I dunno call it 2200 guys who could be described in the media as "NFL players" any given year.
People are disgusted with the nfl atm, which is far better described as being the commissioner, owners and upper management, plus the networks that profit so heavily from the games, not so much the players you're referencing here. Although when a player does benefit from his celebrity status to get away with crap that ordinary people never get away with, that is disgusting, too.
I think that fans know that in any pool of adults there will be some bad actors. What matters is how those people are treated when their misdeeds are uncovered, more than the misdeeds themselves. In this case, the nfl and networks are showing themselves up as greedy, money-grubbing bastards who don't gaf who gets hurt, so long as the cash rolls in.
― Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
i'm not like 'officially' boycotting
it's just
maybe i'm not gonna plan my sunday around an organization that's basically brought be nothing but frustration to watch someone who beat a child get a standing ovation (and that WILL happen) in a league that does morally reprehensible shit all the time
i do fundamentally enjoy watching football, but i dunno, maybe i can check myself and ask why i need to be so invested in this stuff?
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
the evidence actually shows NFL players being less criminal than the average adult male (though the extent to which they benefit from their status could probably be debated)
I don't think it 'can be debated'. They have a poverty rate of zero %. Comparing them to the average adult male is beside the point. 538 compared numbers and wrote: Moreover, relative to the income level (top 1 percent) and poverty rate (0 percent) of NFL players, the domestic violence arrest rate is downright extraordinary.
― Frederik B, Monday, 15 September 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
i don't judge anyone's official or unofficial reason to boycott the NFL, but i'll still watch it and enjoy it why? bc the hegemony colonizes all institutions and bc i'm not prepared to punish myself (by withholding the enjoyment of watching the game of football) bc i really want to punish those who are compromised and bereft of ethics.
― Mordy, Monday, 15 September 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
we vote most impactfully with our wallet and our time
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
The big guns at the NFL and networks definitely fear the loss of 'eyeballs', as they are the major driver of the league's wealth.
― Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
i'm skeptical re the efficacy of voting
― Mordy, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
peter king on walking away from nfl:http://mmqb.si.com/2014/09/15/monday-morning-qb-nfl-week-2/
― Mordy, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
As I watched the games Sunday in my viewing-room perch at NBC, I noted the brutality of the game.
heh
― polyphonic, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
I noted the brutality of the game.
otoh, there is evidence that mesoamericans played a ball game that could result in the ritual beheading of members of the losing team.
― Aimless, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
Were these players even hit?
1:21 p.m. ET: Cincinnati wideout A.J. Green leave Falcons-Bengals with a foot injury. He didn’t return.
1:22 p.m.: Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III leave the game against Jacksonville with a dislocated ankle. Didn’t return.
― shower cretin (brownie), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
i saw RG3 fall and iirc he wasn't injured by a hit - he dove out of boards in a really awkward way
― Mordy, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
a.j. green has turf toe, rg3's was total non-contact
― call all destroyer, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
it occurs to me today, which seems awfully late in the game, that there's a lot more anguish (my own included) wrt ray rice and AP than there was with Aaron Hernandez.
is it just because Hernandez is so far out there on the far edge of crazyville where the others seem more symptomatic?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, September 15, 2014 5:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What about Rae Carruth?
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Carruth would file with Hernandez or Sam Hurd right? A sole data point so out there that it couldn't possibly mean anything...
Warren Moon otoh
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 15 September 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
John Abraham somehow not retiring
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 15 September 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Another Adrian Peterson abuse investigation breaking in Houston
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 September 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
not remotely shocking
― call all destroyer, Monday, 15 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
but yeesh
The Vikings press conference today was beyond pathetic
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 15 September 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
I really don't have anything good to say about the NFL off the field. I would figure for the right comic using a line like Goodell would have only gave Rae Carruth 4 weeks suspension might have worked if people remembered who Carruth was. All this domestic violence is just covering over dudes like Aldon Smith who just seem to be kinda f-ing nuts.
On games...I still can't believe the Bears came back and beat the Niners. I'm still not sure what happened to the championship juggernaut from Seattle who got beat in San Diego and can't blame that loss on playing out of their time zone.
Cowboys have one good game and now ESPN is already talking DeMarco Murray to potentially rush for 2000 yards which had me shaking my head while I lifted weights today.
― earlnash, Monday, 15 September 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
I'll give the Chargers this much... if you're going to call out Richard Sherman, it doesn't hurt to do it after the game, three years before the next time you'll face him.
― polyphonic, Monday, 15 September 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/09/pftcommenter_what_stephen_colbert_is_to_dumb_infuriating_politicians_this.html
― Mordy, Monday, 15 September 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
This is a really good NFL story in a week full of crappy ones
http://m.nydailynews.com/sports/football/bengals-promote-devon-daughter-battling-cancer-active-roster-article-1.1935200
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
pftcommenter needs to cut back on the misspellings
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
mccoy in beast mode tnite
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
wow that was an absurd pick
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
wow fletcher wtf
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
god, terrible pass roles
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
AHHH SPROLES
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
sproles + mccoy celebration dance greatest thing ever
sproles & shady are so gdamn xplosive
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
sproooollllleesssss
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
oh my god sproles!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
SPROLES
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
woo! maclin TD! tied game!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
COME ON IGGS
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
sproles time
this game is a thriller
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
oh man sproles. who knew?? this guy, srsly.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link
sproles all day
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link
ugh i miss akers
we got parkey off the colts. if we ever cared about kickers this would be an epic face-off.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
they froze him. tools.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
well, didn't "freeze" him, since that's bullshit. tried.
he's awesome - IGGLES WIN
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
WOOOOO
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
2-0!!!
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, September 15, 2014 7:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Apparently they are in deep deep shit with their sponsors after that fiasco and the new Peterson news
"I never intended to hurt him". Well don't fucking beat him in the balls with a fucking stick.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
Bill Barnwell @billbarnwellThe Colts traded a first-round pick for Trent Richardson. The Eagles traded a fifth-round pick for Darren Sproles.10:46 PM - 15 Sep 2014
― Mordy, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link