Shutdown the NFL

[loknload]

I don't know about the rest here but I'm tired about hearing about these losers of the almighty NFL!
They're all doing the shuffle to lie and cover their tails. As usual it's all about the money.
I say shut it all down and then watch the worthless lot squeal like pigs!
Never had much use for any of this before,I'd never shed a tear!

 

[USAF385]

I'd be fine with that. I can't stand football. It's the time clock aspect I can't stand. I hate how 5 minutes of play time takes a half hour.... Bleh... Exploiting the time clock to try to get out of a mess instead of having to play your way out of it... Snore...

 

[steelslaver]

Ya lets shut down the NFL because of some of its violent players. Forget about those who give away there time and money. Contribute to children programs and their communities. Lets be suckers to the news who get better ratings from a few bad examples than they do from the many who do good works. While we are at it, lets do away with those gun owners. I am sick of the horrible things they do, shooting school kids and innocent people. It to is all about the money being made selling these nuts guns.

 

[Hillbilly77]

If like to see the same rules that they have at my job.
I work for a large company. They have a strict code of conduct.
At my job, if you get into any type of physical altercation, get arrested for certain offenses (on or off the clock), you get fired, period.

If you get fired for certain things, you can't ever get re-hired anywhere in the company.

I think that would solve a lot of problems in all professional sports.

 

[loknload]

In the first case that started it all it was a special deal with the DA,,,,,imagine that! Special rules for special people.

 

[vt_shooter]

I don't get it. Why is football players beating their wives/girl friends/children an NFL matter rather than a judicial system matter? Shouldn't it be society's obligation, via the court system, to dole out punishment? Why isn't the judicial system doing enough? If a Dunkin Donuts employee beat up his girl friend while off duty, would we look for Dunkin Donuts to dole out punishment, or the court system? And I don't get putting the folks who can't write a simple paragraph well, i.e., many athletes, up on a pedestal as "role models" for our young kids.

 

[cmort666]

If it wasn't mentioned on the news... PROMINENTLY, I'd never know it happened.

 

[USAF385]

If it wasn't mentioned on the news... PROMINENTLY, I'd never know it happened.

I don't have cable, so my only national news (in tv form) comes from broadcast news. It's always annoying when the top story is something like these NFL "scandals" or whatever they call it.

 

[wbraswell]

That's right, it's not really the NFL, it's the media covering it.

 

[Engine 21]

NFL = National Felony League.

These type of professional athletes have been getting away with crimes for a lot of years. It starts in high school and progresses from there. They "graduate" from college with a degree in - advanced weight lifting and wait to be drafted into the NFL in April or May of the year they graduate. The college they attend usually does not make a difference unless it's one of the military academies (West Point, Annapolis, Air Force Academy, etc.) . Nevertheless, they can not read or write a complete sentence.They need agents / attorneys to tell them what, where and when to sign contracts and other documents - in other words they are for all intent and purpose illiterate.The NFL is a multi - billion dollar industry. These guys have been protected and looked after all of their life and been immune from corrective action or punishment because of the college or NFL team they play for and you expected normal behavior?

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

Wouldn't bother me...full of gang members, felons and steroids.
I played two intercollegiate sports. The steroid and other performance enhancing drug use is beyond rampant.

 

[cmort666]

I don't have cable, so my only national news (in tv form) comes from broadcast news. It's always annoying when the top story is something like these NFL "scandals" or whatever they call it.

Other (improbable) ways in which I might hear of it:

• It's part of an awkward joke on "Big Bang Theory".
• Hugh Hewitt manages to say a few words about it before I can change the channel.
• It's mentioned on local drive-time news, and I'm afraid to change the station because I want to hear the traffic report.

That's all I can come up with...

 

[oneflycowboy]

I think all of the major league sports organizations need to clean up their act. The NBA and NFL seem to be the worst offenders though. Both are full of felons, thugs and criminals.

I think a good house cleaning is in order.

 

[smokindog]

I've always struggled with the non-profit part (along with the monopoly). OK, I also don't get the public funding for stadiums. Umm, then there's the...

Renewed Spotlight on Why the NFL Has Nonprofit Tax Status - ABC News

 

[Coldshooter]

Just make sure at draft time all players will be eligible for work release.

 

[chaparrito]

I saw some dipstick interviewed about the most recent scandal. He was at a tailgate gathering at some game or other. His sons with him. Asked what he thought about the player's child abuse charges he said, in front of his sons "I don't care what he does off the field". Made me want to puke.

 

[Ματθιας]

mobile vulgus

Who cares what these guys do? It distracts the mob from all the other things going on in the world!

If they are thugs, gangsters, felons, wife beating child-haters, I don't care. I'm also all for steroid use! I want to see human monsters/mutants out on the field! I only watch sports for the potential carnage! I do love the slow motion shots of folks getting hurt - especially when they repeat them 4x with all the different angles.

It's just the modern "civilized" version of the Roman gladiator games.

 

[chief38]

I've been to a Super Bowl Party every year for the past 15 years and almost never even watch the game! I just go to see friends and as a social event. I'm more interested in the menu ............ but I do realize I am probably the exception here.

I am not a sports guy in general. The only sports I do watch are the Olympics every other year - that's pretty much it.

 

[loknload]

Have to agree with Engine 21.
I have to laugh they slap and beat their women then want to cry because they took one to many to the head ? Maybe some can use this as the excuse.

 

[arjay]

I lived in a college town for a very long time.There were players making the news several times a year for idiotic behavior.I lost interest in football a long time ago.Too many bums.

 

[Jinglebob]

NFL 'National Felons League'

 

[Doug M.]

I do not support pro/college (SSDD) sports to any extent. A silly waste of time and fiscally irresponsible on the part of those who go to games, etc. Ray Rice is at best a filthy pile of excrement. An attack like that would easily qualify as a felony here, and in fact would be a strike (as in "3 strikes case"). I'd have to double check the case law on causing unconsciousness as great bodily harm, but I suspect it would an assault 1, which has a pretty stout sentencing range, for good reasons. The conduct of the prosecutors in NJ is shameful.

That said: it's his job. He is not a role model, or anything else of that nature, no matter what the league and its lackwit fans and "leaders" say. I do not think any real connection can or should be drawn between that behavior and his ability to play, at least not until he is sentenced to prison where he belongs. As much as I have no respect for the NFL, this is a non-issue.

 

[shouldazagged]

George Will, a baseball fanatic, said that football combines two of the worst features of modern life: violence and committee meetings.

I still like it, especially the college game, vastly more than I do professional basketball. Talk about a thug culture!

Still a baseball man, though.

 

[Mcwsky09]

I've been to a Super Bowl Party every year for the past 15 years and almost never even watch the game! I just go to see friends and as a social event. I'm more interested in the menu ............ but I do realize I am probably the exception here.

I am not a sports guy in general. The only sports I do watch are the Olympics every other year - that's pretty much it.

Sounds like me, I even hosted a small Super Bowl party once, primarily to watch the commercials and spend time with family.
My dad is a sports nuts but I am not really into sports at all.

I just shake my head when we as a society rewards athletes or actors or musicians with millions of dollars and celebrity status and gun act surprised when they behave in ways that demonstrate their utter do on disconnect with reality.

 

[zzzippper]

Ya lets shut down the NFL because of some of its violent players. Forget about those who give away there time and money. Contribute to children programs and their communities. Lets be suckers to the news who get better ratings from a few bad examples than they do from the many who do good works. While we are at it, lets do away with those gun owners. I am sick of the horrible things they do, shooting school kids and innocent people. It to is all about the money being made selling these nuts guns.

Huzzah! I'm glad I haven't been lumped in with the rest of you skin headed gun toting neo-Nazi militia gun nuts! Why, oh why, has no one thought of banning guns?!? Oh yeah, they have. Let's just ban everything a few butt-tards abuse. Gee, we could ban all three branches of government, all law enforcement, and the Constitution.

 

[M3Stuart]

Notice how it all changed precisely at the point Budweiser said they would pull their ad money.

 

[labworm]

The Anti's have similar opinions about certain things in this country and like to group everyone into one category, not a good idea.

I say weed out and ban the bad guys from whatever sporting group they belong to and leave the good guys alone.

Makes sense to me.

Only my opinion gentlemen.

By the way the NHL preseason opens this Sunday.

 

[JohnSW]

I don't get it. Why is football players beating their wives/girl friends/children an NFL matter rather than a judicial system matter?

Because without the support of spectators, television viewers, and sponsors, the NFL would cease to exist.

Honey, let's watch a football game between the Minnesota Child Whippers and the Baltimore Women Beaters! Then again, let's not.

 

[venomballistics]

I don't have cable, so my only national news (in tv form) comes from broadcast news. It's always annoying when the top story is something like these NFL "scandals" or whatever they call it.

Seems to me, that any time this flavor of juicy fluff news takes the spotlight, it's covering some governmental stupidity already in progress.
Eyes open folks.

 

[CoMF]

But seriously... Much as I don't care for sports, banning American Football to spite the players seems a little extreme.