Thoughts on Football

I grew up in Pittsburgh and lived there through Feb 1979.  Can you say Pittsburgh Steelers.  I was addicted to watching the Steelers rack up super bowl after super bowl.  Felt pride that *I was from Pittsbugh*, home of the Steelers.  I enjoyed watching people like Terry Bradshaw play.  
Mean Joe Green. Lynn Swan. John Stalworth.  Rocky Bleier. Jack Ham. Mel Blount. Jack Lambert !!
(Never was a real Franco Harris fan).

And play in Pittsburgh in winter where mere mortal teams from places like San Diego were not up to the task of playing in some real severe weather that was very normal for us Pittsburghers in the 70's.  Living in Pittsburgh in winter meant that you had to be up on your survival skills.  You could easily die in winter there if you screwed up. There was some satisfaction to be had that you survived another Pittsburgh winter.  Very often 40 below with the wind.

Even in those days I did not initiate conversations about the "last Steeler game" at work on Monday though I would talk about it if someone else did.

Then teams started moving around and it became less of a "hometown football team through thick or thin" and more about the money and screw the fans who supported you the last 40 years.  The Browns come to mind.  My interest level came down a few notches.

Then I found out that taxpayers were being fleeced to build the infrastructure for private 'for profit' businesses.  And none of the profits ever came back to the city.  I soured a bit more on this game.

In 1979 I moved to Phoenix.  I had never been to an actual game until some friends and I went to see a Phoenix Cardinals (which morphed into the Arizona Cardinals) game.  I thought sitting in the stands watching these guys play just wasn't very interesting.  I decided football games were more about tailgate parties and socializing.  I still watched some football but definitely preferred to watch on TV rather than live.  You have closeups, instant replay, the guys in the booth yapping away, etc and it was a lot cheaper and you had everything you needed right there - beer, chips, pizza, nude wo... er wait, more beer, etc.

Then I found I just didn't have any connection to the players or the team anymore.  Saying or thinking "We Won!" became a foreign concept.  I didn't win anything.  I watched a bunch of overpaid jocks playing with a ball and when they won a game I didn't actually get anything out of it.  The addiction was over. I was cured.

That was around 1983.

I haven't watched since.

I have since watched it from a distance turn into thug ball.  I have noticed that as one of our friendly blogger friends reported - some jock from the NFL is arrested for violence on average of every 7 days.  Domestic violence.  Killing dogs.  Public violence.  Sexual Assault. None of that shit went on when I was watching the Steelers. (Or it didn't get reported)

I have noticed the criminal Snoop Dog, who recently put out a 'music' video that showed President Trump as a corpse in the background was put on Monday Night Football.

I have noticed in a rare event of me actually watching a football event passing by a TV, a black player jumping up in the air and kicking a kicker in the face.  In my days of watching - this turd would not be playing football anymore.

Here in Cincinnati, if you listen to talk radio, they advertise football tickets and they must assume their potential audience are dumb as rocks because the ad (when it gets to who to call) goes "CALL 333- S.... E..... A...... T.  Obviously they assume their potential customers don't even know how to spell "seat".   What's that tell ya.

I have noticed moron black people protesting with their knee down based on the totally untrue premise that any significant amount of cops are bad, that mike brown was killed in cold blood, that black people should be elevated above all other races, because as we all know - none of us crackers has anything bad happen to us when we engage with police.  Of course, things might be a bit better for black folks during traffic stops and the like if they followed the instructions of the officer.

If they don't want to participate with the anthem, I really don't care.  Most blacks are anti-America anyway so no shock to my system here.


I view football now as thugball that is obsessed with some totally obtuse social justice activist thing rather than guys thankful to be making Millions of dollars working in the entertainment industry.  Typical dumbasses though.

I couldn't be less interested.  It is beyond me why so many people give so much of their time and money to a criminal organization that returns absolutely nothing to them.  I am very thankful that my addiction was cured and I've had 6 hours on Saturday, 6 on Sunday, and 3 on Monday night, since 1983 as free time to do something incredibly more valuable to me than sitting in front of the boob tube watching grown men play with a ball.

It'll be interesting next year when this years season tickets expire, how many will buy a new season worth.

Maybe if football was forced out of business many more people would turn their focus on how the democrats and republicans are screwing us with telephone poles every other minute and we could make some gains in government?  naw.