Should the NFL be boycotted?

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exnihilo said:
As for the anthem why do we have to be inflicted with it before every sporting match? It was a war measure to encourage people to want to die for the state. Like all war measures it lasts forever.
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I know its not really related to the topic, but isnt it strange, they play the anthem at all these games, people stand, take their hats off, appear to be so patriotic, but then turn around and are completely obedient to a tyrannical govt?!! This seems like a slap in the face to the founding fathers and what they wanted this nation to be.

Pro sports and even college sports are absolutely and completely corrupt, its not about the game, its about money, the advertisers could not care less about the game, they are down with whatever is popular as long it makes them money, I truly believe the old Roman games would be insanely popular today if they brought them back, advertisers would jump right on board as long as they were popular enough.
 
mikekle said:
I agree, my dad always says, why would I care if one team wins or looses, it has absolutely no effect on my life at all? I have never understood why so many people like to watch millionaires chasing a ball around.

I think it speaks volumes that football is really only popular in the US.
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They are not chasing a football, plus it is not even football. The name was simply ripped off from the actual football aka:soccer.

I laugh every time a team wins the Super Bowl and someone says: Word Champs? LOL

The losing team is from the same league and in the same country. LOL
 
exnihilo said:
I agree. I boycott the NFL for lots of reason including the fact it has a ridiculous amount of commercials. It is just bad entertainment. Deeper then that it is part of a corrupt system where universities allow people completely unqualified to attend and play on their team while cheating academically and committing a heinous amount of serious crime.

As for the anthem why do we have to be inflicted with it before every sporting match? It was a war measure to encourage people to want to die for the state. Like all war measures it lasts forever.
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So corrupt, one team in particular was caught red handed cheating and yet they are constantly glorified. I have come to dislike the NFL ever since NE was caught cheating. Yet fans of NE will say all teams cheat? Really? Funny how they all cheat and yet one team is constantly in the lime light for getting caught. Please!
 
Nicea325 said:
They are not chasing a football, plus it is not even football. The name was simply ripped off from the actual football aka:soccer.

I laugh every time a team wins the Super Bowl and someone says: Word Champs? LOL

The losing team is from the same league and in the same country. LOL
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Where is there a team outside the league, or outside the U.S., that could defeat either team competing in the Super Bowl? There is the real LOL.
 
DaveBj said:
Where is there a team outside the league, or outside the U.S., that could defeat either team competing in the Super Bowl? There is the real LOL.
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Real LOL? And how many other leagues have tried to come into existence within its own borders?

Exactly! Because it is a sport within the U.S. with such popularity and not so much outside its own borders.

Again, World Champs and yet not one opponent is from a foreign country.

Nice try!
 
Nicea325 said:
They are not chasing a football, plus it is not even football. The name was simply ripped off from the actual football aka:soccer.

I laugh every time a team wins the Super Bowl and someone says: Word Champs? LOL

The losing team is from the same league and in the same country. LOL
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It wasn’t “ripped off”. Football refers to a broad category of team sports involving a ball. Until relatively recently, all english-speaking nations referred to european football as “soccer” or “association football”. Rubgy is actually “rugby football”, and american football is called “football” because we still use “soccer” to designate the other one.

Interestingly when it comes to language, Americans tend to retain the older usages and even pronunciation or words that the English have since evolved. It is even said that the American accent is probably more approximate to the English accent of the 18th century than modern English today. Or so Bill Bryson tells me. 🙂
 
FirstFiveEighth said:
It wasn’t “ripped off”. Football refers to a broad category of team sports involving a ball. Until relatively recently, all english-speaking nations referred to european football as “soccer” or “association football”. Rubgy is actually “rugby football”, and american football is called “football” because we still use “soccer” to designate the other one.

Interestingly when it comes to language, Americans tend to retain the older usages and even pronunciation or words that the English have since evolved. It is even said that the American accent is probably more approximate to the English accent of the 18th century than modern English today. Or so Bill Bryson tells me. 🙂
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Okay, perhaps not ripped-off literally, but taken. Still, bottom line, the NFL does not use their feet, with a very small exception. It should had been called THL (The Handball League). Just saying.
 
It is strange soccer is not the dominant sport in the US, how can the rest of the world be wrong? Even when attempts in the US to make soccer more popular, it seems to always fail, and it remains only really popular for school aged kids to play…which is also strange, soccer seems to be so popular among young kids, we even have the term ‘soccer mom’, why does the popularity end when they grow up and they all convert to football and other sports?
 
Yes, there are many reasons why people shouldn’t support pro football.

If that guy’s video is what gets you to do that, then I’m glad it does.
 
I grew up watching Football. It was one of the times that I got quality time with my father, so it has good memories for me. That being said, I watch less and less every year.

I think that Kaepernick needs a haircut and needs to stand up and shut up. There are serious issues in this country but disrespecting those who serve is not the way to have that discussion.

The real reason to possibly boycott the game (imho) is the developing CTE brain injury issues and Goodell and the League’s failure to respond to it.

That is my :twocents:
 
mikekle said:
It is strange soccer is not the dominant sport in the US, how can the rest of the world be wrong? Even when attempts in the US to make soccer more popular, it seems to always fail, and it remains only really popular for school aged kids to play…which is also strange, soccer seems to be so popular among young kids, we even have the term ‘soccer mom’, why does the popularity end when they grow up and they all convert to football and other sports?
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Part of the problem is that there is no real infrastructure behind soccer above the high-school level. The MLS is still relatively new. And in the US professional sports are driven primarily by recruiting college players. Due to Title IX, very few universities even offer men’s soccer teams. The soccer road for young men is artificially stunted beyond grade 12. Basically no university teams= no player base= no competitive pro teams= nobody watching homegrown players and teams on TV.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I boycott the NFL regularly already because it’s too depressing to watch my hometown Browns lose every blasted season.
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Did you see the story about the recently deceased Eagles fan who wanted players from the team to be his pall bearers? It was one of his final wishes, according to his family. He wanted the Eagles to let him down one more time. 😃 Sounds like a joke, but it was actually a news article.
 
mikekle said:
It is strange soccer is not the dominant sport in the US, how can the rest of the world be wrong? Even when attempts in the US to make soccer more popular, it seems to always fail, and it remains only really popular for school aged kids to play…which is also strange, soccer seems to be so popular among young kids, we even have the term ‘soccer mom’, why does the popularity end when they grow up and they all convert to football and other sports?
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I grew up a Steelers fan. Watching the games every Sunday was an extended family event. Then I got older and my interest waned. My kids started playing soccer and I started watching soccer. At this point, I prefer to watch soccer over football (no commercials, for one thing 👍)

However, when I did finally return my viewing to football, albeit briefly, I saw the game in a new light.

If you take away the commercialization, and the concept of game as a packaged entertainment “product,” and just focus on the game itself, as a whole, and not as a collection of (disjointed) plays that run 5 - 10 seconds each–in other words, if you don’t lose sight of the forest for the trees–football is actually a beautiful game.

Maybe it’s not THE “beautiful game,” but it does have an underlying elegance that’s been lacquered over over the years.

As for Kaepernick, I don’t agree with his conclusions. However, I don’t see anything disrespectful in what he’s doing.
 
cthulhubryan said:
I grew up watching Football. It was one of the times that I got quality time with my father, so it has good memories for me. That being said, I watch less and less every year.

I think that Kaepernick needs a haircut and needs to stand up and shut up. There are serious issues in this country but disrespecting those who serve is not the way to have that discussion.

The real reason to possibly boycott the game (imho) is the developing CTE brain injury issues and Goodell and the League’s failure to respond to it.

That is my :twocents:
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I’ll agree with the haircut, and with the CTE part. But how is not standing for the national anthem disrespectful to those who serve? The flag doesn’t belong to them any more than it belongs to everyone else.
 
on_the_hill said:
I’ll agree with the haircut, and with the CTE part. But how is not standing for the national anthem disrespectful to those who serve? The flag doesn’t belong to them any more than it belongs to everyone else.
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Actually in this day and age, with the tyrannical Govt we have i place, I would view what he did as patriotism.

After all, being totally subservient and obedient to a tyrannical govt is not exactly patriotic.
 
mikekle said:
I have never understood why so many people like to watch millionaires chasing a ball around.
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I’d never really thought about football that way before. 😃
I’m not a fan of the sport myself, although I enjoyed playing with the neighborhood kids back in the day.
I would have qualms about supporting a sport in which my support encourages people to engage in activities which are so strongly tied to brain injury. It’s all part of the being my brothers’ keeper concern for me. While I can’t keep people from engaging in high risk of concussion activities, I’m not going to promote such behaviors by following the sport.
 
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