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Like most red-blooded American males, I grew up watching the NFL. I will NOT watch this year's Super Bowl. I refuse to do so.
•The NFL's coverup and refusal to deal with the CTE (brain damage) crisis. I was a fan of the Chicago Bears. Many of the players from the 1985 championship team are already deceased. Star defensive player Dave Duerson shot himself in the chest at age 50 due to CTE. The NFL still has not come to terms with this crisis.
•The NFL (and other pro sports) model of insisting on tax-funded stadiums. We built the current tax-funded Seahawks stadium about 20 years ago for owner Paul Allen, who was at the time the world's 6th richest man. We imploded the previous stadium, the Kingdome, which had not yet been paid off by taxpayers. The architect said that the Kingdome was designed to last 1000 years.
•NFL football, presumably a celebration of athletic prowess and fitness, is actually nothing more than an exercise in drunken debauchery. I was watching the recent game between the Seahawks and Philly, and the announcer let this slip after a disputed referee call. The announcer believed the call would go one way, and the crowd believed it was the other way. After the call went the Seahawks way the announcer exclaimed (paraphrase) "I was right, and 65,000 drunken morons were wrong."
•Last but not least, the NFL protests of the national anthem and flag. I can understand protests of police misconduct, but why protest the anthem, which represents American ideals, including the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (due process, equal treatment, etc)???? If those ideals are being contravened, you should be protesting your local police, courts, and politicians. Not the flag and anthem. MLK Jr. famously asked that the ideas of the Constitution be lived up to. He did not protest the flag; he protested those who were effectively desecrating it.
The NFL really lost me with that last one. I don't watch any more. Richard Sherman, former Seahawk, is in the game for SF today. He was a particularly big loudmouth and flag protester when he was here in Seattle. I hope he loses today.
That is what the kneeling is about. They are protesting a corrupt system that is not upholding true American values.
If you don’t like the kneeling turn the game on when it actually begins. Chiefs champions! I’ve waited fifty years to text that. Actually didn’t have text back then.
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