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June 12, 2020 by L. Bane. Leave a Comment

I always watched NFL games with my dad, but had given it up when I moved out. I don’t remember the exact reasons; yeah I’d promised my wife I wouldn’t be a sports nut, but it might not have mattered since where we moved to had poor TV reception and I couldn’t watch the games if I wanted too (and, ’90s era Bengals, right?).

Several years later I had one of the most awkward job interviews ever, for an off-hours IT support position. I asked the manager what job duties I would be expected to perform when I was there and she did her best pep talk to avoid saying: “nothing”. So, after using the time to study for several Microsoft certifications (MCSE was all the rage at the time) and then playing all the Quake I cared to I fired up a black and white TV that another off-hours guy had brought in. The only thing on? Football.

Well I was re-hooked, as the years passed I would hang on to every broadcast including the vapid combines and 6th round draft picks (“Tom Brady was picked in the 6th round!!”). Super Bowl parties, day long beer fests, BW3 Sunday Ticket binges, all good fun or, a decent distraction at least I suppose. But, then the concussion protocols hit and the games were a mess with the victor often being determined by the officiating crew. About halfway through that season I gave up: the product was crap. The “hands up, don’t shoot” protests the following season cemented the death of the NFL in my mind, though apparently there was still a bottomless bit of white fools who didn’t mind turning their money over to an organization that hated them in exchange for a nearly unwatchable product.

Thing was, voicing my dislike would come off as banal. “Did you know a white guy was nearly kicked out of the league for using the ‘N’ word while Ray Lewis, who killed someone, was hailed as a hero?”. And then there’s Micheal Vick, whose rehabilitation story I believed for some reason, but going over his treatments of dogs should be enough to get any right minded person to swear off the NFL forever all by itself. I know though that all those (and more) are anecdotal one-offs and unlikely to sway the brainwashed normie so I would cop out by claiming the games were crap (which, they were).

Recent events though have made my hatred of anti-white organizations even easier. There’s many to pick from to be sure, but the NFL is basically doubling down on stupid from their efforts from yesteryear. While the NFL makes players remove (very) faintly pro-white tattoos they ship money off to pro-black criminal groups. While endorsing players doing their best to disrespect the nation (such as it is), they railroad others who aren’t too keen on the idea.

College football is as bad or worse (taking criticisms on race relations from a group that keeps their employees in indentured servitude is…off-putting), one step at a time I suppose. At least now when someone asks me if I watched such-and-such NFL event I can get an odd(er) look on my face say “no, they’re anti-white”.

If the NFL was, say, anti-Asian, can you imagine a Chinese person asking another Chinese person if they watched “the game”? No, they’d hide in their shame. It’s a long forgotten lesson but that’s where we need to get to, we need to build our communities around organizations that don’t have it in for us.

Sports Improvements

May 21, 2013 by L. Bane. Leave a Comment

The Pro Bowl has been in the news continuously for ways to make the spectacle watchable. This article puts forward the idea of a draft to draw interest. I’ve heard different variations, but the one that sounded the most interesting was when the top vote getters in the AFC and NFC draw from a pool of pro bowlers irrespective of conference. Commentators also put out the idea of putting serious money on the line. The amount of money is unknown, but I would imagine that the amount would keep increasing until the players actually played.

Even then though, it’s unknown how many players would risk their career for a one time payout. I’m sure there would be a few, but it would be hard to get a whole team to gel around the idea (let alone two). The idea of switching to flag football has also been brought up as an idea to minimize injuries and encourage more spirited play. An even more interesting idea that was batted around was that a game shouldn’t be played at all. Instead, since being selected is an individual achievement, a series of challenges would be set out that all the players would compete in, such as throwing accuracy/distance, kicking accuracy, etc. This might prove interesting in seeing what linebackers have the ‘stuff’ to pull off even a fifteen yard field goal.

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On the sports radio show they had a guy on who was decrying the designated hitter rule and predicted it’s inevitable demise. I got to thinking about football though and the fact that players don’t play ‘both sides of the ball’. Before continuing, I should point out that even for football that the idea of having players play ‘both sides’ has been put out as an idea to improve game safety as teams would favor long-term speed and endurance (cardio) over refrigerator sized players who need oxygen after every two plays. But anyway, point being that in football they want players who can excel at individual positions on offense or defense. In sports like soccer or rugby, the best ball handlers also have to try and be the best defensive players as well, which keeps players from being a true master of any one aspect of the game.

The designator hitter rule would seem to be an acknowledgment of this fact, but still, baseball can be boring (face it). Might it make sense to allow for roster expansions so that teams can field whatever offense they feel gives them the best advantage? I previously defended the DH because of the poor batting quality of pitchers, but catchers, generally, aren’t too much better and often bat at towards the bottom of the order. As another example, it probably wouldn’t boggle the mind to come by strong first basemen who can’t hit. Some 60/40 batting rotation of DHs and (probably) outfielders may only kick off an arms race where defenders get better and better along with the batting, but if football is any guide, defense can’t keep up.