Professional football and pink smoke.

[candycorn]

Professional football is for playing football, not protesting.

Professional football is for playing football, not protesting.

I actually agree with you. Except your point was that someone should have injured another player who was not doing anything after the game started.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Seriously? Eric Garner was shot in the back because of a union?

Possibly.
If the cop that shot him had a long list of violations, but the unions kept him from getting fired - then yes it was the unions that kept him there.
Derek Chauvin should never have been in a position to do what he did to Floyd. His employment record was chock full of violence and over stepping his authority. But he stayed a cop because he was protected by his union. That is an inarguable fact.

 

[Unkotare]

Professional football is certainly popular in the United States. The players in the NFL are seventy percent black. Americas increasingly woke population assiduously watches on Sundays and now during the week as black players entertain them on the gridiron. For some reason no one asks why black men who make up only about seven percent of the US population, make up seventy percent of the NFL.

What we do know is that football fans do not like their games interrupted by political actors trying to make political points. Televison crews routinely cut away from people running onto the field trying to get in front of cameras. This is done to discourage the behavior of those who would use the NFL’s massive popularity for any reason other than the sport itself. Most agree that it is good thing not to broadcast these events.

On a Monday night game at San Francisco’s Levi Stadium, a protester ran onto the field trailing pink smoke. The interloper was evading security guards, so Los Angeles Rams millionaire black linebacker Bobby Wagner, wearing full equipment, stepped in and flattened the protester clad in shorts and a tee shirt. The crowd cheered and celebrated as another threat to make a farce of the game was taken down.

This raises a serious question in a reasonable mind: Why did no NFL players run out onto the field in 2016 and knock the snot out of Kolin Kaepernick when he used the NFL and all the eyes it attracts to push a radical political movement? How is Kolin Kaepernick any different from that pink-smoke protester? Why did the cameras not stop rolling at once when NFL players started kneeling in lockstep with the corrupt Black Lives Matter Movement? Those players make millions.

The answer is that the entire debacle was to remove Donald Trump from the White House and the NFL along with many rich sports organizations abandoned American sports fans. It abandoned average America for the money that woke advertisers give them to adopt the discord that divides the country. The NFL prostituted itself to the wokeness that the rich and powerful in the US believe is the coming trend.

Many football fans, including this writer, do not watch much football anymore. The NFL has become a symbol of something much darker in our country. Unfortunately, at this point in the game it looks like only Hail-Mary is going to save us.

Protester flattened by player while running on NFL field files police complaint

A protester who ran onto the field during the San Francisco 49ers' Monday night home game against the Rams has filed a police report after being subdued by...

www.marketwatch.com

Was there a point in there somewhere?

 

[initforme]

Did I like what kapernick did? Nope. Did it in the end affect me? Not one bit. Easy to ignore.