NFL season starts tonight

Been watching a bit of NBA/NHL at times but it’s a bit stale with no fans at all.  What’s the fan situation for NFL? 

Sounds like you’re assuming there isnt a racial problem without knowing any of the facts. How is that any better? How do you know they don’t know any of the facts? Are you saying they can’t read or make informed decisions because they are athletes?

They’ve lived in this country as a minority and experianced the realities of systemic racial injustices in law enforcement. That makes them well qualified to have an opinion.

Yikes. I don’t know what’s worse, this post or so many people upvoted it. Why are they spoiled? Because they work their asses off to make it to the NFL/NBA/etc? They put in 20+ hours a week into in high school and 80+ in college and now it’s their full time job? I bet if you logged hours worked, they would have put in a lot more time into their profession at 25 than you have…then most of us have. The spoiled person to me, is the one whining about how awful it is that someone else wants the same respect and treatement that they recieve. 

Who is immediately claiming racism and making a part of games without facts? When in reality, the facts back them up. Now, you can choose to ignore those facts and live in fantasy land that makes you feel good, but it doesn’t change those facts. 

Why do we play a national anthem before games? It wasn’t a national anthem until 1918, almost 150 years after the declaration of independence. It wasn’t played consistently before games until 1945. It’s not like this is some time honored tradition that has been going on since day one. It’s a reatively new thing. Most European countries don’t play their national anthem before events. Why do we do it? It’s silly when you take a step back and think about it. A bunch of people standing around listening to music bored, waiting for it to end? 

And finally, this country is founded on protests. Do you not know what happened pre-Dec of Independence? Do you not go back through history and see that most every change for good started with protests? If not for protests, we’d be British with slaves and no women’s rights. 

Protesting is as mother f**king American as it gets. And usually because many of us refuse to listen when people have legitimate grievances and dig in our heels instead of being Christlike and helping each other out and trying to be decent humans. Imagine how different this country would be right now if we would have listened to Kaepernick when he kneeled and made changes? And yet, you wonder why people protest? 

Because no one listens…like you’ve shown with your ignorant post. 

12 upvotes? I’m disappointed.