Fuck Pro Sports

I coached college lacrosse on the west coast for three years from 1999 to 2001. We were an intercollegiate club team, which means the university didn’t provide us with funding, equipment, or sometimes even practice facilities.  The university supported us in name only. In 2001, I made it my mission to schedule our final home game at the university stadium and to have the National Anthem play before face-off.

Every fan and player on both sides stood quietly and respectfully. There were people running the track around the field who had nothing to do with our game and they stopped to stand at attention. After the game several players from the opposing team stopped to thank me because even though they had played lacrosse since high school none of them had ever heard the Anthem play before a game. Out of all the trophies, the come from behind victories, the emotional speeches, that was my greatest coaching moment. We all know what it was like to win and lose, but for one short moment in 2001 everyone agreed on one thing and I think everyone knows how rare that is in life. For most players it was probably the first and last time they heard the Anthem play before they took the field. It made the game medicine. We all won because the Anthem played–and that my friends pleases Creator.

These players are a bunch of idiots!

Open Letter To NFL Players.  The Boycott is coming

You graduated high school in 2011.  Your teenage years were a struggle.
You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Your mother was the leader of the family and worked tirelessly to keep a roof over your head and food on your plate.
Academics were a struggle for you and your grades were mediocre at best. The only thing that made you stand out is you weighed 225 lbs and could run 40 yards in 4.2 seconds while carrying a football. Your best friend was just like you, except he didn’t play football. Instead of going to football practice after school, he went to work at McDonalds for minimum wage.
You were recruited by all the big colleges and spent every weekend of your senior year making visits to universities where coaches and boosters tried to convince you their school was best. They laid out the red carpet for you. Your best friend worked double shifts at Mickey Ds. College was not an option for him.
On the day you signed with Big State University, your best friend signed paperwork with his Army recruiter. You went to summer workouts.
He went to basic training.
You spent the next four years living in the athletic dorm, eating at the training table. You spent your Saturdays on the football field, cheered on by adoring fans. Tutors attended to your every academic need.
You attended class when you felt like it. Sure, you worked hard. You lifted weights, ran sprints, studied plays, and soon became one of the top football players in the country.
Your best friend was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. While you were in college, he deployed to Iraq once and Afghanistan twice. He became a Sergeant and led a squad of 19 year-old soldiers who grew up just like he did. He shed his blood in Afghanistan and watched young American’s give their lives, limbs, and innocence for the US.
You went to the NFL combine and scored off the charts. You hired an agent and waited for draft day. You were drafted in the first round and your agent immediately went to work, ensuring that you received the most money possible. You signed for $16 million although you had never played a single down of professional football.
Your best friend re-enlisted in the Army for four more years. As a combat tested sergeant, he will be paid $32,000 per year.
You will drive a Ferrari on the streets of South Beach. He will ride in the back of a Blackhawk helicopter with 10 other combat loaded soldiers.
You will sleep at the Ritz. He will dig a hole in the ground and try to sleep. You will “make it rain” in the club. He will pray for rain as the temperature reaches 120 degrees.
On Sunday, you will run into a stadium as tens of thousands of fans cheer and yell your name.
For your best friend, there is little difference between Sunday and any other day of the week. There are no adoring fans. There are only people trying to kill him and his soldiers. Every now and then, he and his soldiers leave the front lines and “go to the rear” to rest. He might be lucky enough to catch an NFL game on TV.
When the National Anthem plays and you take a knee, he will jump to his feet and salute the television. While you protest the unfairness of life in the United States, he will give thanks to God that he has the honor of defending his great country.
To the players of the NFL: We are the people who buy your tickets, watch you on TV, and wear your jerseys. We anxiously wait for Sundays so we can cheer for you and marvel at your athleticism. Although we love to watch you play, we care little about your opinions until you offend us.
You have the absolute right to express yourselves, but we have the absolute right to boycott you.
We have tolerated your drug use and DUIs, your domestic violence, and your vulgar displays of wealth. We should be ashamed for putting our admiration of your physical skills before what is morally right.
But now you have gone too far. You have insulted our flag, our country, our soldiers, our police officers, and our veterans. You are living the American dream, yet you disparage our great country. I encourage all like minded Americans to boycott the NFL.
National boycott of the NFL for Sunday November 11, 2020 “Veterans Day“ Weekend. Boycott all football telecast, all fans, all ticket holders, stay away from attending any games, let them play to empty stadiums.
Pass this post along to all your friends and family. Honor our military, some of whom come home with the American Flag draped over their coffin.
Therese M LeMay

But that is not the case. I just shared my opinion because I think dragging the whole professional sport industry in this, because of the fuck ups in America, is unnecessary. Not everything spins around America.

Well in that case I keep my opinion I stated earlier. It’s only very few sports that bend the knee to the BLM shit, mostly in America.
So I ”disagree” with the name of the thread as pro sports is such a broad subject that like 90% of sports has nothing to do with the dead soldiers in America. If the title was ”Fuck American Pro Sports for kneeling”, I would agree 100%.

I say again fuck the kneeling trash. They get paid per day more than I make in a decade.