Der Kulture Krieg

In handling the National Anthem controversy Roger Goodell made a major miscalculation. To be fair  hundreds of organizations have made the same decision over the last 25 years or so.

Corporate America has long feared angering any number of groups: gays, blacks, Jews, Native Americans, QWERTies, etc etc.

No one's ever worried about offending white, Christian middle-America. That's about 75% of the country, by the way.

Corporate America has a Pavlovian response to calls of 'racism' by the Reverends Jesse and Al or the squeals of 'hate' from the professional Nazi hunters at the Anti-Defamation League: cave immediately.

Last season Goodell let Colin Kaepernick get away with kneeling during the National Anthem even though NFL rules clearly state players must stand in a 'dignified posture'. He was worried about making an enemy of the race-baiting class. Meanwhile he told the Dallas Cowboys they couldn't wear decals honoring the five officers murdered by a BLM terrorist.

People really didn't like that.

The NFL's response was to kneel more, early and often.

Andrew Breitbart (PBUH) used to say that politics flows downstream from culture. This fight is about culture and it is a major battle in the culture war.

The NFL gave the finger to 75% of America.

Well, middle America is giving it back.

The forgotten fans

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The NFL is in Trouble

Television ratings are down 11%.

One poll shows 51% of football fans have watched less this year.

Another polls shows that the number of people listing football as their favorite sport has dropped from 53% in 2012 to 41% today.

Yet another poll shows 64% of the public think players should stand during the National Anthem.

Drudge tells us that a store selling Steelers gear is under threat of boycott and in Baltimore the house national anthem singer has quit.

DirecTV is offering refunds for the vaunted NFL Sunday Ticket Package.

The NFL has hired a crisis communications firm.

They should have gotten down on both knees

Roger Goodell, the Form of the NFL's Destruction II

Via the Biglead we have stories about empty NFL stadiums in Los Angeles and San Francisco (or San Jose...whatever):

Week 1 of the NFL season had plenty of important stories worth following, but maybe the most entertaining was the mostly empty stadiums in Los Angeles and Santa Clara. Both the Los Angeles Ramsand San Francisco 49ers had sparse crowds for their home openers, and that has not gone unnoticed by the NFL.

LA didn't want one NFL team now it has two. One of them is the Chargers. The Chargers are San Diego's team and they belong in San Diego. No one gives a crap about the LA Chargers. It sounds ridiculous. When the Chargers moved to LA we figured at least they weren't moving to St Louis or something. At least San Diego can still follow them. But no. It looks like Chargers fans are giving the gigantic FU to the Chargers and the Spanos family.

Good for them.

Ok, ok, Paul Tagliabue let teams move, the Browns, the Raiders, the Rams and the one big mistake he made was not getting a team back in LA pronto.

But Pete Rozelle (PBUH) understood that moving teams was a bad idea. At least he fought Al Davis and tried to keep him from moving from Oakland to LA.

In our lifetime the NFL has gone from the sport that dominates winter to the sport that dominates America. Its a cash cow. Now you've got empty seats, Roger. Empty !@#$ seats. That was thought to be impossible! But you've pulled it off Roger. You've pulled it off.

Bravo,CLAP...CLAP....CLAP....Bravo.

Stroock's NFL Ban in full Effect

Well we didn't watch any football yesterday and we're OK with it.

OK, we caught a few minutes of the Eagles-Redskins game, but that's only because we are blessed to have married a girl who likes sports more than we do. She likes the Eagles I like the Giants. Talk about a mixed marriage!

Steve Sheldon at town hall picks up on our own theme about what's wrong with the NFL:

So, Colin Kaepernick, Marcus Peters and every other flag protesting twit, this American is done with the likes of you. And, I’m not alone. Welcome to the unemployment line coming soon to your future.

We endorse every last word of this article, including 'and' and 'the'.

Sheldon lists:

-PC Culture (like all that pink crap in October)
-Hip-hop culture (strutting, chest thumping, ugh)
-Its a game (I too no longer want to care)
-The National Anthem protests (millionaire revolutionaries)
-Over analysis (ESPN is the worst)
-Taxpayer funded stadiums (at least Met Life is privately financed)

Ye to Mr. Sheldon.

We have no idea who won which games yesterday, and so far, we're OK with it.

That's a yuuge problem Mr. Goodell.