Good on those players. I was impressed by Joe Burrow speaking out (like two weeks back?). I'm glad to see players using their position to speak out. Jordan putting $100million where his mouth is (I'd like to see him maybe reconcile some of the stuff from the playing days that was more evident than ever in Last Dance - how powerful would it be to see the entire teams of the Celtics, Pistons, Bulls, etc marching together to Congress to demand action?).
And you know what? Good on Goodell, even if he might have been slightly pushed to it, but he pretty quickly and decisively spoke out in an unambiguous way. I'm not even sure if the owners would have had time to give him the greenlight, so to me that says he put his own ass on the line, at least somewhat, as its been known he answers to the owners. Perhaps Goodell has made enough money that he doesn't care if he has repercussions for it or gets scapegoated should the NFL. Perhaps he simply realized that he's a lightning rod for everyone with regards to their feelings about the NFL anyway, so he might as well try and do some good with it. Perhaps it was Nixonian and he did it because he thought it was inevitable and thought it better that he get on board and get some credit for it. I don't know, but good that he is. Which perhaps owners have been more clear about how they'll be going forward. I mean, its like people forgot fucking Jerr-uh kneeled, arms locked with his players. More of that, NFL.
So...they'll be letting Kaep back in, right?
Considering you spent years arguing he wasn't in the league because he sucked as a player...
I gotta praise Alex Smith for continuing to speak out about that. Multiple occasions, he's said explicitly that Kaepernick should be in the league. He was saying it like a month ago (before all of these protests). Maybe he can be the bridge to help that situation. I'd love to see NFL QBs get together yearly, talk football but also not football. I think it could've helped bridge the racial divide that was there (but has been eroded because of the play of black QBs), as well as the generation gap (which also comes into play in this type of stuff - Brees comes to mind).
That's the problem with American capitalism: all bow at the altar of the almighty dollar.
Which is why dealing with income inequality is so important. It gives power back to the people and helps society function better as people are then able to speak with their money. But when small pockets of people control inordinate sizes of the wealth, it takes the power away.
In that regard, communism and capitalism are quite close. Either way, if you let a select few have the power, it leads to issues. The reason Communism kept failing is that once they got past the initial revolution they didn't have the 2nd one to deal with the group that took power after, preventing the economic power to be in the peoples' hands. Capitalism will fail just the same if we don't work to steward it better.
The NFL is full of shit. They could give two shits about BLM. Its all money.
You know what, that's fine, as it keeps companies honest, if you do shitty things then people shouldn't support your business. Which is why I haven't directly spent a dime on the NFL in over a decade. There's been a lot of shitty behavior that's come out (head trauma and overall player health, cheating by teams, bounty shit, player misconduct, owners with racist beliefs, getting tax money for ever more expensive and extravagant stadiums while threatening to move teams, etc). Because of public sentiment things are starting to change. The NFL is covering more of the costs of their stadiums - I think the Rams/Chargers one is being almost entirely funded by the teams and league although I'm sure they got some special deals (either for the land or taxes). They're taking player safety more seriously (even in spite of the complaints about it hurting the game/causing issues). Now, they're taking issues important to players more seriously. And you know what? They can do all of that while still showing appreciation for military service, for talking about societal issues like cancer awareness, and now police treatment of black people.
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