Super Shame Sunday

  So the day is almost upon us. A one day extravaganza, so huge, that there is talk of making work on the Monday morning after optional. What it used to be was a celebration of the honor and integrity of sport. Team against team, man against man, you give your all, and I will give mine, and the outcome to be winner take all. The game in and of itself is pure, and wherever purity is to be on in the open, it makes the field on which it's played sacred. Football like any team game is loaded with drama, a drama born of competition. The many decisions and adjustments that go on during the game, both for the team and the individuals who play it, is part of the beauty of this game, as it is in any sport. For the fans who love the game, it is meant for them as an escape for a few hours from the rigors of everyday life. Especially so, as an escape from the filth of politics which has so divided this great land. 

  Roger Goodell, (president of the NFL), inadvertently spoke the truth when he said recently, the the game and the field it's played on is sacred, and therefore is no place for politics. Of course in Roger's case, he has twisted the truth in a way to fit his agenda and his political leanings. He has now added fuel to an already burning issue, by refusing to allow a thirty second commercial by the American Veterans association to de aired during his game. 

  Being strictly a PR guy, he is counting on two things to pull this slap in the face to the very people who bled and died so that he and his followers can become wildly rich, while preaching his version of morality on the fans of this great game. First, he is counting on the apathy of the American people, and second, his PR people have assured him that the patriotic sham they have planned for half time will serve to be just enough propaganda to cause the fence sitters to see only the show and it's meaningless words, rather than the actions already taken by him and those players who seem hell bent to bring back the old saying, #Dumb jocks. The premise this false narrative is based on is that racism is still rampart in the country. This after a man of color was elected twice, and virtually all of the highest offices in the land had blacks as it's leaders. The fact that most of these dumb pawns follow the lie of angelic Michael Brown is most probably because wherever they get their news, they have never seen the stores security camera's video account of the assault of a small Philapeano grocer by Michael while his cousin, (the kid who swore Browns hands were raised),  grabbed handfuls of cigars or Slim Jims off the counter. Assuming the store's video hasn't gone the way of Hillary's emails, look it up yourself. This happened just mere minutes before their encounter with the police. The "Hands Up" movement is based on a lie. 

  What can you do about this? Although I don't consider this a call for a boycott, as that is a weapon of the left, I do know that by not watching a game I would like to see, I have in effect voted by my lack of viewership, and cast a vote against those who knowingly or not, look to divide this country. As for me and my house, we vote no, and we won't be watching the game this year.