Stand Out

A bunch of Colin Kaepernick's fans at a NFL stands this past weekend "taking a knee" during the National Anthem  to honor his BLM cause and for his recent awards ... from the likes of GQ magazine and the ACLU. (Roger Goodell, in the upper Left, is seen leaving the game.)

Free Pass

For you attentive readers, you know that I have been boycotting watching NFL football games because of Roger Goodell's not disciplining those players either sitting or "taking a knee" during the playing of our National Anthem. We are about halfway through the season and I have yet to relent on this pledge ... as have also legions of other principled football fans ... as viewership has been seriously diminished ... see: CBS Local News Story.

Now however both Bill Belichick and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots have publicly endorsed Donald Trump for president. Consequentially, this development has given me a free pass once again to watch Patriot games ... but still none of the other NFL games. So this Sunday I will watch Brady throw a deflated football to Gronk as he humbles the Seattle Seahawks and their gaggle of kneelers. I might even have a beer and some pretzels ...

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Trump: Under Obama & Clinton Americans have experienced more attacks at home than victories abroad

Man stabs 8 at Minnesota mall

Hello self-driving cars ... goodbye 4.1 million jobs ..

Lyft: Say goodbye to private car ownership by 2025.

Paper: Clinton campaign overcharging small donors ...

Gold coin with Nero's image found in Jerusalem dig

Geologist claim found Christ tomb

Street economists cut U.S. growth estimates as data shows less consumer spending

Trees 'express emotions and make friends' ...

Roger Goodell praises NFL player protests

Reid Senate tantrum: 'Trump human leech' ...

Just 5.7% of [Clinton] Foundation budget went to charity

NFL

The National Football League (NFL) got none of my TV eyeball-time on Sunday ... nor is it likely to coax me back anytime soon. This is because this Congress-created monopoly has done nothing to nip in the bud the grotesque Black Lives Matter protests during the playing of our national anthem and our honored remembrances of 9/11. Four Miami Dolphin players "took a knee"  on Sunday and one Kansas City Chief raised his fist during our Francis Scott Key musical paean. (Their names are unimportant.) Yes I know these babinzos have every right to protest against their real and imagined slights by our nation ... independent of the millions of dollars they get annually to run around a grassy field. But I also have the same right to call them uneducated boobs and refuse to frequent their advertisers or appreciate the fans who grease their palms.

The NFL is one of the "circus" parts of the strategy that governments use to keep their people pacified, viz, "bread and circus." But I am growing out of such pampering. I've got other things I can do with my Sundays. And I have other reasons ... because of his looking the other way during Colin Kaepernick's protests, his shoddy treatment of the Patriot's Tom Brady, his disallowing the Dallas Cowboys to wear memorial insignias for their slain Dallas policemen, his denial of a player to memorialize 9/11 on his football cleats (see: Breitbart Story) and his generally poor administrative talents ... NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is not loved by many thinking former football fans ... including myself.

So I will wage my puny little protest and eschew this "circus" entertainment that I have in the past so much enjoyed ... until such time as Goodell is gone and the NFL wises up. Until then NFL, for me, stands for nudnicks, flakes and losers.