NFL, all up in smoke

Update:

19:40:

I hear that Jesse Jackson wants to get involved.  That strikes me as a kind of shakedown attempt.

This is what happens when you look soft.  McNair needs to take a hard line, as do a lot of people, especially the fans.

Hands off McNair!

the original post follows:


I used to love pro football.  Then the Oilers left for Tennessee, and I learned to live without it.  Yes, there is life after football.

Then Bob McNair of the Texans brought back the NFL to Houston after a five year absence.  One thing I noticed about McNair's organization---they don't hire thugs just so that they can win.

Lately, Bob McNair made a comment that has the league atwitter.   He basically said something that made it sound like these protesting players are thugs.  It may have been what you would call a  Freudian slip.  Anyway, he is out there apologizing, and the grievance mongers are having a fit.

Actually, McNair should never apologize for saying what he really thinks.  If he really thinks there's a criminal element in the league, why not say so?  It was said once upon a time.  Back in the seventies, somebody said it.  It was not taken very well, and I don't remember how that all went, but nothing like that has happened since.  Until now, that is..

Just my opinion here:  I think any players who boycott the flag, or disrespect the flag, do not deserve any respect.  They may or may not be criminals, but they sure are disloyal.  They are disloyal to a system that has done very, very well by them.  In short, they have absolutely nothing to complain about.  They make more money than 99.9 percent of the people in this country.  They look like spoiled brats having a tantrum because things don't go the way they want them to go.

The league is not where to go for a protest against whatever the players are protesting.  The fans don't pay to see them protest.  It doesn't belong on the field.  It doesn't belong at all.

McNair should not have apologized.  But he did because it is all a big business now.  Too much money at stake.  But there comes a time when money should take a secondary consideration.  Nobody seems to want to bite the bullet and do what is right.  The league should be quite strict about this protest business.  It should not be tolerated.  If any player does it, he should be banned from the league for life.  No place for this kind of stuff.  If they have to bite the bullet, then bite the bullet.  It may be the only way to save the league from these less than savory types.

It is the same kind of problem that we have at the national level.  Those at the top won't do the right thing.  The nation is suffering for it.  Nothing will change until the leadership changes and this new leadership insists that things be done the right way.  Whatever it takes to set things right.  It may even take bloodshed, but if that is what it takes, then so be it.