Roger Goodell, Josh Harris attend Oval Office event.

NFL is a Nazi enabling organization. Boycott the NFL.

  • wanderwisley@lemm.eeEnglish
    141·
    1 day ago

    I haven’t been very excited about the NFL in years and now I’m really not excited about it all.

  • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    51·
    1 day ago

    And we made Carter sell his peanut farm in case it was a conflict of interest. I wish a thousand years of darkness and obscurity on the Republican party, the fools.

    • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      42·
      22 hours ago

      Particularly the NFL, which operates as a cartel with monopoly on what is effectively a blood sport.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      71·
      1 day ago

      I used to enjoy it, but as they kept injecting more and more ads, in addition to their horrific response to the concussion stuff, it’s become unwatchable to me.

      However, that being said, I think the sport itself is pretty good. Think of it as being “turn-based” rather than the “realtime” of soccer. There is an extreme amount of strategy involved, in addition to the necessary physical abilities. Also, weirdly, math sometimes lol

      But yeah, not good enough for me to ignore the insane and dangerous culture of giving your child dozens of concussions before their brain is fully developed…

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
        2·
        12 hours ago

        If I want an object lesson in F=ma I’ll get a Newton’s cradle. Less boring, and it doesn’t destroy people’s lives and health.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          12·
          10 hours ago

          Yeah we get it you don’t like “sportsball” and that makes you unique. What a ridiculous comment lol

    • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      111·
      2 days ago

      there’s like 11 minutes of actual play in a 3 hour game. Not even exaggerating. The rest is ads, replays and watching people stand around twiddling their thumbs.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        61·
        2 days ago

        Thats so fucken inane, can’t we just bring back gladiatorial games? Mock naval battles, to first blood fights, and having Christians mauled by lions sounds a lot more fun with less brain damage.

        • futatorius@lemm.ee
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Roman boxing would be amusing to revive.

          But yeah, we have a surplus of Christians and a declining lion population, so that might restore balance.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            10 hours ago

            Perhaps we can use it as a breeding incentive for increasing the Asiatic lion population, we be close to historically accurate since the Romans almost exclusively used the Barbary lion which was a sub population of Asiatic lions.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        41·
        1 day ago

        Only if you don’t count the time at the line of scrimmage, while the clock runs, as “play time.” Which, imo, would be pretty ignorant of the sport.

        It’s four, 15-minute quarters of game time. And yes, several hours of ads, which is the main reason I stopped watching.

      • BigxRedxHusker@midwest.social
        13·
        1 day ago

        60 minutes play time NFL and college. Don’t care I love college football even though my team has been hot ass the last 20 years and NIL, transfer portal, and conference expansion is making it worse.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    69·
    2 days ago

    Still, the NFL has learned the art of the deal, when it comes to dealing with the 47th president. Gratitude, flattery, and praise are the key ingredients to the not-so-secret sauce.

    It also wouldn’t hurt to name the new stadium after him.

    Eww.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I mean, if you really want to boycott, pick the company with the most super bowl commercials. We probably can’t boycott them all at once, but we can boycott them one at a time.

    • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
      19·
      2 days ago

      Unfortunately not. Their fans love this shit, seriously. Remember they’re the same fans who went feral during the kneeling demonstrations.

      • Charapaso@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        That was the NFL being political though, this is them being patriotic…is what my troglodyte relatives will say.

        • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
          3·
          22 hours ago

          Again, the target audience loves that shit. I don’t know if you’ve watched a game lately, but most of the advertisements now are split pretty evenly between:

          1. Jesus gets us ads
          2. Military propaganda ads
          3. Big truck ads
          4. Fast food ads

          The NFL is a money-making machine, and it knows its audience. If they’re doing this, they know their base will eat it up, and I 100% agree. Many people who haven’t tuned in to a game in years will tune in to watch just to show support.

          Truly, this is how fucked we are.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 days ago

    I stepped away from my team a couple years ago, because I get to emotionally attached plus I started to dislike the product that is the NFL more and more. Had I not already stepped aside, I’d have dropped cold turkey right now.

    Fuck the NFL, it’s not only dead to me, but I will actively avoid the product going forward.

    • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
      2·
      14 hours ago

      Damn, did you used to be a Ravens fan as well? You sound like me. I came to the conclusion that the Lamar re-signing drama wasn’t fun, and I was no longer enjoying being a fan. Didn’t really get back into it after that.