After the NFL has made a mockery of itself by obsequiously smacking its forehead against the ground on which DeMaurice Smith, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton walk, it is up to NFL fans to find out if it is possible for the NFL to be embarrassed any more. Remember, this is the league that welcomes people convicted of homicide, rape, burglary, wife-beating and dog-fighting back into the players’ ranks. Yet it is also the league that refuses to let a conservative radio personality and lover of the game of football become a minority owner of a team, using vile, racist quotes invented out of whole cloth to smear him.
The question begs to be asked. Can fans embarrass the hell out of the NFL? Not by throwing ice-balls at opposing teams; Not by booing lustily at little kids; Not by wearing nothing but body paint on their torsos in midwinter; But can fans embarrass the hell out of the NFL by making a spectacle of rejecting the new NFL determination to goose-step to the drumbeat of the race hustlers and slanderers of the progressive left?
Some have proposed cutting up team jerseys and sending the pieces to Roger Goodell’s office. Some have proposed canceling your NFL Sunday Ticket. Those are good, and they hit at the wallets of these hypocritical leftist slimeballs, but they are not embarrassing enough. Embarrassing an organization as big and wealthy as the NFL with all its television time and bootlicking local sports reporters requires strategic planning.
Don’t just cut up your stuff. Don’t just cancel. Make a spectacle of it!
How to Make a Spectacle
Let’s say you have an NFL collectible. A coffee cup signed by Steve McNair. A jersey signed by OJ Simpson. A drink cozy or cooler that used to belong to Bret Favre. A framed limited edition photo of Joe Namath. You get the idea.
Choose one item that wouldn’t kill you to destroy it. Ready? Get out your video camera. Film yourself getting ready.
Start by expressing what you believe in your heart:
- in America’s freedoms.
- a man has the right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty.
- vile accusations need to be proved, and if unproved are nothing more than slander and libel.They should not be passed on by so-called journalists without any even minimal level of checking or vetting.
- people have the right to use their money in any legal way they like.
- we should judge a man, not by his political party, not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
- our own experiences are better guides than wild rumors spread on the internet.
- the NFL has crossed its fans with its pandering, slavish subservience to those who slandered and libeled a man who was making a good faith business offer to get into the NFL owners’ business. This is the same NFL, mind you, that happily welcomes dog-torturers, wife-beaters, rapists, and those convicted of homicide back to the players’ ranks.
Isn’t sports about truthful calls, fair play, and trust? Clearly this league has no respect for the truth. Clearly it has no respect for fair play. Clearly it cannot be trusted. And if it cannot be trusted, how can its games be trusted?
Film yourself saying those things in your own words. Film this whole process. That is how you multiply your protest and make a spectacle of it. Upload the whole package to Youtube. Send faxes, letters, emails to your local newspaper and TV station letting them know what you are doing.
Announce that for the reasons given you are going to destroy this valuable NFL artifact. But you are selling the right to save it or destroy it on Ebay in case there are other people who care about this. Make a long bidding period, 2 weeks or longer if you can. Sell the fate of the collectible to the highest bidder, who can either bid to have you destroy it (run it over with the biggest, meanest looking vehicle you can find, or have it torn to pieces by wild animals or by being torn in half by two big pickup trucks with trailer hitches), or buy it from you to save it from destruction. Start the bidding at $1 with a reserve of the cash value of the item and no buy-it-now price.
Did you send the announcement to your local newspapers and TV stations? Do it.
Film the plans and the destruction on video. Upload it to Youtube if the local news doesn’t pick it up. Blog about it.
Embarrass the hell out of Roger Goodell!
Technorati Tags: Activism, Libel, Slander, Rush Limbaugh, NFL


the only people embarassed will be the ones on those youtube videos (nt)
RJD Thursday, October 15th at 4:52PM EDT (link)nt
Good creative thinking, recommended (n/t)
Finrod Thursday, October 15th at 5:08PM EDT (link).
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Finrod’s First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.
Better Idea: Watch NASCAR instead.
Andy W. Thursday, October 15th at 5:19PM EDT (link)And let all the polls know you’re doing it.
come on 2010 and 2012
Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)
Of course, here in Kansas City
Andy W. Thursday, October 15th at 5:20PM EDT (link)Anything is better than watching the local losers.
come on 2010 and 2012
Keep up the good work Sam Graves (R, MO-6)
You Hooooooo
reginagroves424 Thursday, October 15th at 6:42PM EDT (link)I think we are missing the point this is just one of many things in a agenda We rage at the NFL because of the Liberals now if I wanted to get even I would not go to the games I would not watch the TV I would not Support their sponsers .But in most cases people will not do that and the Left knows it because the game has become a ritual of self gratification and have to know what id going on .
If people would watch and see the bias in the Left on TV and Newspapers and the internet they would take action. Sendin Pink Slips to Washington is like sending toliet paper they are not paying attention they are going to do what they want till you physically get involved and stop waiting for some miricale to happen its not .Faith without action is dead.
Now I am a senior and I see thru the ploy of the one time 250 hand out because they are goin to cut 500,000,000 million out of medicare and its a ploy for votes.
Wait till cap and tax hits, Look at the tarif on sugar and wait till you can’t afford to buy groceries.
we all get mad and raise nine dollars write about our anger and then it dies down and we wait for the next whirling Durbin to come by till we write about that and let it die down.
We need to get in volved and stay there we need to stop supporting the NFL and stop looking for short time gratifacation and look at long term consequenses.
The way to make a statement is stand and keep standing the way you hit the NFL stop watching it Empty seats speak loud quit supporting there sponsors and quit buying the team logos do this for a month hell they don’t care about when they go on strike if you want a game it’s all about MONEY speaks LOUD
And while you are on this the Liberals are doin what they want to in the White House they think they can be covered by the Obama regime and we the people
can’t do anything’
This President is the worst one I have seen and I have seen manyJimmy Carter looks like Reagan compared to this adminastration
REGINA GROVES
In '07 or so Nascar was rejected in Washington state.
Steph C Thursday, October 15th at 8:33PM EDT (link)They were rejected because Washington didn’t want a bunch of rednecks in their state.
This a good idea.
L.J. my daughter won’t let me break it, one, because McNair is deceased and second, because I might need the money from Ebay after Obamacare passes Congress. She hid it.
However, I have another piece if I can find it; signed by another former Titan… not a great or well known one like McNair, though, which would have made a much better statement.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
Apparently not
Joe Rivers Thursday, October 15th at 5:37PM EDT (link)(to answer the question in the headline).
PacMan Jones - OK.
Michael Vick - OK.
Ray Lewis - OK.
Rush Limbaugh - no, he tarnishes our image. Not enough tattoos, I guess.
Maquisard
I gave up NFL years ago after the owner/local government forced folks in my city
spainishirish Thursday, October 15th at 6:26PM EDT (link)to pay for a stadium expansion. It was hard at first. Now I don’t miss it. I actually cheer every time the local team loses or one of its thug players gets arrested, which is overboard but indicative of where I am.
All of which is to say I don’t think the NFL can be embarrassed, for the reasons you mentioned as well as based on my personal experiences. It can be starved into bankruptcy. If so inclined that is how to deal with it.
James (hubby)
Steph C Thursday, October 15th at 8:36PM EDT (link)won’t let me watch the Titans play anymore. Every time I do they lose. Seems like they’re losing anyway so it’s not a big sacrifice. I once dubbed L.P. Field: Loser’s Palace.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics
I can't afford to go to the games or have the special
billg Thursday, October 15th at 6:29PM EDT (link)TV Packages, but after this crap with Rush, I can find other things to do on a Sunday afternoon etc. I rather like College football more myself, anyway.
Bring our military and intelligence forces home to the good ole USA. We need them here and now to remove the communists which have infiltrated our Federal government.
Ditto. nt
Xasteius Thursday, October 15th at 7:00PM EDT (link)Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
When I grow up, I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be Art Chance.
~Aaron Gardner