NFL Players Association Urged to Screen for Heart Issues Over Vaccine Side Effects

Zachary Stieber Feb 15, 2023 

 

The NFL Players Association (NFLPA) is being urged to offer players cardiac screening in light of the growing concern over COVID-19 vaccines causing heart inflammation. The Health Freedom Defense Fund urged the association in a recent letter to implement screening because the vaccines can cause myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation. Young males are the most at risk. Most NFL players received a COVID-19 vaccine under pressure from teams and the league.

 

“Safety signals illustrate that the near and long-term health outcomes of the COVID-19 vaccines remain uncertain,” Leslie Manookian, president and founder of the fund, told DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the players association, in the letter. “A multitude of adverse reactions to these injections, including myocarditis, are wide-ranging and confirmed, and as such, prudence dictates that the NFLPA investigate the extent to which the COVID-19 shots may have resulted in injury, compromised health or death of players,” Manookian said.........To Read More....

Taking the conservative fight to the culture: ‘You can’t have it both ways.’

February 13, 2023 By Robin M. Itzler @ American Thinker

If you are one of the millions of conservatives who watched on February 12 when the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Super Bowl LVII, shame on you! Conservatives can’t have it both ways!

Before progressives hijacked American traditions, Super Bowl Sunday was a time when family and friends got together to watch the big game. Even if you didn’t know the difference between a football and a footstool, you still had a fun time at the party eating delicious foods that clogged your arteries. Everyone watched the creative commercials—some a one-time airing just for the event—and the fantastic halftime show was a mini-concert featuring our favorite performers.

But that was before the NFL was taken over by progressives, allowing players to insult the United States of America by taking a knee during The Star-Spangled Banner. Then the NFL allowed the so-called “black” anthem to be sung before our national anthem. Its half-time performances started featuring entertainers who regularly mocked conservative patriotic values.

And with all that, conservatives still watched the Super Bowl. How can these conservatives expect to stop our nation’s march to Marxism when they won’t even give up four hours to make a patriotic statement?

Image: Tony Roman. YouTube screen grab.

Imagine the message that would have been sent if Sunday’s Super Bowl wasn’t attended or watched by America First patriots, about half the country. But many conservatives watched the game. Conclusion: {rogressives and RINOs see that patriots talk the talk but rarely walk the walk. That’s why our country is in such a mess.

Kudos to Tony Roman, owner of Basilico’s Pasta e Vino in Huntington Beach, California, for refusing to show the Super Bowl at his restaurant’s bar and making sure everyone knew why. During “Communist” California’s insane lockdown that put thousands of small businesses out of business, this highly regarded patriot kept his unique rustic homestyle cooking eatery open, insisting it was a mask-free zone.

What if thousands of other small businesses had done the same as Roman? Governor Gavin “Hair Gel” Newsom would have had difficulty forcing his totalitarian mandates on the state’s 39 million residents if more business owners had refused to lockdown or force their customers to wear useless masks.

So, it’s no surprise that the day before Super Bowl Sunday, Roman posted this on Basilico’s Instagram account:

We are open tomorrow (Sunday), but there will once again be no Super Bowl here!

The NFL has gone from once being a great unifying tradition, proudly showcasing American patriotism and culture, to now promoting a divisive and aggressive woke agenda.

At halftime you will witness the NFL glorify a performer who just a few years ago, strongly supported kneeling during the National anthem and disrespecting the American flag, saying she had no interest in participating in the Super Bowl, claiming the NFL did nothing for “her people,” and she would not sell out, refusing to be of service to the League in any way.

So, what changed?

What changed is the NFL surrendered to the enemy in your behalf, and everything you believe in with it, knowing in the end, you would be the ones selling out, still tuning into their left-wing brainwashing.

And don’t be confused by the military color guard, and jets flying over the stadium after the anthem. The NFL wants it both ways, and they are trying to fool you.

Only when they cancel the “black national anthem,” play only one anthem, and erase so-called “social justice” messages trying to guilt you, emblazoned in the end zones and on the backs of helmets, should anyone ever reconsider paying attention to their product again.

Until then, if you call yourself an American Patriot, and you watch the Super Bowl tomorrow, then you support everything you say you’re against, and we don’t want to hear you whining about the enemy and their destruction of this country ever again.

When fighting to defend your beliefs, values, and principles when they’re under attack, don’t be like them.

You can’t have it both ways.

You either stand for what you believe in, or you don’t.

Words are weak. Prove it with action.

Brave American men before you have risked and sacrificed everything for what this country stands for. So you can prove your allegiance by sacrificing three or four f—king hours. Because if you’re still watching when the traitor halftime performer takes a knee, then it’s already too late!

So, turn that s—t off before it begins!

You’re Americans. Act like it!

Conservatives who watched the Super Bowl are part of the problem. And I bet some of them are spending today at Disneyland.

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.

Liberals Howl In Outrage As Tim Tebow Returns To NFL Before Kaepernick

ByAdmin May 13, 2021 12 Comments

The news that Tim Tebow will be signed by the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars triggered a firestorm of outrage, with renewed howls of racism that “woke” martyr figure Colin Kaepernick still hasn’t landed a football job.

The former University Of Florida great will reportedly sign a one-year deal to play for his former college coach Urban Meyer. The coach has been tasked with making the franchise relevant again after a horrendous 1-15 record last year when it ran the table by losing every game after a week one win against the Indianapolis Colts.

Tebow will give up on his dream of playing quarterback and will line up at the tight end position in an offense that will be led by former Clemson star and number one draft pick Trevor Lawrence.

Tebow is a devout Christian as well as a positive role model. The fact that he returned to the NFL before the anti-American, cop-hating heel Kaepernick was just too much for the haters on the left to tolerate. Their rage quickly spread across Twitter like a plague of locusts............To Read More....

The End of Sports

Daniel Greenfield November 19,2020 @ Sultan Knish Blog

When the Dodgers won the World Series, few Americans were watching the game that had once been dubbed America's Pastime. The 2020 World Series broke all sorts of records, mostly bad ones, becoming the least watched world series. With an average of less than 10 million viewers, the series commanded the attention of some 3% of Americans.

The 32% drop in viewers came at a time when people, many stuck at home, are obsessively watching television. What were the other 13 million who had been watching last year do? The one thing they weren’t doing was watching a game they had once cared about.

It wasn't just baseball.

The NBA finals ratings dropped 51%. Game 6 brought in 8.2 million viewers and the series only managed an average of 7.45 million viewers. That's after the conference finals brought in just a little over 4 million viewers. And the NFL is facing its own ratings struggles as are other sports.

The media has frantically dug for apolitical reasons to explain these trainwreck numbers, but the simple reality is that sports used to be competitively divisive, but are now politically divisive. The truly woke viewers are exiting for the WNBA and women’s soccer, whose numbers are up, while conservative viewers are jettisoning current games for highlight reels of past glories.

Sports used to be a metaphor for America. Practice, play fair, and win. The rules might differ, but the meritocracy of talent and the ethics of sportsmanship were essential to American life. The metaphor is different now. Don’t bother playing, get woke, become a nuisance, score a $126 million contract with Nike, followed by a Netflix series about your life, and become an icon.

Sports is still a metaphor for America, but a very different kind of country in which talent doesn’t matter, but monetizing radical aggrieved victimhood is how the game is really played and won. And if that’s what it takes to become a sports icon, whatever your politics, why bother watching the game when you can tweet support for the BLM protests, or just get out there and riot?

Big Sports and the media are blaming the presidential election for their viewership drop. They’re not wholly wrong, but they were the ones who politicised the game. The message behind all the protests, the kneeling, the locker room boycotts, the emblems and the stunts, was that politics is more important than sports. Viewers took them at their word and changed the channel.

If politics is America’s real national pastime, why waste time watching a few failed Colin Kapernicks, who may have a better arm, but worse public relations timing, do their thing? If they had just dropped out and spent years protesting, they could have also been sports icons.

The problem with politicising everything is that everything then becomes irrelevant. If sports only matters when it’s political, then it doesn’t matter. Neither do food, fashion, music, or any of the other things that people used to care about before caring became exclusive to politics.

The Soviet Union only cared about sports as a vehicle for proving the superiority of the New Soviet Man so that even Soviet women playing sports turned out to be New Soviet Men. Soviet sports were uninteresting because they existed for ideological reasons. Players were advanced or tanked based on their sponsors within the Communist Party. Those athletes who could, did their best to escape the USSR so that they would be able to play for themselves.

But where do you go to defect from the NFL, MLB, or the NBA?

The Soviet Union flagrantly cheated when playing non-Warsaw Pact countries because the triumph of Communism was much more important than the rules of the game. But the whole point of a self-contained world with its own rules, absurd as they might occasionally be, is as a test of character. When the rules don’t matter, neither does the game. That’s the woke crisis.

Wokeness insists that the moral, ethical, and procedural rules that govern our lives don’t matter in the face of the systemic racism that leads police officers to shoot criminals. It’s okay to loot stores, ambush drivers on highways, and stab police officers. If human life and personal property don’t matter in the face of the urgency of woke politics, then what rules do?

And if we can’t agree on any rules, what’s the point of playing?

Big Sports began violating its own rules to accommodate woke protests against America. The impact may be less immediately destructive than Black Lives Matter rioters setting fire to a neighborhood, but ended up setting fire to the business model and ratings of the industry.

Sports has always been a form of ritualized combat whose purpose was a test of character. When character doesn’t matter and the rules don’t matter, all that’s left is the combat, and the real battles are taking place off the field and the court. And viewers are changing the channel to CNN or FOX News where the combat is closer to being real than in the sports bubble.

The media and Big Sports promise that will change when the election is over, but the fight isn’t over, it’s just getting started. Elections have become another game where the rules don’t matter. And in a country where ritualized political combat is becoming more combative and less ritualistic, ritualized combat that is becoming more political and less combative won’t play.

The NFL and MLB, and to a lesser extent the NBA, depended on a national consensus. The end of the consensus means the end of the nation and, much less seriously, their end. It’s no coincidence that the high point of the hero worship of great players came when Americans were united in their values and in their sense of national purpose, or that all of the above are passing.

Americans do fewer things together. The old network appointment viewing of sitcoms, dramas, award shows and games has given way to scattershot streaming geared to individual taste. Big Sports was never going to survive in an environment in which we agree on few things, and in which everything is a political test that will alienate a quarter of the country either way.

Big Sports, like their corporate partners, decided that pandering to the radical sports journalists, to woke companies, and to the Wokicrats who run much of the country mattered more. And in the process they revealed the underlying truth that Disney, Nike, and the cultural values of their executives mattered more than the games they pretended to care about. And the rest is history.

The falling ratings are a symptom of the end of sports. MLB, the NFL, and the NBA aren’t going away, but neither are they going anywhere except to Communist China. Like Hollywood, the country’s other big entertainment industry has abandoned America while expanding to China. Americans have less money and fewer people, and the rules of the game are too complicated.

In China, the rules are simple. Don’t mention Hong Kong or Taiwan, and praise the Party.

America’s cultural rules have become bewilderingly complicated as the country fractures, and there’s no way to win. Kneel or stand for the anthem, everyone still loses the Catch 22.

But the end of sports is the end of hundred million dollar contracts, not the end of the game. The games, the real ones, were played to see how far a ball can go and what a man can do. The familiar games we play had their echoes in the dust of medieval European towns and on Greek fields. The games will not be lost, only the huge corrupt industries that grew around them.

While the role of the billion dollar sports industries fade in the lives of ordinary Americans, the games will live on in backyards, cul-de-sacs, and grassy fields where we will go on playing them, instead of paying to watch others play, and we’ll do it by the rules we grew up with. We will go on standing for the anthem and testing our arms, our legs, and our hearts.

In sports, as in life, it is not the big organizations, but what we do as individuals, that define us.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

 

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Don Cherry and the Alpha White Male

January 13, 2020 By K.M. Breakey
If Don Cherry’s not the most colourful Canadian ever, he’s in the running. Wardrobe alone puts him on the list, but that’s mere sidebar to an extraordinary life. The man’s iconic. Even without the 40-year broadcasting career, he’d be famous. Yet they cast him aside like yesterday’s garbage. They cancelled him, and they badmouthed him on the way out. That’s how they do it now..........

His love for Canada and Canadians was as clear as his contempt for Europeans entering the league in big numbers. Lack of physical play by Swedes and Finns was a frequent target of his wrath. When Russians started appearing in the 90s, it was as if war had been declared. On the rare occasions Don got political, he was an unapologetic nationalist. He spoke often of “Left-Wing Pinkos.”.......

The world’s changed immensely since 1979. It’s changed immensely since 2015, when Kaepernick was a QB and Woke Sports was just waking up. Today, the NFL’s unwatchable, and the NHL’s desperate to catch up.............

Overnight, MacLean changed his tune. He called Cherry’s comments “hurtful, discriminatory and flat-out wrong." He hosted a nauseating discussion on race and gender in hockey. He flagellated himself and whites everywhere. He denounced, he prostrated -- then he pivoted to pious lecturing.

Pure cringe, but that’s Ron. His spine is as flexible as any politician, and he’s no dummy. He recognized capitulation was the only way, and went all in. He took a leadership role in the moral preening. Whites -- especially men -- must know their place. Whites must shut up and listen. Simpering submissiveness is the only acceptable posture for white males tiptoeing through a minefield of career-destroying social topics...........To Read More.....

Bootlickers Rewarded Again

Bradley Moore, American Renaissance, May 1, 2019

Racial politics infect sports.
 

On April 25, Nick Bosa, a white defensive end for the Ohio State Buckeyes, was picked second overall in the 2019 NFL draft. He gets attention as a white star in a league that is nearly 70 percent black.

Just before the draft, the New York Times profiled him in an article with an apparently contradictory title: “Nick Bosa Comes With the Kind of Baggage That Doesn’t Matter.” Mr. Bosa’s “baggage” was some tweets he had deleted:

One tweet called Beyoncé’s music ‘complete trash.’ Another described ‘Black Panther,’ a film widely seen as a triumph for pop-culture representations of black people, as the worst Marvel movie. Others reportedly expressed support for President Trump. And Bosa’s reference to the City by the Bay—the 49ers hold the second overall pick on Thursday—apparently alluded to a 2016 tweet in which Bosa called Colin Kaepernick a ‘clown.’

The reader is invited to conclude that this “baggage” should weigh heavily against Mr. Bosa. The Times article then defended Mr. Kaepernick as “the former 49ers quarterback who protested structural racism and police brutality in the United States by kneeling during the national anthem.” In benighted America, Mr. Bosa’s “baggage” is the sort that does matter, and can ruin an otherwise deserving player’s career.........Racial politics long ago invaded—and corrupted—sports....To Read More....

Super Bowl Post-Mortem by a Former Fan Who No Longer Cares

The first half went missing, but at least Laura Ingraham was there.

By Dov Fischer

For decades I was the biggest football fan ever. Also baseball. Also basketball. Also ice hockey ....In college, I stopped following ice hockey avidly — no time anymore; something had to give. ....I lost interest in NBA basketball. I have not watched an entire NBA game for more than thirty years. Besides, I still had baseball and football.

Until Kaepernick the Dirt.

When Kaepernick the Dirt started his thing, I treated the matter as one ungrateful dirtbag who was spitting in the faces of millions of American patriots like me in a country that allowed him to draw millions of dollars for no discernible skill other than throwing a ball and running with it. Many five-year-olds do that, too. His kneeling publicly during the National Anthem was and is the most despicable ingratitude.................I did not watch a minute of NFL football this year again.............To Read More....

Those poor NFL wage slaves

January 2, 2019 By Richard Jack Rail

Lebron James says NFL owners are “old white men” with a slave mentality. I think Lebron James is letting slip a very large craving for attention. Nobody forces anybody to play in the NFL. NFL players are well aware of the physical ramifications of pro football – the high possibility of brain damage and crippling injury.

They are also aware of the financial ramifications, and have not been slow to cash in. They enrich high powered lawyers who find ways to make them ever-more money. Taking advantage of still other ramifications, they father kids all across the fruited plain.

No slave ever dreamed of such a life..........Read more

Anthem Kneelers and Wife Beaters

Posted by Daniel Greenfield 0 Comments Sunday, December 09, 2018 @ Sultan Knish Blog

Last year, 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster kneeled in disrespect to the national anthem. This year, he was arrested twice on domestic violence charges.

The anthem kneeler was arrested for the second time on Saturday, Nov 24, at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Tampa, Florida. He was charged with one count of first-degree misdemeanor domestic violence after allegedly slapping the phone out of his girlfriend's hand, pushing her and then slapping her across the face.

Foster had been previously arrested for domestic violence against the same woman, earlier that year, in California. This time around, after multiple brushes with the law, the 49ers finally decided that they might be better off without him. And so the Redskins quickly swooped in to claim him.

Doug Williams, a former player and currently Redskin executive, dismissed Foster's arrest as "small potatoes" before later being forced to apologize because of the outcry.

Williams had previously participated in an anthem protest last year.

Foster’s domestic violence crisis occurred only a few days before a video showed Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt kicking and shoving a woman in his Cleveland apartment building. Another man claims to have been violently assaulted by Hunt in a Kansas City nightclub back in January.

TMZ described the video as showing Hunt attacking the woman. “As more people came into the hallway, Hunt had to be restrained several times as he made advances toward the woman and other people. At one point, he appeared to knock two people over with a shove, including the woman he initially shoved. At the end of the video, Hunt kicks the woman as she’s crouched on the ground.”

"It was just a long night," Hunt told ESPN. "I could have took responsibility and made the right decision to find a way to de-escalate the situation."

Even though the actual assault had happened back in February, the NFL had mostly ignored it.

Hunt, like Foster, had disrespected the anthem, by kneeling, explaining, “It’s kind of a bad situation going on right now. I really don’t like to talk about it much.”

Media hot takes quickly tried to contrast the players with Colin Kaepernick, Nike’s anti-American celeb, but Foster and Hunt were also anthem protesters. No team wants Kaepernick because of his mediocrity attitude toward any team that would have him. Defaming America is never the problem at the NFL.

NFL players joining in anti-police protest is natural because of the high rate of crime in the NFL.

Foster and Hunt are only 2 of 33 players who were arrested this year on charges ranging from drug smuggling to drunk driving to assaulting the elderly to sexual assault. While Foster got the NFL’s War on Women started back in February, King Dunlap was also arrested that same month for violating a protective order put in place by his girlfriend of 12 years and the mother of his two children.

According to her complaint, Dunlap had ripped a bathroom door to shreds and then came out with a hammer. According to his lawyer, it was a misunderstood effort to reach a joint resolution.

Dunlap's girlfriend had alleged that the 6-foot-8 football player had “put his hands around my throat, and had me pinned up against the wall with my feet dangling, screaming in my face”.

King Dunlap had participated in at least some of the anthem protests by raising his fist.

Adam Gotsis of the Broncos followed closely on Dunlap’s heels with an arrest for an alleged rape from his Georgia Tech days. Prosecutors eventually decided not to prosecute him. The year before, Gotsis had made headlines by being the only white player to join the anti-American protest of other Broncos players.

Michael Bennett, of the Seahawks and the Eagles, made Colin Kaepernick look like John Wayne and Martin Luther King. He not only sat out the anthem, declaring, “I’ll protest the anthem until we’re equal”, but even wrote a book titled, “Things That Make White People Uncomfortable.” The book was co-written with Dave Zirin, a white man who covers sports for The Nation and who had tweeted support for Marc Lamont Hill, after the former CNN commentator was let go for endorsing the murder of Jews.

"There's a reality that I'm a black man in America, and there's things that are going on pertaining to minorities, pertaining to women, pertaining to kids, pertaining to religion, and we can't be hiding behind it," Bennett had rambled.

He was arrested in March for an assault on an elderly black paraplegic woman.

The 6-foot-4, 274-pound football player allegedly shoved the 66-year-old woman and shouted at a police officer, "You all must know who I am and I can own this m***. I'm going down to the field, whether you like it or not."

The woman, who was paralyzed from the waist down, suffered a shoulder injury.

Chief Acevedo, the first Hispanic man to head the Houston PD, also found Bennett’s actions very “uncomfortable”. “I’m grateful that a guy who decides to push a 66-year-old black female paraplegic little old woman that’s trying to make a living making a fraction of what he’s making not only did they have to put up with his verbal abuse but had to put up with his physical assault,” he said.

There’s no word on whether Bennett and Zirin are working on a sequel, “Things That Make Elderly Black Paraplegic Women Uncomfortable.”

And that’s how March wrapped up in the NFL.

"It’s time for the racism and bigotry, for those things to go away. Those things have no place in society, no place in America, no place in any country, and that’s my two cents," Chris McCain of the Los Angeles Chargers had declared, when it came to the anthem protests.

It cost him more than two cents when he was charged in June for grabbing a woman' neck and spitting on her. While McCain initially claimed the woman was lying, he pleaded no contest to two charges of battery in October.

The issue isn’t just that the NFL is filled with entitled criminals. That’s not news to anyone.

The anthem protests are not the outraged grievance of an oppressed minority, but of a 1% that, like Bennett, believes it should be able to get away with anything, without the police getting in the way.

But, as this tally in a year of the NFL’s War on Women shows, the victims of their violent entitlement are often women.

When the police are prevented from doing their jobs, it’s the most vulnerable who suffer the most.

And those vulnerable people are often black women.

The anthem protests are as much about domestic violence as they are about police brutality. For many NFL players, police brutality means anything that interferes with their right to start fights in bars, drive drunk, smuggle drugs and beat women. Especially their wives and girlfriends.

The endorsement of the anthem protests by the Left is an endorsement of domestic violence.


Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine at the above link.

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Enough with the Victimhood: Millionaire Athletes and Their Lost Cause

As an American black citizen, I have had enough of what the Left has done to my race.

August 31, 2018  Sylvia Thompson 

I must admit I have never in my life purchased a ticket to a sports event. I am not a sports enthusiast. But I am an American black citizen, and I have had it up to the gills with black people who embrace victimhood. I also highly resent my being expected to do the same in order to affirm my “blackness.”

Black victims these days, for the most part, are the product of decades of Black Americans being used primarily by white progressive leftists to advance an anti-American agenda.

The current brouhaha surrounding the despicable behavior of NFL athletes toward the National Anthem and the American flag is a prime example of what the Left has done to my race.

One must assume these players and their guilt-conflicted white coaches and owners (and victimhood-inflicted black coaches) are being manipulated by the Left, because no intelligent, thinking people would deliberately cut themselves off at the knees.

Essentially, what these young misguided mostly black men are doing is ensuring the demise of their lucrative paychecks. Further, I would wager that if these teams consisted of all white athletes, none of this idiocy would be allowed. We are witnessing this travesty because the vast majority of players are black and can whine “oppression” if appropriate action is taken against them for their unconscionable behavior...............These young blacks, sadly, took much of their direction from racists Barack Obama and Eric Holder during Obama’s destructive, eight-year regime and Holder’s corruption of the Justice Department. These two men, abusing their federal powers, gave young blacks the impression they need not heed the law, because laws are somehow unjust when they are applied to black Americans.

...............Some self-directed, independent-thinking blacks (and there are many of us) have offered that if these millionaire protestors want to tackle some real problems, they might consider the thousands of black children killed in abortions annually (by the progressive Left), or perhaps the many, many young blacks murdered routinely on inner-city streets by other young blacks (in cities run by progressive, leftist Democrats), or the downright criminal state of education of black inner-city children, orchestrated by the progressive leftist National Education Association (NEA). The NEA’s aim is to produce unintelligent pawns to feed the cause of progressivism................To Read More....

Report: ‘Star’ Players Consider Sitting Out if Kaepernick and Reid Not Signed

28 May 2018

Activist and Intercept columnist Shaun King, claims that he’s spoken to “several NFL stars” who have told him that they’re “considering sitting out the season until the de facto ban on Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick is removed.” The report also claimed that the star players intended to “get 25% of the players to sit out with them.”.............Should players choose to sit out it would almost have to be “star players” who do so, for the simple reason that they’re the only ones who could afford to do it. NFL teams can fine players up to $40,000 a day for missing camp, according to Pro Football Talk. Not to mention what the players might lose in endorsement money while protesting a policy that has a 53% approval rating...........To Read More....

My Take - Wow!  Now that's a gift the NFL can't ignore - if they have the guts!  This is a great opportunity to let the players know they're hired help.  It's not their job to decide who gets signed, or what NFL policy should or shouldn't be.  As hired help it's their job to salute and say "yes sir", and then do the job assigned to them or be fired. 

Most of these professional athletes have made huge amounts of money playing a kids game and when they're done playing - most of them will be broke within five years.   Here's my suggestion - If they sit out - they're fired!  Permanently!  If they'd fired Kaepernick in the beginning this wouldn't be a problem today.  Another fine lesson on why a policy of appeasement always fails. 

NFL Bankrolls The Resistance to Trump

A $100 million fund to appease America-hating players while sticking the knife in patriotic fans.

December 1, 2017 Matthew Vadum  1 

The dying National Football League is choosing its America-hating, national anthem-protesting multimillionaire players over patriotic sports fans by funneling close to $100 million to leftist charities like those founded by admitted communist Van Jones.

The corrosive fairy tale, embraced by professional football, that police use black Americans for target practice is malicious nonsense but it is a useful lie, good for direct-mail campaigns and MoveOn solicitations.

With this new initiative, NFL Commissar Roger Goodell is affirming for the umpteenth time that it is in the business of virtue-signaling and indoctrination, not football. In addition, the NFL is embracing Black Lives Matter and Antifa as partners in the Left’s fundamental transformation of America.
Even without this money, the financial outlook for left-wing advocacy groups was already sunny, especially after depraved currency speculator George Soros shifted $18 billion of his personal fortune to his Open Society Foundations philanthropy in October. If you’re involved in the world of liberal-progressive nonprofit advocacy, life is good, and getting better by the day.

The money raised by the NFL will go to organizations promoting what ESPN calls “social justice change.” In today’s political climate, that suggests terroristic Black Lives Matter and Antifa-related groups will get a good chunk of the cash. And if somehow you’re still an NFL fan after the league has done everything it can to drive you away, the NFL will put the antisocial donations on your tab........To Read More.....

NFL Capitulating to Players and SJW’s In Unbelievable New Move

By Andrew West November 29, 2017

For a moment there, it seems as though the NFL was ready to right the ship and take matters into their own hands as it pertains to the bevy of bratty boys kneeling during the National Anthem. The outrage across America has been palpable, as the anthem protests of the National Football League have continued, and intensified, over the course of the last year.

 What began with Colin Kaepernick taking a knee to shock the U.S. into listening to his petulant and arrogant take on American police has become a national scourge on sport and patriotism.

Despite an enormous outcry from the fans and the free press, the NFL and individual team owners have done virtually nothing to quell the outrage. Instead, the players have been allowed to run amok, with one NFL administrator famously admitting that the “inmates” were “running the prison”. ..........To Read More.....

My Take - Dumb as tree moss.  It's clear the owners are scared of the players and think giving in to the lunatic Social Justice Warrior class is going to save them.  This level of appeasement is only the appitizer for the left. Once this starts they're doomed.  Any rational owner of an NFL franchise had better sell off now - if they can find a buyer. 

And we wonder why corporate America is on board with so many left wing loons.  They don't have the guts to stand up and be counted, because they don't have the moral fiber to be a rock in the current. 

Over educated, under smart, and no solid moral foundation. And I've decided ........ they're just not all that bright. 

Super Bowl Champion: "Our Institutions Are Under Attack - God, Family, Country"

Timothy Meads

Super Bowl champion Burgess Owens joined Fox & Friends Weekend today to discuss the current state of the NFL, liberalism, and a message all young men should hear.

"Let’s start off with what most of us recognize. Our institutions are under attack - God, family, country. I am so excited to be having these conversations today,” Owens said. “And it would only happen because we are having a president who is willing to tweet and drive the left nuts."

As for the NFL, Owens says the league needs leadership.

“I would have loved to have been asked how to run the (New York) Jets, because at 20 years old you are a know it all.  "The NFL needs to step up to the plate, recognize what's going to work for this country. And pride in country, flag, and culture is the bottom line."

He also had a message for young men........Owens played ten seasons in the NFL and is the author of "Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps."............To Read More.....

Klayman: Hail to the Veep!

VP Pence Leaves NFL Game After Anthem Protests

 

Newsmax October 8, 2017

 

Vice President Mike Pence has left the 49ers-Colts game after about a dozen San Francisco players took a knee.  The former Indiana governor flew in so he could watch Peyton Manning's jersey retirement ceremony on Sunday. Manning will become the first Indianapolis-era player in Colts history to have his number retired and will also be inducted into the team's Ring of Honor.  But Pence didn't stick around long............Continue Reading.....

Cliven Bundy: Feds Don't Own Western States
Battle over land seized illegally by U.S. government

 

By Larry Klayman WND October 8, 2017

 

Events important for preserving America's Constitution will be soon unfolding. Nevada rancher Cliven D. Bundy's federal trial will finally begin in Las Vegas, Nevada, for a 2014 peaceful protest in support of the Constitution some incorrectly called "The Battle of Bunkerville."  In fact, there was no battle from the standpoint of the peaceful protesters. Rather, it was the federal government — then run by former President Barack Obama — that threatened the Bundy family's lives, beat the heck out of the sister of Cliven Bundy, Tasered his two sons, violently kicked the family dog and killed many of their cattle, burying them in a mass secret grave...........Continue Reading.....

 

 

 

NFL: It’s “Taking Back Our Taxes” Time!

By Monica Morrill

Sean Hannity focused on the numbers pointing out, “the average public subsidy for a NFL stadium is $266 million taxpayer dollars. Since the year 2000, it is estimated $3.2 billion in federal taxpayer money has gone to help build private sports stadiums. Then you factor in local, and state funding for stadiums; well that number grows to $5.9 billion and $6.7 billion, that’s over just the last 20 years. And if that’s not shocking enough, well there’s the ‘NFL’s Paid Patriotism’ scandal."

In the latest controversy sweeping the nation, politics has now saturated sports.

It’s known that Democrats have failed in capturing the White House, the U.S. Congress, and the Supreme Court. The narrative of accusations against President Trump by the Left has fallen short of obtaining Democrats’ desired result and now, they are entering the sports arena, unchartered territory.

 Never has America seen sports become so politicized........On the Hannity Show, Sean Hannity emphasized that if the NFL has such disdain for the American way of life they should remember who is providing the subsidy “that’s given players, by the way, and owners, the opportunity to make millions, and even in some cases, billions of dollars; then it is time to stop taking handouts from the American taxpayers. I doubt you’ll hear this elsewhere in the media,” he stressed............Read More

Observations From the Back Row: Blacks, Leftists and Kneeling

By Rich Kozlovich

America still isn’t properly defining all of this. I'm still amazed that more haven't recognized this is part of an overall scheme to Balkanize America, turning our national community into tribes.

People in most nations live their lives in communities - tribes if you will - and those communities don't necessarily fit within the identity of their national boundaries.  The United States is one of the few that does and that's the goal of the left - destroy the American national identity - divide us into communities that are not harmonious and destroy the Constitution so they can - or at least think they can - take over via the one tool that's always the defining factor in leftist rule.  Tyranny and violence.   

This isn’t about race, it’s about treason, and the left will adopt any issue that will get them what they want. Whether it’s race, the environment or any one of the other many issues they adopt, it’s about destroying America and taking power. They must be insane, since we know leftism has been a disaster to every nation that's adopted it or had it imposed on them. 

That's history and that history is incontestable.

As for these athletes - they're merely what Stalin called “useful idiots”. It’s the owners who really disgust me since these are smart informed men - they have to know better - but they’re like all big business, and I include the pesticide manufacturers – as allies they are at best leaky vessels since all they care about is the bottom-line on their quarterly return and consistently fail to see the long term consequences of their pandering actions.

And now we find one owner is bribing the players to do what they've already contractually obligated to do.  This is a blatant attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the public, but this will backfire on the owners on many levels.  Do they really think appeasement is the answer to the actions of these spoiled brats who are paid obscene amounts of money to play a kid's game?    They're so arrogant one team conspired to play badly and let their quarterback get pounded over and over again until he's out with injuries because he wouldn't go along with them.  One of the team’s offensive linemen has been recorded saying:

“He wants to stand alone, he can stand alone on the field.” And now the Raider's quarterback is out for up to six weeks with a back injury.   "This possibly direct proof continues into an epic national scandal with a team official telling a local reporter, “If you report on this, you will be blackballed, you will not get access to the Raiders period. Your career covering the team will be over.”

Wait - I thought this is a First amendment issue?  Apparently the First amendment only applies to anarchists, leftists, racists, and misfits.  Make no mistake about this - it's only going to get worse. 

If I was the Raider's owner every lineman including the center who clearly was part of the conspiracy would be fired, and every receiver who failed to catch passes would be demoted. Here's my solution.  Do what every company in America does when employees fail to perform.   Fire the top player on each team every week until they get the idea they're hired help, and it's their job to salute, say yes sir, and do as their told - just like everyone else in America who has a job.

And based on what most of them are actually capable of doing outside of sports - there would to be a lot of 300 pound dishwashers available.

Take a Knee, Part III: What We Need is Clarity!

By Rich Kozlovich

This brings me to my conclusion of this series, and it's clear these protests aren't about racism or equality.  If these men were so concerned about the lives of minorities in America this wouldn't be the way to go about it. What is needed is a recognition of what's really causing the plight of blacks in America.   Once that's defined it can be fixed. And let's face it - This isn't really a minority issue.  This has been made a black versus white issue made by Colin Kaepernick and those participating in it with him.   Not by Donald Trump. 

So, let's define the cause of that plight now and who's at fault!

First off let's dispel this whole idea today's whites are now responsible for past black slavery.  Slavery has been with mankind forever, and ever person alive today has some ancestor that suffered that indignity, whether they're Caucasian, Oriental or Negroid. But the blacks who were slaves in America were not enslaved by whites.  They were enslaved by their own race and sold to Europeans and Americans.  Slavery is still going on in Africa today, especially in Muslim nations.

 Why aren't these million dollar athletes protesting that?

The so-called black leadership want to intentionally keep blacks on "an imaginary plantation" through the indoctrination of victimhood. This creates an entitlement mentality and worse yet - a feeling of helplessness and dependency.  Race baiters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. John  Lewis, Louis Farrakhan, and those listed here in the media. perpetuate this mentality, with the political leadership enriching "themselves with unkept promises while the rest of the population floundered".   And that's the tip of the iceberg.  Without that constant drumbeat of hate by these anarchitsts groups like BLM, Antifa couldn't exist.  For that matter - the KKK couldn't exist either. 

The real problem lies in the cultural paradigms of American blacks.  When any community has a situation where  71 percent of their community (2013) are born to black unwed mothers, there's no fixing that communities problems until they fix that first.    Why?  Because these are children born into an unstable home life and brought up without a stable male figure to guide them.  Is it any wonder only only 59 percent of blacks graduate from high school, and in Detroit where black leadership has dominated for decades the rate is only 20 percent.

Why aren't they protesting that?

As a result - in spite of the billions of dollars American has poured into the black community - they live a life of poverty, drugs, crime, violence, murder, imprisonment and early death.  And while on the streets so many of them are dangerous thugs playing the "knock out game" , worse yet they been made to falsely believe cops are targeting blacks justifying "chants by Black Lives Matter "What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!" The result is a war on cops with numerous officers killed in the line of duty in NYC, Dallas, Baton Rouge, San Antonio, and other cities throughout the land." And Colin Kaepernick donated $25,000 to a group that honors a convicted cop killer. 

It isn't the black community that needs to fear whites - it's the white community that needs to fear blacks.  That's history and that history is incontestable.

This brings us to the First amendment rights argument. 

The hypocircy in the NFL over this is outrageous. Yet in spite of the contractural obligation to stand during the anthem they did and said nothing when Keapernick refused to do so.  "In 2016, the NFL threatened to fine teams who decorated their cleats with a "Never Forget" logo commemorating the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. They prohibited the Cowboys from wearing helmet decals honoring the five police officers killed by a Black Lives Matter advocate." The NFL could have stopped this immediately by suspending Kaepernick and it would have ended. 

Now these cowardly owners - who clearly fear the players - are caught in a mess they can no longer control, and now they're going to have to face these players in negotiations and the players will dominate.  But the public is going to have a big say over what goes on in the NFL from now on, including monoploy exemptions the government has extended to them and the insane public funding for their stadiums.

Since Keapernick has embraced the BLM and Antifa narrative perhaps we should see what's in the offing. 

In an article by C. Mitchell Shaw, Antifa is planning communist revolution for America on November 4 as "the day they have chosen for the opening salvo in the American Bolshevik Revolution."

As The New American’s William Jasper wrote:

"As part of that plan to establish “an anarchist-communist dictatorship,” the communists in Antifa are not one bit above engaging in criminal behavior. Like their communist predecessors in other places and other times, Antifa has staged riots, burned or otherwise destroyed public and private property, and used violence and the threat of violence to cow their opponents into silent submission."

What this is really all about has nothing to do with racism, equality or First Amendment rights.  What this is really all about is what the left has desired since Stalin flooded the United States with spies and agents (many of who infiltrated FDR's administration, along with Hollywood, radio, newspapers, unions and academia) the total destruction of the United States.  The destruction of the American identity, the end of capitalism and destruction of the American economy and the overturning and elimination of the U.S. Constitution - the only things standing against a socialist ruled world under the auspices of the United Nations. 

What this is really all about is treason.  As for these foolish players, NFL owners, politicians, and media types - including some who profess to be conservatives - they're merely catspaws and enablers of that treason. 

I really do wish these people read a history book once in a while.  In the meanwhile - allow me to introduce you to The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals.

Part I
Part II

Editor's note:  This is the end of this series, but while doing the research I found tons of material on BLM and Antifa which I think is foundationally important to understand what's happening, including who's funding all of this.  And believe me when I tell you there's enough information for a book on this.  I intend to share that information.  RK.

Hernandez's Severe CTE is About Blame and a Pay Day, Not Medicine

By Erik Lief — September 22, 2017

By most measures, Aaron Hernandez did not come off to the public as a sympathetic figure. But with the revelation that his brain was severely damaged from playing football – far worse than anyone's studied so far, considering his age – an attempt to make him just that is now underway.
But since this attempted rehabilitation is being done by an attorney and not a doctor, it'd be wise to look past the lawyer's spin.

In the final act of Hernandez's brief, eventful, rollercoaster life, the late NFL tight end was considered both prone to violence and unpredictability – and that was even before becoming a convicted murderer. Add to the picture that Hernandez was a hulking figure covered in tattoos, which did little to soften his public perception, and what astonished observers were left with was the task of reconciling how a Super Bowl champion with a $40 million contract ended up in prison serving a life sentence – at the age of 25 – without the possibility of parole........To Read More....

Larry Klayman on Hillary Clinton, Judge Roy Moore, NFL and Mueller

Clinton: 'Hopefully Trump Hasn't Ordered Killing of People and Journalists' Like Putin

 

Fox News Insider September 26, 2017

 

Hillary Clinton called President Trump a "top down guy" who "has tendencies toward authoritarianism," and added she hoped he hasn't condemned people to die like other autocrats.   "I don't really think he values democracy, Charlie," Clinton told PBS' Charlie Rose. "He's a top down guy. He has tendencies toward authoritarianism."  Rose asked if that meant he is no different than Russia's Vladimir Putin...........Continue Reading.....

Klayman - Hypocritical That Hillary Would Brand Trump a Killer as Scores of Witnesses Died "Mysteriously" During Clinton Administration!

 

Roy Moore Victory Cements Anti-Establishment Wave

 

Congrats to Chief Justice Roy Moore!

 

Freedom Watch TV September 27, 2017

 

 

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Revoke NFL's Anti-Trust Exemption Over Protests and Price-Fixing

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See also Klayman's article "Revoke the NFL's Antitrust Exemption"

Larry Klayman Discusses Mueller's Investigation & The NFL Protests

 

Klayman joins Bill Tucker and Tom Borelli to discuss the news of the day

 

Newsmax TV September 28, 2017

 

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