Goodell is football’s Joe Biden, using race and racism to empower the matriarchy

[Counselor706]

Commissioner Roger Goodell is pro football’s “Let’s go, Brandon” inspiration, and his executive vice president, Troy Vincent, is the sloppy seconds the NFL Players Association discarded more than a decade ago.

Professional football is not remotely run like an antebellum Southern plantation. It’s never been that. For a time, the league was the closest thing America had to a true meritocracy, an industry that attempted to reward ability and hard work. The NFL was not perfect; no human invention is. But Pete Rozelle’s league was better than anything else on the planet. Racial progress was steady and predictable. Football treated black men far more fairly than the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the rest of corporate media.

Diversity, inclusion, and equity – D.I.E. – is the latest media-driven assignment handed to Goodell. D.I.E. is the death of the NFL meritocracy. A league that had a single mission of rewarding the ability and hard work of men is now obsessed with meeting race, gender, and sexuality quotas.

We should not be surprised. America has an unprecedented leadership crisis that is accentuated by an absence of morals. The NFL is a reflection of our descent into Babylon. A collection of lyrical pornographers – Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar – highlight this season’s Super Bowl halftime show. In the name of diversity, inclusion, and equity, a gaggle of gangsta rappers will wax poetic about bitches, hoes, weed, and killing n---as.

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[pecksniff]

"Empower the matriarchy"? Where does any matriarchy come into it?

 

[ll74]

Dude may want to look at head coaches and GMs of the league if you want to discuss any attempt at equity or diversity.

Having enormously popular rap/R&B artists during a halftime show is just a nod to the "exodus" of all the country fans after the kneeling "controversy". It's going to be one hell of a show.

It always makes me laugh when people get pissed about who they choose for the halftime show.

 

[pecksniff]

It always makes me laugh when people get pissed about who they choose for the halftime show.

Well, it is the only interesting part of any game.

 

[ll74]

Well, it is the only interesting part of any game.

Normally, I'd agree, but finally have a team to root for, so I actually will be watching and cheering. #whoDey !

 

[Rightguide]

"Empower the matriarchy"? Where does any matriarchy come into it?

Probably based on the growing pussified policies of the NFL to penalize contact in the sport to make it safe for women and transexuals, and to attract a more non-aggressive demographic of woke individuals.

 

[ll74]

Probably based on the growing pussified policies of the NFL to penalize contact in the sport to make it safe for women and transexuals, and to attract a more non-aggressive demographic of woke individuals.

Yes, reducing contact is about being woke and nothing else

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy

 

[MrRandyWatson]

Yes, reducing contact is about being woke and nothing else

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy

I don’t know about you, but I want to see guys get up from hits and live long lives to tell stories about their playing days without being haunted by CTE. Hockey players are perfectly capable of that; what can be done in football?

Also, Roger Goodell is an incompetent fuckstick, and a drunk donkey could run the NFL and make the kind of money Goodell has.

 

[pecksniff]

Reading Rozelle's name in the OP reminds me of a bit of verse from Mad magazine in the '70s:

Pete Rozelle and Broadway Joe*
Resolved to have a scrimmage
For Pete Rozelle said Broadway Joe
Was spoiling football's image
Although they had a merry fight
And very nearly parted
You'll notice that they patched things up
Before the season started!

*Joe Namath; had a hard-partying reputation.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Probably based on the growing pussified policies of the NFL to penalize contact in the sport to make it safe for women and transexuals, and to attract a more non-aggressive demographic of woke individuals.

You got way too many user names, dude.
And way too much time on your hands.
Why don't you do something more constructive, like go do some yardwork or something.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Probably based on the growing pussified policies of the NFL to penalize contact in the sport to make it safe for women and transexuals, and to attract a more non-aggressive demographic of woke individuals.

Obama and 45 pussified you, vettebigot.

 

[pecksniff]

Probably based on the growing pussified policies of the NFL to penalize contact in the sport to make it safe for women and transexuals, and to attract a more non-aggressive demographic of woke individuals.

Considering the demographic the game appeals to now, that can only be an improvement.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The NFL has been raking in cash like never before during Goodell’s tenure but it’s mostly in spite of him rather than because of him. Roger’s deference to woke culture and his hypocrisy on disciplinary issues gets him embroiled in one PR crisis after another.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Rams owner Stan Kronke are the brains of the league. They make all the big decisions on broadcasting deals, licensing deals, franchise relocations and stadium deals, NFLPA negotiations, gaming deals, tax strategy, revenue sharing, etc. The other owners owe their ever-rising franchise valuations to those two, and the weakest ones like Raiders owner Mark Davis and Chargers owner Dean Spanos owe their existence to them. Like good little boys, Mark and Dean do whatever the fuck they’re told.

The product on the field these days is even better than the glory days of the 70s. They do need to reform pass interference rules though. The arbitrary PI calls are way out of hand.

 

[pecksniff]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/b/b9/sports.png

Also, all financial analysis. And, more directly, D&D.

 

[Sh1ne0n67]

It is such a horrible plantation that Colin keeps fighting to be back on it,
almost as if he regrets his childish antics of his post-benching career...
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Democrat born. Democrat bred. Libertarian led (by Democrats).

 

[Rotadom]

It is such a horrible plantation that Colin keeps fighting to be back on it,
almost as if he regrets his childish antics of his post-benching career...

Who said anything about a "horrible plantation'" racialist?

 

[Sh1ne0n67]

You skipped the main article to troll me. How sweet of you.



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Democrat born. Democrat bred. Libertarian led (by Democrats).

 

[Rotadom]

Your projection is palpable.

Professional football is not remotely run like an antebellum Southern plantation. It’s never been that.​

Strokes are serious, I suggest you hit the "I've fallen and can't get up!" button on your necklace.

 

[Sh1ne0n67]

You don't deny that which you have never been accused of.

Do you understand either implication or researching the original source?

 

[Rotadom]

Is one side of your face drooping?

 

[Sh1ne0n67]

Of course it is. Did not Colin and the ESPN crew start referring to the NFL Plantation?
Coaches screaming, crying and suing over the opportunities denied to be head coaches?

No wonder the NFL and ESPN ratings dropped. I guess they went too MAGA...
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Democrat born. Democrat bred. Libertarian led (by Democrats).

 

[Rotadom]

You're a mess, Stroke. First, you either lied about what the article said, didn't read it, or didn't understand it. Then, you put your own spin on the "plantation" thing and then ascribed it to Colin.

The Superbowl ratings were massively up from the last one and it had the Lambs and Cincinnati playing but honesty really isn't your jam.

 

[Sh1ne0n67]

Yeah, ratings were up and kneeling was down...

Funny how that worked out.
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Democrat born. Democrat bred. Libertarian led (by Democrats).

 

[Rotadom]

Might as well say ratings were down under Trump and flourished under Biden if you're going to make dumb comparisons.

 

[Rightguide]

Yes, reducing contact is about being woke and nothing else

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy

Pink shoes for breast cancer in an all-male sport, but nothing for Prostate cancer. More woke BS. Get Woke Go Broke. Who's watching the NFL or the NBA anyway? People are getting tired of a bunch of crybaby millionaires, whining about racism and discrimination in sports where they are the friggin' majority. So much tired ass bullshit.