By: Kevin Saad (@KevinSaad93)
The NFL has returned to its usual Sunday dominance with a slew of games this past weekend. Unfortunately for the league, the dark cloud in the room that is the Ray Rice situation will not go away. After the tape was released this past week of what actually went down in the elevator, Rice was suspended indefinitely and had his contract terminated by the Baltimore Ravens.
The outcry has been astronomical as expected, with people calling for a lifetime ban from the league. These moralists will keep pressuring the NFL, but as usual, fade away into darkness. And guess what? The NFL will continue on its quest for world domination because here’s what Roger Goodell and his cronies care about in order of importance:
1.
Money
2.
Moola
3.
Cash
4.
Revenue
The NFL is the golden child for American capitalism and corporate greed. The league reported 9 billion USD in revenue in 2014. Goodell says he’s shooting for 25 billion by 2027.
Players and owners kill, beat women, drive drunk and routinely get arrested during the offseason and in recent years, former NFL legends have taken shotguns to their chests in order to put them out of the permanent trauma sustained in the glorified warfare that is our nation’s “New National Pastime”.
All of this happens and the NFL just looks the other way. Why? See the list.
Goodell and his 32 owners are able to frolic around in their cash stacks because of one person: the football fan.
It doesn’t matter if you are diehard, seasonal, or bandwagon fan. The fan is the one that drives up TV ratings so the league can sign massive TV rights deals to make the owners rich. The fan is the one who spends $200+ on gameday for a ticket, parking, and tailgating.
Do you really feel bad about what went down in that elevator? Do you hate how 32 owners and their head honcho run a real life circus every year and profit off it at your dime while human lives are forever changed? Then I have a solution for you: football rehab.
Cut the cord on your Sunday Ticket. Don’t join the fantasy football league. Stop wearing your jersey around campus. Don’t go to games. Find other hobbies to take up in your free time and spend more time with your friends and family. If friends and family are all football heads, find a new sport to watch. Premium sports channels and the Internet are only seconds away. There are different ways to have fun on the weekends besides watching football. But if you act like you care about what happened to Janay Rice and still go back to idolizing Peyton Manning’s throwing motion every Sunday for the rest of 2014, then you are a hypocrite.
You are no better than the New Year’s resolution maker who goes to the gym for a week then retreats back to the couch for the rest of the year. So wake up and realize how we as Americans have let a sport with such primitive traits dominate our culture. If not, be content with letting greed and savage behavior run our society through the National Football League.
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