(08-09-2017, 08:24 AM)Caldrac Wrote: It circles back to the hypocritical nature of the NFL in general though. It's okay to slap your wife around (as long as it's not seen on video) and it's perfectly okay to abuse your son and go to court about it but you'll get a chance or multiple chances again in the NFL.

It's okay to take illegal substances a few times and get fined and suspended for it but you'll still get another chance in the NFL. It's perfectly cool to do cocaine, get a DUI, kill someone with a vehicle, make a fool of yourself off the field and be involved with rape and murder allegations whether guilty or not and still get another chance in the NFL.

It's perfectly cool to be caught up in cheating and spying allegations and bounty allegations and investigations and get a small fine or slap on the wrist about it. And you can carry on with your career in due time.

That's the kind of message the NFL owners are sending to America. And it's easy to see why black people are getting hot and bothered by it. Any decent human being can see the hypocrisy of that. And it should be called out again and again.

Colin has never had any off the field issues that I am aware of. At least not made publicly. He's been on winning teams. He's been to a Superbowl. He's had some pretty good performances to get there. A few in particular that you rarely see. Such as a win in the snow in New England. When he had to actually step up and out perform Brady after he dismantled their "vaunted" defense that particular year. Something that had not happened in ten years.

You can't tell me that our team, along with teams like Cleveland, the New York Jets, Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles Rams, the tinhorns out in Houston and roughly more than 50% of the NFL can't use a QB of his caliber at the minimum as a back-up or a potential starter in the event something happens to their rookies, overpriced QB pick-ups from free agency or turnover machines they currently have installed as their "starter".

I am not going to say I know more than some of these multi billionaire owners of the NFL. But I do know your win and loss record dictates how successful you are. And I also know you can point at a good amount of these teams with really bad win and loss records over the past decade that can be singled back to the QB being pretty much garbage. Like ours.

So. I'll admit it. I am hypocrite myself. I'll still watch the NFL because I love football. I always have. Always will. But, to say Colin doesn't have a place in it as far as experience, ability and potential is an ignorant statement to make. And no matter how people want to dissect it or slice it up. Often times your political views and stances betray your words.

I'll call anybody out on that too. I don't give a [BLEEP] if you're a blowhard liberal, conservative, democrat or republican. You have to call it as you see it. Without hiding behind the flag, bible or children. Or behind what your great, great grandpappy or daddy did way back when.

Take a stand. Own up to your hypocrisies. Because that's all this is at the end of the day. You can do things illegally and still have a job. But if you exercise a legal right that was set up by our founding fathers who also fought tyranny and oppression for a hope of a new world. Or if you try to start a conversation that's been an issue in a country for just north of 50 years when things started turning a new corner for hopefully the better. Back to the bread line for you.

That's what the NFL is showing here. That's not an opinion at this point. That's looking more and more like the truth of it by the day.

Being judged by the court of public opinion is often worse for these folks than anything an actual court could do to them- if they even make it to court- and if the crime is 'bad enough.' 

As for the hypocrisy issue, in life we are hypocrites and don't even know it, or we don't care as long as it's not That Company. We swear we won't buy from XYZ because they're too conservative/liberal, we won't give our money to JKL because they do/don't cater to the LGBTQ folks, etc. I have a ultra conservative friend who has refused to give money to Starbucks because of their views. Yet she will give her money to another coffee giant whose views are the same, just not advertised as much as Starbucks, but she knows. 

I know I have reacted strongly to things in the past, a knee jerk reaction. After having time to calm down and really think about it, I realize my initial reaction was out of pride instead of reason. Most of the time we react based on emotion, pride being the main one, simply because someone went against how we believe something to be. We don't think about anything other than our views. We don't try to see things from another perspective. I try to tell my very conservative friends that being open minded about a thing doesn't mean you agree with it, it means you're willing to listen and try and understand a different point of view even if you end up agreeing to disagree. 

I don't agree with anyone disrespecting the flag in any way or for any reason. I do respect their right to do so. For me the flag is a visual reminder of the sacrifices made by men and women in uniform. To me, for someone to disrespect the flag is to say those sacrifices don't matter. That pisses me off. Straight up. However, the flag means different things to different people and that's what I try to remember when I see it not given the respect I feel it deserves.

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