Good time to replace football with soccer as a national sport

Here we go again. A death match between the owner billionaires and the player millionaires.

Rightardia has never been a fan of American football which we consider a parochial sport. We hope the US soccer leagues extend their seasons to play during the labor dispute.

Football seems to be more like a gladiator match in coliseums across the US while soccer is a more extemporaneous finesse sport.

The US needs to man up and start to participate more in the the sports that the rest of the world plays.

The player's strike offers the perfect opportunity for the country to replace football with soccer as a national sport.

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Obama's funny comments on NFL labor dispute

Obama makes some hilarious comments about the "labor pains" between the owners and the NFL plyers. Essentially , he hopes he doesn't have to intervene because he has more important thing to do.

He also cited the income of the owners and players income suggesting they should be able to figure out how to divvy the profits up.

Rightardia has never been a fan of professional football and agrees that there are more important things to worry about than professional sports.

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WIN: Packers Super Bowl MVP Rogers Is A Strong Union Man Helping To "Block The Lockout"

By Doug Cunningham

The Super Bowl’s Most Valuable player is a union representative. Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a strong support of the players union, the National Football League Player’s Association.

Rodgers says he stands behind the NFLPA and believes in the union as it fights to avoid an owner’s lockout of players for next season.

The Player’s union’s “Block The Lockout” effort is seeking to keep players on the field as owners try to take back some money and extend their season while threatening the lockout.

The NFLPA’s George Attalah said:

We still believe a lockout is coming unfortunately. And it's gotten to the point now where we as a union, as players and as fans frankly need to do everything we can to prevent it.

Rightrardia was pleased that Green Bay won because it represents the "public option."


The Packers are the last vestige of "small town teams" that were once common in the NFL during the 1920s and 1930s.

Founded in 1919 by Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the Green Bay Packers can trace its beginning to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating in 1896.

The Packers joined the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1921, the forerunner to what is known today as the National Football League (NFL).

The Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States.

How about that!

source: Wikipedia

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AFL-CIO blog: CBS blocks NFL players asociation ad

CBS has rejected the “Let Us Play” ad (left) from the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) that was to air Feb. 5 on the CBS College Sports Network during the NFLPA college all-stars game.

CBS executives said they “didn’t want to get involved” in the labor negotiations between the players and the NFL owners, according to AdAge.com.

Not get involved? Come on. CBS is big-dollars involved already.


CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN, as well as DIRECTV, have agreed to pay the NFL in 2011 even if owners carry through on their threat to lock out players, disrupting or even canceling the season.

The NFLPA has filed suit against the league, saying the TV deals provide the owners with guaranteed payment even if no games are played, effectively financing the lockout by providing “lockout insurance.” The networks pay the NFL $4 billion a year to televise the league’s games.

The NFL owners opted out of the collective bargaining agreement with the NFLPA two years before it was due to expire, saying it isn’t working for them.

But they refuse to provide audited financial information to explain what is wrong in a business that generated $9 billion in 2009 during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

The owners are demanding that the players give back $1 billion, although not one team has lost money. They also want players to pay for team travel and the cost of running practice facilities.

The NFLPA will continue to run the “Let Us Play” ad on its YouTube channel and other social media applications and it may launch an ad in response to CBS’ decision tomorrow—which is Media Day at the Super Bowl in Dallas.
Meanwhile, CBS—Let the ad play. 

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ONN: Pro Bowl Charging Up To $700 For Ad during Unwatchable Football Game

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Commercials spots are selling for hundreds of dollars to companies looking to advertise their tire shops and commemorative coins to hundreds of deadbeats and shut-ins who watch the Pro Bowl.

Rightrdia agrees. The Pro Bowl is a football joke.  $700 for a "Pro Bowl" spot commercial is way too much money for this game.

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Another disastrous season with no playoff hopes facing the TB Bucks

Rightardia has never been a fan of professional football.  Perhaps it is because the Tampa Bay Bucks are the local pro team. At one time we thought the Bucks were just a bad team, but then we found the first owner was just cheap.

He had the slimmest payroll in pro football and also made the biggest profits.
The first owner, Hugh Culverhouse, was even a piker in death. He was able to cheat his wife and daughter out of their inheritances.

When the new owners showed up, the Glazers, the fans were hoping for big changes. the new owner, Macolm Glazer assured the media he would rebuild the team in 1996.

Fourteen years latter the Bucks are tied  with the Chiefs with the lowest payrolls in the NFL ($79 million). The average NFL team spend $107 million. This is why the Bucks suck. This is also why the Bucks never draft free agents.

To make matters worse, the team has a second year rookie coach, Raheem Morris, who had a terrible season last year and may be the worst coach in pro football.

The first team quarterback, Josh Freeman, broke his thumb against the other cheapskate team, the Chiefs. It usually takes minimally one season to train a new quarterback so it look like the Bucks are finished for another season.

What are the chances for the playoffs: slim and next to none. 

To add injury to insult, the Glazers have blacked out the last two pre-season games to be simulcast because Bucks field attendance has been so low. It is likely the entire season will be kept off of the air. Rightardia has also heard that eight malls the Glazer's own are in receivership so the family is having financial problems.

Perhaps the the Glazers have done Tampa Bay a favor by keeping the Bucks off of the air. At least the fans will not have to watch the worst team in football play.

I'll be catching up on some international football (soccer) on Sundays when the NFL seasons starts.

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John Cleese explains why American football sucks

Cleese makes some valid points.

Of course, Cleese is a comedian.

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Politico: Tebow to attend national prayer breakfast

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ANNE SCHROEDER MULLINS & AMIE PARNES 

Tim Tebow — the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback who will appear in a pro-life ad during the Super Bowl — will attend the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, his agent tells POLITICO.

Asked if Tebow will speak at the breakfast, his agent, Susan Vanderlinde, said, “Yes, I believe he is.”

President Obama and several lawmakers plan to attend the breakfast.

Tebow, who just finished his last football season at the University of Florida, has crossed over from sports to politics and religion: He will appear in an ad paid for by the conservative Christian group, Focus on the Family, during the Super Bowl.

In the ad, Tebow is expected to tell the story about how his mother refused to have an abortion, even after doctors urged her to do so when she became sick following a mission trip to the Philippines.

Tebow — who won the Heisman Trophy in 2007 and led his team to two BCS championships — has been known to write biblical passages in his eye paint before games.

Rightardia comment: Gloria Allred contends that since Mrs. Tebow was living in the Philippines (as a Christian missionary) at the time she became pregnant with Tim, and that since Philippine law prohibits abortion, then she would not have – could not have – been advised by her doctor to have an abortion for health reasons. Allred thinks the Tebow story may be a fabrication.

Rightardia would also point out that Mark ingram from the University of Alabama was the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner. Alabama also defeated Florida in the SEC championship game and went on to win the BCS championship. Florida finished fifth in the BCS standings.

We don't know what all the fuss about Tim Tebow is. Tebow is old news in college football. He did not have his best year in 2009 and the Heisman is often the kiss of death for college athletes trying to make into the Pros. Tebow's running skills will not provide him much of an advantage in the NFL tryouts. 

Tebow is a fine athelete, but he would be smarter to keep his religious convictions private.

source: http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1002/tebow_to_attend_prayer_breakfast.html

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Rush blames the Rams deal collapse on Obama, George Soros and the liberals

October 15, 2009

There are some conservatives who have wanted Limbaugh involved in professional football. Limbaugh had to resign from ESPN because of he stated that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.

Another conservative, Dennis Miller, was fired from Monday Night Football because of his poor ratings. Miller actually had a career when he was with SNL. Once he went to the dark side and became a 'leg hugging conservative' his carrer fell apart with few of his many shows lasting more than one year.

Rightardia agrees with DeMaurice Smith. Limbaugh is a divider. He is also a racist. What did Limbaugh expect?  It is amusing that Limbaugh thinks Obama had something to do with his deal going sour.

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RUSH: All right, folks, let me tell you what I now can tell you about the National Football League, the St. Louis Rams and my participation in a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams. There's a lot of things I've not been able to say because we were bound by a confidentiality agreement that all of the bidding groups have with Goldman Sachs, which is the broker handling the potential sale, but now that I'm no longer part of the group . . .

And one Saturday I was out playing golf at Donald Trump's course here in West Palm Beach, and as I hit the practice range I saw a guy that I had met a couple of times previously, Dave Checketts. And Dave Checketts said, "You know, this Rams thing is real. I really would love to talk to you about it." I said, "Okay."

So we set a date and Dave Checketts and a mutual friend came to my home, I served them lunch and Checketts made his pitch, "This is what we think it's going to take. This is what we would like from you. We would like you very much to be part of this . . ."  And I said to him at this meeting, "Are you aware of the firestorm this --" "Oh, yes, totally aware, Rush, and believe me, I wouldn't have approached you if I hadn't taken care of that. I would not have even come and asked you to be part of the group if I had not cleared your involvement with people at the highest levels of the National Football League."

He (Checketts) gave me a couple of names that are pretty high up and led me to believe that it was all handled and that he was fully prepared for what was going to happen. When the whole thing started to unravel last week, whenever this thing leaked -- and, by the way, I learned yesterday that George Soros might be in this group.

Reuters had a story that George Soros is one of Dave Checketts's partners. I did not know that. . .The NFL has a rule that the primary owner has to have 30% equity in the team, and our group lost our 30% equity guy, and we had to scramble and find a new one . . . Soros and Checketts did, I have learned, partner together previously to try to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Mr. Soros, of course, is well known politically for his left-wing slants, his politics fit in perfectly, apparently, with what the National Football League is becoming. But I wonder if they know that he is also involved in the movement to legalize marijuana and how that will play as the owners decide whether or not he's fit. This is all speculative because I don't know that he's in the group. Reuters reported it yesterday.

So when this all started to unravel with the leaking of my being part of the group, the predictable firestorm started, and I said, "Are you guys prepared here? Do you understand what's going on?" "Oh, yeah, we want you to be a partner, don't worry, Rush, I would not have gone this far if I hadn't wired this before I even spoke to you . . ."

So eventually when DeMaurice Smith -- and he may pronounce it DeMaurice, I'm not sure -- DeMaurice Smith is the new executive director of the National Football League Players Association, he sent a letter to the Commissioner Roger Goodell strongly objecting to my being anywhere near the National Football League on the basis that I don't unify, I'm a divider and divisive and this sort of thing.

Then of course the two race hustlers, the Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton got involved, and I got a call on Tuesday night from Dave Checketts, "I'm sorry, I have to ask you to withdraw." And I said, "I thought you had this wired, I thought --" "Well, Rush, obviously I'm sorry, I feel terrible about this but we can't go forward with you in the group."

And I said, "Well, I'm not going to withdraw. If you want me out you go public and fire me," which he did. He sent me a letter yesterday afternoon right after the program and told me that the announcement would come this morning, and he wanted me to know that it was a very tough personal decision for him to make, he had a lot of respect for me, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the Players Association is an Obamaite. He's donated to Obama. He is a Washington lobbyist at Patton Boggs, and I think he even served on Obama's transition team.

He has no experience in professional sports. The National Football League's agreement, collective bargaining agreement with the players expires soon. Next year, the salary cap -- if they don't get a new deal done, next year the salary cap -- will go away. And after that, there is a fear that the owners -- who think they're giving up too much of the gross in salary, compensation to the players -- might lock them out, a work stoppage. This is something that the Players Association doesn't want, obviously.

And the real reason, the real reason -- and there are many, many reasons that are valid, but the real reason -- that pressure was brought upon me by Sharpton and Jackson and DeMaurice Smith and the commissioner is that the Players Association is using my involvement in the Rams and this whole episode as a bit of leverage in their negotiations, the upcoming negotiations with the league and with the owners on a new collective bargaining agreement.

That is what's really going on, and the Players Association... I don't know how many players know this, but Mr. Smith has let it be known that if he has to he'll bring the White House into this. He'll bring the Congressional Black Caucus into this.

So Obama's America is quite possibly going to include the National Football League, and pressure from Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus and other places might be brought to bear on the owners. I can't imagine that that's anything they want.

You know, as all businesses are, they're regulated to a certain extent by the federal government but this would be a huge expansion of that. And that threat is being bandied about. And I don't expect anyone to admit it. The owners are not going to admit that. They don't want to. I'm sure that the reaction to this today will be, "Ah, Limbaugh doesn't know what he's talking about . . ."

Oh, yeah, I would prefer to be noted as a part-owner of an NFL team. By the way, my stake was "minority." (chuckles) I was a minority owner, and Checketts has made it clear in his statement that I would have no operational control over the team and the operation of the club. I was also not told that specifically, but regardless.

It's a collection of unhappy, angry, agitated people, and that's not going to change. But this kind of stuff: This misreporting; lying; repeating lies while also saying "Limbaugh denies," repeating the made-up quotes, the blind hatred -- and, believe me, the hatred that exists in this is found in the sportswriter community.

It's found in the news business. It's found in the race hustler business. As I said yesterday and I've said I don't know how many times in this program, "I love the National Football League." I don't dislike anything about it. I'm a fan. But the hatred that I am able now to mirror for the country to see is all over the place. And I tell you with absolute sincerity: I am more sad for our country than I am for myself. I'll be right back after this. Do not go away. These are dark days that we face, and I'm not talking about the National Football League or me. I'm talking about my news stack today.

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Guess who? Racist banned from buying the Rams

Looks like Rush Limbaugh won't be owning a football team. Last week Limbaugh, whi is a Missouri native, announced that he was part of a group submitting a bid to purcahse the St. Louis Rams.

A number of prominent people reacted negatively to the idea including Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.  The head of the NFL players union also objected.

The opposition seems to have previaled. A source has told ESPN that Limbaugh was dropped by the bidding group, in order to make their bid more viable.

source: HuffPo

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If Rush buys the Rams, will he fire all of the black players?

A bigger question: How many black players will want to work for Rush?

Will Rush become the Marge Schott of the NFL? Will Rush rename the team the St. Louis Libertarians? Will he make the team wear Christian crosses on their helmets? Will the players have  to pray and say the Pledge of Allegiance before each game?

Stay tuned for updates. 

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Why most NFL players are conservative

Rightardia comment: We saw another study that indicated most of the NFL political contributions went to the Republican Party. There appear to be some cognitive reasons for this in the story below. Rightardia has never been a fan of football because of the brutality. Most of our staff are soccer fans. 

Retired National Football League players experience an extremely high rate of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia according to a NFL study. 

Former players ages 30 through 49 had memory-related diseases 19 times higher than the rate in the US population. The study also found that 6.1 percent of former NFL players 50 and over had been diagnosed with a form of dementia, a rate five times higher than the national average. 

Experts had long suspected that cognitive decline was more prevalent among former football players. The study’s results could effect high school and college sports, where hundreds of concussions occur every week. Many young players are likely left undiagnosed and untreated.

The study was based on telephone interviews with 1,063 radomly selected players.  The palyer had to play at least three seasons to be surveyed. 

Families of players began to face financial ruin because of overwhelming medical bills related to dementia. Many families approached the NFL asking for financial assistance.

In 2007, Sylvia Mackey, wife of Hall of Famer John Mackey, wrote to the then-NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue for help. As a result, the 88 Plan (named after Mackey’s jersey number) was formed to care of former players who have the condition.

One study by Kevin Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina found that retired NFL players who had three or more concussions during their career upped their chances 500 percent of suffering from mild cognitive impairment compared with others with no concussions.

And Bennet Omalu, a Pittsburgh doctor who performed autopsies on four former NFL players under the age of 50 made a startling discovery: All four brains showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition usually found either in boxers with dementia or in people in their 80s and 90s.

source: NewsMax

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Why Democrats should boycott professional football

By ANDY BARR | 9/17/09 8:12 PM EDT

What everyone but the US calls football

NFL owners, team officials, players and coaches have overwhelmingly favored Republicans with their political contributions. This is according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Responsive Politics.


The report, which reviewed contributions dating back to 1989, found that combined contributions from players, owners and officials on 22 of the 32 National Football League teams have given more cash to Republicans than Democrats. Several teams have given more than 90 percent of their contributions to the GOP.

The San Diego Chargers blew away the rest of the field with $2,455,200 in total money contributed, with most of that coming from team owner Alex Spanos, who has given more than $2 million, almost all of it to Republicans.

Rightardia has always been a big advocate of major league soccer, an excellent alternative to American football.  Soccer games are more exciting with continuous action and there are only rare time outs. Games are also a lot cheaper and frequently the local players come out on the field after the game is over and sign autographs. Soccer is an international sport while American football is not.

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