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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    This we can agree on.
     
    SnarkShark, Sep 24, 2017
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  2. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    He is an idiot. Expecting him to comprehend an infliction like CTE is beyond reason.
     
    SnarkShark, Sep 24, 2017
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  3. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    I'm actually a little surprised. wasn't the Mara family big in the pro-life movement?

    I remember around 1991 or so, they put out a pro-life video called "Champions for Life."

    Edit, the video was made in the 1986/87 season.
     
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    Smallpotatoes, Sep 24, 2017
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  4. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    The ACLU posted this paragraph from Jackie Robinson's memoir ... IMG_4518.JPG
     
    cranberry, Sep 24, 2017
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  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    One other point. What the players do, is in, fact, a job. It pays them well, and gives them a lot of glory, albeit with a major physical price. The fact that Trump and Co. believe it's a privilege for the players to work that job when in reality they are only there to have their talents exploited for profit speaks volumes about them.
     
    Baron Scicluna, Sep 24, 2017
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  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I think you do the sentiment a disservice when you try to create equivalencies between athletes and people in other jobs. Or even try to explain why someone deserves what they earn based on the requirements of the job -- as you subjectively see it.

    The notion that is a "privilege" to earn millions of dollars competing in football is meant to suggest that they are being given something. As if they don't deserve it.

    It's crap. They earn millions of dollars because the NFL generates a lot of money, and those players are the best in the world -- people pay a lot of money to watch those players. Nobody is giving anyone charity in this equation. They earn every penny.

    It's like everything else. Those players aren't stealing what they earn, and they certainly have no reason to have to apologize for earning it. If you really have a problem with it, don't watch football. If enough people felt that way, the billions of dollars of annual income wouldn't be there, and the players wouldn't earn that kind of money. Coincidentally, the owners of the teams wouldn't have the "privilege" of any profits they take in.

    Of course. it's the same with anything in a demand-driven world.
     
    The Big Ragu, Sep 24, 2017
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  7. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    What is classic Trump is that he referred to players making "beautiful tackles". Like he uses that word for everything.
     
    Webster, Sep 24, 2017
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  8. daemon

    daemon Well-Known Member

    He said, "I was briefly in the NFL."
     
    daemon, Sep 24, 2017
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  9. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member


     
    DanielSimpsonDay, Sep 24, 2017
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  10. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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  11. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

     
    DanielSimpsonDay, Sep 24, 2017
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  12. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

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