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Players Unions vs Pride

It’s time for the NFLPA and the other professional sports unions to use their collective power to stamp out all the satanic Pride propaganda. Because at least some owners are making it clear that publicly serving Satan is more important to them than actually fulfilling their primary purpose of playing the sport.

York Revolution, a minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania, forfeited a game on Thursday that was scheduled to be played during its annual Pride Night event. The Revolution, who play in the North Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB), announced the news in a statement released late Wednesday night.

“This decision was not reached lightly. Unfortunately, several of our players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride Night jersey and the club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear jerseys they are not comfortable with and playing the game,” the statement read.

“As a result, and out of respect for the Pride Community and the York community as a whole, the York Revolution has decided that the game on Thursday, June 18 will be forfeited and that Pride Night will continue on as the feature element of the evening at WellSpan Park.”

It’s reached the point now that the players are going to have to put a stop to it. And there are certainly enough Christians in the NFL to make it happen. Even the most corrupt members of the league office and the ownership will back down once it becomes clear that there is no way the players are going to bend the knee for anyone except Jesus Christ.

Fewer than nine players on the 28-man roster were willing to wear uniforms that featured a rainbow design on their sleeves, a team official said.

They shouldn’t settle for opt-outs or allowing players not to wear the satanic imagery. No Pride, no rainbows, no rhetoric or nobody plays.

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Switzerland 1, Qatar 1

Very disappointing. This is what happens when you don’t play to finish off a team that you’ve beaten. There are few things I despise more than a team that has complete control of the ball, but is content to just take the occasional half-hearted chance here and there rather than bear down and finish off the weaker opponent.

Champions are killers. People who try to win games by holding on are failing to understand that they are planting the seeds of their own future failures. If dropping the two points in the 95th minute cost the Swiss a place in the knockout stages, they’ll have no one to blame but themselves.

The USA played a much more aggressive, much more impressive game in taking apart Paraguay 4-1. But it’s obvious why Pele’s prediction about African success in the World Cup never came to pass; many, if not most of their best players have been stolen by the European teams and the USA.

I don’t think this is a healthy development. The games already don’t sell out. How long are people going to care if Nigerians in one jersey can beat Nigerians in a different jersey? If you’re going to do that, why not just watch the Champion’s League?

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Why Chicago Lost the Bears

I very much doubt that Chicago is going to be the last minority-dominant Blue city to lose its professional sports franchise. This is nominally about economics, but it’s actually about immigration and demographics.

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that’s been in the city since 1921.

They didn’t lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they’d rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year. Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move. They lost them for two reasons. The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they’re bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack. Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn’t even exist yet. That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn’t reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois. Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting. So now it’s all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything. Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they’re “an $8.5B valued business” that doesn’t need propping up. But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works. Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team. And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: “I wasn’t willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team.” There it is. “Billionaire-owned.” That’s how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you’re saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line. Meanwhile they’re running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You’re living in it. Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that’s $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances “the point of no return.”

When you run things this badly, you sell what’s left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect. Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check. But a fixed property tax rate for a team that’s been here 106 years? That’s “propping up billionaires.”

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn’t outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren’t a disaster. Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero.

Immigrants and minorities are intrinsically parasitical in Western societies. This isn’t to say they can never be beneficial in certain circumstances, or that they are inevitably negative, but they can never be, in the favored language of the AI systems, “load-bearing”.

There are no societal systems as such. The Chinese implement communism very, very differently than Russian, or German, or South American communists. So changing the demographics necessarily means changing the societal structure and the society itself. Different peoples have different priorities, as they should and as they always will; no one would ever mistake the way Real Madrid and FC Barcelona are run for an NFL operation.

NIL is going to compound this effect. Already universities in California are suffering badly in the recruiting process because no 18-year-old athlete wants to throw away 13.3 percent of his income. The Big 10 schools are presently riding high because their massive alumni bases allow them bigger budgets, but it won’t be long before the state income taxes begin to penalize them as well.

Chicago may be the first to lose its professional sports team over taxes, but it will not be the last.

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Monday Night Football is Back

It’s really rather remarkable that the NFL is the one institution that is observably capable of self-correction:

It’s human nature to resist admitting mistakes. The bigger, richer, and more powerful a company is, the less likely it will be to acknowledge an error. That makes the NFL’s willingness to scrap the Monday Night Football doubleheaders even more significant.

Appearing recently on The Schrager Hour podcast, NFL V.P. of broadcast planning Mike North was surprisingly candid about the league’s decision to declare defeat and retreat.

“Yes, the Monday night doubleheaders are a thing of the past,” North said, via Sam Neumann of Awful Announcing. “I don’t know why that didn’t work. Quite honestly, I thought it was fine. I thought it was good for us. That Monday night game, if it wasn’t your game on Monday, it would’ve been Sunday at [1:00 p.m. ET], among eight, nine, or 10 other games. You probably weren’t going to watch it anyway. Having it on Monday, a national broadcast . . . it just didn’t work. The fans didn’t appreciate it, and it probably wasn’t a good use of an NFL asset.”

I hated it. To be honest, I don’t even like the Thursday night games. But MNF was always special growing up; I was allowed to stay up and watch until the halftime highlights were over, and then my mother would write the final score on a piece of paper and tape it to my door so it would be the first thing I’d see in the morning. There was something about the music, and Howard Cosell, and the halftime highlights that just infused the game with more importance than usual.

That carried on into adulthood; a Monday Night Football game between the Vikings and Packers was an all-day event in the Twin Cities and there would invariably be a party at someone’s house with an 80-20 mix of Vikings and Packers fans.

So I hated, hated, hated the idea of a Monday night doubleheader. It felt like holding two Super Bowls on the same day. The college football administrators would do well to learn from the NFL’s self-correction, because they’re going to need it with their excessive expansions of a) March Madness and b) the College Football Playoff.

64 is the correct number for (a) and 8 is the correct number for (b).

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Arsenal Takes the Title

Arsenal have been crowned Premier League champions, ending a 22-year wait for the English title since the Invincibles team of 2004. Manchester City drew 1-1 with Bournemouth on Tuesday night, giving the Gunners an unassailable lead at the top of the table after they beat Burnley on Tuesday. Mikel Arteta’s men have been runners-up in each of the last three seasons but finally overcame Pep Guardiola’s team to be able to call themselves Kings of England.

Give Them Grass

The NFL owners are providing the real grass for the World Cup that it won’t provide for the NFL players who make their stadiums possible. The NFLPA has released a statement:

The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in one month, and work is underway to install fresh grass surfaces in NFL stadiums for the world’s top soccer players.

NFL players have spent years advocating for safer, high-quality grass fields at their place of work, but when the World Cup is over, most of these stadiums will revert back to turf for the NFL season.

Our players deserve workplaces that prioritize their preference, protect them against the weekly wear and tear of the game, and support their long-term health and performance.

I don’t usually have much sympathy for the NFLPA, but this is one area where they are absolutely right and the league’s position makes no sense. Football is much better on grass, and NFL teams make more than enough money to make sure they are playing on it.

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The Dirty Patriots

Robert Kraft may never enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame despite his undeniable accomplishments as an owner thanks to his intrinsically sketchy behavior.

Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, tried to stop the New York Post from publishing shocking photos of head coach Mike Vrabel and The Athletic reporter Dianna Russini, according to multiple sources.

“Robert Kraft intervened and had his honchos pressure The Post before they published and tried to kill the story,” a source exclusively tells In Touch. “The Post gave Vrabel a longer time to respond than what is considered industry norms, and Kraft took advantage of that extended timeframe to put pressure on the reporter and the newspaper. A notorious crisis strategist made the call but was unsuccessful in neutering the story.”

The New York Post published an article reported by Oli Coleman and titled, “New England Patriots’ Mike Vrabel and top NY Times NFL reporter Dianna Russini hold hands and hug at luxury hotel,” on Tuesday, April 7, alongside damning photos of the two at a luxury resort in Sedona, Arizona.

It’s always something with the Patriots. Even when, as in this case, the problem preceded Vrabel becoming their head coach. While it’s not surprising that Kraft would want to kill the story, it is a little surprising that he would be so naive as to think that he might be able to do so.

It tends to raise the question of what other stories these wicked elites are successfully suppressing.

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NBA: Christianity is “Detrimental Conduct”

THE CHICAGO BULLS ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT THE TEAM HAS WAIVED GUARD JADEN IVEY DUE TO CONDUCT DETRIMENTAL TO THE TEAM.

Remember when you patted yourself on the back for not having a problem with people being gay? Love is love, right? What harm could there be if two people want to call themselves “married” even if both of them are men, or both of them are women, or one of them happens to be a sheep, right?

Now you can’t even play sports if you don’t bow down before Ba’al and his Pride.

No wonder the NBA is dying. It’s a gay satanic league.

Every Christian, in every sport, should refuse to participate in any Pride-related game or event, either as a participant or a spectator.

Pride, you may recall, goeth before a fall.

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Super Bowl LX

How can we be at Super Bowl 60? It seems to me like we should be in the late 30s, maybe mid-40s at most.

Anyhow, I expect the Seahawks to win easily. And good for Sam Darnold if they do. I like Mike Vrabel and I like this Patriots team, but they have had the easiest path to the Super Bowl of any team in NFL history.

FIRST HALF OBSERVATIONS:

  • 9-0 Seahawks. Should be at least 17-0 and could easily be 24-0.
  • Great defensive game. The Seattle defense is dominating. The New England defense is taking crazy risks but hasn’t paid for any of them yet.
  • Both coaches are doing very well with what they have. Vrabel is correctly gambling that constant pressure on Darnold is his only chance.
  • Kenny Walker looks like Leveon Bell with speed. Patient and then explosive. Probable MVP if they don’t give it to the entire defensive line, which they should.
  • Sam Darnold is still Sam Darnold. The Vikings were right to let him walk. He still hangs onto the ball too long even when he knows the pressure is coming, and Seattle would be up 17-0 if he was capable of looking down the field under pressure. Two misses, and you could count three given how he had JSN in the end zone but threw it behind him.
  • The New England line has no chance. The left side is being overwhelmed, but Seattle is blitzing effectively from the other side too.
  • The long halftime will help New England’s defense rest. In a normal game, they crack mid-third quarter. Now, it will probably take until the fourth.
  • The only way I see New England winning is if they can get Darnold to turn the ball over 2-3 times. If he just protects the ball, Walker and the defense will secure the win.

SECOND HALF OBSERVATIONS:

  • This is the most dominant defensive performance since the Steelers beat the Vikings 16-6. It probably ranks third, as the Dolphins-Redskins is definitely #1.
  • Kenneth Walker definitely deserved the MVP. The difference between him being patient and finding the holes and Rhamondre Stevenson smashing right into the back of his blockers when there was a visible hole to his right was stark.
  • The New England coaches did a great job. McDaniel had no options because most of that overwhelming pressure was coming from the Seattle front four alone.
  • The commentary was vanilla and inobservant. Saying “Maye just has to make a play” while ignoring what the defense is doing to prevent any plays being made is approaching Tony Romo territory.
  • The interruption caused by the streaker was used by the NFL to give instructions to the coaches. You could see Seattle immediately start laying off the pressure to let New England score. No rush, and the defensive backs just sat back. The tell was the way both coaches reacted; McDonald wasn’t concerned and Vrabel wasn’t fired up. They both knew the game was officially over at that point. Never forget, this is ultimately an entertainment product.
  • I’m pleased for Sam Darnold. He’s a good guy. But definitely no regrets on letting him go. The Vikings were never going to even get to the Super Bowl with him, much less win one, because he can’t win a game like this. Not losing it for the defense was the most he could do, and he managed to do that despite risking a few turnovers with those infuriating pump fakes under pressure on passes he never gets off.

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