Tag: sports

The sports media is getting frustrated about the way in which NFL teams have learned not to hand them the hammer with which to hit them:

Let’s get it all out in the open. Regardless of how you feel about a player’s right to kneel during the national anthem, two men have peacefully risked their livelihood and dreams to prove a point they feel is vital. It’s time for the coaches and general managers who have enjoyed playing both sides of the issue to throw their cards on the table, too. Don’t leave an amateur psychologist like me to guess, because here are my notes:

• You might be scared that a billionaire owner will fire you if you press them too hard on signing Reid or Kaepernick and, like them you will be unemployed.

• You might feel like signing and supporting players unafraid of speaking their mind will lead to you losing command inside the facility, and you will no longer be able to walk around pretending you are George S Patton in Nike khakis.

• You might resist having your opinion out there because you don’t want good players who care about social justice issues but only speak about them in societally approved ways to not come to your team in free agency.

Don’t leave it to your favorite reporter to clean it up on television via “sources,” either.

We might not like the answers, but what about this flimsy, hollow middle ground feels good to anyone right now?

No, let’s not. If the sports media wanted honest answers, it should have it should never have started prosecuting and calling for the disemployment of those whose answers it didn’t like. They destroyed the very information flows upon which they relied; if you bite the hand that feeds you, you probably shouldn’t expect dinner tomorrow.

The minute any team official admitted that they will not sign Kaepernick or Reid due to the fact that they are known troublemakers who put politics ahead of their jobs, the entire sports media will tee off on them and sic the social media mob on them. Which is why no team official who cares about keeping his job will ever admit that.

The NFL’s new catch rule guidelines look promising:

The NFL’s competition committee has recommended changing the language of the league’s catch rule in an effort to avoid future controversial calls.

The proposal seeks to define a catch as:

1. Control of the ball.

2. Two feet down or another body part.

3. A football move such as:

• A third step;

• Reaching/extending for the line-to-gain

• Or the ability to perform such an act.

The recommendation, revealed Wednesday by NFL senior vice president of officiating Al Riveron, will be voted on by owners next week, perhaps as early as Tuesday. The new rule will get rid of provisions pertaining to the slight movement of the football once it hits the receiver’s hands and the going-to-the-ground requirement.

It’s interesting to see that despite the SJW-convergence of the league office and all the promises to fund this or that SJW-inspired initiative, no team has signed either of the two architects of the anthem protests. It appears the NFL’s general managers are less committed to the self-destruction of their sport than the league or its owners.

A number of people have asked me for my reaction to the Kirk Cousins signing by the Vikings. My three primary thoughts:

• Good, this is exactly what the Vikings obviously had in mind once it became clear that they weren’t going to ride with Case Keenum in 2018. Neither Bradford nor Bridgewater were ever a possible option, despite whatever nice things about them were being said by various Vikings figures.
• The price was actually a little better than I’d expected. I was thinking they’d have to cough up the $30M/year to nail down the deal. The Vikes have loads of cap room, and the QB is where you want to spend it if you can get a good one.
• Spielman is going all in after the Super Bowl this year. Teams have a small window of opportunity, usually from one to three years where they can be considered legitimate Super Bowl contenders. The Vikings had an unexpected shot in 2017, but they were outcoached in the NFC championship game and Nick Foles seriously outplayed Case Keenum. Considering how the Eagles and Rams have both improved their rosters, the Vikes clearly could not stand pat.

I have zero concerns – zero – about Cousins’s losing record. Teams lose games, not quarterbacks. Cousins is 29, a top-six quarterback over the last three seasons, and he’s now got a much better team around him. Nothing against Keenum, who is very likable and played about as well as he possibly could have in 2017, but is not capable of winning a game on his own the way an elite quarterback occasionally must.

If Cousins just runs the scheme, with our skill players and behind our solid O-line, he’ll have over 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns. Put that opposite our defense and we’re serious contenders.
– Vikings staffer

I wanted the Vikings to lock Keenum up inexpensively as an top-notch long-term #2 after he won his fourth game of the season. But once that didn’t happen, I did NOT want them to sign him to the kind of big money he got in Denver as their long-term starter, simply because he is not good enough to be an elite starter. If you watch a quarterback for an entire season, you get a pretty good grasp of what their limits are, and Keenum is a tough, smart, low-turnover game manager. If your defense controls the other offense, he will not lose the game for you. And that’s a great thing.

The problem, of course, is that if the defense can’t control the other offense, he will not win the shootout. We saw that against Carolina before we saw it against Philadelphia. We very nearly saw it in the second half against New Orleans. And that’s the $8 million difference between Cousins and Keenum.

Sometimes the obvious move is the smart move. So, the Vikings did the right thing.

The US Winter Olympic team shows what unity in diversity looks like.

Over the past six years the U.S. Olympic Committee has made concerted efforts to promote diversity among its team members. In 2012, a committee was formed to improve diversity and Jason Thompson was hired as director of diversity and inclusion.

In an angry tweet, Davis, who has won two golds and two silvers in previous Olympics took a shot at Hamlin, the holder of a single bronze medal.

‘I am an American and when I won the 1000m in 2010 I became the first American to 2-peat in that event,’ Davis wrote on Twitter. He then slammed TeamUSA for ‘dishonorably’ tossing a coin to decide who would have the honor of carrying the flag. ‘No problem. I can wait until 2022,’ he added before using the hashtag #BlackHistoryMonth2018.

Why don’t African-Americans simply compete as their own team? After all, we are frequently informed by them that they are a separate nation and a proud and vibrant people with their own history and culture. Shouldn’t they be able to have their own Olympic team too? Isn’t it racist to deny them that right? Why should they be forced to march behind the flag of bigoted white people, like slaves, instead of behind a proud Black Power flag?

On a tangential note, there are few things more reliably predictive of things about to head south than a commitment to diversity.

Formula One abolishes its grid girls:

Walk-on grid girls were axed from Formula One today as the motorsport followed the move within darts to get rid of glamour women. F1 bosses said they will no longer use grid girls from this current season which starts in Australia in two months’ time because it is not in keeping with their ‘brand values’.

The move mirrors the Professional Darts Corporation’s decision last week to end the long-established practice of women escorting male players to the stage. The changes will also apply to other races which take place on grand prix weekends and will come into play from the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 25.

Sean Bratches, F1 managing director of commercial operations, said: ‘Over the last year we have looked at a number of areas which we felt needed updating so as to be more in tune with our vision for this great sport. While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula 1 Grands Prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms. We don’t believe the practice is appropriate or relevant to Formula 1 and its fans, old and new, across the world.’

London-based charity the Women’s Sport Trust had previously put pressure on F1 to drop its walk-on girls along with boxing and cycling, after the decision in darts. It tweeted last week: ‘We applaud the Professional Darts Corporation moving with the times and deciding to no longer use walk-on-girls. Motor racing, boxing and cycling… your move.’

It doesn’t matter who you are, how successful you are, or what you do. Sooner or later, SJWs are coming for you and your job.

Given that the NFL is even more converged than F1, can you really doubt that the league will be forcing the teams to get rid of their cheerleading squads soon?  After all, they are at odds with what we are reliably informed are modern day societal norms.

Note that as with GamerGate and ComicsGate, it is the SJWs in the media who are driving this effort to disemploy pretty women. And you know ESPN is going to be all over this next season; it’s going to be the next great cause for them.

I think the girls are great, they get paid and it’s a job for them. I haven’t got a problem. But I do have a big problem in the age we live in – I’ve got the BBC, ITV and Sky, my three UK broadcasters, saying to me this is not part of their editorial policy any longer. They do not want to show the walk-on girls on television.
– PDC Chairman Barry Hearn

Just to be clear, I am no longer permitting any comments by the sports-hating Gamma crowd. Every anti-sports comment will be spammed on sight. Neither I nor anyone else cares why you don’t watch pro football, women’s badminton, men’s beach volleyball, or anything else, and we don’t appreciate your SJW-like attempts to interfere with what we happen to play, watch, and enjoy.

It was bad enough when the spaghetti-armed soyboys were littering every NFL thread with repetitive explanations of why they didn’t watch sports. (We already knew they didn’t ever play them.) But lately, they’ve been spamming unrelated threads with information about their non-watching habits and revealing far more than anyone ever wanted to know about their bizarre sexual obsessions.

I don’t care what people like or don’t like. And I am not interested in anyone’s opinions about what they don’t like and what they don’t follow. If you want to preach the gospel of hating sports for one reason or another, that’s fine, but do it on your own platform.

UPDATE: This was the fifth comment on this post: “Fat Boomers are giving up the NFL but not Vox “True Alt-Right” Day lol” So, I have turned off anonymous commenting on the blog because I have better things to do than clean up after the Fake Right. You will now have to be registered in order to comment here. You can thank the Alt-Retards for that. And they are so socially clueless that they will almost certainly hail this as a victory.

After all, nothing spells success like convincing people that you can’t be trusted not to shit all over the carpet.

ProFootballTalk wonders if the Eagles will even get the chance to turn down a White House visit:

Trump congratulated the Eagles on Twitter shortly after the game, but there’s no way of knowing whether the invitation will actually come. After the Golden State Warriors said they didn’t want to go, Trump rescinded their invitation, making it reasonable to wonder whether the Eagles will be invited at all.

The smart thing to do is for Trump to not extend an invitation to the Eagles. The players have made it clear that they have taken a side against America, its President, and its military veterans. So, Trump should remove their ability to take a very public stand against him by the simple measure of not doing anything at all.

The moderators and I have been spamming a suprising number of snarky off-topic comments like these lately.

The Jew/SJW converged Negro Felon League sure does get prominent placement here on Vox Populi, the home of AltRight thought leadership. Why is that?

Why do I occasionally post about the NFL? Because I like NFL football and I have been a Vikings fan since I was a child. A lot of my readers also like the NFL and enjoy discussing it in the comments. And even though I am unhappy enough about the recent SJW convergence that I stopped subscribing to NFL Game Pass and only watch the free games now – an act that sends a stronger message to the NFL and hurts the league considerably more than someone who only ever watched the free games not watching them now – that doesn’t change my liking for the actual sport of football at all.

The reality is that the spaghetti-armed gammas of the Alt-Retard have always hated football, have always hated and feared athletes, and they are using the recent convergence of the league to try to convince others to hate the sport too. That hatred for the sport itself comes through in their bizarre attempts to influence what others watch; if their concerns were merely about race they would either concentrate on basketball or the recent signs of the coming convergence of hockey. They don’t offer alternatives. They don’t offer any solutions. Instead, they leap to try to police the entertainment choices of others and attack them for daring to like what they like.

Which, of course, is closely akin to what SJWs do. This should not be a surprise because Alt-Retards are, like SJWs, of the political Left, and they also, like SJWs, largely consist of low-status gamma soyboys.

Their stupidity, and their certain failure, can be seen in the obvious futility of their actions. If they were smart, they would be working to either fix or replace one of the most popular institutions in America. But they’re not, so their brilliant strategy is to simply attack and insult everyone who enjoys that institution. By doing so, they inspire even those who were previously indifferent to them to actively despise them.

The Fake Right isn’t merely fraudulent and futile, it is almost criminally stupid. The Alt-Right is inevitable, but the Alt-Retards will never be a true part of it, let alone lead it, no matter how much they dance for the media and claim to be leading the parade.

Questions are being raised about the mysterious benching of Malcolm Butler for the Super Bowl:

How are you feeling about your coach today, Patriot fans?

Still got “Do Your Job” and “No Days Off” tattooed somewhere on your body? Still blissfully living the life of “In Bill We Trust”? Still applauding the coach for giving the media the finger every time we ask Bill Belichick a football question? Still believe his decisions are none of anybody’s business?

I sense a crack in the blind loyalty the Hoodie traditionally receives from Patriot Nation. The Patriots lost a very winnable Super Bowl Sunday night in some part because Bill benched cornerback Malcolm Butler for some undisclosed infraction or violation of the Patriot code.

We don’t know the reason, of course. No one will say anything. Bill and his stooges (yes, that means you, Matt Patricia) are still parsing out the bogus company line that Butler’s benching was a football decision.

Rubbish. Butler played in more than 98 percent of the Patriots’ defensive snaps in 18 games this season. He was healthy enough Sunday to play one snap on special teams. But he was not allowed to play defense on a night when the backup quarterback of the Eagles shredded Patricia’s House of Cards for 41 points.

You know, Minneapolis isn’t exactly New Orleans or Miami, so I tend to doubt Butler could have gotten himself into too much trouble the night before. Is Belichick being a good guy by refusing to throw Butler under the bus for his own actions? Or is this an example of Belichick being too stubborn for his team’s good?

Why didn’t they ask Adams?

Super Bowl Ratings Slip To 8-Year Low As Eagles Score Historic Win

1) 2015: 49.7 – Super Bowl XLIX: New England Patriots vs. Seattle Seahawks (NBC)
2) 2016: 49.0 – Super Bowl 50: Denver Broncos vs. Carolina Panthers (CBS)
3) 2017: 48.8 – Super Bowl LI: New England Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons (Fox)
4) 2013: 48.1 – Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers (CBS)
5) 2011: 47.9 – Super Bowl XLV: Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (Fox)
6) 2018: 47.4 – Super Bowl LII: New England Patriots vs Philadephia Eagles (NBC)

They can’t blame cord-cutting for this one. What has to be making the NFL execs nervous isn’t just the fact that the game last night was a great, high-scoring one between two big-market teams that went down to the wire. It’s also the fact that the public response to T-Mobile’s heavily converged commercial has been so viciously negative. You’re betting on the wrong horse, gentlemen. Do keep in mind that if everyone believed in equality, there wouldn’t be a Super Bowl in the first place as every team would finish 8-8.

Spacebunny has been entertaining herself today by watching, as she put it, T-Mobile representatives trying mop up the blood on Twitter.