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The Genuflectees . . . zzzzz!

 

Believe it or not, but I am getting a bit bored and tired (zzzzz!) of talking about the NFL’s inept handling of the genuflectees, but the California legislature is on a break, so talking about the ineptitude of the Golden State is temporarily on hold.

Yesterday, one of my uber liberal hiking-group friends was bragging that he was not watching the NFL this year. I was dumbfounded as we have never agreed on anything before. How could this be? Well if your initial guess was that something was broken, you were kinda close. He was boycotting because of the danger of CTE. I knew better than to ask him about the “Kaepernick effect” and the genuflectees because I knew that he would back the genuflectees, as he tends to be for things that are idiotic, but not patriotic!
Speaking of CTE, which I think some of the genuflectees have, my new suggestion is for them to go on TV with their message, instead of shooting themselves in the foot with the National Anthem protests. I think that they should go on the late night talk shows with Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, both liberals. On these shows they could speak directly to the “I live I my parents basement” unemployed youths who do not have to get up early to go to work the next morning. This way the genuflectees could appeal directly to . . . zzzzz.

Or perhaps the genuflectees could go on ESPN with Jemele Hill (after she has served her suspension for her tweets). Another option is to go on with ESPN’s co-host of “Pardon the Interruption”, Mike Wilbon, who compared Jerry Jones to a slave holder for requiring the players to stand for the National Anthem. Unfortunately for Mr. Wilbon, he is making the same basic mistake as Gerald McCoy, who plays for the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Mr. McCoy was spouting off on the players 1st Amendment Rights.
However, in this situation the players are paid employees of the owner of the NFL team. Can you imagine a paid employee at McDonald’s or at Nordtrom’s insulting the paying customers with some political jibberish? Of course not, because insulting the customers is not a good business practice and the manager/owner could and should tell the employee how to behave . . . or else be fired. Colin Kaepernick should have been told at the beginning to behave himself. It was this non-discipline at the beginning that has mushroomed into the NFL’s Nielsen ratings for this year dropping by 7%, compared to last year, while the NFL home attendance has dropped by 18% compared to 2015 when Kaepernick started his shenanigans.

Now finally Roger Goodell (zzzzz!) is starting to wake up and engage his brain as to what is happening to his product, NFL football. He recently appeared to change his tune a bit as he suggested that “everyone should stand for the National Anthem” . . . but how will the genuflectees respond to this?! He then muttered some nonsense about we are all in this together. . . zzzzz!
Oops, Roger, so far, too little, too late! Maybe if the owners decided that Goodell’s salary should drop proportionate to the NFL’s TV ratings, he would quickly then see the true picture of what is happening.

Myself, I am looking forward to football this weekend . . . college football that is, with San Diego State hosting Boise State. Then on Sunday , first some personal genuflection and then . . . zzzzz!

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