Friday, December 8, 2017

The National Football League Doubles Down on Its Ultraliberal, Social Justice Warrior Boss Goodell

There’s a rule that I’ll paraphrase:  all organizations not explicitly conservative or politically neutral, and not continually reinforced to be so, become liberal over time.  The National Football League is a case in point.

Last year, in a story on which I commented (link below), NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell slammed then-candidate Donald Trump over his alleged past behavior toward women.  Goodell was, at the same time, a supporter of candidate Hillary Clinton who for many years was the vicious smearer-in-chief of any and all women who came forward to credibly and contemporaneously accuse her husband of sexual assault and rape, accusations almost every honest person now believes.  In addition, Goodell presided over a group of football teams made up of a shocking number of players who had raped, assaulted, or otherwise terrorized women, and many of those players had received slap-on-the-wrist penalties from Goodell for such behavior.  In defending the NFL players who had beaten women, Goodell said “people do not understand the complexity of domestic violence.”  Perhaps in Goodell’s mind getting beaten up from time to time is just an occupational hazard of becoming a domestic partner of an NFL player that every women accepts going in.  Goodell seems to think that NFL players are very important people and deserve special allowances.  For their women, pay-to-play, so to speak.

Finally, last year Goodell supported the anti-police demonstrations instigated by now former player Colin Kaepernick, who, among other affronts, wore socks with cartoons depicting police as pigs.  This current NFL season, the widespread police-hating protests by NFL players during the pre-game national anthem has caused many fans to boycott the games.  Some stadiums have been half-empty this year. 

To appease the anti-police protesting players, particularly the many black players at the core of the movement, Goodell’s NFL has agreed to spend almost $100 million on “causes important to black communities.”  Read “Black Lives Matters,” the movement based on a lie that, by causing police to step back from aggressive enforcement, has directly caused the spike in deaths in the black neighborhoods of cities such as Chicago and Baltimore.  Reportedly this NFL money is coming out of funds previously earmarked for breast cancer and military veterans’ causes. 

Nevertheless, in the face of Goodell’s politicization of the NFL, his disastrous handling of the anti-police protesting, and his alienation of a large segment of the fan base, the NFL owners have just extended his contract.  The NFL owners want more Roger Goodell.  They are doubling down on the left-wing politicization of the league and anti-police protests, thinking fans won’t mind paying exorbitant ticket prices knowing they are helping to fund the anti-police Black Lives Matters protestors.  I cannot fathom the thinking of the NFL owners. 

My thoughts.  From now on, no more public funding, which was never right or sensible to begin with, of stadiums that are a huge free gift to already-rich team owners, enabling them to have all the more cash to donate to anti-police activists.  And high-time to revoke the unfair special exemption the NFL has long had from the nation’s anti-trust laws.  And now that everyone knows of the widespread tragedy of chronic traumatic encephalopathy among football players, it may be time for former players to sue the NFL owners out of existence.  They’ve known for a long time about the problem and have looked the other way.    

The NFL owners and players have sown the wind, and it’s now time they reaped the whirlwind. 

R Balsamo

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