I need to adopt a team this post season. With Aaron Rodgers breaking his collarbone and my Packers not making the playoffs, I find myself in the odd position of not having a team in play. I need emotional skin in the game.
I love the NFL Super Bowl Tournament. Single elimination. One bad game and you’re done. It’s the essence of America. Before Trump, the NFL was one thing we could all agree on…in that we loved it. But I guess to some of our whites… Colin Kaepernick is just too much. But I would remind these white people Kaepernick never disparaged John McCain for being a POW who had the nerve to get captured and be tortured. The black NFL players never disparaged Gold Star families. To the best of my knowledge I can’t think of one NFL player who colluded with a Russian for his own financial gain.
Quick…name a current black player who avoided serving his country with a lame medical hardship. Oh, wait, that would be Caligula. Did… uh, Don Jr and Eric ever serve? John Kelly’s son did. Joe Biden’s son did. Hypocrites.. much you all the sudden NFL haters? I would also remind these white people you’ve never one day in your life been pulled over because of the color of your skin. You’ve never one day in your life been judged by the color of your skin by someone who doesn’t even know you. So to all you ridiculous white people who have quit watching the NFL because Donald Trump made a big deal of all this… this is just more evidence of how genuinely out of touch you are.
Do I think we should stand as one during the national anthem? Hell, yes! I literally had goose bumps on Christmas night inside Chesapeake Energy Arena when the crowd as one sang our national anthem in deep red state Oklahoma. It reminded me of what we are, what we should be, and what we really still are if you tune out the bullshit from Donald Trump’s twitter account.
We are Americans. We changed the world. Some of it in a very good way. Some not as good. Why do you think the Dow just passed the 25,000 mark? It passed this mark because even with all the current turmoil in our country we are still perceived as the best bet in the world. The best bet for freedom. The best for the right to pursue something called the American Dream. The best bet to still live in a country where people in a state like Alabama can surprise the shit out of you and not elect the candidate endorsed by either Caligula or Steve Bannon.
So– I’m jacked as usual about the NFL Tournament. I just need a team. I’ll pick one after the Wild Card Round. I’ll say this…don’t count out the Atlanta Falcons. When the season began…they were the one team in the NFC who I feared the most from my Packer perspective. And they’re showing life at just the right team of the season you want your team to be showing some life. Great win by the Titans. Two more good games on slate today. The Minnesota Vikings are a possibility for me in that I like Mike Zimmer. Jacksonville Jags are a possibility for me in that I like Tom Coughlin. Marcus Mariota won part of my heart yesterday—so who knows, I could be a Titans fan. We’ll see. But I know this, a douchebag like Donald Trump who never served his country a day in his life in no way would ever dissuade me from watching NFL football. No way.