The reign of Roger Goodell has been the worst possible leadership at the worst possible time. Police departments USED to understand the concept: speeding problem on one road? Heavy enforcement. Same with every other type of crime, simply adjust the response. Had that useless fuckwad Goodell put his foot down when Kaepernick started his clown show, none of this would be happening. Same with "college" football, where athletically talented neanderthals breeze through 3 or 4 years of "higher education" on their way to the Promised Land of Illiterate Thuggery, aka the NFL.
I cancelled DirecTV's NFL package. I dropped out of all the pools that I never won but thoroughly enjoyed (there were/are probably a few here that were in the 80-man online pool that was fun for years). No more football merchandise, licensed or otherwise. And I can honestly say that our home has not had one NFL game on it this year.
BUT.....we will be hosting our annual Superbowl party, now in about its 10th year since coming down here. Usually around 30+ people, tons of food, gallons of booze, bartender, the whole nine yards; this year it will be around 8 of us that usually have dinner once a week (before The Plague), a couple of delivered pizzas, maybe some stromboli. Personally, I don't care who plays in it and probably will watch about 5 minutes of it,
BUT I'LL BE DAMNED IF THOSE SELFISH MUTHERFUCKERS ARE GOING TO RUIN ONE OF THE LAST SOURCES OF ENJOYMENT I HAVE.
And when the NHL season resumes, I will focus my sports-deprived brain on that. They played the management game and said a few nice things about The (alleged) Struggle, and then they went out on the ice and PLAYED FUCKING HOCKEY. No bullshit slogans or other crap, and they put on a Stanley Cup Final that was a tribute to the sport and its fans.
All the rest of them can go fuck themselves into poverty and oblivion.
Hey, they've got those valuable college degrees to fall back on, right?
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