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The Real NFL

The members of the Negro Football League (NFL), serve less as ‘slaves’ than they do as ‘Gladiators.” They are contestants in combat for the public spectacles in which they choose to perform. They are supplied with proper protective equipment to deflect the blows of their adversaries, their own weapons, their speed and agility.

They are, as well, paid unbelievably high salaries to defray the cost of their off season pleasures. Being an all male clique, they must supply their own women, booze and drugs while avoiding the police who will arrest them if stopped and, they hate to be stopped.

As high paid Gladiators we expect them to perform in the public arena without comment, certainly not to defame or disrespect the people who pay them, or the nation that sired them. They have no other useful purpose in society except for our entertainment. It is a narrow platform upon which they perform and politics, not one of their better subjects, should be avoided at all costs.  But, It’s too late. Disgust is permeating the fan base.

To be held forth as grand examples to little children is to tell a gross lie. Proud of their individual histories of incarcerations for illegal firearms possession, drug use and trafficking, arrests for family violence, manslaughters by DUI, and fathering children by multiple women, does not qualify for any status above an employed factory worker struggling to support a family, or an unemployed worker seeking a job. Only their salary makes them unique.

These are ignorant people and many have only recently learned to peel bananas with their hands. That’s why they must play in sports. That’s why many subsequently experience careers shortened by injuries leading to even shorter life’s. Their only individual goal is to achieve a niche in the Hall of Fame or claim a garish piece of finger jewelry to prove their bragging rights. They demand respect yet refuse to give it. Respect is earned, not in the arena of combat, those rewards are money and trinkets, but in the conduct a man demonstrates in living his daily life.

Americans are tired of them claiming a status to which they do not belong but earnestly aspire, as victims because they are black. The thoughtless impulses that has driven most of them to “take a knee” and display a morbid disrespect to American traditions, lies in the psychology of group think. Group think is exactly what Karl Marx intended for the laboring classes. Many, gifted with reading skills ending at the eighth grade level, can only find their emotional release on the playing fields of equals, where end zone displays for crossing a line with a pointed ball,  simply reveals the true depth of their real nature.

Money doesn’t buy dignity nor respect. The Dallas Cowboy’s owner, Jerry Jones comments not withstanding, the whole NFL dilemma is going to represent a sea change in American thinking about exactly what is truly important and what’s worth spending money on. In Atlanta recently, in the new stadium and on the same field where the Atlanta Falcons under perform, the crowd for Atlanta’s soccer team exceeded 74,000 fans, “Houston, we have a problem!”

The opiate of the NFL working class, as Marx might have said, is the cheers and admiration that resounds within the confines of the stadium. To the individual Gladiator, glad handing and high fives, chest bumps and pretending to urinate on a goal post like a dog, while once amusing, are now becoming symbols of cultural depravity. The lessening crowds at NFL games show it. When the well dries up, who’s gonna buy their Mama’s a big house?

Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (25Oct2017)

3 Comments

  1. robert Schneider October 27, 2017 at 5:17 pm

    Are the following comments meant to be satire by the opinion writer. I can’t believe this is still how people think in 2017. To the opinion writer, while what the athletes and others protesting against the United States do is terribly inappropriate, the things you have written are far more dangerous. This is outright racist and is without a shadow of a doubt a sick view of fellow members of mankind.

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    Following bullet point quotes taken directly from the opinion above… 🙁
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    *The members of the Negro Football League (NFL),

    *the nation that sired them. ((sired? really your best word choice?))

    *paid unbelievably high salaries to defray the cost of their off season pleasures. Being an all male clique, they must supply their own women, booze and drugs while avoiding the police who will arrest them if stopped and, they hate to be stopped.

    *Proud of their individual histories of incarcerations for illegal firearms possession, drug use and trafficking, arrests for family violence, manslaughters by DUI, and fathering children by multiple women,

    *these are ignorant people a nd many have only recently learned to peel bananas with their hands. That’s why they must play in sports. ((Peeled bananas? you have to be kidding!))

    *Many, gifted with reading skills ending at the eighth grade level, can only find their emotional release on the playing fields of equals, where end zone displays for crossing a line with a pointed ball, simply reveals the true depth of their real nature. ((commenting on the education of athletes…))

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    This antiquated thinking is the jibberish of right-wing extremists, KKK buffoons, neo-nazis etc. This should not be allowed for view in any publication in a civilized society. I don’t want to hear about the first-amendment protection of speech. The hate-fueled rhetoric espoused is far from appropriate on a family-friendly online site. Check yourselves Fetchyournews.com……….

  2. robert Schneider October 29, 2017 at 7:21 pm

    final note; this opinion writer is not what I would hope the kind folks in North Georgia find as an appropriate voice to speak for them. “The Real NFL” is in such poor taste, ignorant, and “Mein Kampf” influenced, that it amazes me that without a diagnosis of mental illness, a human-being could believe and write such trash How this man is given a venue to write this type of racist and quite frankly uneducated junk is beyond me. There are plenty of publications that would love his writings. The KKK, Neo-nazis, White Supremacists all have their individual propaganda pamphlets, that require fancy talk opinion writers to sway new recruits; he could be the next Randy Weaver Time to go out to pasture Mr. Opinion Writer. I am not impressed with your past achievements, and they are not relevant to this discussion. Your past gives you a false credibility and again is extremely dangerous. You do not seek solutions, you write to be hurtful and divisive. Hardly the role set forth for opinion writers in a family-friendly online site. Sadly it appears I am one of few that have questioned this writing. Please remove these opinions Fetchyournews.com. It does not serve our community well. Crazy people should not write opinion article after opinion article all mean-spirited and most importantly not factual!. bobby

  3. robert Schneider November 16, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    fallen on deaf ears apparently. lol lol I guess a racist is a rock star in these parts and has carte blanc in the subject matter he choices to write about; regardless of the completely false statements and facts used to get his readers worked up. Considering the horrible education problems being experienced in North Georgia, economic hardships and disparity on a grossly divided level, cultural ideas that are so far from anything resembling Christianity, it is a wonder the churches don’t implode when some of the hypocritical parishioners walk through the door; you would think a revisiting of what the social norms should be, would be at the fore. Not for Fetchyournews.com Whose agenda of segregation is highlighted each time you allow vile and hateful speech masked in intellectuality and conning to be printed on your online site. Citing a “larry flint first amendment” perversion of the Constitution is where the rubber meets the road and common sense must rule the day. To allow this bigoted hate speech to continue makes you equally culpable. Parties in a crime. You can hide behind your pen or keyboard, but an accounting will be where you receive your just dessert.

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