You graduated high school in 2011. Your teenage years were a struggle. You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Your mother was the leader of the family and worked tirelessly to keep a roof over your head and food on your plate. Academics were a struggle for you and your grades were mediocre at best. The only thing that made you stand out is you weighed 225 lbs and could run 40 yards in 4.2 seconds while carrying a football. Your best friend was just like you, except he didnt play football. Instead of going to football practice after school, he went to work at McDonalds for minimum wage. You were recruited by all the big colleges and spent every weekend of your senior year making visits to universities where coaches and boosters tried to convince you their school was best. They laid out the red carpet for you. Your best friend worked double shifts at Mickey Ds. College was not an option for him. On the day you signed with Big State University, your best friend signed paperwork with his Army recruiter. You went to summer workouts. He went to basic training.
You spent the next four years living in the athletic dorm, eating at the training table. You spent your Saturdays on the football field, cheered on by adoring fans. Tutors attended to your every academic need. You attended class when you felt like it. Sure, you worked hard. You lifted weights, ran sprints, studied plays, and soon became one of the top football players in the country. Your best friend was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. While you were in college, he deployed to Iraq once and Afghanistan twice. He became a Sergeant and led a squad of 19 year old soldiers who grew up just like he did. He shed his blood in Afghanistan and watched young American's give their lives, limbs, and innocence for the USA.
Parker Johnson
You went to the NFL combine and scored off the charts. You hired an agent and waited for draft day. You were drafted in the first round and your agent immediately went to work, ensuring that you received the most money possible. You signed for $16 million although you had never played a single down of professional football. Your best friend re-enlisted in the Army for four more years. As a combat tested sergeant, he will be paid $32,000 per year.
You will drive a Ferrari on the streets of South Beach. He will ride in the back of a Blackhawk helicopter with 10 other combat loaded soldiers. You will sleep at the Ritz. He will dig a hole in the ground and try to sleep. You will make it rain in the club. He will pray for rain as the temperature reaches 120 degrees.
On Sunday, you will run into a stadium as tens of thousands of fans cheer and yell your name. For your best friend, there is little difference between Sunday and any other day of the week. There are no adoring fans. There are only people trying to kill him and his soldiers. Every now and then, he and his soldiers leave the front lines and go to the rear to rest. He might be lucky enough to catch an NFL game on TV. When the National Anthem plays and you take a knee, he will jump to his feet and salute the television. While you protest the unfairness of life in the United States, he will give thanks to God that he has the honor of defending his great country.
Nicholas Smith
To the players of the NFL: We are the people who buy your tickets, watch you on TV, and wear your jerseys. We anxiously wait for Sundays so we can cheer for you and marvel at your athleticism. Although we love to watch you play, we care little about your opinions until you offend us. You have the absolute right to express yourselves, but we have the absolute right to boycott you. We have tolerated your drug use and DUIs, your domestic violence, and your vulgar displays of wealth. We should be ashamed for putting our admiration of your physical skills before what is morally right. But now you have gone too far. You have insulted our flag, our country, our soldiers, our police officers, and our veterans. You are living the American dream, yet you disparage our great country. I am done with NFL football and encourage all like minded Americans to boycott the NFL as well. National boycott of the NFL for Sunday November 12th, Veterans Day Weekend. Boycott all football telecast, all fans, all ticket holders, stay away from attending any games, let them play to empty stadiums. Pass this post along to all your friends and family. Honor our military, some of whom come home with the American Flag draped over their coffin.
Parker Evans
Too many words
Ryder Peterson
>entitled niggers disrespecting the country on live TV
Honestly the NFL and NBA need to go, shit is gay as fuck, play your own sports you lazy pieces of shit
Julian Smith
>plz respect the idiots who signed up to fight retarded ass wars in the middle east
nah
Ryan Walker
you really didn't need to say all that to convince me to forgo the nigger felon league
Charles Reyes
Refreshing. Glad normies are getting fed up enough to state this openly.
Tyler Moore
He does make a good point. NONE of these players know a thing about struggle. Any NFL talent is sheltered beginning at age 12. These kids and their families are breezed through high school and college and become instant millionaires at 22. They have no perspective of what reality looks like
I couldve done without the patriot soldier parallel in this shit, though
Mason Taylor
Let them kneel as much as they want. They are only making themselves look even more stupid every weekend.
Daniel Lewis
>Mickey Ds
I haven't heard that outside of Australia
Christian Campbell
Wahhh your should thank Jewish Mercenaries because you were more successful than them
Carter Wilson
Is this some kind of 9d ultra super chess?
Joshua Sanchez
>yfw Trump killed a sport full of niggers nigging
Jayden Rodriguez
Then you really need to get out more.
Cooper Williams
(pic related for you)
That being said, yeah, a bit lengthy, but nonetheless a good point is made by that letter.
Ryan Jenkins
When MLB went on strike in the 90s, I was a hardcore sports fan. I said to myself that if the strike went on to cancel the World Series I would never watch any sports again. Havent watched any of it since.
Levi Cooper
Killed it? No, it's still doing just fine but it is losing money over this.
Roger Goodell will no doubt make kneeling illegal because he blames all of the views the NFL is losing to it, when in reality it is only some. The NFL has been declining pretty much since Goodell took over because he changes the rules to bullshit, jacks up prices, and ruins players for having fun. For instance, he fines Marshawn Lynch for grabbing his dick in a game, but it's taken him forever to do something about the kneeling. He fined Bill Belichick over tapping a ref's shoulder once because "You can never ever touch a ref no matter what during a game!"
It's bullshit, it is the illusion of having standards and principles. The reality is, Goodell only cares about the image of the NFL because it affects the dollars coming in. Guy beat his wife? Who cares unless it gets turned into mainstream news. Guy does drugs and acts like a thug? Suspend him for a game then let him come back, that'll teach him for getting caught.
That is really all he cares about. You can basically do whatever you want, just don't get caught.
Thomas Anderson
Is Kate Upton, dare I say it, /ourgirl/?
Jack Ramirez
I think everyone who is legitimately upset about the kneeling is a pussy. I think they should stop too, but only because it is a fucking game and I don't watch to see a bunch of retards who take blows to the head for a living make a commentary on a social subject.
I have to admit I do enjoy seeing some of these nigs chimp out about potentially facing consequences over their shenanigans though. I would absolutely love to see an owner tell them he'll fire them if they kneel, have them kneel anyway, and watch like 10 players hit the road. It'd be an absolute shit flinging fest and I'd love to see ESPN guilty white news anchors try and act upset over it.
Tyler Howard
You love what you sacrifice for....
And FB is thatta way ----->
Wyatt Campbell
Ohh don't forget the correlary
>if you want someone to hate you, give them something for free
Isaac Long
No, I've never wanted to see Greater Mexico but fucking thanks all the same
Hudson Lewis
karma is a bitch
Eli Williams
Anti NFL threads are unironically Russian psyops. Trump doesn't give a shit anymore and he's not anti-NFL, so who wants us to think he is? There are way too many of these threads. There's no substance to any of this. It's an experiment in social media manipulation.