G)

112 I say we demonstrate unity with a shower of D batteries from the stands.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at September 08, 2016 05:22 PM (Kucy5)

113 What's with all the Starbucks hate?

Posted by: Hipster Douchebag at September 08, 2016 05:22 PM (HgMAr)

114 "NFL fans can start a conversation about how awesome it is to spent your
Sunday afternoons hiking, reading, whatever, and fun ways to spendg the
money saved from cancelling their NFL season pass...."

The NFL won't really get worried until fed-up viewers start dumping their cable television contracts -- the ones with the mandatory ESPN inclusion.

ESPN pays four times the going rate to air the NFL. ESPN is the single most lucrative gig the league enjoys, revenuewise. If that particular cash cow gets hoof and mouth disease, there will be instant hysterical panic at league headquarters.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 08, 2016 05:22 PM (noWW6)

115 47 If the SJW'ers can boycott NC, how about we boycott Seattle?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (NOIQH)

I have been to Seattle once. It was the dirtiest nastiest city I have ever been in. I thought Chattanooga was bad until I saw Seattle.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 08, 2016 05:22 PM (mpXpK)

116 If they do this, I'm done...and I LOVE NFL football. Goodell had better get a handle on this...oh and which one of these idiots will be the first to peel the American flag decal off the back of his helmet?? Or would that be too difficult?

Posted by: Ellen at September 08, 2016 05:22 PM (7kjQE)

117 I don't watch football. If I boycott, does it make a sound?

Posted by: Wonk with Pigtails at September 08, 2016 05:22 PM (0sLvz)

118 Posted by: alexthechick - Skittle fueled Godzillette at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (mf5HN)

What would it take for you to boycott the NFL?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (cQd8v)

119 95 Posted by: random lurker at September 08, 2016 05:19 PM (+tRIN)

or add five hours to my trip and go to Denver's microcenter I guess...

I use Newegg to finish them up.

I don't like buying Mobos or CPUs without an onsite Post Test

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (SzZnW)

120 What would it take for you to boycott the NFL?

What would it take for you to boycott the internet?

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (qUNWi)

121 What fascinates me is that professional game players believe that anyone cares what they think.

They are paid to play faster versions of children's games, much like trained animals.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (7ZVPa)

122 Which is to say profanity, eye rolling and bitter bitter bitter laughter.
========================

CLEARLY YOU ARE NOT SUGGESTING THE CLEVELAND BROWNS ARE ENTERTAINMENT (just no)

I just hurt myself rolling my eyes and making with the bitter bitter laughter - ouch.

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (xVRrG)

123 When the Left is offended, they seem to be much better at bringing down hell and making these people pay.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (x32Kb)

We have jobs. Being professionally pissed off and outraged is their job we're subsidizing.

Posted by: Jollyroger at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (t06LC)

124 What would it take for you to boycott the internet?

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (qUNWi)

Moratorium on porn.

Posted by: Jollyroger at September 08, 2016 05:24 PM (t06LC)

125 Hell, you can pirate a lot of this stuff.

At the very least, stop paying a monthly cable bill that goes right into the NFL's coffers.

Cancel ESPN and/or cut the cord and get rid of cable.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 05:24 PM (x32Kb)

126 118 Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (cQd8v)

Nothing the NFL does will make its "True Fans tm" boycott....

literally nothing, because the right has no value it values more than "me time" and the left values Tranny Bathroom Joy enough to ruin ANYTHING....

//Why We Are Fucked Book 7777

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:24 PM (SzZnW)

127 Multimillionaires are protesting the system that made them rich?

Other people are protesting that the system made them poor.

Shut up, all a yez.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 08, 2016 05:24 PM (/f6Nd)

128 83 Leftists control the government, the judiciary, the media,
entertainment, academia -- just about everything, really. That IS
America. So -- is that what you are protesting against?
***
Pretty sure they are campaigning against Emanuel Goldstein.
Posted by: 18-1

85 Leftists control the government, the judiciary, the media, entertainment, academia -- just about everything, really. That IS America. So -- is that what you are protesting against?
Posted by: zombie

There is always more power to be had, comrade.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

This technique is actually the core tenet of Maoism.

The name for it is "perpetual revolution."

Even after Mao and his minions had murdered/sent to the countryside/stripped of all assets/publicly shamed all "landlords" in China, such that by the 1960s there literally were no (as in zero none zilch) landlords in existence in the entire nation, Mao STILL then launched a new campaign to "Crush the landlords!!!" And everyone was dutifully whipped up into a frenzy.

Since there were no landlords left, they generally just at that point murdered all the surviving children of former (now dead or collectivized) landlords.

And it never ends. Ever.

A hundred years from now, after Fox News and Talk Radio have been outlawed, after all conservative bloggers jailed or killed, after every media outlet officially converted to leftist spokesorgan, even after all that the Leftists will rage against "The Right-Wing Smear Machine!!1!11!"

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 05:24 PM (jBuUi)

129 What would it take for you to boycott the NFL?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (cQd8v)

People don't have to boycott the NFL. Just the advertisers would be more than enough.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 08, 2016 05:24 PM (zc3Db)

130 68% of NFL players are black (2014 stats).

That's a lot more than 13%.

Posted by: George Tirebiter at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (/zyrl)

131 why don't they just change their name to SEAPIGEONS and get it over with?

Note: the definition of pigeon in slang terms is 'easy mark', 'dupe', or 'someone who is easily tricked'

Posted by: Myshiba at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (cfHE9)

132 By getting his ducks in a row, I hope he means finding a new job. It's a shame. I actually know a guy from my area who plays for the Seahawks. I hope he doesn't sit.

Posted by: no good deed at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (9nt94)

133 "I notice internet addicts don't log off and starve the SJW who infest the online world either."

Huh? I don't do twitter, facebook, NBCCBSABCnews, etc. None of it.

I cancelled my cable years ago.

I don't click on NYT, Wall Street Journal, the Compost, etc.

I also don't watch the NFL.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (cAMfM)

134 As a reporter pointed out megan Rapinoe didn't protest when the North Korean national anthem was played. They are THE most repressive regimes and they kill and in prison gays.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (dKiJG)

135 oh shit ... was so pissed reading about this, wasnt thinking sunday is 9/11 too. so it is a double fuck you america from all the usual suspects ....

cock suckers all.... done with football. I guess thats what the left wanted anyway, they are destroyers of everything in their path

Posted by: E.T. at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (c+7Ko)

136 I've seen this point made before, and I'll repeat. Corporations are squishes, they go the path of least resistance. And right now, that's leftism. If they piss off the SJWs, they get in a lot more trouble than if they piss us off.

We need to change that and make them pay a price for pissing us off.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (DW+jj)

137 We thought Kaepernick was a doofus, but he read the situation aright. He's getting support from fans, fellow players, Presidents, lesbian soccer players, etc. His gambit paid off.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 05:26 PM (ZKlDy)

138 If the NFL began actively purging pro-American/Cop/Military players/coaches from the League, I'd have to boycott. A bunch of howling ninnies expressing dumb opinions doesn't much register on the outrage scale these days.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 05:26 PM (2cS/G)

139 Jesus. Why do you hate yourself so much? Saw Johnny Football was back to being Johnny Park Ranger at A&M
++==============

We Browns fans commence cutting ourselves anew each year as the fresh pain dims the memory of the prior years wounds. . . .

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:26 PM (xVRrG)

140 As football season nears, I can't wait for hockey to start.

I hope the NHL latches on to this fumble and promotes a new campaign: "Hockey: Football On Ice... But Without the Gay."

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 08, 2016 05:26 PM (1CroS)

141 120 What would it take for you to boycott the NFL?

What would it take for you to boycott the internet?
Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (qUNWi)

If I had to read your posts everyday. ( not really but softballs gotta be soft balled)

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:26 PM (cQd8v)

142 >>Huh? I don't do twitter, facebook, NBCCBSABCnews, etc. None of it.

You're still here. After spending many years working for companies that built the technology that runs the internet as well as service companies that make the communications possible, I can tell you that the vast majority skew way left.

So just logging on is putting money in their pockets.

But nobody ever agrees to give up the thing they really like.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:27 PM (/tuJf)

143 35 I hope no policemen work their security that day and I hope no military folks go either.

Posted by: bluebell at September 08, 2016 05:12 PM

Well done! Golf clap.

Posted by: OneIronMacGuffin at September 08, 2016 05:27 PM (Djolt)

144 So I should boycott the entire NFL, including my PATRIOTS, because some jagoff in the northwest is taking a knee?

My outrage meter is not that finely calibrated.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 05:27 PM (mgbwf)

145 If I had to read your posts everyday. ( not really but softballs gotta be soft balled)

So no then?

Can't take what you give?

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:27 PM (qUNWi)

146 see update: it's not giving up the NFL. It's taking four and a half hours of your week back for yourself.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:27 PM (dciA+)

147 We have jobs. Being professionally pissed off and outraged is their job we're subsidizing.
Posted by: Jollyroger

Agreed, but at the same time, we're going to keep losing the country if we're "too busy" to fight.

Some of this is easy, you don't need to make signs and march down the street, just cut the DirectTV NFL pass or stop buying your season tickets.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 05:27 PM (x32Kb)

148 If they indeed are protesting against America - a GoFundMe page should be set up to ship these self-important little pricks back to South Africa where they supposedly came from.

Oh, and while they are at it - go ahead and renounce your citizenship. Come on you twits - show us some commitment here. Hate it so much, renounce it. Dare you.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

They already tried that. It's called "Liberia." A.k.a. "An African hellhole so bad that even other Africans avoid it."

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 05:28 PM (jBuUi)

149 I'm boycotting gays.

Posted by: Soona at September 08, 2016 05:28 PM (Fmupd)

150 #BLDM (TB)

Black Lives Don't Matter (To Blacks).

If the cops really wanted you dead, all they'd have to do is quit patrolling your shitty neighborhoods and wait. It'd be like a self-cleaning oven.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 08, 2016 05:28 PM (/f6Nd)

151 publius (not Breitbart publius)@136,

Uptwinkles. That's exactly right.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 08, 2016 05:28 PM (1CroS)

152 But nobody ever agrees to give up the thing they really like.

Nope.

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:28 PM (qUNWi)

153 >>The team they played against last ruined her protest. They played the anthem before the players left the locker room.

Yeah, but apparently she's announced she will do it again at the 9/11 home game. And to soothe her concerns, she's going to talk w/the 5 veterans who will be there for the anthem to let them know she means no disrespect to them, i.e. using them as a shield to say she's not offending the military.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 08, 2016 05:28 PM (NOIQH)

154
The cowardly silence or invented workplace "right to free speech" pin-dancing from Republican officer-holders and the bloggers that love them has been so predictable.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (kdS6q)

155 The Philadelphia Eagles are taking the Browns seriously this week. Their starting quarterback is 23 years old. I guess this is his first game against a semi-pro team.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (ZFUt7)

156
We Browns fans commence cutting ourselves anew each year as the fresh pain dims the memory of the prior years wounds. . . .

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:26 PM (xVRrG)

Well, it sure does keep you focused. (as an Astros fan, I know something of pain. But I merely adopted the pain. You were born in it..molded by it)

Posted by: Jollyroger at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (t06LC)

157 @16: "Ship these losers to a country more free and more generous than the US."

Sadly, finding countries that are more free than the FUSA is getting easier every day.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (rznWS)

158 Lost interest in the NFL about 2 decades ago and haven't looked back since. With each passing day my decision has been increasingly validated. And some of you think that you have an alternative in college football? You mean football organized by the most SJW institutions in the world?

Posted by: KGB at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (yowje)

159 I hope the NHL latches on to this fumble and promotes a new campaign: "Hockey: Football On Ice... But Without the Gay."

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel

pfffft.
"Curling: we aren't a bunch of overpaid douchebags".

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (LAe3v)

160 I've seen this point made before, and I'll repeat. Corporations are squishes, they go the path of least resistance. And right now, that's leftism. If they piss off the SJWs, they get in a lot more trouble than if they piss us off.

We need to change that and make them pay a price for pissing us off.
Posted by: publius

+1000

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (x32Kb)

161 Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:27 PM (qUNWi)

Funny that you think you have a point.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (cQd8v)

162 >>>
To all the Hordelings who wish to boycott the NFL? Fine by me. It's your life. But to all the Hordelings, and, yes, I do mean you ace, who are lecturing me about how dare I not do so?

so you can do what you want? That is obvious.

But I can't say "your life might be better if you gave up a time-suck that puts money in the pockets of people who don't like you?"

Why can't I say that? Why does it bust your balls so much to hear me say it?

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (dciA+)

163 146 Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:27 PM (dciA+)

Quite Ace, it is a lot like doing the IF diet and walking.

The NFL is spiritual flypaper, tying my emotional equilibrium to a bunch of free agents who increasingly are self-absorbed assholes.

4.5 hours of silence is worth more than the demand the NFL makes that I give a shit if 22 random fellas from San Diego fuck up and lose.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (SzZnW)

164 GREAT POST ACE!!!

Posted by: Eli Manning and Co. at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (X7E8f)

165 Coach of USA Soccer team said, you sit during the National Anthem you sit for the rest of the season.
Good coach.

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,...."she [Hillary] has a happy trigger" at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (MWX7h)

166 "But nobody ever agrees to give up the thing they really like."

No. You are making excuses and making false comparisons.

That's your addiction talking.

You know nothing about my set up nor my internet habits other than posting at this site occasionally.

Try again.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (cAMfM)

167 Up next, the New England Patriots change their name to the New England Oppressors of Black and Brown People.

Posted by: no good deed at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (9nt94)

168 I don't really give a shit if they stand or sit. I'll still watch the game. I like football...it amuses me, and I enjoy being amused.
I am not influenced by whatever commercials are going to be on as I buy things based on my needs, not what the latest funny ha-ha commercial is. I don't buy NFL merchandise (or pretty much any merchandise that makes me a walking billboard). I also don't care what athletes, actors, musicians have to say about well, pretty much anything. If I cared about any of that I would be watching TMZ instead of the game.
I consume the product they produce because it brings me amusement. I have no time to get all worked up in a lather like some SJW screaming about OUTRAGE!11!!! just because some tatted up jack ass starts spouting things that I quite honestly expect him to believe.
I. Just. Don't. Care.
Let me know if the game is on at your house...I'll bring some incredible smoked wings with a roasted garlic siracha blue cheese buffalo sauce, we'll drink some beers and watch the game and not waste brain cells concerning ourselves over concerntroll things.

Posted by: ajmojo at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (1H9ox)

169 Funny that you think you have a point.

Funny that you actually think you do.

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (qUNWi)

170 As football season nears, I can't wait for hockey to start.
..................

During football season the surf is less crowded.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 05:31 PM (HgMAr)

171 @30: "The Seahawks should all line up in front of a brick wall"

I agree with this part of your message

Posted by: Zombie Che Guevara at September 08, 2016 05:31 PM (rznWS)

172 Free agents who are a bunch of self absorbed thugs to boot.

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,.... at September 08, 2016 05:31 PM (MWX7h)

173 77 very nice! Sounds like a good time with a bonus good drive home. Today was pretty muggy - the little bit I was out in it - welcome home!

Posted by: Weasel at September 08, 2016 05:31 PM (Sfs6o)

174 see update: it's not giving up the NFL. It's taking four and a half hours of your week back for yourself.

Um, Coach? That may be the most disingenuous thing you've ever said.

When it suits you you can parse the merits of Dollhouse vs. Firefly. I know you're on a self-improvement kick and maybe today you think that entertainment is bad, but that is you today.

You may feel differently tomorrow. And in either case we can all pursue our self-improvement and allot time to entertainment.

Unless this marks the coming of the hairshirt times.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 05:31 PM (mgbwf)

175

We need to change that and make them pay a price for pissing us off.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (DW+jj)

-----------

I'm sure these corporations have done their marketing studies. And I bet they've concluded there's more of them than there are of us.

Sad but true.

Posted by: Soona at September 08, 2016 05:31 PM (Fmupd)

176 #DicksOutForHarambe

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (VdICR)

177 158 Posted by: KGB at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (yowje)

Go watch NFL football from the late 70s to early 90s before true free agency started destroying units and tell me today's game is superior....

hell the NFL product is inferior on every level but raw physical gifts to the college game today.

People are addicted to the uniforms not the beauty of the game.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (SzZnW)

178 It's going to be great watching the National Fucktard League die a slow miserable death. Especially as potential future cult members stop putting their kids primarily in football.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (+YTl9)

179
I think I'll start watching the NHL where Russian guys don't have a problem standing for the National Anthem.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (lKyWE)

180 Woody Johnson, owner of the Jets, is a huge Republican funder. I'm covered.

But the Rooney family of Steeler fame are big time Obama/liberals. So you guys have to give up watching.

Sorry. I don't make the rules.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (/tuJf)

181 It should be boycotted it just for these a$$holes thinking about, let alone mentioning it.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (2ktpL)

182 165 Coach of USA Soccer team said, you sit during the National Anthem you sit for the rest of the season.
Good coach.
Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,...."she [Hillary] has a happy trigger" at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (MWX7h)

No that's Hockey.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (dKiJG)

183 Is everybody hitting the crazy juice?

Posted by: rickl at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (zoehZ)

184 So, it's against pixies protocol to put a quote, "she [Hillary] has a happy trigger" from Trump at the CIC Forum in my nick. Very interesting.

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,.... at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (MWX7h)

185 So I should boycott the entire NFL, including my PATRIOTS, because some jagoff in the northwest is taking a knee?

No, you should give it up so you don't spend your life engaging in an ersatz tribal bonding ritual, whose participants loathe you and your kin.

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 05:33 PM (LAe3v)

186 So the millionaire jock assclowns seem to think that their Deep Thoughts are required by the masses? Fuck them pineapplewise.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 08, 2016 05:33 PM (nIGPZ)

187
Funny that you think you have a point.

....

Funny that you actually think you do.

Funny that either of you thinks the rest of us want to keep reading this crap.

(okay, now your turn...)

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:33 PM (9wdwt)

188 If I was at the Seattle game and that protest happened, I'd walk out and stay out.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 08, 2016 05:33 PM (3myMJ)

189
82
Don't hold back, let it out. Then craft your revenge with cold rage.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 08, 2016 05:33 PM (FtrY1)

190 "Mao STILL then launched a new campaign to 'Crush the landlords!!!' And everyone was dutifully whipped up into a frenzy. Since there were no landlords left, they generally just at that point murdered all the surviving children of former (now dead or collectivized) landlords."

It's the Pigford Principle.

"Are you a farmer? Were you a farmer? Did you once hypothetically contemplate farming? Have you ever visited a farm? Driven past a farm? Do you know what a cow is? If you'll sign an affadavit asserting any of these things, no corroborating evidence required, Uncle Sugar will cut you a check for two hundred thousand dollars."

Posted by: torquewrench at September 08, 2016 05:33 PM (noWW6)

191 To all the Hordelings who wish to boycott the NFL? Fine by me. It's your life. But to all the Hordelings, and, yes, I do mean you ace, who are lecturing me about how dare I not do so?

Let's just say that I have the same response to that as I did to being told that going to a movie theater to see a movie was a vicious sin. Which is to say profanity, eye rolling and bitter bitter bitter laughter.

Posted by: alexthechick - Skittle fueled Godzillette at September 08, 2016 05:17 PM (mf5HN)

++++

Someone said that? Said that you (or anyone else) had better boycott the NFL? Who, which comment? I must have missed it.

I see a lot of comments hoping that the Seahawks suffer because people stop watching them, but I didn't see anyone saying that those who don't boycott are in need of a stern lecture.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 08, 2016 05:33 PM (R+30W)

192 Hockey, that's better, real people watch hockey.

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,.... at September 08, 2016 05:34 PM (MWX7h)

193 >>>What would it take for you to boycott the internet?
Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:23 PM (qUNWi)

Winona, pancake stack, Amphicat ATV, and a bottle of Blanton's.
If the terms are acceptable, we can proceed to delivery instructions.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 08, 2016 05:34 PM (Z1U+Q)

194 @59: "So -- is that what you are protesting against?"

That you cracka-ass crackas still exist. You are the source of all evil in the world.

Posted by: The Seahawks at September 08, 2016 05:34 PM (rznWS)

195 I'm not saying you have an obligation to stop watching the NFL. I don't think smokers have an obligation to stop smoking.

But I think it's silly to say it's somehow evil to encourage smokers to read The Easy Way to Quit Smoking, or to let people know that an extra 4.5 hours per week is a pretty nice thing.

I guess you have to decide how much you like this thing.

For me, i didn't stop watching football to make some political statement. I just realized it was a habit I wasn't particularly enjoying -- it was a Zombie Show I was watching. One of those shows you keep watching long after you have stopped taking pleasure from them, just becuase you're in the habit of watching them, and they're still on.

Zombie habits are just bad habits. If you're not really enjoying something that takes up hours of your life: stop. You will quickly find some better things. The mind wants to be engaged and to have fun. You will find fun.

I think football watching is just a Zombie habit for most. A Zombie tv show that jumped the shark years ago but it's still on and so hey, still gotta watch. Gotta see how it ends.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (dciA+)

196
Seattle can have all those people now earning $15/hour fill the stadiums, just like the Democrat Convention - but pay them only $5.00/hr because America sucks.

Up to ^here^ with these fucks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (9P3OG)

197

Ace,

STOP TELLING US WHAT TO DO!!!

Christ Almighty, people are so childish.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (9wdwt)

198 Just an FYI Pro Rugby had thier first year. Find a team near you and buy Season tickets. I am calling and cancelling my NFL package.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (dKiJG)

199 But I can't say "your life might be better if you gave up a time-suck that puts money in the pockets of people who don't like you?"

Why can't I say that? Why does it bust your balls so much to hear me say it?

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:29 PM (dciA+)

Entertainment is rife with leftists and America-haters (since hating America is in fashion). People are going to want to be entertained in some way and, whatever that way is, they are bound to be bombarded with these same dopes over and over.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (zc3Db)

200 The name for it is "perpetual revolution."

There is that, but it is now more then just that.

The left believes that ideas and thoughts DIRECTLY impact reality.

So if Obamacare isn't working, or Porkulus, or whatever, it isn't because the program was bad - it is because too many people are thinking bad thoughts about the program. If those people were forced to think good thoughts, the program would work, even if nothing else changed.

And this is terrifying. The left really believes the only think between them and Utopia is the people who do not agree with them.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (X7E8f)

201 I subscribed to the NFL.com so I could watch games commercial free, 'cept I never got around to watching any games. So out with the subscription. Waste of time.

Speaking of wastes of time and money, I watched The Hateful Eight this week. I wanted to catch up on movies I haven't seen. Now that's 3 hours of my time I'll never get back. Should have consulted the horde first.

Posted by: sinalco at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (yODqO)

202 194 @59: "So -- is that what you are protesting against?"

That you cracka-ass crackas still exist. You are the source of all evil in the world.
Posted by: The Seahawks at September 08, 2016 05:34 PM (rznWS)

"Excuse me, Meester Seahawk.'

- - The International Joo conspiracy

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (9P3OG)

203 >> just because some tatted up jack ass starts spouting things that I quite honestly expect him to believe.
I. Just. Don't. Care.
Let me know if the game is on at your house...I'll bring some
incredible smoked wings with a roasted garlic siracha blue cheese
buffalo sauce, we'll drink some beers and watch the game and not waste
brain cells concerning ourselves over concerntroll things. Posted by: ajmojo at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (1H9ox)

+1. Wings, cheap beer, fire in the fireplace, the dog chewing a rawhide, an un-crowded pisser ten feet away, maybe rake some leaves at halftime.

The signal-noise ratio on this topic has gotten out of control.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 05:36 PM (Bdeb0)

204 Gave up pro sports many years ago and never missed it for a minute. Well, I grew up in Cleveland so it was easy. I get watching it for the thrill and skill actually caring if "your" team (few who live in your city) wins when a third of them could easily be on "their" teams next year doesn't make sense to me.

Posted by: Ripley at September 08, 2016 05:36 PM (1BQGO)

205 Well, it sure does keep you focused. (as an Astros fan, I know something of pain. But I merely adopted the pain. You were born in it..molded by it)
======================
Sadly I moved here. After two decades of the Bengals sucking to the point of nearly becoming a singularity of complete failure, I changed allegiance to the Browns, who then left.

Then I was without a team for a good long while. (Its nice having a whole sunday to get stuff done.)

Then they came back, because apparently I hadn't suffered enough. Yeah, go miserable failures! Yippee factory of sadness!!!

Seriously how long can you love something that is futile? I'm asking . . .

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:36 PM (xVRrG)

206 Is everybody hitting the crazy juice?

Posted by: rickl at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (zoehZ)
............

Just a little vodka and Robitussin.

Posted by: Hillarrhoids at September 08, 2016 05:36 PM (HgMAr)

207 They can "protest', the consumers of entertainment known as NFL can protest too; sports should be void of politics, NFL and these players INSIST on dragging politics into sports. If a player cannot cope with the no politics rule, he should leave sports and run for office. People do not pay for his political nonsense, they pay to see him run, or catch or whatever. People should say - Screw you and walk away, until it is back to normal again.

Posted by: runner at September 08, 2016 05:36 PM (c6/9Q)

208 I live near St. Louis so ya know....nothing to watch.

Maybe I'll just cook a bunch of stuff on Sunday.

Posted by: Tami at September 08, 2016 05:36 PM (Enq6K)

209 And in other sports related news, sign seen on a church in NY.
"God Loves Everyone"
"Even the Mets"

That is all.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (9iR5/)

210 @68: "All the big corporations are going SJW."

Uh, the SJWs are winning and dominate the political and cultural landscape.

"The NFL seems to think they are
getting more money from the GOPe class then they are the middle class
and...they might be right."

No "might be" about it; TV rights and corporate ticket sales are far more important to the NFL than individual peasants who attend a game or two.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (rznWS)

211 I view the "Ditch the NFL/Watch the NFL" in much the same way I view religious views of free will.

Sin or not, as your conscience allows.
Just be sure to pack asbestos underwear if you sin.

/never was fond of zampolits on either side
//but still...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (9krrF)

212
Team Sports are stupid. Maybe someday, as you grow up, you'll realize that all you're doing is rooting for laundry.

Laundry that doesn't give a shit about You.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (9wdwt)

213 I wonder if Richard Sherman shamed them all.
Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 05:15 PM (z/

I love me some Richard Sherman, been a fan since he started with Seattle. As your token lefty i wouldn't be terribly offended to see them take a knee during the anthem. I believe our nation does have injuries on the field due to 23 + years of terrible, dishonest political leadership from both political parties.

I'd really love to see some athletes come out and start shaming Nike et al for moving production to Asia, but I also know that will never happen. But if black lives matter, black jobs matter, and the last 23 years of joblessness has crushed the black community.

Posted by: Bernette at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (JnWXC)

214 200 Posted by: 18-1 at September 08, 2016 05:35 PM (X7E8f)

I called this in a non-cryptic post back in 2009 when I said we are "being governed by Tinkerbell"....

Ogabe would be great if ONLY ENOUGH FOLKS CLAPPED....

they throw tantrums when their shit fails and their tantrums have bodycounts...but hey lets keep making them wealthy.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (SzZnW)

215 193 Blanton's is the shit.

Posted by: Weasel at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (Sfs6o)

216 Just curious though...will there be a NFL thread here on Sunday?

Posted by: Tami at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (Enq6K)

217 So you guys have to give up watching.

Sorry. I don't make the rules.
Posted by: JackStraw

_________

To me anyway, boycott means "extract a financial penalty for poking me in the eye repeatedly and shitting on me"

It doesn't mean like some sort of Orthodox religion where you can never so much as be in the same room where the TV is playing a football game.

Much of this is pretty easy for me.

Target makes a bold announcement that all their bathrooms and changing rooms are a free for all? My family and I can go down the street to another store.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (x32Kb)

218 I just hope we get some really nice America loving, red white & blue clad elbows this weekend.
This is what is important.

Posted by: Chi at September 08, 2016 05:38 PM (uJy67)

219 "I'm sure these corporations have done their marketing studies. And I bet they've concluded there's more of them than there are of us. "

No. They've concluded, and rightly so, that there is nothing they can do that will get conservatives to turn off the NFL.

So on with the games. Suckers.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:38 PM (cAMfM)

220 Just curious though...will there be a NFL thread here on Sunday?

I'm certain there won't be.

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:38 PM (qUNWi)

221 Seriously how long can you love something that is futile? I'm asking . . .

Posted by: simplemind

Ask a Cubs fan.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 08, 2016 05:38 PM (9krrF)

222 108 I wonder how these big, brave crapweasles would react if they were on an airliner saying their last goodbyes before rocketing into a high rise?

Or perhaps standing at the ledge of a window of a high rise and having to make the awful choice of whether to jump or burn to death?

Maybe stationed in a ME shithole humping 100lbs with bullets flying around you?

Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2016 05:21 PM (oiNtH)
________________________

This.

These ignorant fools are protesting the fact that a few black men were killed by cops. This in a country where 40% of all cop killers are blacks, even though blacks are only 13% of the population.

The fact is that blacks commit a far greater percentage of violent crimes than whites or hispanics, and yet black suspects are actually less likely to be killed by cops than whites or hispanics.

But the leftist media, in an effort to gin up outrage -- and votes -- for pandering Dim politicians, provide saturation coverage of a few shootings (in a country of over 300 million people) and suddenly ignorant, clueless dupes like these football players are convinced there is a "war on blacks." Never mind the actual facts, they saw it on Twitter and CNN, so it must be true!

These slobbering d*ckwads should get down on their knees and thank G-d that they are fortunate enough to live in the U.S., because they have proven that they are unworthy of the freedoms so many of their fellow countrymen have sacrificed and died for.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (NnYnv)

223 Tebow signs with the Mets, Kaepernick rides the bench. Who says there's no justice in sports?

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (2cS/G)

224 216 Just curious though...will there be a NFL thread here on Sunday?
Posted by: Tami at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (Enq6K)

Just the elbows.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (9P3OG)

225 I see a lot of comments hoping that the Seahawks suffer because people stop watching them, but I didn't see anyone saying that those who don't boycott are in need of a stern lecture.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 08, 2016 05:33 PM (R+30W)

Look at sven. Look at what Christopher Taylor spews.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (z/Ubi)

226 216 Posted by: Tami at September 08, 2016 05:37 PM (Enq6K)

of course....we here will be celebrating the asshammers who call us Simon Legree....

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (SzZnW)

227 Here we go. Next stop college football.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (JSovD)

228 I just hope we get some really nice America loving, red white & blue clad elbows this weekend.
This is what is important.
Posted by: Chi at September 08, 2016 05:38 PM (uJy67)
----------------

Ah, Chi. Keeping it real.

Posted by: bluebell at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (xpSCc)

229 I've been a Seahawks fan since 1983, but if they pull this stunt, I'm out. You live in the greatest country in the world boys, act like it.

Posted by: Former Seahawks Fan? at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (1RXOJ)

230 So on with the games. Suckers.

Still on the internet hypocrite?

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (qUNWi)

231 If every football fan were as devoted as I am, all football would be amateur football.

Posted by: melanerpes at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (UZClb)

232 So no cheerleader pics?

Im going to miss the cheerleader pics

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (uPt3V)

233 When my father passed away I stopped watching All Football, we would watch all kinds of games on Saturday and Sunday, he was my best friend and it was so painful to watch games without him, it took my nephews to get back into it.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:40 PM (dKiJG)

234 @85: "There is always more power to be had, comrade."

Plus, the point of power is to make others suffer. It is the only way to prove that you actually have power over them. The more you can hurt them, the better, because that means you have more power.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 05:40 PM (rznWS)

235 212
Team Sports are stupid. Maybe someday, as you grow up, you'll realize that all you're doing is rooting for laundry.

Laundry that doesn't give a shit about You.
Posted by: Mister Magoo's
------------------
Tom Laundry? He's my all-time favorite coach.

Posted by: Chi at September 08, 2016 05:40 PM (uJy67)

236 Victor Davis Hanson wrote a wonderful column on "virtue signalling" earlier this week. Sure the Horde has already seen it - but just in case:

http://tinyurl.com/glrz5h3

I had never before considered that these were acts of penance for wealth (which allows them to keep the wealth free of any guilt). Interesting perspective.

Posted by: kathysaysso at September 08, 2016 05:40 PM (43OZ6)

237 I don't watch the NFL, not since Tom Landry died, but I do go to Spurs games.

As bad as the NBA is, somehow I don't think this sort of thing is going to go over well with the fans in our home arena. Not one bit. But I guess we'll see if someone tries it. I sit near the visitors' bench and I know for a fact that any visiting team player who does this will be served a rash of shit.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at September 08, 2016 05:40 PM (ozZau)

238 >>220
Just curious though...will there be a NFL thread here on Sunday? I'm certain there won't be. Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 05:38 PM (qUNWi)

Gotta protest the protest by...protesting. Kinda thing.

Posted by: General Zod at September 08, 2016 05:40 PM (Bdeb0)

239 I like football, but my life would be just fine without it. In many ways I like it when my team sucks because I don't feel the need to watch on Sundays.

Posted by: SH at September 08, 2016 05:40 PM (gmeXX)

240 updated with response/clarification to alexthechick and eleven.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:40 PM (dciA+)

241 So on with the games. Suckers.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:38 PM (cAMfM)

It's hell that people can do as they please, isn't it? The only thing left for the powerless is to insult them.

I'll watch the Broncos tonight, but then they haven't disrespected the country yet. Seattle, they're toast if they do their stupid act.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (3myMJ)

242 Why not extend it to College ball as well. We all collectively have admitted that NCAA D1 football is corrupt (and more than likely down to even the level of Wottsamatta U in Frostbite Falls) with all the posing and abuse of the so called "student athletes" for so called recuriting efforts. Meanwhile, you have the Bobby Bowdens, Papa Joes, Mark Prices, Ryan Leafs fiascos in college ball. Where the corrupt sports media enterprise acts shocked like a French Police officer that crimes are happening at State U or Tech U, but you know for years there have been "rumors". If not the corrupt sports media writes about glee when conference rivals are hit with sanctions because of scandals, but again profess innocently that their team can't be guilty of the crime. Even when massively layered amounts of evidence that would make even a Clinton blush exists of criminal behavior.

So let's all say it folks, fuck the sports media complex at all levels.

Posted by: Charles at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (Kzakx)

243
The Seahawks won't suffer if people stop watching them or going to their games.The TV contracts means they'll get paid whether you watch them or notand 70% of stadium seating is season ticket holders so they get paid in advance of the season

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (lKyWE)

244 Fuck all these America haters. Let them find a better place to live. Let them leave their big fat fuckin sports salaries here and go somewhere else and find a real job you worthless fucks. Ignorant SOBs. If the league allows this to go on, I am done. Fuck them I will never watch another game again and will work to boycott them.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (Ozsfq)

245 I'll start watching again when there are no more Green Broadcasts where they turn out the lights in the studio but not the stadium, when I'm not lectured about gun control during halftime, and when the players are more concerned about winning the damn game than they are about the statement they make before it. I'm kind of checking out of pop culture.

Posted by: no good deed at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (9nt94)

246 I'll tell you what ruined football, (and likewise for all sporting activities for that matter), -- fantasy football.

Posted by: Fritz at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (HVQlX)

247 I think we should have a thread with pictures of cheerleaders from teams with protesting players. Of just simply all teams.

Posted by: Weasel at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (Sfs6o)

248 After our experience with the nfl jagoffs here in StL., I wholeheartedly agree. I'd love to see these rich idiots pour gas on themselves, light a match, and then run to espn and whine about how we burned them. F*** Stan Kronke, Goodell and all the rest of these thieving clowns.

Posted by: rickinstl at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (hGXt7)

249 Great post. Take the day off.

No! Stay here and keep doing this.

Posted by: bour3 at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (t0414)

250 59: "So -- is that what you are protesting against?"

That you cracka-ass crackas still exist. You are the source of all evil in the world.

Posted by: The Seahawks at September 08, 2016 05:34 PM (rznWS)

If you want to protest cracka asses let's start with the whores who shit out Colin Suckadick and Barry H Obama

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (OE2ur)

251 Could someone explain to me just what it is these overpaid doucehbags are "protesting" in the first place? Here you have a group of individuals whose only skill is running back and forth across a field bumping into each other, and who, as a group, are truth be known dumber than a box of rocks (I have a cousin who played pro football for several years back in the day, and in a moment of rare honesty he admitted to me that, yes, Rhodes scholars these guys are not).

Yet for whatever it is that these clowns are so upset about vis a vis this country, I would love for just one of them to name any other country on this planet where any of them could go and be paid millions of dollars for...running back and forth across a field and bumping into each other.

Oh well, no great loss here, given that I have not followed the NFL in any way since the Houston Oilers/Earl Campbell/Luv Ya Blue days. Which was about, oh, 35 years ago, so...

Posted by: The Oort Cloud - Source of all SMODs at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (2pIEi)

252 231 If every football fan were as devoted as I am, all football would be amateur football.
Posted by: melanerpes at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (UZClb)

I have no kids, and my only real connection to watching sports was via my dad who along with me and my brother were die-hard Mets fans. He's gone 12 years and so is my interest in pro sports. And considering this as the latest example of the leftist insanity, that interest is highly unlikely to ever be rekindled again.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (9P3OG)

253 Let's be real. There's a lot that is super gay about football.

Fuck the NFL's couch.

Posted by: x at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (nFwvY)

254 225 Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 05:39 PM (z/Ubi)

Yes look at Sven Buzz....

Sven has a slightly more acerbic version of the host's spiel.

Do as you will, I a set of ones and zeros have the power to shame those who feed the beast that has gone full SJW.....

if only I had such power.

You enjoy watching men play a kids' game, hey for the first half my life I was a fanatic.

Then one day I watched a game and said, "man these fucks suck...the 1983 Chargers would be kicking their ass" and knew I was right.

There are 3 offenses ran in the NFL today with some formations scuffing it up, there is 1.5 defenses ran.

I just decided to stop feeding my tormentors, you bake them nice buffalo wings.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (SzZnW)

255 >>The NFL seems to think they are
getting more money from the GOPe class then they are the middle class
and...they might be right.

The reason the NFL has been rolling over lately on favorite lefty clauses is not because there are a bunch of hipsters on the 50 yard line, it's because of the unique financial arrangement the NFL has had since the early days. That arrangement is controlled by Congress.

So just like every other business that can suffer if the heavy hand of government starts pushing on them, they fold.

Follow the money.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (/tuJf)

256 "So if Obamacare isn't working, or Porkulus, or whatever, it isn't
because the program was bad - it is because too many people are thinking
bad thoughts about the program. If those people were forced to think
good thoughts, the program would work, even if nothing else changed."

Further in that line:

I am reliably informed that my doubleplusungood badthink about these programs, and my nosey questions about them, have a simple explanation. It's because I'm a closeted racist who can't stand the thought of a black man being President.

So you can see, they've put a considerable amount of analytical thought into determining root causes.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (noWW6)

257 One may smoke all he desires, however; I will avoid being in a vehicle with that person, in fact, I will avoid being in the same room with that person.
To say the least, smoke stinks.

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,.... at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (MWX7h)

258 I think football watching is just a Zombie habit for most. A Zombie tv show that jumped the shark years ago but it's still on and so hey, still gotta watch. Gotta see how it ends.
...
I think sports (pick your own) is one of the greatest forms of entertainment there is. Unscripted human drama played out in real time by borderline superhumans with the added bonus of being able to wager my schrutebucks on it.
I'd rather watch sports than 95% of what is considered must see tv. In fact, since I cut cable 5 years ago it is one of the only things I watch.
Now if you want to talk time suck zombie habit, I've got a few blogs that I've been known to spend too much of my precious time on....but I like those too.

Posted by: ajmojo at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (1H9ox)

259 If these douchbags are trying to turn me into a racist, they are doing a cracker jack job

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (Ozsfq)

260 Give up watching the Packers? Not bloody likely.

If I have to prove my conservative cred by doing all the things internet conservatives tell me to do, then, no.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (bpfzP)

261 Here's the thing. I'm not actually even talking about giving up sports long term.

I'm saying, Jeebus Christ, try shutting off your television for two weeks. Try not showing up in person for a game for two weeks. Try not buying any jerseys or crap for two weeks.

Flex your god damn muscle for two weeks and watch the NFL and media complex come crawling back to you on their knees begging for forgiveness.

Get it? Nope. Too stupid and too addicted.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (cAMfM)

262 Some pretty famous guy said

All neurosis are a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Posted by: simplemind at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (xVRrG)

263 I can watch golf on Sunday's instead, a good nap always helps.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (4Rf70)

264
it's because of the unique financial arrangement the NFL has had since the early days. That arrangement is controlled by Congress.

That sure sounds like Fascism. And it's getting worse.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (9wdwt)

265 Has the 'Internet' banned honoring police officers killed in the line of duty? Has the 'Internet' made it a point to support those who disrespect the country and the flag?

Comparing the 'Internet' to the NFL is intellectually dishonest.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (cQd8v)

266 256 So you can see, they've put a considerable amount of analytical thought into determining root causes.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 08, 2016 05:42 PM (noWW6)

Would that be "Roots" causes?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (9P3OG)

267 Bye bye endorsements

I hope they pay. Literally. I hope it takes bread out of their mouths

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (EzPgj)

268 We need to change that and make them pay a price for pissing us off.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM (DW+jj)

Worked with Target, it can work with ESPN and the NFL. In theory.

Posted by: Country Singer at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (GUBah)

269 I've already pretty much given up the NBA.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (Ozsfq)

270 Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Stop weighting entertainment with so much baggage. If you enjoy competition, athleticism, watch sports. If you enjoy video games and comic books, enjoy those.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (2cS/G)

271 Patriotic crab fishermen of "Deadliest Catch" hardest hit.

Posted by: TB at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (UXEYz)

272 The only way to hurt them is to boycott the advertisers.

Posted by: Sexypig at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (UBBWX)

273 My very last NFL game I tried to take my family. Never mind the exorbitant prices, the belching, drunk slob assholes and people who "really didn't want to be there", the teams were terribly lazy. Never again. I don't even watch. It's not entertainment It's more pic aggravation

Posted by: Marcus T at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (+YTl9)

274
But the NFL is Just The Tip Fascism, so I guess it's okay...(for some of you, and you know who you are.)

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (9wdwt)

275 I was pretty sure Manning and Co. were not similarly sweating my blog praying, "I hope Ace writes some really good content that gets a lot of "nice post!" comments and does such a good job people tell him to take the day off."

Posted by: secret HQ reader, rashad jennings at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (LdMbv)

276 136 I've seen this point made before, and I'll repeat. Corporations are squishes, they go the path of least resistance. And right now, that's leftism. If they piss off the SJWs, they get in a lot more trouble than if they piss us off.

We need to change that and make them pay a price for pissing us off.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 08, 2016 05:25 PM

THIS x 100000

Posted by: OneIronMacGuffin at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (Djolt)

277 You don't even have to give up football.

Spend $10 and go watch your local high school football team play. That'll get you admission and a soda + hotdog.

Posted by: Warden at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (MZ8Zz)

278 For me, i didn't stop watching football to make some political
statement. I just realized it was a habit I wasn't particularly enjoying
-- it was a Zombie Show I was watching. One of those shows you keep
watching long after you have stopped taking pleasure from them, just
becuase you're in the habit of watching them, and they're still on.

Ace, what you're missing here is the allure of the commentators and their analysis of who has a groin pull, and who is really giving 110%. You can't get glittering conversation like that just anywhere.

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (LAe3v)

279 This thing will get out of control. It will get out of control and we will be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: torabora at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (1D3Dm)

280 So then let's boycott their advertisers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (Ozsfq)

281 meh, professional sports are silly. cheering for some pro football team is the same as cheering for gm or chrysler.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (cPsPa)

282 260 Give up watching the Packers? Not bloody likely.

If I have to prove my conservative cred by doing all the things internet conservatives tell me to do, then, no.
Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (bpfzP)

Darling. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, as a corollary to Ace's smoking analogy, the guys out there wearing that uniform are not Nitchke, Starr, Hornung and Dowler.

Think of it that way and free your mind.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (9P3OG)

283 Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:43

And some are saying to you, mind your own business, you sound like a liberal busybody.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 08, 2016 05:46 PM (3myMJ)

284 OT butI EU is gonna screw the net... Good think the US in not giving away control. Oh. Wait...

http://tinyurl.com/zxqqje4

Posted by: The garbone at September 08, 2016 05:46 PM (9dH/8)

285 260 Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (bpfzP)

Trust me grammie I don't think anyone was thinking you'd be burning up your tickets.

It's *all* good there is nothing more right-wing then celebrating the codified communism of the NFL revenue model.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:46 PM (SzZnW)

286 Fuck "toothpick arms" Jeremy Lane and double fuck Richard Sherman, the Neil DeGrasse Tyson of the NFL

Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 05:46 PM (qYRz9)

287
No, please keep watching the networks. You're gonna have to sit through lots of hillary clinton ads. Enjoy them.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:46 PM (9wdwt)

288 It would be awesome if these millionaire narcissists realized not everything is about them

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 05:46 PM (EzPgj)

289 @123: "We have jobs."

Translation: we don't really care that much. The simple fact is, the Right isn't really willing to actually *DO* much of anything beyond vote for Socialism Lite every two years. Risk lives, fortune, and sacred honor? Nah....

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 05:46 PM (rznWS)

290 Congress didn't force them to hire thugs.
Half the players on the field wouldn't be hired for a day job because of instability and liability to the workplace environment...even if they are technically qualified.

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,.... at September 08, 2016 05:47 PM (MWX7h)

291 Christ Almighty, people are so childish.Posted by: Mister Magoo's

*'pants' Mister Magoo, then gives him scalp noogy*

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 05:47 PM (ZFUt7)

292 >>>262 Some pretty famous guy said

All neurosis are a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Posted by: simplemind

cool quote bro

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:47 PM (dciA+)

293 Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Stop weighting entertainment with so much baggage. If you enjoy competition, athleticism, watch sports. If you enjoy video games and comic books, enjoy those.

Posted by: Lincolntf

And if you enjoy little boys...?

Posted by: Harry Reid at September 08, 2016 05:47 PM (VAsIq)

294 can watch golf on Sunday's instead, a good nap always helps.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (4Rf70)

Unfortunately the PGA has made some decisions regarding NC and Trump that has caused me to stop watching them and advising their sponsors that I will not buy their products.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:47 PM (cQd8v)

295 For the record, I couldn't care less about pro football.

I live in a state that has Bama and Auburn. I don't NEED the pro game.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12-13 at September 08, 2016 05:47 PM (9krrF)

296 >>meh, professional sports are silly. cheering for some pro football team is the same as cheering for gm or chrysler.

I've seen grown up adults here argue over super hero movies.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (/tuJf)

297 "It's hell that people can do as they please, isn't it? The only thing left for the powerless is to insult them. "

See. Too stupid to get it.

They will fight you to the death to watch the bread and circuses.

Try to explain their power to them and they stick their heads in a hole because they might have to miss two whole games. Even that's too much sacrifice for them.

Haha. Too funny.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (cAMfM)

298 Get it? Nope. Too stupid and too addicted.

=============================

Yep. That's me. Stupid and addicted. Shutting off the TV for two weeks? Heck - people do that when they go on vacation. Roughly 3 million people die in America each year. I presume they don't watch football when they're gone. Yet somehow the NFL muddles through.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (bpfzP)

299 Posted by: secret HQ reader, rashad jennings at September 08, 2016 05:44 PM (LdMbv)

Ha!

Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (qYRz9)

300 276 Posted by: OneIronMacGuffin at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (Djolt)

Compare and contrast at how the people from Denmark and France reacted to Nazi occupation.

Or how the NFL reacts to the iron fist of Big Government as opposed to Hobby Lobby.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (9P3OG)

301 242 Why not extend it to College ball as well. We all collectively have admitted that NCAA D1 football is corrupt (and more than likely down to even the level of Wottsamatta U in Frostbite Falls) with all the posing and abuse of the so called "student athletes" for so called recuriting efforts. Meanwhile, you have the Bobby Bowdens, Papa Joes, Mark Prices, Ryan Leafs fiascos in college ball. Where the corrupt sports media enterprise acts shocked like a French Police officer that crimes are happening at State U or Tech U, but you know for years there have been "rumors". If not the corrupt sports media writes about glee when conference rivals are hit with sanctions because of scandals, but again profess innocently that their team can't be guilty of the crime. Even when massively layered amounts of evidence that would make even a Clinton blush exists of criminal behavior.

So let's all say it folks, fuck the sports media complex at all levels.
Posted by: Charles at September 08, 2016 05:41 PM (Kzakx)

My College football Coach was an assistant at Florida State and he talked about how Deon Sanders would show up in a Limousine for every practice and in a tuxedo with top hat and cane all on a College students salary

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (dKiJG)

302 Be interesting if this stunt gets pulled in Dallas

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (EzPgj)

303 OT: Since Advantage Plan money was shifted to cover Obamacare, United Healthcare pulled their out of the PPO plan out of my county. The alternative is BCBS HMO, to which I switched.

I just called my dermatologist (btw, it's a bad sign when someone implies that they have a regular dermatologist) and was told, "Sorry, we don't accept BCBS HMO coverage".

If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.

Unspoken: "The cost will necessarily skyrocket".

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (9mTYi)

304 Comparing the 'Internet' to the NFL is intellectually dishonest.

'The Internet' is a form of instantaneous worldwide communication for goods, services, and information.

Professional sports is children's games of no true importance other than as a form of entertainment and momentary diversion.

They aren't equivalent.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (nIGPZ)

305 I enjoy the game of football. As a sport it's great fun.

However, today's NFL is perhaps the biggest Commercial Delivery System ever devised; it's less of a sport all the time. It's become almost unwatchable, and that which is is so often drowned out by pinhead color analysts and interrupting sideline twaddle that remote controls lack a sufficiently-sized mute button.

Between beer, car, and phone commercials, I barely notice the blue-shirted guys just fouled the white-shirted guys and assorted on-field synchronized prancing indicating a first down.

And now I'm supposed to watch overpaid and undereducated pinheads get talked about by TV personalities who will discuss any and every tangent not related to the game on the field?

Gah. Where's my hockey schedule and How-To Home Tasks encyclopedia?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (1CroS)

306 If I have to prove my conservative cred by doing all the things internet conservatives tell me to do, then, no.
Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:43 PM (bpfzP)

---

*Sits next to grammie*

Like my new Stabler jersey?

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (rlfds)

307 I would say that if sports fans are proactive early they don't have to give up the NFL just make selective cuts in when they watch. If you make a point of not watching the 49-ers and the Seahawks when they play your teams and get some others on board the message will be sent.

Of course if there is no fan pushback at all we can expect more of the athletes thinking they can and even should push commie propaganda instead of just playing the game. Don't forget the commie sportscasters are egging them on.

Posted by: Palerider at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (dkExz)

308 @128: "A hundred years from now, after Fox News and Talk Radio have been
outlawed, after all conservative bloggers jailed or killed, after every
media outlet officially converted to leftist spokesorgan, even after all
that the Leftists will rage against "The Right-Wing Smear
Machine!!1!11!""

That's Communism for ya - always one murder away from Utopia.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (rznWS)

309 I see from Drudge that Obama has had a newly discovered parasitic flatworm named after him.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2016 05:49 PM (JSovD)

310 If you really want to hit the NFL where it hurts, cut your cable bill. You can still catch many games through other means.

I'm certainly not expecting people to completely give up a pastime they enjoy, but I think we have to be willing to make some sacrifices to hopefully right the ship.

It really wasn't that long ago that professional sports organizations went out of their way to not engage in politics.

Maybe a huge loss in revenue may make them rethink some things?

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 05:49 PM (x32Kb)

311 I've seen grown up adults here argue over super hero movies.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (/tuJf)
============================================

Frequently and at length.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:49 PM (bpfzP)

312 You don't even have to give up football.

Spend $10 and go watch your local high school football team play. That'll get you admission and a soda + hotdog.

Posted by: Warden at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (MZ8Zz)

But that's not really a valid comparison. People who like sports like to watch the best playing those sports. Just because I like watching tennis doesn't mean that I get the same enjoyment out of watching two amateurs spray the ball around as I do watching Djokovic display a total mastery of the sport. I don't even watch women's tennis for the tennis (since women's tennis is comparable to watching high school guys tennis) but only if there are hot women playing.

You can't just substitute any football game and think that that is equivalent to watching the best professionals play.

I don't really have a dog in this fight since I never watched pro-football (though I enjoyed playing football) but I think you have to be a little less cavalier in offering substitutes that really don't fill the bill.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 08, 2016 05:49 PM (zc3Db)

313 >>>I've seen grown up adults here argue over super hero movies.

well personally i gave up marvel, so there's that.

You think it's cool. I don't. Agree to disagree. Differences of opinion are what give life zest and what give conversations a point.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:49 PM (dciA+)

314 "And some are saying to you, mind your own business, you sound like a liberal busybody. "

You sound like an NFL addict.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:49 PM (cAMfM)

315 309 I see from Drudge that Obama has had a newly discovered parasitic flatworm named after him.
Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2016 05:49 PM (JSovD)

They call that "nepotism."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (9P3OG)

316 Recreational use of the Internet is not qualitatively different from recreational tv viewing.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (2cS/G)

317 These jerks are really pushing it. And Coach Pete will support them all the way.

I know Jim Geraghty is not real popular right now, but as he said a couple of days ago, "I JUST WANT TO WATCH THE GAME."

Really pushing it. Not sure if it will backfire cause I'm not sure where the biggest $ really flow from, and I suspect ESPN might just be the 800 lb gorilla.

But, I'm getting to the point where I'm just sick and tired of seeing or hearing about these sjw whines from them. Close to where it ruins the enjoyment of the game. See all caps above, and repeat.

Posted by: RM at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (U3LtS)

318 >>'The Internet' is a form of instantaneous worldwide communication for goods, services, and information.

>>Professional sports is children's games of no true importance other than as a form of entertainment and momentary diversion.

>>They aren't equivalent.

What goods and services are you trading here?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (/tuJf)

319 No F'n ways will Jack Del Rio allow that.

Anyone wearing Silver and Black will not be wearing it for long if they try that shit.

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (rlfds)

320 Let's be real. There's a lot that is super gay about football.
..................

Except for the kneepads and slapping each others skin tight butt pants.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (HgMAr)

321 I've seen grown up adults here argue over super hero movies.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (/tuJf)

well that is silly too, however, professional sports with their team loyalty is especially silly. sports fans have a loyalty to a team which offers nothing in return.

now, if every city had sports teams comprised solely of people that have lived in the city for two years before joing the team and may not join another team for two years after leaving, that would be interesting.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (cPsPa)

322 I can rest assured that no boycott will exclude pics of the gals wearing their shortie-shorts and boobies hanging out eh horde?

Posted by: Cheri at September 08, 2016 05:51 PM (oiNtH)

323 *Sits next to grammie*

Like my new Stabler jersey?

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (rlfds)
============================================

I did buy a Packers shirt today for the Y. It was a toss-up between the Cubs and the Pack so I got one of each.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:51 PM (bpfzP)

324 317 Posted by: RM at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (U3LtS)

Jim "turgidly, engorgedingly conservative" Geraghty is exactly why we lose.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:51 PM (SzZnW)

325
You know why a lot of conservatives still watch NFL?

Because they don't watch ESPN a lot.

Trust me, if you watched ESPN, especially during the day when the 53% are working, you'd HATE pro sports. Because you'd see how pointless, how petty, and how counter-productive it all is. It will make you sick, literally, if you watched ESPN all day and listened to sports talk radio. You'd really be disgusted with the fans, too, and be sad for your nation.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (9wdwt)

326 sports fans have a loyalty to a team which offers nothing in return.
===============================================

Heck no, I own shares.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (bpfzP)

327 Differences of opinion are what give life zest and what give conversations a point.

Posted by: ace

You're wrong.

Posted by: Petulant Pissant at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (VAsIq)

328 Recreational use of the Internet is not qualitatively different from recreational tv viewing.
Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 05:50 PM (2cS/G)

And not all use of the Internet is recreational.

All sports is.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (nIGPZ)

329 Agree to disagree. Differences of opinion are what give life zest and what give conversations a point.

Posted by: ace

How dare you say that! Duel at dawn!

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (jBuUi)

330 " I presume they don't watch football when they're gone. Yet somehow the NFL muddles through."

Excuses. Excuses.

Fine. You don't want to exercise your power. You like your chains.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (cAMfM)

331
You're wrong.
Posted by: Petulant Pissant at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (VAsIq)

No he isn't.

Posted by: Arguments Clinic at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (nIGPZ)

332
Heck no, I own shares.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (bpfzP)

you again with your packers

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (cPsPa)

333 I won't give up football, just these idiots in the pro games. I will still watch college football to cheer on my alma mater who don't pull dumb stunts like this.

Posted by: IC at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (a0IVu)

334 I stand for the National Anthem scores if not hundreds of times a year, always at sporting events. Not the movies, not the bookstore, not the craft brewery, only sporting events. Without them, I'd probably have forgotten the words by now.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (2cS/G)

335 >>>What goods and services are you trading here?

actually at the current moment we're trading ideas about how to best use one's time and how to effectively influence the institutions that mediate our culture.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (dciA+)

336 326 Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (bpfzP)

"uh huh"

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (SzZnW)

337 I see from Drudge that Obama has had a newly discovered parasitic flatworm named after him.

Posted by: Tuna at September 08, 2016 05:49 PM (JSovD)
.................

What on earth do scientists have against parasitic flatworms?

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (HgMAr)

338 I've seen grown up adults here argue over super hero movies.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (/tuJf)

Holy crap I'm in complete agreement with Jack. I agree in principle with ace, but it's funny to see comic book nerds bashing football haha

Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (qYRz9)

339 281
meh, professional sports are silly. cheering for some pro football team is the same as cheering for gm or chrysler.

Posted by: yankeefifth

I hope you include college sports in that statement. How exactly are they any different?

"My group of uneducated and largely ineducable shills who wouldn't spit on me if I was on fire can beat your group of uneducated and largely ineducable shills who wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire."

Yay me.

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (LAe3v)

340 The Target boycott, unofficial though it may be, has them shitting their pants. To lose 10% of revenue in one quarter? That's not only painful, it brings into question the ability of the corporation to survive at that reduced revenue flow.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (ZFUt7)

341
Spend $10 and go watch your local high school football team play. That'll get you admission and a soda + hotdog. Posted by: Warden at September 08, 2016 05:45 PM (MZ8Zz)

Great, you can sit whit a bunch of teenage SJW's that you're not even related too.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (lKyWE)

342 What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at September 08, 2016 05:54 PM (RFeQD)

343
(I was almost 27 at the time; Manning was 26.)

One of those math word problems.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 08, 2016 05:54 PM (IqV8l)

344 I keep telling you guys Calcio Storico makes the NFL look like a foam party. And the season is only 3 games. The Blues kicked ass this year, literally.

Posted by: x at September 08, 2016 05:54 PM (nFwvY)

345 Agree with ace's addendum 1000%. About 10-15 years ago, I still had cable. MtV did a segment on teens expressing why they liked their favorite rock stars. A gay teen said, "My fantasy is to have 'Property of Henry Rollins' tattoed on my ass". I immediately realized, "I don't even like this crap. I'm not enjoying myself. Why the f*ck am I wasting money on this?" And cut the cable and never regretted it.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 05:54 PM (ZKlDy)

346 >>>A hundred years from now, after Fox News and Talk Radio have been outlawed, after all conservative bloggers jailed or killed, after every media outlet officially converted to leftist spokesorgan, even after all that the Leftists will rage against "The Right-Wing Smear Machine!!1!11!"

Hundred years? Hell, if Hillary gets elected it will be in just a few. First Drudge disappears, then soon the AoS, and others. No opposition.

Posted by: HH at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (DrCtv)

347
Trust me, if you watched ESPN, especially during the day when the 53% are working, you'd HATE pro sports. Because you'd see how pointless, how petty, and how counter-productive it all is. It will make you sick, literally, if you watched ESPN all day and listened to sports talk radio. You'd really be disgusted with the fans, too, and be sad for your nation.
Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (9wdwt)

Occasionally I go out to lunch with the wife and cannot believe how many restaurants are filled with screens of sometimes sports, but more often talk shows about sports that grind on and on and on. It boggles my mind that some people can not get enough of not only the action on the field but the endless soap opera of this person that person said this said that.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (nIGPZ)

348 Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM (cAMfM)

Fuck you and your insults.

I do what I want. And that's what drives you crazy, busybody.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (3myMJ)

349 If I convince 8 people to not watch the NFL, in what way, exactly, does that diminish the experience for the people who still watch it?

Is it that part of the point is that it's a Networked Form of entertainmnet/social bonding in which the value of the network is proportional to the number of nodes (viewers) that are attached to it?

The NFL is never going away, so sleep easy, NFL watchers. It will always be here.

What does it matter to you if it loses viewership? It shouldn't, unless you own stock or something.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (dciA+)

350 The left has had 70+ years of infiltrating pretty much all the institutions.

To take them back, if it's at all possible, it will take going into the lions' dens, so to speak.

It's not going to be an overnight thing.

Use. Their. Tactics.

Minus the bodily fluids.

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (rlfds)

351 337 Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (HgMAr)

Since everything Obama does gets fucked up the parasitic worm will reform and quit its life of glomming off other organisms, cure cancer and make peace between the worms and the mammals.

So let it be written so let it be done.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (SzZnW)

352 How many people here, that are all outragey, still have cable, go to movies, listen to the radio or streaming music with the commercials? Because if you do, in 99% of cases, you are no different than someone who is still watching football.
Those are all zombie time suck endeavors that only help prop up corporations and people who don't like you (or at least do their best to appeal to someone other than you).
Spare me the outrage until all you have is the internet and all you do is frequent sites that only appeal to your sensibilities (with no Amazon links!!!). Until then, get off my lawn you bizarro social justice warriors...there's a game on tonight.

Posted by: ajmojo at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (1H9ox)

353
Ace, in lieu of a Sunday football thread, can we have a Hobby/DIY thread on Sundays? It will be more, as you say, constructive.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (9wdwt)

354 Nice post, ace! Take the rest of the day off!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (AroJD)

355 @167: "
Up next, the New England Patriots change their name to the New England Oppressors of Black and Brown People."

To be fair, there probably hasn't been an actual patriot in New England since the mid 1850s, anyway.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 05:56 PM (rznWS)

356 253 Let's be real. There's a lot that is super gay about football.
Posted by: x

Backfield in Motion
by Mel & Tim - 1969

Backfield in motion, yeah,
I'm gonna have to penalize you
Backfield in motion, baby,
You know that's against the rules.

Off side and holdin', yeah,
You ought a be ashamed of yourself baby
Offside and holdin', yeah,
Holdin on to some one else

First down you start cheatin' on me
Second down, I was too blind to see
Third down, you know I love you so
Fourth down, baby I got to let you go,
Cus I caught you with your
Backfield in motion, yeah,
I'm gonna have to penalize you
Backfield in motion, baby,
You know that's against the rules.
Now you will see, ah yeah, just how I felt
You beat me to the punch honey,
But you hit me below the belt

Backfield in motion, backfield in motion...

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 05:56 PM (jBuUi)

357 349 Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (dciA+)

I just wish the NFL die hards got 1/2 as worked up at SJWs on the left as they do our "boycott" by probably dozens nationwide.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:56 PM (SzZnW)

358 I hope you include college sports in that statement. How exactly are they any different?

"My group of uneducated and largely ineducable shills who wouldn't spit on me if I was on fire can beat your group of uneducated and largely ineducable shills who wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire."

Yay me.
Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (LAe3v)

ok, they are included. not going to get me to fight over that one.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 05:56 PM (cPsPa)

359 actually at the current moment we're trading ideas about how to best use
one's time and how to effectively influence the institutions that
mediate our culture.

Right? Those lurkers, though, whatta bunch of slackers!

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 05:56 PM (LAe3v)

360 Posted by: IC at September 08, 2016 05:53 PM (a0IVu)

Where you been?

Yet?

Posted by: Golfman at September 08, 2016 05:57 PM (48QDY)

361 I don't think people should give up things they like because in general that thing you like may in someway contribute to causes you disagree with. I do though think specific actions require specific reactions.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 05:57 PM (cQd8v)

362 Right? Those lurkers, though, whatta bunch of slackers!

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 05:56 PM (LAe3v)

LOL!

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 08, 2016 05:57 PM (zc3Db)

363 Interesting that a football post can generate so much... passion.
I really don't get it, but that's OK.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at September 08, 2016 05:57 PM (C9pBZ)

364 actually at the current moment we're trading ideas about how to best use one's time and how to effectively influence the institutions that mediate our culture.

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i think the guy wearing ten sweaters on the median strip has the answer: collecting cans and swearing at everybody.

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at September 08, 2016 05:57 PM (U0lQa)

365 I received my Colin Rubberneck jersey, via special delivery, just in time for me to poop on.

Posted by: Triumph the insult dog at September 08, 2016 05:57 PM (HVQlX)

366 i agree completely. for me, football was over like 20 years ago. i really was sort of surprised to find "people are still playing and watching?" i think a lot of things that had been socially prominent had run their course by the end of the 90's. another was fashion, which was over years ago, though people from yves st, laurent down to today are continuing to discover that (it's only and just business now).

btw: that there are 4 distinct species of giraffes (not 1 made up of 4 sub-species) doesn't mean when you take your gal to the petting zoo and she poses by the fence, the giraffe, any one of them, will come over and eat the flowers on her hat. they will. so be forewarned.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 08, 2016 05:57 PM (WTSFk)

367
It boggles my mind that some people can not get enough of not only the action on the field but the endless soap opera of this person that person said this said that.

Those two Fools, Stephen A Smith and Skip Bayless can argue for hours each day on the stupidest things in sports.

They do it, sadly, because there's a big audience (at 11am weekdays!) who will sit and tune in every day.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:57 PM (9wdwt)

368
"So I should boycott the entire NFL, including my PATRIOTS...?"

Boston Strong (tm)

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (kdS6q)

369 "Fuck the media. All media. All the stupid corrupt leftist Entertainment-Political Complex enterprises. Fuck them all. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

#War."

Yes, this needs to be said daily, or even hourly.

Go Ace ! Great post !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (Z8DIA)

370 Remember: television only exists to sell advertising.

Television programming is only there because they're not allowed to sell ads 24/7.

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (tvyXw)

371 And I thought I couldn't hate the Seahawks more.

I pretty much gave up watching football and the NFL a few years back. I occasionally see a game on and think "O goody football" and tune in. After a few minutes I tune it out. Just habit, no real interest.

I feel bad for New Orleans when the Saints lose and feel good for them when they win. Hard to feel bad for players that can earn ten's of millions playing a game.

Posted by: Javes at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (yOqwj)

372 Holy crap I'm in complete agreement with Jack. I agree in principle with ace, but it's funny to see comic book nerds bashing football haha
Posted by: Phone of kari

There was a good Onion parody where they made a comparison of this, it was like sci-fi nerd vs sports fanatic and how they both think each other are pathetic yet they are so much alike with all the details they keep and knowing way too much info about it, it's all they want to talk about, wearing t shirts with their favorite show/jerseys etc.

I do think, in general, Americans have become too addicted to sports. It wasn't like this decades ago. Large swaths of Americans didn't revolve so much of their lives around professional sports.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (x32Kb)

373 You like your chains.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (cAMfM)
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I even wore them on my wedding day. They don't photograph well.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (bpfzP)

374 * I have to confess I didn't read it, but I believe this post is about how nicotine deficiency can be treated with ketamine, but you have to pee on a lot of little strips of paper or something.

I approve.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (LWu6U)

375
i think the guy wearing ten sweaters on the median strip has the answer: collecting cans and swearing at everybody.

I thank you for your support, ASSHOLE!!!!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (nIGPZ)

376 why do we not boycott or simply avoid more things? liberal entertainment should have been at the top of the list decades ago. why keep giving them money to attend $100,000 hillary dinners?

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 05:58 PM (cPsPa)

377 >>You think it's cool. I don't. Agree to disagree. Differences of opinion are what give life zest and what give conversations a point.

I think that I've been a football fan all my life. I played it, it was a big part of my social life and I still have a good time watching a game every now and then. I pretty much watch my team or maybe a game that might affect my teams standing but I don't watch every Sunday every game that they broadcast. I have zero interest in watch Arizona play Cleveburg.

It sucks that the world has changed and we now have SJWs dominating huge parts of our lives but that is reality. If I boycotted everything they affect I would probably just stay in bed all day.

I am not going to let some 2nd string QB take away the game I love because he wants to act like an asshole. I could give a shit if he sits during the anthem. That's on him not me. I reserve the right to boo him and any other assclown who wants to do this but they are not the boss of me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:59 PM (/tuJf)

378
To put things in perspective:

You all do realize that in 5 billion years the Sun will turn into a pumpkin and there won't be anymore Packers or Patriots.

Posted by: Mister Degrasse Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:59 PM (9wdwt)

379 @186: "So the millionaire jock assclowns seem to think that their Deep Thoughts are required by the masses?"

They're part of the new nobility, so....yeah.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:00 PM (rznWS)

380 327
Differences of opinion are what give life zest and what give conversations a point.

Posted by: ace

You're wrong.

Posted by: Petulant Pissant at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (VAsIq)

Is this a 5 min argument or the full 1/2 hour?

Posted by: Monty Phython's Argument Clinic at September 08, 2016 06:00 PM (Enq6K)

381 Pixie's still got this site fouled up.

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,..."censored [censored] censored censored censored trigger" at September 08, 2016 06:00 PM (MWX7h)

382 Posted by: ajmojo at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (1H9ox)

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Internet connection

Roku 4

Kenny Stabler jersey

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 08, 2016 06:00 PM (rlfds)

383 Trust me, if you watched ESPN, especially during the
day when the 53% are working, you'd HATE pro sports. Because you'd see
how pointless, how petty, and how counter-productive it all is. It will
make you sick, literally, if you watched ESPN all day and listened to
sports talk radio. You'd really be disgusted with the fans, too, and be
sad for your nation.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's

Dead on center. On target.

If you watch it enough, it will turn your stomach. I have sometimes watched pro-games in the last few years, but they hardly hold my interest anymore. The peripheral stuff is just ridiculous. And they have chickified all the commentary. There is always some whip-ass smart woman talking smart about football, a game she has NEVER played. It's all stage prop acting.

Even football as a whole is starting to turn me off. I am tired of seeing some of the antics of the big college programs, and how they tap dance around the rules. Oh, that coach is a "genius", because he has a team of hustling recruiters and just manages to skirt NCAA recruiting rules.
It's all too surreal to believe, sometimes.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at September 08, 2016 06:00 PM (RFeQD)

384 What does it matter to you if it loses viewership? It shouldn't, unless you own stock or something.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (dciA+)
========================================

I do. Go Jordy!

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (bpfzP)

385 >>>363 Interesting that a football post can generate so much... passion.
I really don't get it, but that's OK.

i get it, as I confess in a new update. They feel it's "Pleasure Shaming." It is that, partly.

But still, if the NFL is going to make itself controversial to the point where people now have to have political opinions about it, then 1, that's on them and 2, I get to have my own fucking opinion on it.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (dciA+)

386 ESPN sucks. I pray for the day of it's demise.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (2cS/G)

387 I have never understood (and probably will never understand) other men's obsession w/ football (or organized sports in general). Our country is going to shit, but hey, let's all watch a bunch of overpaid buffoons throw a ball or pass a puck around...

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (ctO3Z)

388 Throw your fuckin beers on the ones who do not stand

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (Ozsfq)

389 i could second the diy thread thing but its not like we haven't done that or that pixels cost a lot or anything

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (U0lQa)

390 @192: "Hockey, that's better, real people watch hockey."

Oh Jesus, now you've done it. You called Canadians "real people."

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (rznWS)

391 I immediately realized, "I don't even like this crap. I'm not enjoying myself. Why the f*ck am I wasting money on this?" And cut the cable and never regretted it.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 05:54 PM (ZKlDy)
..............

I would too, but then I might miss Botched, Naked and Afraid, and all the gay sitcoms.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (HgMAr)

392 i think the guy wearing ten sweaters on the median strip has the answer: collecting cans and swearing at everybody.
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Personally, I'm looking forward to turning into the crazy cat lady on the Simpsons. I'll spend my time with the cats, and the only time I'll actually communicate with others is when I scream something incomprehensible at them.

/plus, I'm pretty sure babbling incoherently with lots of cats is a federally subsidized disability . Cha-ching baby!

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at September 08, 2016 06:02 PM (tvyXw)

393 "Fuck the media. All media.

Yes, this needs to be said daily, or even hourly.

Go Ace ! Great post !
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Except, ace is the media.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 08, 2016 06:02 PM (3myMJ)

394 If FOX Sports would go RIGHT WING Sports they might be able to put a dent in ESPN, but they are almost as left wing as ESPN.. That Colin Coward guy is left winger

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:02 PM (Ozsfq)

395 Go Pats!

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 06:02 PM (2cS/G)

396

Donald Trump won't stand for this shit.

Posted by: guy who injects Trump into every thread at September 08, 2016 06:02 PM (9wdwt)

397 388 Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (Ozsfq)

Amen.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:02 PM (SzZnW)

398 388 Throw your fuckin beers on the ones who do not stand
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (Ozsfq)

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This^^^

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (rlfds)

399 Throw your fuckin beers on the ones who do not stand

+++

unless you're a Philly fan

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (U0lQa)

400 Fuck you and your insults.

I do what I want. And that's what drives you crazy, busybody.

---------------------

Wow. You really, really are addicted. To take this all so personally. Relax. Nobody is going to take your whoobie away.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (cAMfM)

401 Throw your fuckin beers on the ones who do not stand

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (Ozsfq)
...........

Is it OK if I finish the beer, piss in the cup, then throw it?

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (HgMAr)

402 >>>I am not going to let some 2nd string QB take away the game I love because he wants to act like an asshole.

well the difference is that you love it and I don't. If you love it, keep after it.

The people like me who realized they didn't really love it, but were simply following an ingrained habit of turning on the tv at the appointed hour because that's how Programming works... well, they probably could find better uses for that time.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (dciA+)

403 well, as politics has gotten more unbearable I have started having sports on in the background because it is less miserable.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (cPsPa)

404 I'll watch the NFL because I enjoy football as a sport. I will say however that shit like this makes me rethink what I do on Sundays for 20 weeks out of the year.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (R5HRU)

405 Go ahead.

Have some balls

Do it in Dallas

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (EzPgj)

406 Throw your fuckin beers on the ones who do not stand

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (Ozsfq)
...........

Is it OK if I finish the beer, piss in the cup, then throw it?
Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (HgMAr)

I like the way you think!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (Ozsfq)

407 @200: "And this is terrifying. The left really believes the only think between
them and Utopia is the people who do not agree with them."

That's why this time around, they're going to make sure that they kill the right people.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (rznWS)

408
They feel it's "Pleasure Shaming"....

Methinks some people have seen "Footloose" one too many times.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (kdS6q)

409 >>>i think the guy wearing ten sweaters on the median strip has the answer: collecting cans and swearing at everybody.

I always chuckle at the guy with the "betcha can't hit me with a quarter" sign. He's not laughing when I hit him with my car, though.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (Z1U+Q)

410 Trust me, if you watched ESPN, especially during the day when the 53% are working, you'd HATE pro sports. Because you'd see how pointless, how petty, and how counter-productive it all is. It will make you sick, literally, if you watched ESPN all day and listened to sports talk radio. You'd really be disgusted with the fans, too, and be sad for your nation.
Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 05:52 PM (9wdwt)

You are actually fundamentally mistaken here. Sports isn't the problem, sports journalism is. This is just another instance of the left parasitically latching onto a great American pastime and turning it into a vehicle for socialist agitation.

Saying watching sports is a waste is the same as saying going to a concert is a waste. Drew Magary - who is a douche - wrote an amazing article to college grads a few years ago. He said "what's great about America is that we're last and like to fuck around." (Or words to that effect). We do what we want, and that's where Innovation comes from. And my time is nobody else's business. That's what freedom IS. And that's what our debate with the left is all about.

Sports media is a complete waste of time. Watching my team and cheering for them and seeing if they can win it is not.

Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (qYRz9)

411 Is it OK if I finish the beer, piss in the cup, then throw it?
Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (HgMAr)

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Duh.

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (rlfds)

412 Football is America's number one sport, millions of Americans gather together for the Super Bowl, get drunk, and have incoherent and sloppy sex many regret the next day, but it is still sex so God bless. I feel an attack on football is nothing more than an attack on America, it's like sitting or kneeling for the national anthem and I'm not going to stand by and let that happen. For shame ace, for shame.

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (4e+hS)

413 Not to mention what a weird fucking marriage we got going on here. It was mere few years ago the left was RAILING against the NFL for myriad of reasons. Going so far as to say that it should be banned because "racist gladiator activities" or some such. Plus CTE/concussions.

Now? Ain't really heard shit lately.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (R5HRU)

414 That Colin Coward guy is left winger
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I see his show on my internet tv listings. I read it as "Colin Cowherd" and immediately think it's some sort of farming show.

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (tvyXw)

415
I have never understood (and probably will never understand) other men's
obsession w/ football (or organized sports in general). Our country is
going to shit, but hey, let's all watch a bunch of overpaid buffoons
throw a ball or pass a puck around...

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (ctO3Z)
=================================================

I watched my boy play football all the way from age 8 until college. Let me be brief by saying it greatly contributed to the man he became, and contributed to saving his life and the lives of his men in Iraq, second tour.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (bpfzP)

416 Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 05:59 PM (/tuJf)

I understand that but what if the NFL's decision not to allow the Cowboys to wear the police decal? Their decision regard to NC? It's these specific actions I can't ignore.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (cQd8v)

417 Anon a mouse: "Interesting that a football post can generate so much... passion."

I'm guessing it's a substitute for water-cooler chatter since talking about news in the workplace is so touchy. Sports - and specifically football - is a proxy for shared experiences because it's so ubiquitous in American culture and because evening news is a thing of the past. We're indoctrinated with it (football) throughout our schooling. Almost like the weather but with shirts.

So people get emotional over a manufactured conflict.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (1CroS)

418 396

Donald Trump won't stand for this shit.
Posted by: guy who injects Trump into every thread at September 08, 2016 06:02 PM (9wdwt)

For the Anthem?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (9P3OG)

419 394 Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:02 PM (Ozsfq)

Colon Cowshit was part of my conversion from following sports.

They replaced Dan Patrick with cowshit, and it was literally the only station I could get in the gas station I ran at Ft Bliss....

so I went from the amiable and apolitical Patrick to Colon's cowshit....

and then it hit me, fuck him and fuck the sports he shills I'd rather listen to static in this little cube in the 125 degree heat than ESPN Radio's leavings.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (SzZnW)

420 I would too, but then I might miss Botched, Naked and Afraid, and all the gay sitcoms.

Posted by: wth

That's very different. NAA is educational. I, for one, learned that Kim is smokin' hot. Well, she is when she isn't vomiting from bad fruit.

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (LAe3v)

421

Dallas, where a new black panther party member, inspired by BLM, killed a bunch of cops who were protecting the city AND the protestors

Ghead

Do it there

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (EzPgj)

422 I am not going to let some 2nd string QB take away the game I love because he wants to act like an asshole.

well the difference is that you love it and I don't. If you love it, keep after it.

The people like me who realized they didn't really love it, but were simply following an ingrained habit of turning on the tv at the appointed hour because that's how Programming works... well, they probably could find better uses for that time.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (dciA+)

I played football in high school. I loved hitting people. I love watching football now but I love my Country more and if this spreads they will have lost me and so will anyone who advertises with them. Maybe I could start a WEB Site to spread the boycott and make some money on the deal?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (Ozsfq)

423 I've been replacing more of my TV watching with video game playing.

Maybe not a great difference, I know (especially as SJW's have been infiltrating this more and more), but at least it inherently requires more engagement than watching a movie or TV show.

Eh.

Posted by: Kensington at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (7Kbxu)

424 49er fan from John Brodie through Jim Harbaugh. I'm out. F these guys. I'm done and will just watch baseball. Kaepernick and all these other d-bags have no idea how fortunate they are and the NFL has no idea how quickly they can lost people. No games on TV or any other way for me this year. FO and Die Seahawk A-holes!

Posted by: Brad at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (arypP)

425 I just wish the NFL die hards got 1/2 as worked up at SJWs on the left as they do our "boycott" by probably dozens nationwide.
Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 05:56 PM (SzZnW)

You're as tedious as chemjeff.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (z/Ubi)

426
I do think, in general, Americans have become too addicted to sports. It wasn't like this decades ago.

Win this one for the Gipper.

Knute Rockne - 1928

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (IqV8l)

427 We're LAZY and like to fuck around.

I don't know why I bother trying to type on this stupid phone.

Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (qYRz9)

428 Donald Trump won't stand for this shit.

Posted by: guy who injects Trump into every thread

It's for damn sure Hillary won't. If she did, she'd topple over.

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (LAe3v)

429 Roughly 3 million people die in America each year. I presume they don't watch football when they're gone.
Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 05:48 PM

Buzzion, for one, still does.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (1koXB)

430 >>>400 Fuck you and your insults.

I do what I want. And that's what drives you crazy, busybody.

...

TV watching is a very personal and very sensitive thing.

I could offer some reasons for that but I'll let people ponder it for themselves.

Posted by: ace at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (dciA+)

431 Methinks some people have seen "Footloose" one too many times.
---

Once upon a time, I was in college and had a serious boyfriend who was husband material.

Then he fell in love with the movie "Footloose." I was enchanted with "Fanny and Alexander."

Needless to say, it did not work, and now he's high up in the Church of Scientology.

He was malleable. I am not.

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at September 08, 2016 06:07 PM (tvyXw)

432 "Go ahead. "

Seriously.

Become some of the most hated people in the country.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 08, 2016 06:07 PM (9ym/8)

433 165 Coach of USA Soccer team said, you sit during the National Anthem you sit for the rest of the season.
Good coach.
Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,...."she [Hillary] has a happy trigger" at September 08, 2016 05:30 PM (MWX7h)

No that's Hockey.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 05:32 PM (dKiJG)

@192: "Hockey, that's better, real people watch hockey."

Oh Jesus, now you've done it. You called Canadians "real people."

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (rznWS)

Heh...

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,... at September 08, 2016 06:07 PM (MWX7h)

434
So how does one separate Sports Media from pro sports?

You can't.

Posted by: guy who injects Trump into every thread at September 08, 2016 06:07 PM (9wdwt)

435 Besides, if I gave up the Internet I couldn't steal all that content instead of paying liberals for it.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 08, 2016 06:07 PM (nIGPZ)

436 Zombie TV.

Yup. Baseball has killed itself. Beyonce' can do a tribute to black thugs, but the Dallas Cowboys cannot honor the Dallas PD.

The NFL can ESAD.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at September 08, 2016 06:07 PM (4+VII)

437 Dear ATC,

DID YOU GET MY DAMN TWEET?

Yours truly.....

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 08, 2016 06:07 PM (4e+hS)

438 So we're going on the thought that some number of "fans" consume the product due to a combination of habit and personal network?
Sort of like other aspects of human existence.

Anyway, this is illuminating. In a way.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at September 08, 2016 06:07 PM (C9pBZ)

439 TV watching is a very personal and very sensitive thing.

Well if we could not watch TV, we'd have to talk to our wives?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:08 PM (Ozsfq)

440 Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:01 PM (ctO3Z)

Because shit is entertaining? Do you have a time wasting activity or hobby? Or are you out letting every American know the country is going to shit?

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:08 PM (R5HRU)

441 I am not going to let some 2nd string QB take away the game I love because he wants to act like an asshole. I could give a shit if he sits during the anthem. That's on him not me. I reserve the right to boo him and any other assclown who wants to do this but they are not the boss of me.
Posted by: JackStraw

But here's the difference, it's not JUST a 2nd string quarterback.

The NFL as an organization is now just an extension of the Left. The entire "company" is now a propaganda arm for various left-wing political causes from the top down, with individual team owners, coaches, tv announcers, television stations etc all part of it.

To boycott anything over a handful of members would of course be stupid. All sorts of individual athletes are going to vote differently than I do. But when the entire organization is rotten and is actively trying to undermine everything we hold dear? That's much different.

I'm not saying a "good" conservative has to stop watching a sport, but maybe find some ways to not feed the beast so much?

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 06:08 PM (x32Kb)

442 Besides, if I gave up the Internet I couldn't steal all that content instead of paying liberals for it.

Hah....*ding*

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 06:08 PM (qUNWi)

443 Wow. You really, really are addicted. To take this all so personally. Relax. Nobody is going to take your whoobie away.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:03 PM (cAMfM)

You have no idea how wrong you are, pissant. I virtually never watch TV. I can tell you the name of a single show unless I've heard others talk about it. I never watch TV news. I didn't watch the Olympics.

I don't watch 99.9% of sports that are on TV. I occasionally watch the Broncos if it's convenient as I am doing other things around the house. Which means I see what's happening as I pass through the room doing things around the house.

You, like most pissants, are barking up the wrong tree. I rarely watch anything, and I'll watch or not as I please. This evening the Broncos are on and I'll keep up with the action as I prepare for tomorrow's trip.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 08, 2016 06:09 PM (3myMJ)

444

Do it in Dallas. Pussies.

Posted by: ThunderB at September 08, 2016 06:09 PM (EzPgj)

445 Colin Cowherd is so bad. He must be somebody's nephew. He is unbearable.

Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 06:09 PM (qYRz9)

446 423 Posted by: Kensington at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (7Kbxu)

Play games and watch old flicks....

The ONLY area the SJWs face pushback is gaming, to the point Intel told them to GFYS.

Best entertainment per dollar value out there.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:09 PM (SzZnW)

447 "Pleasure shaming?"

Doesn't that involve peeing on a hooker?

Posted by: wooga at September 08, 2016 06:09 PM (cbFFB)

448
The answer to football is porn.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:09 PM (9P3OG)

449 Are you sure there wasn't a Manning cheering you on, Ace?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqd9giW18WI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEeK7OH6kXc

Posted by: Keyser at September 08, 2016 06:09 PM (v8/5X)

450
Well if we could not watch TV, we'd have to talk to our wives?
---

Look guys, don't imagine you're something special. We're just bored, and when you're not around, we have the same conversation with the cat, the dog, the neighbor and the mailman.

Posted by: wives everywhere at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (tvyXw)

451 I am however considering getting a New Jersey Generals t shirt

Posted by: x at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (nFwvY)

452 The answer to football is porn.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:09 PM (9P3OG)

Isn't that the answer to almost everything?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (Ozsfq)

453 Pleasure shaming is hiding the door to your rape room behind a book shelf.

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (4e+hS)

454
Anyone remember that idiot Juan (John) Cole? Is he still around?

Sven probably does.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (9wdwt)

455 lets face it, humans have an inherent need to be part of a tribe. This is what a lot of pro sports is about, and also a lot of politics.

It used to be what a lot of religion was about, before that it was what families were about.

The left keeps trying to make the tribe bigger and more controlling, and then it keeps fracturing into smaller, stupider, divisions.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (LWu6U)

456 425 Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 06:06 PM (z/Ubi)

right sport...

maybe you can lobby to have me banned.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (SzZnW)

457 shibumi -

That's kinda my retirement plan, too, except I'm gonna have dogs.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (Z8DIA)

458 452 Isn't that the answer to almost everything?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (Ozsfq)

Hmm . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (9P3OG)

459 These "protests" will also pass. They are annoying by design.

Ignore them for a little while and they will realize nobody cares about their protest.

Some of these dicks will continue to do it but the vast majority won't because it won't work.

Remember, all this hubbub is being talked about because no games have been played.

$100 bucks says this won't mean squat in a month.

Posted by: weirdflunkyonatablet at September 08, 2016 06:11 PM (SOJ/t)

460 A 49er recently beat up a 70 year old man in the lobby of the Marriott in SF.
Bunch of dirtbags, all of them.

Posted by: navybrat at September 08, 2016 06:11 PM (w7KSn)

461 Look guys, don't imagine you're something special. We're just bored, and when you're not around, we have the same conversation with the cat, the dog, the neighbor and the mailman.
Posted by: wives everywhere at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (tvyXw)

hey if they help with the bills, go for it!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:11 PM (Ozsfq)

462 Do it in Dallas.

^^^ This.

Posted by: Debbie at September 08, 2016 06:11 PM (1koXB)

463 I do think, in general, Americans have become too addicted to sports. It wasn't like this decades ago.

Win this one for the Gipper.

Knute Rockne - 1928
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr

How often do you think people sat around and talked football stats on a regular basis back then?

It's like a normal part of conversation now to talk about how your fantasy football team is doing and give incredibly detailed updates.

It's weird behavior, it would be like people talking about RPG games going on their basement like Dungeons and Dragons.

Posted by: Maritime at September 08, 2016 06:11 PM (x32Kb)

464 So, anyone taking the Broncos tonight?

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (2cS/G)

465 OT: I'm getting a banner ad for a Michael Jackson show at Madame Tussaud's. Make of that what you will.

Posted by: pep at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (LAe3v)

466 Don't forget Al Gore is waiting for his second chackra

Posted by: Yo! at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (uPt3V)

467 460
A 49er recently beat up a 70 year old man in the lobby of the Marriott in SF.

Bunch of dirtbags, all of them.

Posted by: navybrat

In fairness, the fight was over a brisket sandwich.

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (4e+hS)

468 Welcome to Saint Louis everybody.

Honestly our shit fest probably started after a player killed someone in a dui accident and rather than quietly move him to a new team, they let him play after his (short) prison term.
Dumb move

The most recent slap in the face pretty much ended NFL fever here. If the NFL.wants to take that nation wide, that's their choice. But there are other sports.

Posted by: Tsrblke at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (dzmBR)

469 461 Look guys, don't imagine you're something special. We're just bored, and when you're not around, we have the same conversation with the cat, the dog, the neighbor and the mailman.
Posted by: wives everywhere at September 08, 2016 06:10 PM (tvyXw

Define the word "conversation" in this context.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (9P3OG)

470 Why is everybody so angry at each other?

Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (qYRz9)

471 @280: "So then let's boycott their advertisers"

Budweiser and the military?

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (rznWS)

472 A 49er recently beat up a 70 year old man in the lobby of the Marriott in SF.
Bunch of dirtbags, all of them.
Posted by: navybrat at September 08, 2016 06:11 PM (w7KSn)

They cut him, didn't they?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (Ozsfq)

473 Interesting that a football post can generate so much... passion.
I really don't get it, but that's OK.

It's not a football post. It's a "you should stop liking what you enjoy because reasons" post.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (mgbwf)

474 This isn't about TV, media Sux, this is about you needing to avoid insulting strangers because of YOUR desire to tell people how to live.

One of my pet peeves, deal with it.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (3myMJ)

475 $100 bucks says this won't mean squat in a month.

Yep...hyperventilation over nothing.

But at least it brought out a new suxxor troll.

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (qUNWi)

476 Yeah... a bunch of semi-literate thugs playing a game. These low IQ "athletes" don't have the brains to understand complex issues.

Posted by: Anchovy at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (a42oI)

477 Pleasure shaming is when that girl in the dungeon tells you that your manacles aren't as nice as the guy up the street.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (Z1U+Q)

478 Budweiser and the military?
Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (rznWS)

Well no need to panic just yet? LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (Ozsfq)

479 470 Why is everybody so angry at each other?
Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (qYRz9)

Flashback to the GOP primaries.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (9P3OG)

480

I think some people are just a tad -- obsessed -- with sports.

Posted by: A Monkey with Electrodes Plunged into his Skull, Frantically Tapping a Lever to Get Another Grape

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (kdS6q)

481 Oh wow.
Ten years or so here and I made a real Ace post!

*starts happy dance and heads out to buy lottery ticket*

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (C9pBZ)

482 But definitely....being scolded from the right is much more refreshing than being scolded from the left.

Posted by: eleven at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (qUNWi)

483 5 year old grandson wants to be a Packers fan. Heck - we're from Wisconsin doncha know. But Dad is a Bears fan. I told grandson I would buy him a Packers shirt. He said No - Dad will chainsaw it.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (bpfzP)

484 "That's kinda my retirement plan, too, except I'm gonna have dogs."

That's a good plan.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (9ym/8)

485 478 Budweiser and the military?
Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (rznWS)

Well no need to panic just yet? LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (Ozsfq)

I heard Anheuser Busch will be using ISIS members and Black Panthers in those ads, so it's all good.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (9P3OG)

486 1. Alan Carr sis a saint. I am done smoking and drinking thanks to him. And I am the opposite of miserable. I am happier than I ever have been in my life.

2. Same reason I suppose I stopped watching the NFL -- I felt like there weren't any actual winners who would waste their time 3-8 hours a Sunday on this. I would have to stop watching. And now, it is pretty obvious that the peole I know who still watch it, well with some exceptions most aren't doing a lot with their lives. And that's fine for them. They are consumers. Being a passive consumer of something I have no input in is dehumanizing. I need to feel like I matter (even if I don't).

3. Team don't matter anymore. The NFL does. Case in point: Peyton Manning ads. He was just everywhere. Nice guy I suppose. But they just pushed Peyton Manning down our throats to sell everything. Did they no know most NFL teams did not have Peyton Manning playing for them? Did they not know it was insulting to me to see him during every single commercial break selling something? The fact that he was such an effective spokesman (I assume the corporations paid him so often because he was so effective) meant that the importance was on the cartel, not the teams that made up the cartel. I used to be a Bills fan (and maybe I still am if they ever dare make the playoffs). I was never quite an NFL fan. It is the NFL that matters.

4. The NFL brand is basically spending its goodwill until there will be none left. There is nothing imaginative, innovative, or risky about becoming an NFL paid athlete. It is the obvious choice is you can make the cut. There is nothing imaginative, innovative, or risky about being a corporate sponsor. It is all the safe move. to apply a football metaphor Punting in life may be necessary or prudent, but I'll be damned if I am going to waste my time watching someone take safe route.

Posted by: I love Science in the ass at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (svFmG)

487 If I boycotted everything the left violated violently I wouldn't have much left to enjoy.

Life is too short to fight every battle.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (R5HRU)

488 460 Posted by: navybrat at September 08, 2016 06:11 PM (w7KSn)

A bunch of overindulged thug ass pampered nabobs who can't hold the mid 70s to early 90s players' jockstraps.

Period.

I challenge any SUPER FAN to go watch mid 80s NFL football and tell me THIS is better.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (SzZnW)

489 " will nicely set other dominoes falling "

But dominoes are mostly BLACK... so... you Raaaciiiisst.

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (ucB75)

490 Chesterton famously remarked that
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Well, today's robber barons like the NFL, Apple, Starbucks, Disney, et al. are also the moral busy bodies that he warned of. They don't just want your money, they want your heart, mind & soul.

Posted by: josephistan at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (7qAYi)

491 Nood

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (yFM0+)

492 >>I have never understood (and probably will never understand) other men's
obsession w/ football (or organized sports in general). Our country is
going to shit, but hey, let's all watch a bunch of overpaid buffoons
throw a ball or pass a puck around...

You should take a trip to India during cricket season. Or South America during soccer season. Or Finland during hockey season. Or pretty much any region and watch the obsession you will see with the favored sport.

This isn't an American thing. Hell, India closes when they are playing a multi-day test match against one of their hated opponents like Pakistan. And when I say closes I mean closes. Everyone drops everything to watch. In South America, referees have been know to die after particularly heated matches.

Sports have been a huge part of all societies throughout recorded history. The original Olympics didn't have synchronized swimming but they did have some sports we still do today. And they would even suspend wars during the games.

Competition is hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (/tuJf)

493 Sports are very rarely mentioned here on this site, even the dedicated Football threads are usually a slow-slog. What is this "obsession" and "programming" you see? And where?

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (2cS/G)

494 I made a list of advertisers of the last pre season 49er game. Yes, I watched it for that reason.
A total boycott would be pretty daunting, mostly car manufacturers.
But I am willing to give it a try.

Posted by: navybrat at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (w7KSn)

495 Taking pleasure watching people who would be more appropriate in prison engage in a public entertainment event is a mark of the degradation of our culture.

Posted by: gNewt....Oh!,.censored courtesy of pixie at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (MWX7h)

496 To be honest the only games I mostly get to see are the Monday, Sunday, and occasional Thursday night games. Not biggie for me

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 08, 2016 06:15 PM (Ozsfq)

497 meh. I have nothing invested in any man-child sport. But I'll watch them via the internet while I'm doing my weekly, routine domestic chores, particularly when it's -10degF with 12" of snow on the ground.

These sports leagues really are pretty much a laughingstock, but the momentum of billions of dollars keeps them rollin' rollin' rollin'.

Posted by: Fritz at September 08, 2016 06:15 PM (HVQlX)

498 "Why is everybody so angry at each other? "

Screw you.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 08, 2016 06:15 PM (9ym/8)

499 490 Posted by: josephistan at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (7qAYi)

That was C.S. Lewis.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:15 PM (9P3OG)

500 I really don't turn the NFL on until the World Series is over.

Baseball --- its America's pastime. And its the only sport where you have The Greatness.....That Is.....Kris Bryant!

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 08, 2016 06:15 PM (/HC6x)

501
Oh it's gonna mean something a month from now. A year from now.

People are sick and tired of A Lot of Shit. In the media, in politics, and in this country.

2017 is gonna be very different. Things are going to change. After this election, people aren't going back to business as usual. A lot of wounds have been opened up.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 06:16 PM (9wdwt)

502 498 "Why is everybody so angry at each other? "

Screw you.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at September 08, 2016 06:15 PM (9ym/

Up yours.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 08, 2016 06:16 PM (9P3OG)

503 Posted by: Anchovy at September 08, 2016 06:13 PM (a42oI)

How are they not athletes?

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:16 PM (R5HRU)

504 "That's why this time around, they're going to make sure that they kill the right people.

Posted by: FaCubeItches "

And they're gonna make damn sure that they don't miss any of them this time around.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 08, 2016 06:16 PM (Z8DIA)

505 Kenny Stabler jersey
Posted by: SMFH

Stabler? That young whippersnapper won't get no respect from me.

I wear George Blanda jersey with pride! Accept no substitutes!

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 06:16 PM (jBuUi)

506
"So then let's boycott their advertisers"

No! I shall deny myself nothing!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 06:17 PM (kdS6q)

507 Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 06:12 PM (mgbwf)

I believe people are saying that some things reach a level where taking a stance should usurp one's own personal satisfaction. Apparently many feel that the NFL has not reached that level.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at September 08, 2016 06:17 PM (cQd8v)

508 Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 06:14 PM (/tuJf)

Well stated

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:17 PM (R5HRU)

509 499 - Good thing I was willowed, then!

Posted by: josephistan at September 08, 2016 06:18 PM (7qAYi)

510 "You, like most pissants, are barking up the wrong tree. I rarely watch anything, and I'll watch or not as I please."

So much hostility. Really touched a nerve.

I can see how my trying to help NFL watchers flex their muscle over the leftists media complex would really annoy you.

Trying to get them to see they have power and can get the NFL to act in a way that they would like but nooooooo you and they to have to act like a hysterical fan afraid to miss their fix. Too funny, actually.

I don't give a shit if some people want to watch the NFL. I really don't.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:18 PM (cAMfM)

511 I watched my boy play football all the way from age 8 until college. Let me be brief by saying it greatly contributed to the man he became, and contributed to saving his life and the lives of his men in Iraq, second tour.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses

I'm making a motion for threadwinner here.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 06:18 PM (mgbwf)

512 505 Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 06:16 PM (jBuUi)

George Blanda Raiders gear?

I wear his Bears gear.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:18 PM (SzZnW)

513 ace, let me be VERY VERY VERY VERY clear on this. I'm not " very peeved I would dare to suggest that watching TV isn't really a great use of one's time."

I'm very peeved at you (and I do mean the very specific you, ace) for, again, let me be VERY VERY VERY VERY clear on this, for having the gall, the sheer and unmitigated gall, to set out for me a standard as to what I should and should not do with my time and to set up a standard as to what a True Conservative Should Do With Every Moment Of Their Existence.

Your update addressing me? And attempting to state that this is really about making better choices? Is completely and totally and utterly incompatible with your prior statements in this post.

Let me quote you again:

Fuck the media. All media. All the stupid corrupt leftist Entertainment-Political Complex enterprises. Fuck them all. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

You stated that, you, not me, you made those comments. You stated this was about the stupid corrupt leftist Entertainment-Political Complex enterprises. Not me.

And you know what? You have every right to do that. That is your position. But I have every right to note that you are therefore adopting the vicious, nasty, dehumanizing, intellectually bereft and, frankly, Marxian view that the personal is per se political.

No. A trillion times no. I have no respect for that position because that position is unworthy of respect. Hell, it's not even a position. It's a stance. And I reject it. Utterly.

It's not about saying watching tv is so totes awesome you guys and every should do it all the time! It's about saying that it is vile, utterly vile, to accept the notion that each and every single one of my personal choices must be made when viewed through a political lens.

No.

No.

No.

If you decide the NFL is really just terrific, fine, go with God. You've rationally evaluated the time invested versus the pleasure received and you've determined that the accounts balance in the NFL's favor.

I've rationally determined that it brings me pleasure. If it doesn't do that for others, the hell if I care. Others have made decisions to do other things. Yay them. But my enjoyment of sports, be that tennis, football, baseball, curling, whatever, is of no moment to others. Yet, somehow, others seem to believe that my doing so is somehow their business. Nope.

But I don't think it's a terrible thing to say, "You know, there are better hobbies out there."

This is a serious question. Who are you, ace, to tell me what I should enjoy? Seriously, what gives you that right?

Because, you see, I've been told all my life that I am a Wrong Person who enjoys Wrong Things and I've yet to hear a coherent explanation as to why it is that other people think they have some kind of right to reach into my life and say "no, no, you shouldn't like that, that's unworthy, this is far better, what brings you pleasure is just not the right thing and you must stop that."

It's one thing to say this is awesome and fun and I think you would like it. It's rather another to say what you like is stupid and you should do this instead because what you like is stupid and wrong and also supports awful things.

As arrogant as I am, I sure as hell do not believe I have the right to reach into others lives to tell them how to spend their time. I do not grant to others the right to do that to me.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:18 PM (dEQP3)

514 @340: "The Target boycott, unofficial though it may be, has them shitting
their pants. To lose 10% of revenue in one quarter? That's not only
painful, it brings into question the ability of the corporation to
survive at that reduced revenue flow."

Big difference between Target and the NFL. Target gets its money at the cash register, directly from the end consumer. The NFL mostly does not. The fact that a bunch of individuals decide not to pay them directly has little to no impact on them.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:18 PM (rznWS)

515 I could offer some reasons for that but I'll let people ponder it for themselves

+++

it's the same with listening to music all the time, even when not listening. you don't have to deal with your internal thoughts that way.

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at September 08, 2016 06:19 PM (U0lQa)

516 I don't give a shit if some people want to watch the NFL. I really don't.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:18 PM (cAMfM)
================================================

I can tell.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:19 PM (bpfzP)

517 Sports breeds competition and I've never heard a conservative ever say competition was a bad thing.

This is for those that are complaining about sports in general.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:19 PM (R5HRU)

518 Internet is not comparable to football, so the riposte "what would it take for you to give up the internet?" is like "what would it take for you to give up reading books?" The internet, no matter how vapid, at least involves some mental engagement, and internet providers haven't yet degenerated to the NFL's level of shoving their agenda down our throats. If they ever moved to full blown censorship, then yes, I'd give it up.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 08, 2016 06:20 PM (ZKlDy)

519 460 A 49er recently beat up a 70 year old man in the lobby of the Marriott in SF.
Bunch of dirtbags, all of them.
Posted by: navybrat

No -- actually, the 49er broke into the old guy's room and beat him to a pulp inside the hotel room, while insisting that it was his (the 49er's) hotel room.

From the video, he looked so drunk he could hardly stand.

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 06:20 PM (jBuUi)

520
And here come the violins.

Gimme a fucking break.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at September 08, 2016 06:21 PM (9wdwt)

521 142 >>Huh? I don't do twitter, facebook, NBCCBSABCnews, etc. None of it.

You're still here. After spending many years working for companies that built the technology that runs the internet as well as service companies that make the communications possible, I can tell you that the vast majority skew way left.

So just logging on is putting money in their pockets.

But nobody ever agrees to give up the thing they really like.

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Bullshit... The internet is not purely an "entertainment" medium... It is also the only realistic way to get any actual information or fight-back the propaganda.

What the hell are we supposed to rely on instead? The city rag and snail-mail? Give me a break... Take your sanctimony elsewhere...

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:21 PM (ctO3Z)

522
Apparently Hedonism is also severely conservative.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 08, 2016 06:21 PM (kdS6q)

523 Nerves are touched.

Wow.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at September 08, 2016 06:21 PM (C9pBZ)

524 TV watching is a very personal and very sensitive thing
...............

Especially when Sandra Smith AND Harris Faulkner are on Outnumbered together.

Posted by: wth at September 08, 2016 06:21 PM (HgMAr)

525 "Why is everybody so angry at each other? "

It's the addiction speaking.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:22 PM (cAMfM)

526 What is this thing "NFL"?

Posted by: lynndh at September 08, 2016 06:22 PM (DaWUf)

527 Good work today Ace. I was disturbing my coworkers with my chortles, and You, yes You, are to blame, --and should be humor shamed. -cuz i dont have those humor skilz.
To adulterate a famous line: Ace you magnificent 29yo bastard.

Posted by: Firewolf at September 08, 2016 06:22 PM (8Ubmh)

528 I switched to soccer years ago from being a hardcore NFL fan.
I found a good podcast and watched every game I could find. But you know what, the storylines around the teams were better than the games themselves and better than anything the NFL ever produced. Soon I found myself just listening to podcasts about soccer and following the big picture. It was way more exciting checking the scores and tables to see what teams might be relegated out of the top league instead of seeing which half of the NFL would make the playoff and which ones would get "punished" by getting the best talent the next year. Instead I even got to follow which D-2 soccer team from some obscure village in England was about to earn a legit 1/3 of a Billion dollars by winning a top 3 spot in the second division and move to the first division the next year.

Haven't missed the NFL, can't stand sitting though 4 hours of that nonsense. At worst, even if a soccer game is a "boring" scoreless Afair, in out 90 minutes.

Posted by: Rory at September 08, 2016 06:22 PM (YaiCw)

529 This whole line of argumentation is getting about as old as the Trump vs. Cruz threads, but as a last point (well, first point for this thread...):

1. I think a devil's advocate could always say "there's a better use of your time." Why watch the NFL when you could read a book? Why post on a blog when you could be learning a 2nd language? Which leads into...

2. Part of the conservative ethos is personal responsibility, but also personal liberty - IOW, I can choose to have stupid hobbies if I want to have stupid hobbies. Some of those hobbies have entanglements with the political left, because they've basically poisoned everything.

I do understand ace's point - but like every addict, I have a million ways to justify my actions.

(Of course, these have mostly been threads about the NFL, whereas my brand of poison starts when pitchers and catchers report and ends with the last game of the WS - though with the hot stove and winter meetings, baseball really has no 'off-season')

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:22 PM (kumBu)

530 alexthechick - that was the best thing I've read on the internet all week. Really. You managed to put into words all the thoughts in my head, and in precise fashion. Thank you.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:22 PM (bpfzP)

531 Really, boycotts come down to just how exercised someone happens to be about a particular something, as opposed to the benefits of consuming that something. After all, there are dozens, hundreds, of bad things and bad people to boycott.

For instance, I personally will never set foot in a Target again in my life, though heretofore I have happily shopped there since they came into existence. I INTENSELY wish everyone would join me on that.

But . . . what if people wanted me to boycott, say, Pixar? (Because it's owned by Disney I guess.) Well, Pixar enhances my life greatly. It's one of a handful of entertainment experiences I truly enjoy and get lost in. I also think: Why punish all these artists by not enjoying their work, just because Disney is a big fathead?

(I will, though, refuse to see movies with certain people in them I don't wish to donate two cents to.)

So I can beg you not to go to Target. And I do beg you not to. How could you go!!! But it could be that for some reason, the Target bathroom issue just doesn't matter as much to you as having access to Target's wares does. Like Pixar shakes out, for me.

So we just have to hope that in the aggregate, our various boycotts make some difference.

Posted by: Alana at September 08, 2016 06:23 PM (6wJRk)

532 TV watching is a very personal and very sensitive thing

That reminds me of the good ol days of Skinamax

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 08, 2016 06:23 PM (/HC6x)

533 517 Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:19 PM (R5HRU)

Watching the NFL is to competitive sports like watching porn is to having sex.

I played High School Football as a Y receiver in a run and shoot offense.

I got my adam's apple knocked to the side of my throat, my bell rung a bunch and made some catches.

THAT is competition, Antonio Gates scoring a TD in a mismatch is NOT competition.

I also kickboxed for a bit in free sparring, THAT is competition not watching UFC.

I'll go to my grave admiring competition and competitors but I am not so much a fan of the corporations that pimp out that addiction.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:23 PM (SzZnW)

534 I stand corrected, zomb.

Posted by: navybrat at September 08, 2016 06:24 PM (w7KSn)

535 I believe people are saying that some things reach a level where taking a stance should usurp one's own personal satisfaction. Apparently many feel that the NFL has not reached that level.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck

Well, this is why I called ace disingenuous (and he didn't take the bait, the bastard).

He started saying we should boycott it for political reasons because of Kaepernick's idiocy. Then he shifted to "it's a waste of time because I don't like it".

One or the other is grounds for a good argument. Shifting the ground is disingenuous.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 08, 2016 06:24 PM (mgbwf)

536 Posted by: Rory at September 08, 2016 06:22 PM (YaiCw)

LOL Soccer. Sorry for your loss.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:24 PM (R5HRU)

537 I stopped watching football years ago when simply doing your fr@#$king job was a reason to prance around like a 4 year old who was just given an ice cream cone before his older sister got one. It's been going downhill ever since.

Posted by: George V. at September 08, 2016 06:24 PM (LUHWu)

538 Ace, I respect what you're saying here, but like with the Disney stuff, I'm not ready to cut the cord.

But if this stuff with the NFL keeps up, I'm not that far off from stopping.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at September 08, 2016 06:24 PM (ef6pV)

539 I stopped watching footbull after the Colts won the Stupid Bowl back in 2007. I was so excited when the won the playoffs, but when they won the Super Bowl is was just so anti-climatic. It was like, ok ? Now what ? So What ? What difference did it make in my life ? None.

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at September 08, 2016 06:24 PM (kI9U5)

540 "I can tell."

Types
Deletes
Types
Deletes

Bless you little NFL addicted heart.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:25 PM (cAMfM)

541 I played High School Football as a Y receiver in a run and shoot offense.

I got my adam's apple knocked to the side of my throat, my bell rung a bunch and made some catches.

THAT is competition, Antonio Gates scoring a TD in a mismatch is NOT competition.
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I'm an old white woman. I think my sports competition days are behind me. So I watch.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:26 PM (bpfzP)

542 To boldly go where Gnome Ann has gone before !

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at September 08, 2016 06:26 PM (kI9U5)

543 Modern football makes me long for Cricket Test Matches it's so boring...

Posted by: setnaffa at September 08, 2016 06:27 PM (jl6Ly)

544 541 Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:26 PM (bpfzP)

and Roger Goodall and his liberal activism love you for it.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:27 PM (SzZnW)

545 One of the things I despise most about the left is their bullshit politicization of every aspect on daily life, where the basic choices anyone makes either is on the Right Side of History or Supporting Oppression. Every fucking thing. Outrageous outrage and boycott kabuki is no more appealing when it's coming from my side. It's all so goddamn tedious.

Posted by: radar at September 08, 2016 06:27 PM (s3IQQ)

546 "Drew Magary - who is a douche -
Posted by: Phone of kari at September 08, 2016 06:04 PM (qYRz9) "

Back when he was just a Deadspin commenter ("Big Daddy Drew," IIRC), he was funny. Then he got an actual job in sports journalism and became a bore.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:27 PM (kumBu)

547 alexthechick - that was the best thing I've read on the internet all week. Really. You managed to put into words all the thoughts in my head, and in precise fashion. Thank you.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:22 PM (bpfzP)

Thank you.

I will admit to being more than slightly disingenuous myself. You see, when I am watching TV? I'm also generally playing a video game (yes, I have a multi tv set up in the living room), surfing the internet, reading a book and talking to Bander. All at the same time. So this notion that if you watch tv you can't do other things is bizarre to me.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:27 PM (dEQP3)

548 >>What the hell are we supposed to rely on instead? The city rag and snail-mail? Give me a break... Take your sanctimony elsewhere...

Ha.My sanctimony in a thread dedicated toward shaming me into giving up something I like.

Not fun having your ox gored, is it?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 08, 2016 06:27 PM (/tuJf)

549 Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:23 PM (SzZnW)

Agree to disagree then. If I'm watching someone compete I am watching a competition, no?

I may disagree with the NFL on a lot of shit and dislike some players but I love the sport and the level of competition that it breeds.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:28 PM (R5HRU)

550 512 505 Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 06:16 PM (jBuUi)

George Blanda Raiders gear?

I wear his Bears gear.
Posted by: sven10077

Bears? Raiders? No, I wear his University of Kentucky Wildcats uniform from '47. Go 'Cats!

Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 06:28 PM (jBuUi)

551 Yes Ace, you will 4eva be known in my political circles as m29b.

Crap, that almost sounds like a play call.

Posted by: Firewolf at September 08, 2016 06:29 PM (8Ubmh)

552 No sven, I don't believe I've ever received a thank you note. We're going up to the Packers Hall of Fame in October. Maybe I can snag an autograph from someone.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:29 PM (bpfzP)

553 @476: "These low IQ "athletes" don't have the brains to understand complex issues."

You go understand complex issues. We'll console ourselves by banging hot chicks on top of piles of money and good blow.

Posted by: Low IQ Professional Athletes at September 08, 2016 06:29 PM (rznWS)

554 I listened to Dan Patrick sports radio this morning for the first time in a few years. They sounded like giggling girls talking about Pro Football. I've always been a College Football guy. Now I only listen to a game if it's on the radio or if I drive into town amongst the tailgaters for free food, booze, and to pick up a ticket after kickoff from a scalper when prices are slashed.

This move but the Seahawks has Pete Carroll written all over it. He ran a dirty shady program at USC that ahould have gotten the SMU death penalty, and now he going to Fuck up the Seahawks and possibily the NFL. Dude is a cancer.

Posted by: Pepe, founder of the fn-right at September 08, 2016 06:30 PM (P5U01)

555 So this notion that if you watch tv you can't do other things is bizarre to me.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:27 PM (dEQP3)
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I'm usually making out.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:30 PM (bpfzP)

556 I wonder what the correlation is between those getting offended at the thought of boycotting the NFL, and those who think that not voting for Trump is somehow not a vote for Hillary.

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:30 PM (ctO3Z)

557 It's like watching a ho defending her pimp to the death.

Oh well. What can you do?

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:30 PM (cAMfM)

558 550 Posted by: zombie at September 08, 2016 06:28 PM (jBuUi)

Got you topped I wear his 1836 "Alamo Amigos" Jersey from when he was on Sam Houston's LaCrosse Team's Arch-Rivals....

people forget George Blanda was Vic's teammate there.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:31 PM (SzZnW)

559 Sports journalism has maybe one talented person left - Joe Posnanski.

We used to have Fred Lied, Grantland Rice, Gay Talese, Damon Runyon, Heywood Broun - the sports section circa the 1910s-1920s could probably out-write most of the nation's contemporary poets and novelists. That's certainly not the case anymore.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:32 PM (kumBu)

560 Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:30 PM (cAMfM)

What do you consume as a time waster or hobby? Let's go over your habits with a fine toothed comb.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:32 PM (R5HRU)

561 552 Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:29 PM (bpfzP)

I'm certain as a stockholder you'll get a few.

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 06:32 PM (SzZnW)

562 I'm usually making out.
Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:30 PM (bpfzP)

This is me, not being bitter about the whole geography and spatial relationships and not having a transporter thingy.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:35 PM (dEQP3)

563 "Holy crap. Take off and nuke the stadium from orbit.
Posted by: HiHo at September 08, 2016 05:14 PM (CPk0

"

It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at September 08, 2016 06:35 PM (kI9U5)

564 "I will admit to being more than slightly disingenuous myself. You see, when I am watching TV? I'm also generally playing a video game (yes, I have a multi tv set up in the living room), surfing the internet, reading a book and talking to Bander. All at the same time. So this notion that if you watch tv you can't do other things is bizarre to me.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:27 PM (dEQP3) "

I'm so used to playing video games and watching TV/movies at the same time that the memories tangle themselves in my head.

"Level 3 of Double Dragon? That's when Kramer was pitching his coffee-table book on Regis and Kathy Lee, right? No, shit, Level 3 is The Woods..."

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:35 PM (kumBu)

565 George Blanda got lucky. I'm the real deal -- #3 in your program, #1 in your hearts!

Posted by: Daryl Lamonica at September 08, 2016 06:37 PM (y0er3)

566 "What do you consume as a time waster or hobby? Let's go over your habits with a fine toothed comb."

Why can't you dummies understand what I'm saying? You idiots have POWER to make the NFL/MEDIA COMPLEX adhere to your wishes.

But nooooooooooooooo. All the addicts come running out to yell at the messenger.

Geez. Dumbasses.

Ho's defending their pimps. That's it in a nutshell.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:37 PM (cAMfM)

567 The NFL has just identified their core audience, kind of like the NBA did. It ain't white guys.

Posted by: gman at September 08, 2016 06:37 PM (88jLm)

568
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:35 PM (kumBu)

Fucking woods level. Trying to gauge the correct distance to jump on them logs sucked balls.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:38 PM (R5HRU)

569 I have largely given up all television. Unfortunately I have switched to large amounts of internet time. Granted I am learning loads of...useless trivia, I am enjoying it and seeing what I want to see at least.

Never got into watching sports. I was a jock when I was younger and watching doesn't do it for me. Plus why should I care what multi-millionaires are doing in a game?
They get paid millions to play a game. Brain surgeons etc. get paid a fraction of that. I know, not apples to apples, but just how I see it.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at September 08, 2016 06:38 PM (uhftQ)

570 Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:35 PM (kumBu)

Fucking woods level. Trying to gauge the correct distance to jump on them logs sucked balls.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:38 PM (R5HRU)

Fuck platforming.

I'm still playing the hell out of Uncharted though.

But fuck platforming, seriously.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:39 PM (dEQP3)

571 The non-consumption of TV is something I just sort of drifted into a few years ago. It wasn't a conscious decision on my part. I just started noticing that friends would all be talking about the hip, new "It" show and not only would I be completely ignorant of what they were talking about, but I had no desire to shed my ignorance.

Lost, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, that AMC zombie show, Mad Men, "reality" shows, I've never seen one episode of any of them nor do I desire to. I'm not preening and I'm not judging if those things float your boat. This topic does make me want to delve into a deeper question: Do we need disposable entertainment? And, of course, not "need" as in needing food or water, but need it psychologically.

I consider reading a book a more worthwhile endeavor than watching TV. But does that still hold true if what you're reading is disposable, shallow fiction and what you could be watching is a documentary on the life of Shakespeare? I don't know. I do feel that parts of your brain that have the ability to atrophy are engaged when you're reading (no matter what it is) and those same parts are shut off when you're simply observing television.

For instance I notice that the more time I spend on Twitter or commenting online the less motivated I am to actually read the article I'm commenting on. I just read the title and skim the first paragraph so that I can get straight to the snark and the sick burnz in the comments. I think Ace wrote something about that before. How ingesting information in short snippets trains your brain to only desire information that comes in short snippets. I think it's important to have one day a week in which you only ingest long form works.

It also begs the question, if disposable entertainment isn't needed what should those free hours be filled with instead? Learning a language? Playing an instrument? Practicing a sport instead of watching it on TV? Obviously spending time with family and friends is an easy one, although if you'd rather watch "CSI: Des Moines" than spend time with your family you might have issues. Maybe we should bring back the AoS book club. Or maybe we could have an AoS Finer Things Club.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at September 08, 2016 06:40 PM (Rtyzj)

572 382 Posted by: ajmojo at September 08, 2016 05:55 PM (1H9ox)

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Internet connection

Roku 4

Kenny Stabler jersey
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at September 08, 2016 06:00 PM (rlfds)

How do you like your Roku 4 I just ordered mine

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 06:40 PM (dKiJG)

573 My interest in watching the NFL was a pretty solid ZERO before this stupid bullshit.

I'll tune in a watch for 15 minutes, check the score, what ever..

They outlawed end zone celebrations, but you see 40 of them every game..after every sack, first down, broken up pass play...

Hey, I just made a pot of coffee...IN YO FACE!!!!

Fuck off..

Posted by: Portnoy at September 08, 2016 06:40 PM (NZbhV)

574 @541: "I'm an old white woman. I think my sports competition days are behind me. So I watch."

So the porn analogy carries over there, too.

I keed, I keed.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at September 08, 2016 06:41 PM (rznWS)

575 What ruined professional football? Soccer style kickers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 08, 2016 06:41 PM (JO9+V)

576 Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:37 PM (cAMfM)

LOL Butthurt much? You don't like the NFL cool, fine, we get it. But don't act holier than thou when some folks go; "Yeah some of this shit really sucks but I enjoy it and will continue to do so going forward for now."

For some reason that bothers you. I feel bad for you considering you seem to have an extreme level of dislike for people who don't partake in your thought process.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:42 PM (R5HRU)

577 The NFL has just identified their core audience, kind of like the NBA did. It ain't white guys.

Posted by: gman at September 08, 2016 06:37 PM (88jLm)

Posted by: Fred Biletnikoff at September 08, 2016 06:44 PM (ODaO0)

578 Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:39 PM (dEQP3)

The older I get the less good I get at it. Maybe when VR is a thing I'll be good at again.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:44 PM (R5HRU)

579 I watched my boy play football all the way from age 8 until college. Let me be brief by saying it greatly contributed to the man he became, and contributed to saving his life and the lives of his men in Iraq, second tour.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (bpfzP)
===============

Let me clarify... I don't have any problems with people PLAYING sports... that's fun, healthy and hopefully builds good things like teamwork and sportsmanship... What I'm against is the near worship-like devotion that people have for sports players and teams. Obsessively following players and spending all your free-time (and money) as a spectator thinking it somehow makes you a part of something... It's an addiction, exhibited doubly so because of the knee-jerk vehemence and anger at the mear though of being told "I can't have my NFL... (or insert any other 3-lettered sports organization here...)"

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:44 PM (ctO3Z)

580 570 Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:35 PM (kumBu)

Fucking woods level. Trying to gauge the correct distance to jump on them logs sucked balls.
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:38 PM (R5HRU)

Fuck platforming.

I'm still playing the hell out of Uncharted though.

But fuck platforming, seriously.
Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:39 PM (dEQP3)

Mario Bros. World 8-2 The jump.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 06:44 PM (z/Ubi)

581 "Fucking woods level. Trying to gauge the correct distance to jump on them logs sucked balls.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:38 PM (R5HRU) "

Yeah, the platforming in Double Dragon is god-awful. It's probably responsible for 90% of my deaths in that game.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:46 PM (kumBu)

582 I found myself watching more and more Anime, I really like the series 91 days about Proabition, Revenge. Some gangsters murder the Lead characters Father Mother and toddler brother, he vows vengeance, so far not bad.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 06:46 PM (dKiJG)

583 "Fuck platforming.

I'm still playing the hell out of Uncharted though.

But fuck platforming, seriously.

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:39 PM (dEQP3) "

Platforming is an art. When it's done right, it results in classic games - but it's done wrong most of the time, which results in frustration, voluminous cursing and broken controllers.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:46 PM (kumBu)

584 Because shit is entertaining? Do you have a time wasting activity or hobby? Or are you out letting every American know the country is going to shit?
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:08 PM (R5HRU)

------------------------------------

Yeah... actually, I did... used to spend a shit time of energy trying to educate and inform people about WTF is going on... you know... they'd rather watch the super bowl... its sad...

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:46 PM (ctO3Z)

585 LOL Butthurt much? You don't like the NFL cool, fine, we get it. But don't act holier than thou when some folks go; "Yeah some of this shit really sucks but I enjoy it and will continue to do so going forward for now."

------------------------
Sure. I told you already. The marketing people know there is nothing they can't do that will get conservatives to shut off the NFL - even for a weekend.

I'm enjoying watching them debase you and the other idiots who act like they are fine with it but in reality they are addicts that HAVE to take it.

Again, you conveniently miss the point because if you got the point then you would have to act. And we've already determined that even missing two games as show of force is too much for you to sacrifice to win long term and watch as much football as you want.

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:47 PM (cAMfM)

586 Mario Bros. World 8-2 The jump.
Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 06:44 PM (z/Ubi)

SAFE SPACE

SAFE SPACE

I NEED A SAFE SPACE NOW

*rocks in corner*

Posted by: alexthechick - Yeah, count me out. at September 08, 2016 06:47 PM (dEQP3)

587 bro - it's why Mario shall always be king when it comes to platforming. They got it done right and always have.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:48 PM (R5HRU)

588 Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:46 PM (ctO3Z)

God Bless You Super American! From trying to save us from ourselves!

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:49 PM (R5HRU)

589 giving up the NFL won't be a problem for me, but, then again, the only time i might watch any is when R3sident 3Vil has it on...

she's not exactly thrilled with all this bullshit, so it's likely our household will find other things to do on Sundays...

like maybe go to the range while all the addicts are at home watching overpaid assholes act like spoiled brats.

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 08, 2016 06:49 PM (DVOeM)

590 Yes, NFL Commissioners are dicks!

Posted by: Brian Bosworth #44 at September 08, 2016 06:49 PM (JO9+V)

591 113 What's with all the Starbucks hate?
Posted by: Hipster Douchebag at September 08, 2016 05:22 PM (HgMAr)

http://tinyurl.com/h57b2na

Although with that sock puppet name, you were probably asking jokingly.

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at September 08, 2016 06:51 PM (1aDmL)

592 "I found myself watching more and more Anime, I really like the series 91 days about Proabition, Revenge. Some gangsters murder the Lead characters Father Mother and toddler brother, he vows vengeance, so far not bad.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 06:46 PM (dKiJG) "

Just looked it up. It's the guy who did Erased, which was fantastic, so I'm definitely going to check it out.

Plus, 100% of animes set in the US during Prohibition are good. (I'm basing this on Baccano! being good, and that's the only other anime I know that's set in the US during Prohibition)

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:51 PM (kumBu)

593 Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 06:47 PM (cAMfM)

The NFL doesn't have games on for over half the year. I can live without the NFL for that time period. Debase ourselves? LMFAO, what a convincing argument! Please do lecture us more in our sordid lost ways!

Actually there's no need for you to do so, you're so clearly advanced than the rest of us pleebs that there's nothing left for you to do here on this planet. I think it's time for you to turn into pure energy and ascend into the heavens as you have done all you can.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:52 PM (R5HRU)

594 God Bless You Super American! From trying to save us from ourselves!
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:49 PM (R5HRU)

I guess wallowing in ignorance is ok, just so long as you get your fix...

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:53 PM (ctO3Z)

595 Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:53 PM (ctO3Z)

Apparently reading this blog, commenting on it and consuming other sources of information makes me ignorant now. Who knew?

Thank you Superior American for clearing that up.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:54 PM (R5HRU)

596 592 "I found myself watching more and more Anime, I really like the series 91 days about Proabition, Revenge. Some gangsters murder the Lead characters Father Mother and toddler brother, he vows vengeance, so far not bad.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 06:46 PM (dKiJG) "

Just looked it up. It's the guy who did Erased, which was fantastic, so I'm definitely going to check it out.

Plus, 100% of animes set in the US during Prohibition are good. (I'm basing this on Baccano! being good, and that's the only other anime I know that's set in the US during Prohibition)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:51 PM (kumBu)

I really enjoyed Erased, there is talk of a second season, dealing with his Friend trying to solve what happened to him while he is asleep.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 08, 2016 06:55 PM (dKiJG)

597 I think the pushback you're getting - whether articulated in this way or not - is that boycotting the NFL seems like a cultural retreat. It wasn't too long ago that the proto-SJWs hated football as a jingoist, patriarchy-reinforcing violent display of all that is wrong with America (I actually think at heart they still do). They tried to ruin the Superbowl by floating a fake statistic about domestic violence on Superbowl Sunday. They ridiculed football by elevating "futbol - the beautiful game" as a more cosmopolitan alternative. This was ours, and a small minority of malcontents managed to worm their way into it and claim our territory in the culture wars.

That said, I ceased being a religious football observer a good while ago. I'm a casual fan now - I'll watch if I feel like watching and decline when something better is in the offing (like, my nephews who play youth football on Sundays). The hero worship does seem juvenile and unmanly - I sort of had a reckoning with that around the age of twelve when I decided that I would no longer wear a jersey or shirt with an athlete's name on it. So now I appreciate the great skill and dedication of the athletes, the competition, and the rest but I don't invest much if any of my identity or self-esteem in the fortunes of a band of well-paid mercenaries most of whom are not from here, but who are designated as representatives of here. (Here is better than there, so drool losers from there).

Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 08, 2016 06:56 PM (WzlF7)

598 581 "Fucking woods level. Trying to gauge the correct distance to jump on them logs sucked balls.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:38 PM (R5HRU) "

Yeah, the platforming in Double Dragon is god-awful. It's probably responsible for 90% of my deaths in that game.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:46 PM (kumBu

Battle Toads. The hoverbike levels. But come on. You all know you never got through the first one.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 06:57 PM (z/Ubi)

599 Fantasy Football and the masses that play it have not done the NFL any favors. People take the Fantasy Football way too seriously.

Posted by: Pepe, founder of the fn-right at September 08, 2016 06:58 PM (P5U01)

600 Nice post, Ace! Take the rest of the day off and go to the gym and not eat or something.

Posted by: Ernst Blofeld at September 08, 2016 06:59 PM (XZWie)

601 "bro - it's why Mario shall always be king when it comes to platforming. They got it done right and always have.

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:48 PM (R5HRU) "

Yup. They were even able to nail the transition to 3D when a lot of companies/franchises were flailing about.

And no gamer worth his salt needs to be told that Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World will always retain god-tier status.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:59 PM (kumBu)

602 "Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 06:52 PM (R5HRU)"

See? Never get between a ho and her pimp. They are vicious. LOL

Posted by: The media Suxs at September 08, 2016 07:00 PM (cAMfM)

603 I quit smoking with "the easy way to quit smoking " also. I read the book in 4 hours and did what it said in the end. I smoked my last cigarette and thought about what I had just read. I smoked for 34 years and soon as I was deprogrammed , I quit. Incredible

Posted by: Whitney at September 08, 2016 07:01 PM (aF1ln)

604 "Battle Toads. The hoverbike levels. But come on. You all know you never got through the first one.

Posted by: buzzion at September 08, 2016 06:57 PM (z/Ubi) "

We were discussing it just the other day. I can get to the last level but I've yet to beat it. Which pisses me off, because Turbo Tunnel and Rat Race are way harder than the last stage - I just get too nervous, I think.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 07:01 PM (kumBu)

605 Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 06:59 PM (kumBu)

*shakes hand*

Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at September 08, 2016 07:02 PM (R5HRU)

606 Im a big fan of these cable deals(snark)....I dont have cable...but I know the Bleak Ten gets a share of every cable bill...doesnt matter if you watch it or not, and Im sure its like that around the nation.

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 08, 2016 07:02 PM (0LQ4f)

607 You mind's lost dude. Take a break when this is over

Posted by: Talk at September 08, 2016 07:03 PM (xF1Fn)

608 "But I don't think it's a terrible thing to say, "You know, there are better hobbies out there."

Like binge watching Forgotten Weapons on YouTube.

Posted by: Iblis at September 08, 2016 07:06 PM (9221z)

609 I don't particularly enjoy football as much as I used to. Especially since PINK OCTOBER was instituted.*

But I have become very good at the various ways of making money while sitting on my ass drinking beer on Sundays. So I will continue to do so, unabated.

*Not that I don't think Breast Cancer is a problem that has been solved and does not need the publicity.
It's just that men start out watching football, then possibly playing the game in an organized league. They spend 60+ years of their life paying attention to this game and the NFL decides that Breast Cancer awareness is more of worthy cause than say, PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS? fuck 'em all, they're stupid, trivial people

Posted by: Skunky Choom at September 08, 2016 07:07 PM (CbGSW)

610 I was never into sports but I used to play this shitty web game called Dawn of the Dragons. It wasn't even a game really, just accounting software with fantasy elements. For the longest time I didn't quit even though it was a complete waste of time clicking the same button over and over again, an activity I utterly despised, until one day I decided that was it. I wound down for a couple of weeks then just ditched it. Best decision i ever made, no more leisurly activities that feel like a job, and I got lots of time to spend on other frivolous pursuits that at least brought me momentary joy.

Posted by: Johnny at September 08, 2016 07:07 PM (UYeqi)

611 I went on strike for baseball in 94 when they did. I came off it 4 years ago, because i used to enjoy it with my grandfather and now he's gone. It seemed a whole new game, new players, different strategies. I don't particularly care for any team now, just listen while I do woodworking (I make cigar box guitars and ukes and I've made 2 of the stealth shelves featured in the ONT last week), so I haven't really made it a time waster.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 08, 2016 07:09 PM (NXFb1)

612 609 Posted by: Skunky Choom at September 08, 2016 07:07 PM (CbGSW)

Bob G Komen, brown for the cure baby

Posted by: sven10077 at September 08, 2016 07:12 PM (SzZnW)

613 579 I watched my boy play football all the way from age 8 until college. Let me be brief by saying it greatly contributed to the man he became, and contributed to saving his life and the lives of his men in Iraq, second tour.

Posted by: grammie winger lives in two houses at September 08, 2016 06:05 PM (bpfzP)
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Let me clarify... I don't have any problems with people PLAYING sports... that's fun, healthy and hopefully builds good things like teamwork and sportsmanship... What I'm against is the near worship-like devotion that people have for sports players and teams. Obsessively following players and spending all your free-time (and money) as a spectator thinking it somehow makes you a part of something... It's an addiction, exhibited doubly so because of the knee-jerk vehemence and anger at the mear though of being told "I can't have my NFL... (or insert any other 3-lettered sports organization here...)"
Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at September 08, 2016 06:44 PM (ctO3Z)
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Can't let go of those Baal "sport jersey" idols.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at September 08, 2016 07:15 PM (B11vO)

614 Wait until you dump cable - you'll be buying a new AR15 every year off the savings alone! Then, after about 10 years, you'll sell all of those and buy something else you always wanted. Like a nice shotgun and a vacation with your grandkid to do some wing shooting. And just like quarters dropping into a bucket, all day every day that unwatched cable/satellite is putting money in your pocket, or ammo in your hunting vest. Just like all those smokes you ain't buying anymore. Pretty soon you'll quit paying contract fees on your cell phone, buy a used Android off ebay, then have the extreme pleasure of not only paying as you go for a smartphone, but also rooting it and prying the evil alien ESPN out of the heart of the vendor-supplied ROM. If there's time to sleep when you're dead, then there's time to watch sports while you're dying. Except Gawf, of course. Must have Gawf. Turn down the sound, put on some music and let the teevee show you peaceful pictures of people walking in some really pretty parks. Periodically interrupted by insurance ducks, unaffordable automobiles and pretty girls hawking erection pills. All in all not a bad background for vacuuming, tying flies, or cleaning your shotgun.

Posted by: Orestes at September 08, 2016 07:21 PM (EIJH/)

615 Aversion therapy works too. When I was a but a lad, the football players were the biggest bullet-headed cocksuckers in school. I hate them, and I hate the game they play.

Posted by: jbspry at September 08, 2016 07:25 PM (YNPwP)

616 "Fuck the media. All media. All the stupid corrupt leftist Entertainment-Political Complex enterprises. Fuck them all. Good riddance to bad rubbish."

You could not be more right if you were Jesus Christ Himself, Ace.

Posted by: jbspry at September 08, 2016 07:27 PM (YNPwP)

617 The NFL is one of my very few concessions to TV. I watch two shows on TV and even then I don't all that much because in this day and age, if I want them badly enough, I got an iPad and an iTunes account.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at September 08, 2016 07:28 PM (CMjaJ)

618 I've been a Panthers PSL owner since 2001. During that time I've probably spent $50K on going to games (my wife took family and friends when I was in Iraq), but if this spreads and I see the Panthers taking part I am giving my PSLs up,, even if I have to take a complete loss on them. I will not pay for the privilege of being insulted to my face.

Posted by: 68W58 at September 08, 2016 07:32 PM (5YokH)

619 What I have learned from this thread;

Telling people that watch football that watching football is a waste of time is even more of a waste of time than watching football.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at September 08, 2016 07:33 PM (x3uSY)

620 Hockey fans like that nobody else watches. It's like a club. Not a cool club. Cause Canada. But a club. We like scoring and hating on NBC.

Posted by: DCPensFan at September 08, 2016 07:36 PM (o4xmE)

621 I could see a time when I will quit football. I am not there yet.

Here's what I like about the popularity of the NFL and the "juvenile" stuff that surrounds it.

I see someone in a jersey or hat and immediately have a touchstone with them. I can make them smile with a comment nearly every time. These days, sharing something nearly universal in culture with fellow Americans is less common then it was.

My mother fell in love with my favorite team when they responded to her letter about my brother's cancer by sending a football the entire team signed.
She never cared before. She now has her own jerseys.

Football gave my brother something to enjoy in the years it took for him to mostly recover.

Two of my kids love the game and it gives me something to bond with them over.

Yeah, I hate a lot of the stuff that's going on in the sport lately but I'm not done with it yet.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at September 08, 2016 07:39 PM (394Te)

622 I'm in Japan; is it a betrayal to the boycott if I continue to watch games obtained from pirated downloads?

Posted by: DrZin at September 08, 2016 07:40 PM (ff+FM)

623 Choice is simple for me. Flag and country vs. ungrateful spoiled anti American football players and the NFL. I am going with flag and country. F*em.

Posted by: gracepc at September 08, 2016 07:41 PM (OU4q6)

624 No...do not boycott this...This is Iron Sheik level stuff....this is Nicoli Volkov...The million Dollar Man...go and root against them. Cheer for broken limbs and concusions. That little piece of hate in all mens souls needs to come out.....this is the perfect time. America to me is ideas go into the arena...the bad ideas get the shit kicked out of them...this is that chance!!

Posted by: DONALD HAAS at September 08, 2016 07:45 PM (G8Xow)

625 I agree with the flag and country bit with this caveat; many of the players have expressed patriotic views and their disagreement with the protests. Hell the Steelers have a giant former Army Ranger playing lineman. When the protests are more than the exception to the rule that they are now, I'll reevaluate.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at September 08, 2016 07:48 PM (394Te)

626 Also, the Seahawks QB is hated for being a decent man and has come out against the protests. I don't see him joining in. Should he be penalized?

Posted by: typo dynamofo at September 08, 2016 07:49 PM (394Te)

627 Seriously, putting any energy into pro-sports and especially into college sports is so stupid, it's morally wrong. Hockey is fun to watch if I'm out having a beer, but I'd have the beer whether the hockey was on or not. That "football" show is a little slow and the people in it are all retarded, and don't even mention baseball, it's like watching paint dry. Soccer is like big slow hockey but with no fun like its for sleepy people or morphine users or something. Imagine if people spent just a tiny bit of the energy or money that they did on sports on something good. Back in the day when people were actually citizens, communities funded warplanes and even whole warships. Now the desire to complete in college sports is literally damaging our national security- https://blog.usni.org/2015/09/30/supported-vs-supporting-and-the-compromise-of-d1-football

Posted by: JoshO at September 08, 2016 07:54 PM (2dPG2)

628 This isn't about the players. This is about the league. The league could put a stop to this tonight with a player conduct clause, but they won't because they assume that me, and those like me, will bear the insult and they won't have to deal with the heat from the SJWs that such a clause would bring. But they are wrong that I will bear the insult and I hope to make them feel the pain of their decision.

Posted by: 68W58 at September 08, 2016 07:55 PM (5YokH)

629 Posted by: typo dynamofo at September 08, 2016 07:48 PM (394Te)

Go Steelers. Yes, I thought about that and I agree. But I am just constitutionally incapable anymore of putting up with the BS from almost anyone. And as a big generalization here what I see in sports over the years is a big turn off and huge spoilage. A big slap in the face to Americans and to the country.

And as has been said, whether it be smoking, cable etc. -- quitting something has opened more doors to better than that. This is what I think about ESPN. the NFL and what appears to be an increasing number of just spoiled rude athletes. I suspect this will be true of watching foot ball and my favorites teams.

But hey, that's me. Have at it if you enjoy it. And God bless all those patriotic and good players who have to put up with their bratty team mates.

Posted by: gracepc at September 08, 2016 07:57 PM (OU4q6)

630 Posted by: gracepc at September 08, 2016 07:57 PM (OU4q6)

And this whole 9/11 thing. Nope, not happening for me.

Posted by: gracepc at September 08, 2016 07:59 PM (OU4q6)

631 1) I've opted out of a lot of stuff that's considered "cool." Haven't seen but one movie in a theater since before 2000, and that was Dinesh D'Souza's "2016" (no, I didn't learn anything I hadn't already known, but it was just shocking how many people did).

2) Never was into football except the hometown team in high school. I used to watch some of the Superbowl on occasion, but didn't really care.

3) Won't do smartphones, they'll steal my life.

4) Won't watch the "in" TV shows.

5) There's more, but before I tell you, you'll have to get the f%$# off my lawn.

Posted by: Miley's Bone Booth at September 08, 2016 08:02 PM (L2UGl)

632 While I enjoy watching some TV shows, I do not enjoy watching TV for the most part. I hate commercials with a passion, and most shows are not worth sitting through endless commercials and endless self promotion.

I started turning off the TV during the day a while ago, and I don't miss it at all.
I found that I enjoy the peace and quiet.

Now I go to the library...books are so much more entertaining, and I have never read a book, even though I predominantly read fiction (sci-fi is my preference), that I haven't learned something from.

As far as I'm concerned Hollywood and the entertainment industry as a whole, can go fuck themselves.

Posted by: Kat at September 08, 2016 08:03 PM (1HseL)

633 Speaking of 9/11, I'm a contractor for a company that is encouraging red-white-and-blue day on Monday in honor of 9/11. There was a lovely, patriotic explanatory email sent out. Lots of foreigners and millennials work at this place, so 9/11 probably means little to them. I really appreciated this, since patriotism is soooooo uncool nowadays.

Posted by: Miley's Bone Booth at September 08, 2016 08:05 PM (L2UGl)

634 " Imagine if people spent just a tiny bit of the energy or money that they did on sports on something good. Back in the day when people were actually citizens, communities funded warplanes and even whole warships. Now the desire to complete in college sports is literally damaging our national security- (link redacted cuz Pixy doesn't like long string of text)

Posted by: JoshO at September 08, 2016 07:54 PM (2dPG2) "

Yeah, because people totally didn't care about sports in the 'good old days.' I wonder how baseball got the nickname 'the national pastime'?

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at September 08, 2016 08:14 PM (kumBu)

635 I went thru the exact same sports purge that Ace did but with college football. My alma mater's games were the holy grail every Saturday morning.....until I was laid off and cut off cable to buy food. It was hell at first but then I had the same awakening - what the hell was I doing all that time? All I did was check the scores Saturday night, maybe check out the 20-minute hilights on Youtube that evening and I had the exact same feeling of joy (if a win) and agony (if a loss) and yet I saved hours that I had been throwing away.

Posted by: Smitteh at September 08, 2016 08:18 PM (g9d8D)

636 Pull that shit on 9-11 and you are saying "fuck you America". I hear people saying that constantly on TV, in movies, in the Oval Office, in the UN, and in the newspapers and radio. I just tune them out. They are dead to me and I try never to purchase or patronize anything that will put a nickel in their pocket.

So get in line Seahawks, get in line. It's a long one.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 08, 2016 08:20 PM (LeUrG)

637 Yeah, because people totally didn't care about
sports in the 'good old days.' I wonder how baseball got the nickname
'the national pastime'? broseidon king of the brocean

* * * * *

Sorry but it's a stretch to correlate "spend less time doing" to "don't care about."

Posted by: Smitteh at September 08, 2016 08:21 PM (g9d8D)

638 I wonder if, like at the 7th Inning Stretch, but for football... How would Ray Charles "America The Beautiful" go over?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iT0ob8BWjx8

Posted by: Rex B at September 08, 2016 08:22 PM (lSgoo)

639 I'm with Ace! Fuck the media.

Posted by: Draki at September 08, 2016 08:29 PM (QLU+j)

640 Holy Crap. This is JUST what I needed to hear after a long day herding 1st graders - the news that my favorite NFL team is considering a team action in regards to the national anthem.

I love NFL football. It was a family get-together/bonding time when I was younger and I still love it. I am 62 years young. I do not consider my time wasted. At all. It's something I enjoy and I won't apologize one effing bit. Each of us can choose how to spend our time (so far) and if you decide to do something else instead of watching football on TV, what in the world is keeping you from doing that? Who is telling you that you are terrible or unAmerican? Who chained you to a TV broadcasting a football game?

But, hey, I take it all in that I get to be 'football-shamed' and invectives and curses thrown at my team. "Seahawks are dead to me". Honey, you never cared about them in the first place. But now you have a good reason to actively shit on them, curse them, and take incredible satisfaction in not buying any of their merchandise. Have a very good time! Send me addresses and I'll send you some Seahawk stuff you can burn.

I will still be rooting for them, whatever action they take. Ban me if you must. But you do need to be aware that there are very reasoned men among them who will definitely make their feelings known. This whole announcement is most definitely a stunner, but I want to see what actually happens. Seattle?- a liberal bastion that makes sure all the conservative votes (the entire rest of the state) make no difference on election day. The fans actually at Century Link Field? Not liberal at all. So we shall see what develops.
I'm hoping they don't shit all over themselves on this issue, but the possibility is there.

I'm still gonna watch.

Posted by: dwagyak at September 08, 2016 08:33 PM (ReFEt)

641 Yes...do it! Let's see who stands where, shall we? I'm ready.

Posted by: Twostellas at September 08, 2016 08:38 PM (eLvFT)

642 Marcus Aurelius nailed it 2000 years ago:

5. It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring....

- the colors of the rival charioteers in the Circus were Green and Blue. Roman enthusiasm for these races was unbounded ; successful drivers earned large fortunes and became popular idols.

....and truly, there is nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: Pave Low John at September 08, 2016 08:39 PM (OejZ/)

643 :::peeks in:::

Who are you people and what have you done with thefolks who used to go by those nicks?

:::bounces:::

Posted by: baldilocks--the other halfrican at September 08, 2016 08:47 PM (VlyWV)

644 Well said Ace..totally agree....let them all fall...

Posted by: Bev at September 08, 2016 09:06 PM (I1lZ5)

645 They feel it's "Pleasure Shaming.

Well whoop tee doo.

Shameful things should be shamed. Like for example the browns.

Posted by: Simplemind at September 08, 2016 09:09 PM (1/dEZ)

646 I've blocked for a future All Pro. I've blocked an All Pro for an entire game. I've sent three opposing players to the emergency room, all carried off the field on a stretcher. One such time unfortunately ended a Division 1 running back's future. It's not my fault he had weak leg bones.
I absolutely loved the brutality of playing football and destroying opponents with vicious hits. I haven't played football in decades. I can't relate to this newer, pussified version of the game and I certainly can't relate to the SJW pussies that play Pro Football. Roger Goodell is a piece of shit. The inmates are running the prison. Instead of rooting for my team or favorite players, I've starting rooting for career ending injuries, and the people on that list grows longer and longer by the week. So I've given up on the NFL. I will not let the negativity of the NFL and it's big mouth player thugs seep it's way into my daily life. The world is negative enough without inviting SJW football players into your life for hours per week.

Posted by: BHO at September 08, 2016 09:15 PM (4QW48)

647 Fuck 'em all.

And do something worthwhile for 4-1\2 hours, like sleeping.

Posted by: Frank Stone at September 08, 2016 10:01 PM (sWJYd)

648 Love my college football. Stop watching NFL about two years ago. Hope this political stunt will blow up in their face.

Posted by: right on at September 08, 2016 10:03 PM (qgJK7)

649 I hope the NFL enjoys their new liberal audience of zero. I'm out.

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at September 08, 2016 10:11 PM (u0RUA)

650 It's stunts like these NFL guys are doing, it's the absolute trash on network TV, the reality shows on cable, and the contempt for us and filth on HBO and Showtime, etc., makes me think this whole TV entertainment thing is going to crash pretty soon. For this they want $150-200 per month? No effing way.

HBO BTW has a show coming out about a fictional pope who is a psycho. Can you believe this shit??

Posted by: PJ at September 08, 2016 10:31 PM (cHuNI)

651 I'm with you Ace. The press and the media are the enemy - adopt behaviors accordingly.

Pro Football? I think I'll stay home and let the sponsors know why I'm not watching the game - or buying their products. I'll suggest maybe they can sell them in Venezuela.

Posted by: Aggie at September 08, 2016 11:31 PM (GRaOd)

652 The NFL has blown for at least the last 15 years. The salary cap and Jerry Jones ruined it for me. I almost never watch and don't miss it at all.

College football, on the other hand, is teh awesome. Still love it, even though I don't have cable/satellite so I get to see less and less of it, fuck you very much ABC Disney. Agree that ESPN blows. But in reality I'm so busy if I get to watch 1/2 game a week that's something unusual.

Posted by: Tantumblogo at September 08, 2016 11:44 PM (f6DHv)

653 After seeing my Panthers lose again to the despicable, bastard Broncos, I'm done. Ace is right...it's not worth the emotional attachment. Fuck the NFL. Fuck the Denver Broncos. And FUCK ESPN!!!!

Posted by: ICBMMan at September 08, 2016 11:57 PM (S2ED0)

654 Gutfeld's book is worth the read.

Posted by: David at September 09, 2016 08:21 AM (dhQoG)

655 Turn off the TV. Turn off the NFL. Turn off NCAA. On Friday evening head on down to your local high school, buy a ticket, sit in the hard bleachers, listen to the band and enjoy the best football available.

Posted by: Larry Geiger at September 09, 2016 08:23 AM (tVQPi)

656 nice post.

take the rest of the day off.

Posted by: BillPrep at September 09, 2016 10:27 AM (atO89)

657 Maybe America needs a social justice surtax of say 90% or so on professional athletes to right the wrongs they're upset about.

Or they could just get the politics out of sports and just play. Protest and campaign everywhere else and at every other time of their choosing.

Posted by: crazy at September 09, 2016 10:50 AM (beW9b)

658 "Turn off the TV. Turn off the NFL. Turn off NCAA. On Friday evening head on down to your local high school, buy a ticket, sit in the hard bleachers, listen to the band and enjoy the best football available."

Ugh. High "schools" are training arenas for sports as it is. Doing what you suggest only encourages them. No thanks.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at September 09, 2016 11:14 AM (RfyUh)

659 The NFL has been sticking in my craw for a few years now, adopting every faddish SJW cause to come along as a matter of reflex it seems. From pink shoes and towels to that slag Beyonce' cavorting with Black Pantherettes, I've had to endure someone spitting in my entertainment beer for a while now.

So yes, if the NFL wants to let these preening asswipes sit during the anthem, that'll be it for me. It may be it for me anyway.

Posted by: Jeffersonian at September 09, 2016 11:29 AM (+ttLq)

660 My attitude on sportsball:

http://shirt.woot.com/offers/go-sports

(Yes, I have one of these.) I'd offer to boycott the NFL, but I'm already not watching.

Posted by: salfter at September 09, 2016 11:46 AM (kmvkg)

661 The greatest pleasure of losing my newspaper job? Not having to hear the fucking NFL game while working on Sunday.

The second greatest was listening to whoever was president bloviating in prime time.

Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet at September 09, 2016 02:47 PM (Q8Ogk)

662 This is all pretty dumb. It is the progressive dream/fantasy to see American football, the NFL and anywhere else, become extinct. It's violent (boo!), ands worse, Europeans don't play it!

Yet we seem to have a lot of people, who I assume are not fond of progressive ideology, jump all over the boycott the NFL bandwagon. Because 4 dumbasses (so far) out of thousands have decided to take part in prog agitprop and sit during the national anthem? Or maybe because the NFL hasn't publicly denounced or banned them? That's not because they support it, but because it would simply be bad PR to be that heavy-handed.

Get a grip. This is progressive theater. Seen it all before. Don't be an idiot and be manipulated by it. We already have prog clowns blabbering about getting rid of the national anthem at sporting events. Are you going to get suckered into that too?

Posted by: Landru at September 09, 2016 03:26 PM (Uccpk)

663 I would get fired from my company for making a political protest while representing my company. These clowns get praised.

As a lifelong Seahawk fan, I say boycott the NFL.

Posted by: Mark in Portland at September 10, 2016 11:51 AM (WAdFU)

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