Short Takes – The Real NFL
Opinion October 26, 2017The Real NFL
The members of the Negro Football League (NFL), serve less as ‘slaves’ than they do as ‘Gladiators.” They are contestants in combat for the public spectacles in which they choose to perform. They are supplied with proper protective equipment to deflect the blows of their adversaries, their own weapons, their speed and agility.
They are, as well, paid unbelievably high salaries to defray the cost of their off season pleasures. Being an all male clique, they must supply their own women, booze and drugs while avoiding the police who will arrest them if stopped and, they hate to be stopped.
As high paid Gladiators we expect them to perform in the public arena without comment, certainly not to defame or disrespect the people who pay them, or the nation that sired them. They have no other useful purpose in society except for our entertainment. It is a narrow platform upon which they perform and politics, not one of their better subjects, should be avoided at all costs. But, It’s too late. Disgust is permeating the fan base.
To be held forth as grand examples to little children is to tell a gross lie. Proud of their individual histories of incarcerations for illegal firearms possession, drug use and trafficking, arrests for family violence, manslaughters by DUI, and fathering children by multiple women, does not qualify for any status above an employed factory worker struggling to support a family, or an unemployed worker seeking a job. Only their salary makes them unique.
These are ignorant people and many have only recently learned to peel bananas with their hands. That’s why they must play in sports. That’s why many subsequently experience careers shortened by injuries leading to even shorter life’s. Their only individual goal is to achieve a niche in the Hall of Fame or claim a garish piece of finger jewelry to prove their bragging rights. They demand respect yet refuse to give it. Respect is earned, not in the arena of combat, those rewards are money and trinkets, but in the conduct a man demonstrates in living his daily life.
Americans are tired of them claiming a status to which they do not belong but earnestly aspire, as victims because they are black. The thoughtless impulses that has driven most of them to “take a knee” and display a morbid disrespect to American traditions, lies in the psychology of group think. Group think is exactly what Karl Marx intended for the laboring classes. Many, gifted with reading skills ending at the eighth grade level, can only find their emotional release on the playing fields of equals, where end zone displays for crossing a line with a pointed ball, simply reveals the true depth of their real nature.
Money doesn’t buy dignity nor respect. The Dallas Cowboy’s owner, Jerry Jones comments not withstanding, the whole NFL dilemma is going to represent a sea change in American thinking about exactly what is truly important and what’s worth spending money on. In Atlanta recently, in the new stadium and on the same field where the Atlanta Falcons under perform, the crowd for Atlanta’s soccer team exceeded 74,000 fans, “Houston, we have a problem!”
The opiate of the NFL working class, as Marx might have said, is the cheers and admiration that resounds within the confines of the stadium. To the individual Gladiator, glad handing and high fives, chest bumps and pretending to urinate on a goal post like a dog, while once amusing, are now becoming symbols of cultural depravity. The lessening crowds at NFL games show it. When the well dries up, who’s gonna buy their Mama’s a big house?
Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em! (25Oct2017)
Jones, Falcons Agree To 5-Year Extension
Team FYN Sports August 29, 2015Star wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons, Julio Jones, has agreed to terms on a 5-year extension to stay with the team. The deal is worth $71.250 million with Jones getting $47 million in guarantees according to Chris Mortensen of ESPN and other sources. Jones was entering the final year of his rookie deal.
In 2011, the Atlanta Falcons traded five draft picks to the Cleveland Browns and selected Jones with the 6th overall pick out of the University of Alabama. Since 2011, Jones has become a 2x pr bowler, was the NFC’s leading receiver in 2014, and holds the Falcons single season record in receiving yards with 1,593. Coming into the season, Jones was ranked 13th out of the Top 100 Players in the NFL by his peers. From 2011-14, Jones has amassed 278 catches, tallying 4,330 yards, and scoring 26 receiving touchdowns.
When Players Picking Favorites Isn’t Problematic
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New Year, New Team: Falcons Finally Finish in a Playoff Game
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J-Hill’s Two Minute Drill
Opinion, Team FYN Sports April 29, 2012What a difference a day makes. By waiting an extra 24 hours for this week’s Two Minute Drill, we were able to witness and discuss one of the NBA’s greatest players going down with a debilitating injury plus all seven rounds of the 2012 NFL Draft. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the five biggest stories from the week that was:
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Super Tuesday’s Too Soon Super Thoughts
Opinion, Team FYN Sports March 6, 2012With it being Super Tuesday I figured I’d dispense some super thoughts. First things first, as a die hard Falcons fan, I must say that I’m supremely super excited that the Falcons franchised Brent Grimes, a.k.a. “Optimist Grimey.” (more…)
LT’s 2011 Final Football Thoughts and Then Some
Opinion, Team FYN Sports February 8, 2012The Super Bowl has come and gone, Eli “More Rings” Manning, beat Tom “Marsha” Brady and Bill Belicheat to claim the fourth super bowl for the New Jersey Giants. “Slick” Saban beat “Time” Les Miles for the SEC’s sixth straight Bull Crap System National Championship. The Super Bowl is always bittersweet for me, because on one hand it’s the biggest game, and on the other it means FOOTBALL IS OVER. (more…)
Atlanta Falcons News: Mularkey Moves On
Opinion, Team FYN Sports January 11, 2012Make that two job openings on the Atlanta Falcons coaching staff. One day after the team learned that defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder would not be back for the 2012 season, it was announced late Tuesday night that offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey has been named the new head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Ditched: Falcons Lose Defensive Coordinator Brian VanGorder to Auburn
Opinion, Team FYN Sports January 10, 2012The Atlanta Falcons received a bit of surprising news today when head coach Mike Smith announced that defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder has resigned to take on the same role at Auburn University. VanGorder, who returns to the SEC where he spent four seasons as Georgia defensive coordinator, leaves the Falcons after coaching with the team for four years. (more…)
LT’s New Year Sports Thoughts
Opinion, Team FYN Sports January 5, 2012To quote Eddie Murphy in “Trading Places,” “Merry New Year” I know the New Year is a few days old, but that’s okay, my New Year doesn’t begin until after the bowl season. Speaking of bowl games, did anybody actually go to bowl games this year? There were quite a few bowl games that had more empty seats than a Jennifer Aniston movie. (more…)
Tuesday Touchdowns Take: September 20, 2011
Opinion, Team FYN Sports September 20, 2011I must say that I am pleasantly surprised by the Falcons big win over the Pheagles. I figured the Falcons would be Vicktimized and #7 would leave the Dome with a Vicktory. Instead Matty Ice through a career high four touchdowns, Tony Gonzalez found the fountain of youth, and I finally heard Ray Edwards, and Peria Jerry’s names called. There are still problems in the secondary, as Donta’ Robinson continues to miss tackles left and right, and Sam Baker got beat like he was paying for it all night. Despite Ryan spending all night getting up, and possible the worst personal foul ever called on John Abraham, my Dirty Birds rose up. (more…)
The Truth About Atlanta Apathy
Opinion, Team FYN Sports May 17, 2011Fans of Atlanta teams have had a bad rap from national pundits for far too long. I for one am sick and tired of the hog wash that is, “Atlanta fans are terrible.” It’s not true at all. Fans of Atlanta, or as Awesomevile from Dawsonville of Squidbillies fame would say “Etlanta,” teams are an extremely passionate bunch. The problem is we have been repeatedly tricked into believing that our team, be it the Braves, Falcons, Hawks, and soon to be relocating, Thrashers, will actually end a postseason holding up the championship trophy; only to watch as our team losses, often in embarrassing fashion, yet again. (more…)