Would a Boycott of the NFL Work?
Rush Limbaugh doesn’t support boycotts. Despite his shabby treatment this week by the sports press, the NFL, its players union, his prospective co-owner of the St. Louis Rams, and the professional race-baiters, Rush is sticking to his principles. No boycott. Still, many callers to his radio program are furious and say they’re planning to voluntarily renounce all involvement with the National Football League.
Is this a reasonable response to the controversy? Will anyone even know?
If you love pro football (as Rush does), giving up the games, even for a week or two, is a considerable sacrifice. If you just bought a big-screen high-definition TV or satellite package, you’ll also be giving up something for which you’ve paid. If you’ll be unloading your season tickets, you could be selling into a down market. That’s because you’re not the only one angry at the NFL this week.
This may be the worst public relations disaster to hit the league since — I was going to say since Pete Rozelle ordered games played after the JFK assassination, but much more recently we’ve had Michael Vick, Rae Carruth, Ray Lewis, and Plaxico Burress. Come to think of it, this league, and especially its players union, really shouldn’t be casting stones.
The underlying controversy never should have become a media football in the first place. In 2003 Rush suggested that the talents of Eagles star quarterback Donovan McNabb were exaggerated by a press eager to see a black quarterback succeed. Limbaugh’s cultural crime was speaking about race at all, even though the issue of black representation in the ranks of NFL field generals was longstanding. In the eyes of many fair-minded football fans, he simply misjudged a player’s talent and brought up race unnecessarily. For this cause alone, many will be unwilling to sacrifice four hours a week in front of an HD big screen with our gridiron favorites.
Dig a little deeper, however, and there is ample cause for protest. Unsubstantiated quotes about race dubiously attributed to Rush have been attached to the McNabb matter. Obama supporter and new players union chief DeMaurice Smith led the charge. Professional microphone magnets — race men Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton — have joined the media blitz to demonize Limbaugh, and the NFL has given him less protection than that afforded JaMarcus Russell by the Oakland Raiders offensive line.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell criticized Limbaugh’s six-year-old remarks and Rush’s partner in the venture, Dave Checketts, tossed him off the ownership team. This sort of caving to politically correct pressure is not something which conservatives tolerate easily.
Put youself in the shoes of the NFL. If you suddenly lost conservative viewers would you be happy? You’d do everything you could to get them back. It’s time we stand up and stop letting the left kick out conservatives and deny them from owning teams or freely expressing their opinions. If this happened to a liberal then thousands of liberals would be protesting the NFL headquarters as we speak and they wouldn’t be tuning in to their shows. Stop letting the left get away with this kind of facist close minded crap.
I’ve tried to get my husband to give up football like…FOREVER for the sake of HIS FAMILY.
Ain’t gonna happen.
Still a football widow.
Might as well ask the sun not to shine and the rain not to fall.
Seriously.
lol
“Still, many callers to his radio program are furious and say they’re planning to voluntarily renounce all involvement with the National Football League.”
Projected boycott results:
NFL viewership down 1%
Beer sales down .1%
Potato chips up 5%
Guacamole up 10%
NFC viewership up 1%
Trips to Seven/11 up 3%
Gun crime up 20%
Spousal abuse up 12%
Buffalo wings sales up 25%
Heart attacks up 10%
Commissioner Goodell allienated people with his ill advised comments targeting Limbaugh and associating him with intolerance and unacceptable controversy. There are lots of conservatives who are big time football fans and they have alot of money. Goodell has managed to needlessly anger them.
Goodell, who is not nearly as smart as I once supposed, didn’t need to comment, but chose to anyway. Next year he will be involved in labour negotiations with Demaurice Smith. The owners have made it clear they are going to attempt to force concessions from labor or there may be no renewal of a collective bargaining agreement and a lockout. Now that we know Goodell’s politics, and apparently the owners, I hope this bunch of hypocrits suffers the fate of the greedy owners and players of Major League Baseball and the NHL. My sympathy for their supposed plight has been drained away by Goodell’s gratuitous defamation and his siding with Demaurice Smith. What a gaggle of fools, they have aligned themselves with Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.
I won’t be surprised if the NFL suffers through a lockout or other labor agony. I also no longer care if Kraft, Jones, and the other owners lose money on their investment. Ordinarily,I would be allied with them. Now that their errand boy Goodell has pissed on conservative football fans, they can expect no further support from me.
I hope it gets really ugly and I hope the value of their investment goes way down. Maybe then they will learn the folly of their politics. Don’t they realize that the President is going to come out against them? These fools deserve to lose money. That goes for the shortsighted players as well. It’s going to be fun watching the labor strife now. Here’s to it being as ugly as the UAW actions in the 1930′s.
NFL owners and players, you deserve each other and you deserve the consequences of the leadership decisions you have made. Lots of luck. I no longer need the NFL. I have plenty of other ways of occupying my Sundays.
It’s not that hard giving up being a particular sports fan. I gave up being a baseball fan after the last strike. You just need another thing to replace it. There are more things to life than cheering for a particular professional sport/team. Does that mean I am not a “real” fan? Well, if being a “real” fan requires blind devotion to violate your own life principle, I am glad I am not one.
College football is pretty fun to follow too. Of course having been going to a school with a national championship team helps keeping the interest going.
If the NFL has standards, I would protest the players and owners who break the law, like Vick. If the NFL standards are too high for conservatives, then a Dog torturer sure does not belong. In cincinnati, we had a thug who would punch parking lot ticket takers or something, just stupid vicious stuff, mulitple times, they would get rid of him, then get him back again.
That guy should be gone for good. If NFL will not let Rush in, its then gotta keep Vick, animal torturer out, either that or the NFL is just pro animal torture, and anti conservative, because they can certainly make no claim to being fair. I mean, you know, sure give Vick a chance maybe, but heck, if its gonna be “standards” and Media outright lies about Rush, then Vick by no means should be in the NFL, he is actually guilty as charged. But the NFL I think, must like animal torture, likes criminals, and likes discriminating against conservatives. Because its criminals in, animal torturers in, and conservative role model out.
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Okay, I have to give credit where credit is due.
THAT WAS FLUCKING HILARIOUS!
*cleans monitor*
rotfl
Just stopping the purchase of their licensed material will hurt them financially. It will also over time change some of the culture of adoration.
My policy is to purchase college stuff from any team that has defied the NCAA and won. Seminole stuff is great for the grandkids. If you have access to North Dakota jackets they would send a message.
I used to love NFL. But I have watched less and less of it over the years. So giving it up for good will be pretty easy.
There are so many entertainment options out there. I see no reason to give my $ and time to an organization whose owners are hostile to my values.
In a sense, I AM Rush: midwestern, conservative, and, yes, white. I got the message loud and clear that “my kind” aren’t welcome in the boardroom. The NFL owners don’t like people like me. Indeed, given the failure of any significant faction in NFL culture to speak up and defend Rush, it appears that the whole NFL doesn’t like me.
So, yes, I’ll be watching college football now. And spending more time doing other enjoyable things that have nothing to do with my TV screen. I’ll play my piano more, go for walks, and catch up on my reading.
I’ll be better off.
I am boycotting the NFL. Will that make much of a difference? Are there enough people like me to scare its top executives? Well, we will find out. Even a loss of relatively few percent can translate into millions of dollars of less income. Will conservative parents continue to encourage their sons to play football? This is, after all, the sport that has essentially aligned itself with the politically correct elites.
I already started my boycott 6 years ago by turning off the Mcnabb led Eagles. The only time I’ll watch is when he is either benched or hurt which fortunately is rather frequent.
Rush was correct in his assessment of McNabb. He is overrated.
He has a strong arm but lacks any leadership skills and does not enhance the play of those surrounding him. This explains why backups like Jeff Garcia have outplayed him when he’s out.
He’s an inaccurate passer and is by no means a student of the game. When they’re winning he sits on the bench laughing between drives. When they’re losing he sulks with a towel over his head. He has trouble finding receivers because he has trouble remembering the plays.
McNabb melts under pressure as seen by his pathetic performance in the Super Bowl which he capped off with his vomitting in the 4th quarter. He can’t do a 2 minute drill because of his inability to think on his feet.
Today he plays another terrible team, the Raiders, so look for him to pad his stats. He’s great at doing that.
When crticized he plays the race card. Maybe that is why he has been friends with Obame for the last 4 years. He went with Arlen Spector to Obama’s innauguration. Yuk!
He just lobbied for the acquisition of Michael Vick which makes no football sense and makes me wonder who was truly behind this move since we know of Obama’s ties to the NFL through DeMaurice Smith and that Obama and the Congessional Black Caucas may be planning on using racist tactics to deepen their political claws into the NFL according to Rush.
Other teams are just as bad. The homage that the Steelers paid to the Desolate One at last years Super Bowl was disgusting. I won’t watch them either. The NFL has become racist and poltically intolerant.
Why any white man would support them with their hard earned money is beyond me.
Perhaps the real blowback will come when the NFL pushes for new stadiums. Requiring citizens to pay for partisan infrastructure is problematic at best.
A lifelong ‘Eagles fan’ I have been boycotting Eagles games since they signed Michael Vick… This season I won’t go to the “Linc.” I won’t watch their games on TV..but I do tune in on the local radio… its a semi boycott costs me nothing and saves me hundreds of $$…and I feel good.
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Don’t kid yourselves. This won’t hurt the NFL AT ALL! They don’t need you. Any true football fan could care less whether or not Rush owns a team or not. In fact, no one really cares about the owners anyhow. It’s about the players, coaches, etc.
If you are that far-right and idolize Rush that much that you are offended, you have your priorities all out of whack. Get a grip. Rush isn’t going to stop watching, why should you? Rush isn’t going to not buy NFL merchandise, etc. Don’t be an idiot. Rush gets paid to say stupid things and get attention. Its what he does. The fact that anyone takes him serious is rediculous.
Mr. Kearney:
I’m a Redskins fan of over 30 years’ standing, so boycotting the game would be supremely easy for me.
In fact, I’ve been boycotting those over-paid stumble-bums in burgundy and gold since well before any mention of Rush’s ownership bid.
The only problem with my personal boycott is that on one hand, Redskins owner Dan Snyder might take it as a pro-Rush political statement and then not fire those Schlubskins who need firin’
OTOH, the NFL might take it as a fan response to the Redskins painfully inept performance and then not “decommission” Commissioner Goodel, who needs firing for his premature and intemperate remarks too.
“For real fans — especially those rooting for a contending team like my New York Giants — not watching is a lot harder than giving up sweets for Lent. Playoff-bound teams don’t come along every year. Generation-long gaps can appear, like everything between Y.A. Tittle and Lawrence Taylor.”
Now you….I’m feelin’ ya!
You’ve got problems with this one.
Eli is smokin’ right now.
#8 Philly-nj:
“A lifelong ‘Eagles fan’ I have been boycotting Eagles games since they signed Michael Vick… This season I won’t go to the “Linc.””
Wow. This thing is getting SERIOUS!
You mean to say you’re giving up pouring beer on and verbally abusing opposing team’s fans?
Or do you have Flyers or Devils tickets, and get your “Weekly City of Brotherly Love Three Hours’ Hate” in at the ice rink?
Jeff Benedict and Don Yaeger wrote a book in 1998 entitled “Pros & Cons” which detailed the criminals who play in the NFL.
The more recent criminal sagas of Plaxico Burress, Michael Vick, Pacman Jones, et al show that things haven’t changed much in Goat Roper Land.
If THAT collection of brutal beef doesn’t take your hard earned dollars from rewarding these thugs, why should Limbaugh’s libelous liberal lynching make you change your ways?
As for me, I find it very easy not to support the NFL: I’m a Chiefs fan.
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Sports and sitcoms are not produced for entertainment. They are produced primarily to move (sell) product. If you are entertained in the process, that experience is a fringe benifit.
The decisions taken by all elements with an economic stake in this little social food fight will ultimateley be made by bean counters and corperate management.
Likely result: 15 yard penalty for delay of game and lo$$ of down.
Second down, start the clock.
boycott will not work. It will make the people that do it feel better.
However, there are so many Americans that are just not paying the slightest bit of attention to what is going on with the United States, much less that someone had their rights of free commerce taken away by the MSM and racists, period.
McNabb is over rated. He’s black, so he’s treated like a king..hey lookie there, I’m a racists because I stated a fact.
Kicking the NFL habit isn’t difficult. All you have to do is pretend it’s August.
What better excuse to read some good books or to finally do that exercise when NFL games are on. If you read a book on a stationary bike you’ve knocked off two birds at once.
Oh! Any money spent on that ridiculously priced NFL branded logo stuff can be used to buy an ipod, an ebook, a fishing pole or even those signs that say “If you can read this you’re in range.”
If you need excitement, go down to the local abortion mill and watch the liberals attack the protesters.
if everyone stopped buying NFL merchandise and everyone who went to the games bought NO beer or food it would have an immediate impact. At a game with 60,000, if just 2500 stopped buying which is a very small number, but still 4%…they would know immediately. If 5 or 10,000 actually got involved, they would by laying off people. If you have a ticket, it is already paid for, show your protest by not spending any money. Also, stop wearing the team’s gear. That will make a visual statement to all also. If you do not stand up and be counted, expect no results.
If your watching the NFL, you might be a racist.
A boycott of football will not make a dent in their earnings. They will still welcome aboard murderers, drunk drivers with vehicular manslaughter records, drug abusers and animal torturers/killers. But have any politically incorrect thought and you will be banned!
In the last days of Rome, while the barbarians were at the gate and the Empire was on its way to collapse, the people had their bread and circuses. In the USA, while all is going to hell in a handbasket, the fans will still be able to scream themselves hoarse over a bunch of overgrown, pumped-up-on-steroids, perpetual adolescents throwing around a ball and getting multi-millions for doing so.
It is amusing in a way when you hear these “common folk” gripe about big pharma, windfall oil profits, private sector CEO salaries, big bucks earned by surgeons, etc, have absolutely nothing to say about the obscene amounts of money made by ball-hitting morons who if they all disappeared tomorrow society would not suffer a bit. Actually, it would save us taxpayers money from building billion dollar stadiums for millionaires, like that new yankees stadium that a middle class family of four would not make enough money to attend.
Football fans, consider this – you don’t have to give up football, just because you’re boycotting the NFL.
Ever since the Houston Oilers went away (if you change the city AND the name in the same decade, it’s not the same team), football has begun and ended with NCAA Division 1-A (yes, I still refuse to call it the Football Bowl Subdivision). When my Hokies are doing well (what happened, guys????), all is right with the world. Hell, USC has replaced Dallas for my “as long as they’re losing, the week can’t be all bad” team.
Plus, switching to college ball has the following additional advantages:
* The players aren’t overpaid prima donnas… well, not officially.
* It’s rare when your favorite player gets traded to a team you hate.
* It’s unlikely that the Alabama Crimson Tide will up and move to Nashville.
* The Army-Navy game is STILL the best rivalry in football, at any level (go Navy!)
Come on, y’all. What do you have to lose?
Our local High School team got a new coach a few years back and has been on a winning streak ever since. This year they are 7-0. Now that’s football! I haven’t had a kid there for a while now but I still go, where the stands are full of friends and neighbors. And I do mean full, you gotta go early to get a good seat.
No commercials plus my price of admission goes to the school, not some fatcat owner in a monopoly business.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be watching the Saints/Giants game this Sunday but I already got my football fix for the week.
Unfortunately, my week died when my Hokies failed to recover that on-side kick. No amount of NFL will bring it back.
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UCLA fan here, so I hear ya about USC.
This has been coming for about 20 years. Ever since winning has become the de facto number one thing about sports colleges have been accepting academically unqualified students to play football and basketball. That has led to racial takeover of the NBA and NFL. Blacks dominate both sports and nobody says a word. Games in both sports are dialed into the urban/black culture-rap music, tats, disrespect for authority, etc.
The abridgement of Rush’s rights is just the next step in this takeover.
Sport today is not about sport or competition. It is about numbing the mind of the gullible middle class so that they will not object or even notice the takeover of their nation. Keep them drunk, and rooting for players who have no respect for them or their city and the culture can be transformed.
Trainwreck was spot on in his last pargraph but that perfectly illustrates what is going on. The increasingly poorer middle class white Americans in the stands continue to support pro sports and their players without concern about salaries yet complain about companies who keep them alive, educated and warm.
Could there be a more illustrative or cautionary tale as this describing the loss of our culture and nation?
I live in Toronto. Although we don’t have an NFL team I have been a fan for years. Today my beloved New York Giants are playing the New Orleans Saints in a battle of undefeated teams. I couldn’t possibly boycot the NFL today.
I have, on the other hand, been boycotting the Toronto Maple Leafs. Not because of racism, but because the Leafs are a horrible team and management won’t do anything to fix them unless we in Toronto stop paying top dollar to watch the Leafs lose. That’s a good reason for a boycot.
I refuse to watch any NBC football, regardless of the importance of the game. That network features Olberman acting as an “analyst.” The sponsors who sell their products on that show won’t be selling to me.
Remove the NFL’s exemption from the anti-trust laws the next time the GOP controls the White House and both branches of Congress. Say it’s being done because the NFL’s toleration of steroid abuse is endangering America’s youth, which is true, and at the same time remove the anti-trust exemption of professional baseball at the same time for the same overt justification.
This is a two-fer (2 for the price of 1). Nail the NFL for playing political games when it is so vulnerable to the political system, and do some good at the same time. The pro leagues really deserve to lose their anti-trust exemptions given their promotion of steroid abuse.
The reason that I rarely watch the Eagles was when the Rush non incident occurred I found the media’s respnonse along with that of McNabb to be revolting.
I could longer root for this man. A man who hurls racial accusations as threats to silence his critics. Sound familiar? How could I root for this self absorbed racist creep to win a Super Bowl ring? I can’t.
Philadelphia’s Sonny Hill, who is black, WIP 610 AM radio’s (the largest sports talk staion in the U.S.) did a hit piece on Rush this morning. They kept talking about his “inflammatory statements” while never saying what they were. How these staements would cause further locker room problems This is a threat. Sharpton And Jackson were lauded for expressing their concerns.
Anybody but particularly white men whom the NFL media love to mock because they aren’t quite as fast or can cut like blacks (such wonderous achievements, how about IQ’s) accept this racist attitude from the biggest bastion of the Left namely sports media and I find it pitiful to watch. They cheer while they are lampooned. It truly is pathetic.
The NFL and their media cohorts are always crying out about the paucity of quarterbacks. I’ve got a solution. Try to get more white kids to play football. Won’t happen.
Unfortunately, for the NFL as more information drips out about the long term affects of playing football FEWER whites will be playing the sport. It will become like boxing – a black thang.
No, boycotting is not the answer. Stop giving them your money out of disgust.
You can watch but don’t buy. Let them go PPV.
Then I won’t watch at all.
Pampered, spoiled rotten, rich cry babies who care about only 2 things in life: themselves, and their ego’s. I stopped watching about 20 years ago when I realized that the game had been replaced by the business. I’d much rather watch a high school game any day of the week.
If Roger Goodell has problems with Rush Limbaugh, why doesn’t he have problems with Keith Olbermouth being a commentator for NBC football? Rush supporters should all go on the NFL website and register a complaint about Olberman. Getting Olberman kicked of NBC telecasts of the NFL is more doable than a boycott of the NFL.
How’bout when that “RACIST” T.O. (when with the Eagles) stated that the Eagles could win if they would dump McNabb and go out and get Farve-that McNabb was a loser!!!
So much wrong with what you said but I’ll just add this. Brees to Shockey for 6.
Ding 10:35 in ref to #28
I love football and I love Rush. I have Direct Tv and I have the HD NFL Package. What’s a girl to do? Peter Goodell is a jerk (yes, I know he’s married to Jane Skinner of Fox News). He must wear pink silk panties. He says that about Rush when Rush was clearly employed by ESPN as a “commentator”. So, what do we do to get even? Well, for me… here is what I am doing. I’m continuing on the fight to change this Country by getting rid of every democrat and liberal that I can. Until that happens, we are going to have to put up with the BS. That’s what Rush would ask that we do, you betcha….
This is a deeper concern than just football, if it’s determined ‘racists’ should not get that needed kidney transplant ahead of ‘non racists’.
If I can get an NFL game on “regular” TV then I will watch it while flipping between other things. But I will not pay for the premium package for all the games and I will not buy anything from the NFL.
I have become a college fan. Heck, I caught myself watching the Brown Princeton game yesterday.
look, you don’t have to boycott the NFL…
you can still enjoy the games BUT when attending, don’t buy anything…
no beer, no hotdogs, no hamburgers, etc.
no souvenirs either…
that adds up to a lot of money, high margin stuff they love to sell…
I bet losing several millions repeatedly would get their attention and not
actually deprive the sports fan from the game.
Don’t think much about the NFL anyway. They’ve turned into a bunch of million dollar cry babies over the passed thirty years. Some primadona sprains his toe, he’s out for five games while the sports doctors kiss it an make it better. If I were paying some sissy that kind of money, I’d kick his ass back out there and make him play. I wouldn’t care if he broke his leg; hell! For that kind of money I’d make him play with no leg. Get out there and crawl up the field you lazy bastard! The NFL has turned into the last refuge of rapists, murderers, and animal abusers over the years; I don’t know why anyone still watches them anyway. Boycot them! Now they’ve proven themselves to be hipocrites on top of everything else.
Every once in a while the NFL needs a wake-up call.
Like when some metrosexual fool decided that Football fans wanted to watch Michael Jackson during halftime. I hope those guys and gals are still scrubbing the NFL HQ urinals.
How about this? Make a list of NFL advertisers and match it with advertisers that have dropped the Beck show. Then we boycott them. We still get to watch football, but we punish the NFL through their advertisers that are anti-Conservative.
@Bilgeman
LOL, me, too. I’ve had my own private Redskins boycott going for a while now but nobody seems to notice. LOL
I think there must be some other way to make sure our displeasure costs them some green. We are capitalists. We can think of something.
For what it is worth I turned on my TV today and as I realized I was going on to a football channel I just moved on quickly to the next channel.
We (as a family) were going to attend 2 games this season but you can forget this now.
No way I am going to give those intolerant liberal racists anything. Sell the 8 tickets I would have purchased to Sharpton !
No more NFL. My TV is always tuned to FOX Soccer Channel anyway.
Haven’t watched a down, won’t, spend my money on products that don’t advertise on NFL broadcasts. Let them know what I’m doing and why. Doing this cause I like dogs. Rush Limbaugh is on his own.
PS
I just read that some liberal here thinks “Rush gets paid to say stupid things”.
So then liberals ran out, founded Air America, and failed miserably. Maybe the original premise is wrong, that successful talk radio isn’t about saying stupid things, left or right? Maybe on radio sooner or later you have to resort to facts, because you cannot use pretty pictures to fool the masses and when liberals have to resort to facts, they fail?
“Maybe on radio sooner or later you have to resort to facts, because you cannot use pretty pictures to fool the masses and when liberals have to resort to facts, they fail?”
Brilliant, Smarty [49.]!
Leftists are insidious, obfuscatory, drooling drama queens.
Black men in knee pads is a whole different issue I shan’t go into this Sunday.
OK, it’s on. My wife will be happier and I won’t have to replace the TV as often because I threw my shoe through the screen.
with thanks to LH for inspiration
How about someone do a YouTube. If it was well done I think it would have more effect or notice than a boycott. Perhaps opening with NFL pro animal torture with some footage of dog fights. Pro leftie loons with some footage of Keith O’s more insane statements. Anti conservative with footage of Rush saying he will still watch and enjoy the games. Number of arrests and convictions with reference to their high standards.
Ridicule is much more effective than invective. Somebody put their thinking cap on and make this video.
I don’t think I’ll be watching the NFL for a while. Between the wife, Rush, and hapless play I could not choose the dominant factor but together they are enough.
What I intend to do (I have no service which automatically keeps track of what I watch):
1. But absolutely no more NFL merchandise
2. Do not subscibe to NFL Package on TV
3. If surveyed do not admit to watching or fllowing the NFL.
4. Enter no online polls on NFL issues.
5. Buy no tickets to any NFL games or events
This will give the appearance of a boycott yet let me follow my team. These things hit them in the pocketbook
This isn’t about Rush. This is about freedom of speech and freedom of commerce. The Left sent a shot across the bow to the Right that if you say things bad about this administration we will interfere with your ability to conduct business. Here is the letter I sent Commissioner Goodell:
I am writing to inform you that I will no longer provide any financial support to the NFL. I will no longer attend or view any NFL game or related activity; purchase NFL related paraphernalia; or visit any NFL related website/sports section. Please note, I have been an avid NFL fan for 40 years. I am doing this because of your actions regarding Rush Limbaugh’s minority stake in a bid for ownership of the St. Louis Rams. Your organization’s blatant hypocrisy regarding “conduct” becoming of the NFL and your cowardice and impotence in the wake of the libelous and politicized smear campaign against Mr. Limbaugh crystallized my decision for me. I have come to recognize the following: the NFL is not America’s game. America’s game would embrace the free market and the non-vulgar expression of all types of opinions regarding all aspects of the game and reward people for actual performance. The NFL and the NFLPA abhor the free market , abhor pay based upon production and the sanctity of contracts, and embrace all types of vulgar and racist expressions that are acceptable to the current members of your organization, I.e. slanderous and racist to conservatives of all colors. You have not been America’s game for a long time. You are now Amerika’s game-an institution that is one of the growing number of symbols of union thuggery, corporatism, and corruption that I and many others will no longer feed with our hard-earned dollars. As a small business owner, I know the pennies add up to dollars, and so on, and so on.
I too will find other things to occupy my Sunday afternoons. I went so far as to use the NFL contact at this site.
http://www.nfl.com/
Look under NFL Corporate at the bottom of the page. You can send them an email explaining your views, if you so desire.
I so desired.
I am not boycotting anything. Just, the hell with ‘em. Maybe if I had a TV screen the size of my drive way and I could count McNabb’s nose hairs while he’s lying on his back, well, that would be some incentive.
The NFL can keep its dog-killers, wife beaters, whore mongers, mother rapers…..father rapers, and will still get to leftist heaven on the sanctifying power of dissing Rush.
The one that gets me though is Plaxico Burress. I don’t know if he still plays, but I am sure there is grace abounding for his misunderstood self, someone who would stick a Glock 19, chambered(!), down his sweat pants, right next to Mr. Happy.
In case you don’t know, a Glock has NO external safety. If, for any reason, on purpose or accidental, you pull the trigger when it is chambered…it will go boom. Genius!
Haven’t missed the Giants at all this morning. Heard they were losing, but really the whole NFL is the loser this week. My wife thinks a boycott is a great idea!
People have made some very good points about the past bad behavior of NFLPA members. Perhaps the union got out front against Rush because they didn’t want his voice being heard by the owners when the next union contract is negotiated. It would be like Reagan vs. the air traffic controllers.
Hopefully someone is an NFL stadium is chanting “E-I-B” this week. Better yet, chant “Rush”, and trick the liberals into joining in, thinking they’re rooting for moving the ball on the ground or blitzing the quarterback.
I quit watching the NFL nearly 20 years ago, when Joe Montana and the fantastic 49ers all got old, traded or retired. NFL football to me has become an unwatchable torrent of hundreds of bad commercials and product plugs surrounded by brief glimpses of idiots dancing and preening like they’ve actually accomplished something when they knock a man down or score a touchdown. I watch college ball exclusively, SEC version, because of the “no idiot” rule college football has in place. You can BE an idiot and play college ball, but you can’t act like one on the field.
Between major league baseball and SEC football, I’ve all the sports I need.
@The O:
Great idea. I wonder if that DeMaurice guy has any interesting sound bites on Youtube?
The sad thing is that these fans are probably the ones who are too damn lazy to go out once a year and cast a vote for better government. God forbid.
Is it possible to boycott the NFL and still root for your team? I think so. Perhaps that would be an easier solution for some. Instead of watching every NFL game that you can, just watch “your” team’s games. I’m sure even a modest gesture such as this would be felt by Goodell, and his goons.
Something else that I’m currently doing is boycotting all advertisers that pulled their ads from Glenn Beck’s Show, et al. Companies that will cave in to the threats of Shakedown Artists (i don’t have to name names, do i?), won’t be seeing any of my hard earned cash.
I have applied this same theory to Nike for years. If they can afford to pay MJ and Tiger 100 million dollars a year, they obviously don’t need my business. (I have NEVER bought one Nike product, ever.) B4 anyone gets on a high horse and accuses me of racism because I mentioned two black male athletes in my criticism of Nike, those are the only two that I’m aware of making over 100 mil in endorsement fees, from Nike. If Steve Nash was making 100 mil from them, I’d gladly throw him in there with them, too.
Big corporations can’t force us to support them, only the government can do that…. and they don’t like competition.
Last week my 19 year old son asked me if I would purchase Patriots tickets for him as an ” early Christmas present “. I agreed to his wish,however I am reneging. I will not be buying any NFL merchandise such as hats,sweatshirts etc
for my sons as gifts either.
I have had it with the liberal left.
I have watched the NFL/AFL for almost 50 years now…after the way Rush has been treated I will boycott all things NFL. It is outrageous the way Rush was pilliored by sports announcers, the commissioner, etc. This is the same bunch who tell us to forgive the dog killer Vick.
You may as well try to boycott flavored dip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCm4gFzd1U
Beware the Palin voter!
The story on McNabb was at the time he was not very good but the Eagles were wining low scoring games with some of the scoring from the defense.Some one in the booth asked what is wrong with McNabb and rush gave his opinion. McNabb was later benched for poor play which seemed to wake him up.
44. MaxTruth Bingo! As Rush says, follow the money. Boycott the advertisers, not the NFL, and The Commish will soon cave.
It’s taken this to get me from watching the sorry Lions for over 40 years. The gutless owners and Goodell did what years of Ford, Millen, 0-16 and the countless sorry coaches could never do. Standing for political correctness and throwing Rush under the bus to be spared the lies from race baiters like the union thug Smith and Sharpton/Jackson was the last straw. The National Felon League will not be missed by me.
#45 MrsD:
“I think there must be some other way to make sure our displeasure costs them some green. We are capitalists. We can think of something.”
I’ve been uhhh…blessed in that the Good BilgeWife is a psychotic untamed Baltimore Ravens fan,(and truth be told, the Ravens are a heck of a squad), so I can safely root for the Bawlmorons in the BilgeLodge.
In fact, she’s so bad that the Bilgenipper,(who is a,{shudder},Philadelphia Eagles fan…don’t ask US why the little brute turned out thus), grew up thinking that QB Kyle Boller’s proper first name was “F*ckin’”.
In the Baltimore metro area, this is of course absolutely true and correct.
Rams fans will learn this fact also.
As difficult as it has been, I decided to boycott the NFL a while back, because of their efforts to criminalize online poker, for purely reasons of greed. They have no qualms about spending large amounts of money to infringe our rights.
http://www.gamblingcompliance.com/node/9716
I boycotted the NFL years ago when I matured enough to realize they were nothing but a bunch of spoiled brats from the top down. Boycotting is simply voting with your wallet against those who do things against what I stand for. Can’t get anymore American than that.
I dropped the NFL like the racist habit it is. I had no idea until I saw how Limbaugh was treated. They asked him to join the club and then threw him out of the limo of the way to the stadium. I’ve lost all respect for those pansies and race baiters who work for ‘em.
Have a great day.
(Moderating)It’s taken this to get me from watching the sorry Lions for over 40 years. The gutless owners and Mr. Goodell did what years of the inept ownership, William Clay Ford, the clueless Matt Millen, 0-16 and the countless sorry coaches could not do. Standing for political correctness and throwing Rush under the bus for things he never said and perpetrated by the union head Smith and Sharpton/Jackson duo was the last starw. Call the NFL offices 212-450-2000 and ask for the comment line to register your opinion. Keep it clean and respectful and let them know we won’t take it any longer.
What’s the price of not doing anything? A lot!
If none of us do anything and let the race baiters and liars get away with it, then we are sending a message that what they did doesn’t matter. You can call us all racists (and lie about it if you want to) and conservatives will take it, shut up and continue to give you their money.
I think that the cost of inaction is much greater than the cost of action. If all of us do even a little bit, we can make a difference.
I don’t subscribe to the NFL channel or have NFL season tickets, but I will not buy any NFL merchandise this year. Also, I am going to send a letter to Commissioner Goodell letting him know that I think he should apologize to Rush Limbaugh for jumping on the race bandwagon AND that Olberman should not be associated in any way with the NFL. I’d love to see Olberman fired.
We all have to do something or this will race baiting and lying will never stop.
I had always been a baseball fan but didn’t get football. But a couple of years ago I started watching, and slowly but surely, I was starting to get it. For the last couple of years, in the fall, Sunday meant sitting down with my husband to watch whatever games he decided to watch. No longer. I am done. I will not spend another minute of my time watching a sport that won’t allow Rush Limbaugh to have a minority ownership of a team–because of his conservative beliefs–but still allows Keith Olbmermann–an obvious conservative basher–to announce Sunday night games. Good riddance to the NFL.
So, don’t boycott NFL broadcasts; boycott the sponsors who advertise on them. No point in our doing without when we can make the NFL suffer so much, so easily.
I used to watch Football to escape Politics!
Now, it is also corrupted by politics.
NFL was wrong in offering an opinion. But they are spineless as many of their past decisions have shown.
The “opinion masters” that host the shows are so biased. I feel like turning off the sound when the game is on. Monday night football is the worse!
Why can’t they go back to playing it and reporting it and talking about it AS A GAME! Keep their bias and opinons out of it.
This has ruined it for me. I am not sure of a boycott, because Rush is not supporting it. But I am very upset. They need to listen to us and get back to the game ONLY!
I was never much of an NFL fan, and I’ve written to the NFL indicating that even if I was given tickets, I wouldn’t attend any of their games after Rush’s snub. For die hard NFL fans, who would like to serve notice to the League, I have an easy alternative; college football. In the last couple of years, my wife and I have become heavily addicted to Big Ten football. It’s a great time, less expensive than the NFL, and it’s a way of making a statement. Plus, it’s great watching a bunch of young players put it on the line every Saturday. Buy season tickets to your favorite college team, and tell the NFL to take a hike.
Go Hawkeyes!
Everytime the head of the NFL, or other sleazeball exec shows up somewhere ask him why a guy that totures dogs for his hobby is welcome, but a guy who favors smaller government is not. Have cameras, put it pn youtube. Over and over and over again. Everytime some owner shows up at a state legislature groveleing for welfare in the form of a stadium have them explain in detail why not Rush, but Olblerman gets to be an annoncer.
I gave up watching the ravens game. The NFL right now to me seems a little more tainted then it did just a few weeks ago before the whole limbaugh “controversy” came about. I just don’t have the heart to watch it like use too.
I’m boycotting. I prefer college sports anyway. Rather than watch NFL this Sunday, I preferred to watch the live stream of the Vandy Baseball Black and Gold tournament.
I am a happier person for not watching those overpaid thugs and playboys.
Juan Williams was excellent in commenting about the McNabb nonsense on Mike Wallace today, nicely defending Rush and getting a delicious jab in on Keith Olbermann. I was very impressed.
The double standard against conservatives is intolerable when you consider that liberal scumbag, Mark Cuban, can own an NBA team.
I will be doing a targeted boycott.
Tonight will be the last time I will watch Sunday Night Football on NBC. I haven’t been watching pre-game or halftime anyway, to avoid the repulsive Uberdouche Olbermann. Tonight I will take note of the sponsors, and I will let them know I am not going to be buying their products so long as they advertise on NBC Sunday Night Football.
I will not be buying any official NFL merchandise. I will be letting the NFL know about that, I’m also going to let them know about my letters to the SNF sponsors, and that I will not be watching SFL at all, and that I will be watching my home team games only (may fudge on that one).
Will it do any good, i.e., get the attention of NFL honchos? Only if enough folks do it. But it surely can’t hurt.
The guy is a bigoted windbag and this whole thing is about ratings. Watch him do something outrages next month to get the media talking about him again – he has to earn the huge sums he is being payed. Truthdig.com has a great article:
>“This is not about the NFL, it’s not about the St. Louis Rams, it’s not about me,” he ranted on his show, hours before being sacked. “This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative. Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we’re going to have.”
“the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well.” This was stupid and wrong on every level—black quarterbacks had already excelled, with Doug Williams having led the Washington Redskins to a Super Bowl victory 15 years earlier; and McNabb was good enough to take the Eagles to the Super Bowl two years later. The statement offended enough people that it got Limbaugh fired from his short-lived job as an ESPN football analyst.
But Limbaugh has made other ugly observations. He gave this overview of the preponderance of black players in the league: “The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There I said it.” He has referred to basketball as “the favorite sport of gangs.” He has called President Barack Obama “the greatest living example of a reverse racist” and “an angry black guy” and—because of his biracial heritage—a “Halfrican-American.” An equal-opportunity offender, Limbaugh also has called Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor a “reverse racist,” compared illegal Latino immigrants to an “invasive species,” and referred to Native Americans as “Injuns.”
Hey, I understand, it’s all about the ratings.<
The Republican Party is just obscene – now they are pro rape. Here is a list of Republicans who voted against the Franken Anti-Rape Amendment – let everybody know about the Pro Rape republicans.
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-K…S)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
The best way to impact them is to pick a single game each week and boycott it. Also, agree that no one will ever watch the NFL channel or any game on it.
This issue is bigger than Rush. This is about the commies turning everything into their political shit storm. They will not stop until they have forced their way into every public form of entertainment.
To sit by and do nothing makes you a door mat and a coward. In addition to your priorities being completely out of whack.
Welcome to the world of totalitarianism…you used to enjoy football, now the commies have their feces all over it.
I wish folks would asked for the well-deserved resignation or firing of Rick “DUI-Leave-the-scene” Sanchez.
Being CNN, even if it worked, no one would know.
I was quite discouraged with football this year, with the illegal gambler Vick welcomed back and with Favre abandoning the Packer fans to end up with the Vikings. I must have managed to watch a total of three quarters of play this year. Not even this much any more.
It would be nice to believe a boycott would work but even if it becomes painful to the owners it will not be covered in the news. I am not quitting the NFL to send a message. I am quitting because I find their politics have made the game distasteful. I will be trying to spread this distaste for the game.
cold turkey today!
baby steps, baby steps…
Were it not for the political ramifications of this fiasco I could not care less.
I quit watching the NFL several seasons ago when the rules restricting players’ activities during games became too blanding [this may not be a word]. Rules prohibiting activities not related to player safety have muted the appeal of the NFL. The only thing missing is having offensive and defensive units marched on and off the field in tightly regulated military formations in lock step. What is it now a 15 yard personal foul if an opposing player’s feelings are hurt?
In recent years the NFL has also become more publicly prominent as a refuge for persons with criminal tendencies. How many stories have we seen recently regarding the problems players and others associated with the NFL and their problems with law enforcement.
As has been pointed out on other blogs the NFL’s PC controlled face saving cowardice is pure hypocrisy. Legitimate questions have been asked regarding comments falsely attributed to Rush versus the comments and public activities of minority (financially) owners of, say the Miami Dolphins. The lack of integrity of many of Rush’s more prominent attackers emphasizes the blatant hypocrisy of the NFL.
88. tc
“baby steps, baby steps…”
LOL! I ♥ U! What about BOB? LOL!
Boycotting sponsors isn’t noticed unless you write letters (not e-mails!) to the heads of the companies and tell them why. Even so, in this case pro football has SO many sponsers it’s difficult to single one out. NFL team merchandise is a good place to start.
If you want to document your actions instead of acting in a vacuum, send a letter to the Goodell and the owners of the various teams, explaining why you’re not buying team merchandise.
Don’t forget to say something positive to the ears of team owners, like you’d support them taking a hard line against the NFLPA in the upcoming negotiations. Make no mistake, DeMaurice Smith, Executive Director of the NFLPA and a member of the Obama transition team, is the man in the center of this attack on Rush. Even if the owners have to use replacement players and lose some stars permanently, breaking the NFLPA during Smith’s tenure would be a positive outcome which could “unify” (to borrow Smith’s word) team owners and conservative fans.
76. sue:
They need to listen to us and get back to the game ONLY!
Have you considered the possibility that maybe you don’t matter?
#85 Inrptrn:
“This issue is bigger than Rush. This is about the commies turning everything into their political shit storm. They will not stop until they have forced their way into every public form of entertainment.”
Like the creature Cichawoda did at his #83.
Back to football…I was successfully able to boycott Dan Snyder’s Deadskins executing Coach Zorn’s Socialist Season Game Plan:
“Wins for the Winless!”,
I have to give chops to some of the classy Chiefs fans who graciously dropped by some of the Dreadskins blogs to commiserate with those of us in burgundy and gold ,(and lately in black).
# 28 blotto:
As an outsider, who came to this country at about the time you say things started to change–I was there to observe it as a college instructor at a huge public university–, and as a person indifferent to big-time sports, I have to say your analysis is spot on.
# 28 blotto:
As an outsider who came to this country at about the time you say things started to change–I was there to observe it as a college instructor at a huge public university–, and as a person indifferent to big-time sports, I have to say your analysis is spot on.
7. Delia:
“3. vivo,
Okay, I have to give credit where credit is due.
THAT WAS FLUCKING HILARIOUS!”
One out of 100, not bad. Glad you laughed.
Ok #16 Bilgeman, I knew when I stated I was an ‘Eagles fan/supporter’ I was opening myself to ridicule….but buddy the bottom line is over the years ‘Bird’s followers’ have learned the art of dealing with disappointment (my dad & his brother were among the folk who booed a drunken Santa back in the ’70s. I contributed to the booing of McNab when he was playing badly and cheered when he got benched)….Here is my concern over the ‘Vick’ signing. Rush is right McNabb is unpredictable and undependable he is not a good QB that’s why the Eagles traditionally loose games they are predicted to win, now we have *Vick who admitted to being the finincial backer in a dog fighting gambling ring*.
The bottom line:
I see no sense in suporting a team with a dog torturing gambler playing.
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There isn’t one football fan on this site who isn’t going to watch the Super Bowl.
#98 Now and Then:
What you’ve got here is a growing group of former NFL fans.
I usually skip the Super Bowl if the Giants aren’t in it. You’d be amazed how many hours of your life can be reclaimed by trimming or eliminating your NFL time.
#97:Philly_nj:
“but buddy the bottom line is over the years ‘Bird’s followers’ have learned the art of dealing with disappointment ”
Yeah, we’ve been learning that sorrowful art in DC for the past 18 years.
“…my dad & his brother were among the folk who booed a drunken Santa back in the ’70s.”
Never booed Santa, though…if it helps, I’m sure some of us would be willing to give it a try.
“Here is my concern over the ‘Vick’ signing. Rush is right McNabb is unpredictable and undependable he is not a good QB that’s why the Eagles traditionally loose games they are predicted to win, now we have *Vick who admitted to being the finincial backer in a dog fighting gambling ring*.
The bottom line:
I see no sense in suporting a team with a dog torturing gambler playing.”
Rush WAS right about McNabb. The guy’s got talent, but he blows hot and cold, and that inconsistency will kill a team. (Ask me how I know this?).
As far as Vick is concerned, I’m a little more tolerant about it than others,I guess.
The guy served his sentence for his despicable crime…so now what?
Do we shoot him? Do we limit his employment to pizza delivery?
Seriously. It’s gotta end sometime.
You already know that any visiting stadium that the Eagles play in is going to be blasting the Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, when he takes the field,(like WE needed THAT,too!Just when you thought it was safe… ).
I don’t know what else Michael Vick would be qualified to do, other than the game that the Lord saw fit to give him such an amazing aptitude for.
If his incarceration taught him nothing else, maybe it taught him to quit acting the fool by listening to his hangers-on and keep his mind on his business with some humility.
I have some inside 411 on the Vick brothers’ high school days in the Hampton Roads, VA area. The word is that if it hadn’t been for their talent and their mother, both of ‘em would have seen the inside of a jail cell in their teens.
The lessons they weren’t made to learn as kids have to be taught by society when they’re adults…
Look, if you don’t want him, trade him to us.(PLEASE!)
In fact, the answer to this whole issue would be for Limbaugh to buy the Politically Incorrectskins, and sign Michael Vick as starting QB.
What’s then NOT to like?
Anyway, I’m sure you and the wee BilgeBrute will enjoy your game next Sunday, your Eagles will be producing a three-hour-long highlight reel against us at the Linc.
(Make sure your punt returner gets plenty of rest this week).
And instead of pouring beer on the miserable visiting wretches in the stands wearing burgundy and gold and mourning black,(The old “Veteran’s Stadium Baptism”, for those of you outside the NFC East), try buying them one.
Alcohol-induced semi-comatose fogs are about the best way left for a fan to endure a Redskins game these days.
At least if you’re there to enjoy yourself.
I’m taking my boys ages 15, 13 and 11, to a college game instead of NFL game this year. Our family of 5 making a change won’t hurt the NFL. I’m done spending my hard-earned money (at least the part I get to keep) on people and businesses that hold me in disdain. Done, done, done!
After 40 yeras, I ended watching the NFL yesterday. I am not one to call for boycotts. To me it is an individual thing. But like the author, there will be no NFL for me. Conservatives and republicans who don’t agree with Rush have to ponder the consequences of what was done to Rush, and other prominent Republican leaders, especially bright, nice looking Republican women. It might be too late to fight back but for me, I took the first step.
I an no fan of affirmative action but maybe since we are stuck with it in jobs, hiring, government contracts, college admissions and the like maybe it has a place in the NFL and the NBA? I just might watch the NFL if it ceases being racist as that term is defined by the left.
The only reason to tune in so to identify the advertisers so we can boyott those racist companies too.
I have been boycotting the NFL for years. Too many thugs playing a kids game for money had long ago soured me to the prospect of supporting the NFL with even so much as my watching the game on t.v..
However,the prospect of Rush buying into a team had me interested in see how St. Louis would change with a new ownership group with Rush involved. I was actually looking forward to seeing the game for the first time in almost 5 years.
Now after last week I will continue to abstain from watching the NFL nor will I be purchasing anything NFL related.
Just don’t buy NFL merchandise. Email them and ESPN and tell them you are contacting every advertiser of the NFL and you will not buy anything from them either!
Of course it will work. There has to be some sort of consequence, otherwise this sort of bs will not go away people.
#100 Bilgeman:
Stated “*As far as Vick is concerned, I’m a little more tolerant about it than others,I guess.
“*The guy served his sentence for his despicable crime…so now what?
Michael Vick admitted to financing a ‘dog fighting gambling ring’…but he admitted to only being involved in the torture of dogs and not involved in any way with gambling on the dog fights.
Torturing animals does not get a professional player banned for life gambling would.
I believe he was involved in an illegal animal torturing gambling operation so I can’t support any professional team that Michael Vick plays for.
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I haven’t watched the nfl in years and will not. They are a politically correct anti American organization and showed this at the last super bowl in miami where they refused to allow an ad in the program to recruit for the Border Patrol. That and their taxpayer financed stadiums and police protection on game days show they are just another taxpayer subsidized business.
McNabb gave the patriots the superbowl when they played. His time management was terrible in the closing minutes.
I don’t watch football much, but I have always been curious about this. What is the difference between a ‘pass’ and a ‘play action pass’?
Sport has always been held in high regard because it is a field in which a person’s ability was the sole determinant of their success. Sports have provided a special forum for achievement because someone’s level of skill or ability has nothing to do with their religion, culture, ethnicity, social class status, sexual orientation or – up until now – their political views. Sport has been a sort of metaphor for Democracy and freedom because people throughout sports were totally free to realize their fullest potential unencumbered by extraneous and irrelevant factors.
Now we have now witnessed a person being excluded from participation in the field of sport – even if at ownership – solely because of their political views.
What an absurd shame!
109. Paul – A “play action pass” means the play starts like a run, with a fake handoff to a runner and some feigned run blocking. This is intended to forestall a pash rush by deception. The QB hides the ball as he moves into position to throw, sometimes throwing on the run if the defense hasn’t been fooled.
In a traditional pass the quarterback drops back quickly (or receives the ball in a shotgun formation) and the blockers form a protective pocket for him immediately.
I don’t care whether it works or not. My piece of mind and integrity are worth so much more to me than a bunch of overpaid, uncivilized, no necked, thick skulled, thin skinned, felons with delusions of relevancy. Football has been a vast wasteland for the last 20+ years.
All show and NO go.
Make your opinion known: bury old Roger’s office in mail—the paper kind in an envelope with a stamp. It’s too easy to delete an email. Real mail will have a greater impact because it all has to be opened, logged and (presumably) read.