I talked to a pretty smart guy the other day and the Nike / kneeler deal came up.
He gave me some insight as to why Nike did what they did. I chalked it up to grabbing the spotlight for their 10 minutes in the spotlight but it actually goes MUCH deeper than that and they are basically carving out their market share for the next 20 years.
Anyway,
I have never been a huge NFL fan. I have always considered the Green Bay Packers my team and that is who I always pulled for above everyone.
Being a Packers fan ( and red sox fan ) this meant you had to have a back up team to root for because if you didn't the entire season would be pointless. Yes they have been my favorite team since LONG before they were good in recent history, unlike most of their "fans" now days.
Anyway, that meant I also pulled for, depending on the year, the Steelers (which meant I had to hate the cowboys) or the Raiders or the Oilers and even at times the Redskins.
When Manning played for the Broncos I pulled for them, when he played for the Colts I pulled for them.
In no case over my entire lifetime did any of the games I watched, or their outcome, have a direct impact on my life or what I did the next day or the next hour for that matter.
At the end of the game I would go on about my life, which was no better or no worse due to the outcome.
In all those years the most controversial things I saw was a player for the Raiders threw a ball into the stands after he scored and the owner, or the league, fined him $50.00 and he said he would keep doing it.
Another owner fined a player for wearing his hair too long. I don't remember who it was now.
Now days, seemingly EVERY day, someone is protesting something and the media and the public eats it up like dogs on a stewer full of gravy.
I am sick of it all to be honest with you.
The nfl has never made a penny off of me due to the fact I have only owned one piece of merchandise and that is a Green Bay Packers hat that was a gift to me from Chad Clifton. Oh and I also have a ticket stub signed by Brett Farve from the Packers / Bears game the night they retired his jersey.
In recent years I watch the Packers play when they are on tv and I pull for them.
I also actually watch the Patriots because even though I grew up hating them, just like Alabama, they are a well coached football team and they are exciting to watch and THAT is why I watch what football I watch, not for any political or other reasons.
The games I refuse to watch, pretty much all the rest of them, is in fact due to their pushing their agenda on me. Good thing is, I am an adult and I have the ability to change to some 400 other stations where nothing is on.
All else fails I will watch a movie or go outside and do something that needs to be done or I want to do.
Walmart affected me personally with their business practices and guess what, they are NOT the only store in the country so I can make a choice that affects my life in a positive manner. I can shop elsewhere. No biggie either way for me. Now I get home from shopping and I didn't nearly go to jail and I am not pissed off the rest of the day.
Same thing with watching something on tv. I watch the packers and if they lose I will be like, crap, then move on. If they win I will be like yay and move on.
Someone posted in the thread about Tiger Woods supporting the kneeler. I didn't know that and honestly I don't care.
Tiger didn't take a knee on the 18th green and raise his fist or pull his wanker out and shake it at the camera or anything. He played golf and played it very well. That is why I watch golf.
I guess as I get older I don't figure I have unlimited time anymore and I need to spend what I have wisely and that is by doing things I enjoy.
If the packers or Aaron Rogers do something that make it not enjoyable any more, guess what, I will move on and do something that makes me happy, no better or no worse for wear.
It really is amazing how happy a person can be when they figure out they are an adult and can make their own choices and very VERY few people or things that I have ever seen on tv have actually affected me directly by anything they did or said.
Not real sure I know why I even posted all this nonsense but I have decided not to let anyone dictate how I buy or how I spend my time.
Walmart or the nfl won't ever miss my money but I know I don't spend very much time giving them any so that makes ME feel better and in the long run that is what I am after.
Tiger Woods won't ever know I watched him on tv and he will never know it if I decided not to, but I will.
I don't watch tv or shop anywhere to set my moral compass.
My moral compass DOES, however, dictate many things I do or don't do in life.
Ok that is all and if you have read all this, you must be really bored.
Go Pack!!
GBO
Roll Tide
Walmart, kiss my foot.
:tu:
He gave me some insight as to why Nike did what they did. I chalked it up to grabbing the spotlight for their 10 minutes in the spotlight but it actually goes MUCH deeper than that and they are basically carving out their market share for the next 20 years.
Anyway,
I have never been a huge NFL fan. I have always considered the Green Bay Packers my team and that is who I always pulled for above everyone.
Being a Packers fan ( and red sox fan ) this meant you had to have a back up team to root for because if you didn't the entire season would be pointless. Yes they have been my favorite team since LONG before they were good in recent history, unlike most of their "fans" now days.
Anyway, that meant I also pulled for, depending on the year, the Steelers (which meant I had to hate the cowboys) or the Raiders or the Oilers and even at times the Redskins.
When Manning played for the Broncos I pulled for them, when he played for the Colts I pulled for them.
In no case over my entire lifetime did any of the games I watched, or their outcome, have a direct impact on my life or what I did the next day or the next hour for that matter.
At the end of the game I would go on about my life, which was no better or no worse due to the outcome.
In all those years the most controversial things I saw was a player for the Raiders threw a ball into the stands after he scored and the owner, or the league, fined him $50.00 and he said he would keep doing it.
Another owner fined a player for wearing his hair too long. I don't remember who it was now.
Now days, seemingly EVERY day, someone is protesting something and the media and the public eats it up like dogs on a stewer full of gravy.
I am sick of it all to be honest with you.
The nfl has never made a penny off of me due to the fact I have only owned one piece of merchandise and that is a Green Bay Packers hat that was a gift to me from Chad Clifton. Oh and I also have a ticket stub signed by Brett Farve from the Packers / Bears game the night they retired his jersey.
In recent years I watch the Packers play when they are on tv and I pull for them.
I also actually watch the Patriots because even though I grew up hating them, just like Alabama, they are a well coached football team and they are exciting to watch and THAT is why I watch what football I watch, not for any political or other reasons.
The games I refuse to watch, pretty much all the rest of them, is in fact due to their pushing their agenda on me. Good thing is, I am an adult and I have the ability to change to some 400 other stations where nothing is on.
All else fails I will watch a movie or go outside and do something that needs to be done or I want to do.
Walmart affected me personally with their business practices and guess what, they are NOT the only store in the country so I can make a choice that affects my life in a positive manner. I can shop elsewhere. No biggie either way for me. Now I get home from shopping and I didn't nearly go to jail and I am not pissed off the rest of the day.
Same thing with watching something on tv. I watch the packers and if they lose I will be like, crap, then move on. If they win I will be like yay and move on.
Someone posted in the thread about Tiger Woods supporting the kneeler. I didn't know that and honestly I don't care.
Tiger didn't take a knee on the 18th green and raise his fist or pull his wanker out and shake it at the camera or anything. He played golf and played it very well. That is why I watch golf.
I guess as I get older I don't figure I have unlimited time anymore and I need to spend what I have wisely and that is by doing things I enjoy.
If the packers or Aaron Rogers do something that make it not enjoyable any more, guess what, I will move on and do something that makes me happy, no better or no worse for wear.
It really is amazing how happy a person can be when they figure out they are an adult and can make their own choices and very VERY few people or things that I have ever seen on tv have actually affected me directly by anything they did or said.
Not real sure I know why I even posted all this nonsense but I have decided not to let anyone dictate how I buy or how I spend my time.
Walmart or the nfl won't ever miss my money but I know I don't spend very much time giving them any so that makes ME feel better and in the long run that is what I am after.
Tiger Woods won't ever know I watched him on tv and he will never know it if I decided not to, but I will.
I don't watch tv or shop anywhere to set my moral compass.
My moral compass DOES, however, dictate many things I do or don't do in life.
Ok that is all and if you have read all this, you must be really bored.
Go Pack!!
GBO
Roll Tide
Walmart, kiss my foot.
:tu:
