While I did watch some football last Sunday, I wasn’t as enthused as I used to be as the NFL has left a very bad taste in my mouth, and it’s nice to know I’m not alone.
We went and saw our first Kansas City Chiefs game, on Rush’s advice. It was so incredible. It’s moving. We made a decision about our finances, and we decided that if we gave up everything in our life at the time we could buy two season tickets, no more dinners out, nothing. We became season ticket holders.
It’s got to the point where we’re doing a tailgate for 700-800 people, most of them my clients. I’ll often buy blocks of 10 or 15 or 20 tickets at a time, and I give them to good customers.
I’ll never go to another NFL game. My wife and I, we had a family meeting over it. All day we talked about football and Rush Limbaugh, and by that night at dinner my wife broke down in absolute tears, and we decided to cancel our tickets, to never go to another game.
Mark Muller can’t be alone. By using false quotes, parroted by partisan owners and ignorant, racebaiting players, the NFL has alienated itself from many fans and while they’d never apologize to Rush and give him another shot, they shouldn’t expect many of us to forgive and forget either.
I couldn’t completely give up watching football this past weekend either, but I will not ever spend my money on a ticket or even accept free ones and spend money on anything at the stadiums again.
After the week of bad play calling it just doesn’t seem worth it. I was never a huge fan of the NFL mainly because the NFL has no love for LA and growing up there, just became a USC fan. But I love watching football on sundays. My Sundays now consist of church all day and while I used to run home to watch Sunday Night Football, If I catch it I catch it if not, I will catch the highligths and the bad call replays from the refs.
Plus the way the plays complain about the money they can go pound sand. Not saying shouldn’t have the freedom to earn that kind of money, they can but to then turn around and complain. Are they playing for love of the game or love of money.
I will forgive but won’t forget and well time to once again become a Dodger fan, seeing how the season is over for us, there is always next year.
Believe it or not, I didn’t watch a single game Sunday, or the Monday nighter. It really wasn’t that hard. I also didn’t tune into ESPN for scores, highlights, or analysis.
I won’t until I hear both entities have apologized to Rush Limbaugh.
I boycotted the NFL for 3 yrs when Art Modell ripped the heart out of every Cleveland Browns fan worldwide by moving the team to Baltimore. It’s amazing what can be done on a free Sunday.
there was a country i remember reading about when i was in high school.
when the people who founded that country were laying the foundation of the laws of that country a debate about basic liberties came about.
i remember one person said something to the effect of “i do not agree with a thing you say, but i shall fight to the death to defend your right to say it”.
i wonder what ever happened to that country.
Well, if the NFL is prejudiced against conservatives (classical liberals), then we may need a new league, the CFL (Conservative Football League). There is more than one way to effect change and conserve something worthwhile.
Seeing all the fine convictions of everybody here, I am sorry that I have never watched football, so I would never be missed by the NFL. However, if a CFL were started, I’d be willing to buy a jacket, t-shirt, whatever, (anything save sitting in a stadium) to support it over the NFL. I actually had a security guard in Braves Stadium laughing at me because I brought a book to a baseball game my husband wanted to see, so you can see it’s nothing personal about football. Sports just aren’t my thing.
In thinking about this, Vince McMahon getting trashed by the liberals for the XFL, between Fox, Rush and Vince there is enough money and support to bring back the XFL and finally give LA its team back. I think we have something here!!!!
I like this comment:
Ignorance is bliss, so the saying goes, and right about now there are a lot of blissfully ignorant folks prattling about, thumping their chests – characteristic of their simian ancestry save for the scratching of their underarms. I’m talking about those who are taking credit for undermining Rush Limbaugh’s enjoining a group interested in purchasing the St. Louis Rams football team.
Come on regressives. It’s the 21 century. Just because your ancestors were simians doesn’t mean you can’t behave as the evolved simians that you purport to be, right?
One other thing. I grew up a liberal, and I despise the liberal/progressive establishment’s perversion and degradation of yet another perfectly good term.
The conservatives are the liberals, classical liberals anyway. I could venture a guess as to who the contemporary “liberals”/”progressives” are, but I’ll leave that to your imagination, and history.
Sigh. I’ve been a Chargers fan since Dan Fouts led the team. I will watch then every chance I get. After sitting front row end zone the game where Peterson and Cromarte both broke NFL records I will only sit front row. I can’t wait till the Chargers come back to Minnesota for a regular season game. It is an awesome feeling being part of the game. Yelling back and forth with the Vikes mascot was fun too
There will never be a shortage of fans that won’t jump on a chance to go to game. Except for maybe Tampa or Detroit fans). Or sadly the Chiefs. Anyway, I think politics should stay out of football but it doesn’t influence my love of the game either way. Just my 2 cents.
It would seem that not all businesses fear political controversy.
Wal-Mart, PepsiCo Unapologetic About Bankrolling Sharpton After Rush Limbaugh/NFL Flap
Our company will continue to support organizations that can further our mission to help people live better.
– Wal-mart
As a global consumer products company that serves all people, we support many not-for-profit organizations with a variety of missions.
– PepsiCo
I wonder if they serve the interests of all their customers in this manner. I am asking because I don’t know.
I suppose we must be pacifists to avoid any claims of hypocrisy
– Not bloody likely.