NFL Now
as Crooked as Washington D.C.
By JB
Williams
I never thought that an NFL game would bring American
society into focus, but it happened in the recent Monday Night game, in which
the Green Bay Packers were screwed out of a hard-earned victory by the worst
officiating in NFL history. Is it the fault of replacement refs or the labor
unions?
While most are focused on ending the referee union
strike, as if union
referees don’t make bad calls too, what troubles me most is how the game was
decided not on the basis of what everyone knew, but rather on how most players
and fans felt. Reality was eclipsed by emotion and the team who actually won the
game, was overruled by a team willing to cheat and referees willing to go along.
Remind you of something else we see every day?
As we all watched a clear interception - ruled a touchdown
reception by Ref #26, who
must be the worst referee in football history, we also watched Seahawk receiver
Golden Tate act like he made a catch he didn’t make, after committing blatant
offensive pass interference that only honest football fans bothered to notice.
Tate knows he cheated Green Bay… no doubt about it. He doesn’t
care…
Seattle Coach Pete Carroll also knows his team cheated
Green Bay, but was perfectly happy to win on a string of bogus referee calls
benefiting a player that knows he cheated. Seattle fans couldn’t have cared less
that their team was being given a win they didn’t earn, via the worst
officiating in football history, so blatant on the final play that nobody watching could believe it. The Seahawks
didn’t care…
Tate knows that he did not catch that pass, but he
doesn’t care. Tate knows he pushed off illegally to even have a shot at that
catch. Pete Carroll knows that his team did not win that game, but he does not
care. Seattle fans know that their team cheated to win, along with help from
referee #26, who had numerous ridiculous calls throughout the game, putting
Seattle in a position to win by hook and crook.
What does all of this have to do with the true State of
our Union, the American society? Everything….
We live in a country where it is no longer how you play
the game, but whether you win or lose. The end justifies the means. The focus is
on bowing to union
demands to solve the
problem, but the problem is really much bigger than that and the unions are
largely to blame.
The NFL is now played just like American politics, where
labor unions can use collective bargaining power to destroy another industry –
the players have no aversion to lying and cheating in order to win – coaches pay
players to injure opposing players – players can’t stay out of jail long enough
to make the game – and amateur referees only make matters worse, trying to play
in an arena they are ill-prepared for… Sound
familiar?
Labor unions have destroyed every industry they have
touched. The only remaining BOOM industry for labor unions in America is
government employment, which is bankrupting the nation and every state in the
country. Now they are holding the NFL hostage, resulting in the destruction of
yet another American industry and all people can talk about is succumbing to
union bargaining demands in order to stop the bad officiating, as if union
officials aren’t just as bad, sometimes worse.
Remember how Reagan solved the Control Tower Operators
union strike in the 80s? He fired them all and hired new operators. The unions
said that planes would fall from the skies all over the country, but they
didn’t. They said those new operators would cause traffic problems on the
tarmac, but they didn’t.
Do you know that NFL referees currently make
approximately $9400 per game, plus full union benefits and pensions? In total,
NFL referees can make nearly $250,000 per year if they are refereeing every week
during season, placing NFL referees in the top 5% of income earners, along with
doctors, lawyers, entertainers and business moguls. They are game referees for
heaven’s sake! It’s a GAME!
Just like our runaway government, the NFL has forgotten
who pays these paychecks… It isn’t the players or the team owners -- it’s the
fans in the stands. As of the 2011 season, the nationwide average price of an NFL game
ticket was $113.17…. if you
don’t mind the nose-bleed section.
It will cost a family of four more than $500 to go see an
NFL game today, if you eat and drink before the game and wait until you leave
the stadium to eat and drink again. That’s more than the average weekly
take-home pay for the average American.
Do you know why this beloved American pastime cost so
much? Because of labor unions, who are not happy that referees only make $9400
each, for a game it cost you, your wife and two kids $500 to go
see.
Americans have clearly lost sight of their values. They
make decisions based upon what they think or feel, instead of what they know –
and that’s why our country is in HUGE trouble
today.
Of course those fans want their team to win no matter
what they have to do to win…. They paid $500 to sit in those seats on game day.
Seattle fans love the bad calls that went their way Monday night. But what about
when bad calls don’t go their way next time?
We are talking about referees here folks, the same job
dads all across America volunteer to do for their kids from peewee football
through high school. If we are talking about the players, that’s a whole new
level of insanity. Players making millions of dollars to play a sport do not
need both an agent and a labor union to hold fans hostage at negotiation time.
Yet they have both…
And, last but not least, the comparison between NFL team
owners and American citizens, both of which refuse to stand united against the
insanity, as each tries to advance their own individual agenda ahead of the best
interest of the NFL, eventually succumbing to the collective weight of the labor
unions and talent agents until no average American can afford to go see a live
game anymore.
In the end, it paints a dismal picture of American
society. Like the current fight with the NFL referees union, Americans are being
held hostage by public sector labor unions. ALL labor unions draw cash from
their members and funnel that cash directly into the Democrat Party. The
Democrat party then uses those funds to maintain political power, redistributing
private earnings from those who earn to those who vote Democrat in every
election.
It costs a family over $500 to see a game because some of
that money goes to the labor unions that fund the Democrat Party. It’s time to
boycott everything with a union label attached to it… Professional sports,
Hollywood movies, and most of all, government workers who are the DNCs biggest
donors today.
The Democrat concept of “job creation” is creating
government jobs from thin air on the backs of taxpayers. Do you know who Obama’s
biggest campaign donors are? Government employees… the only jobs Democrats know
how to create.
And the NFL? -- Well, they are now stuck in the same rut
as our government, caught in a downward spiral forced by leftist labor unions
and in the end, American taxpayers and ticket buyers cannot afford either one of
them.
Well done! Who knew that a Monday Night football game
could expose so much about American society? It's every man for himself and
winning is the only rule of the game. Sadly, in the end, everyone
loses...
Whatever it takes to win…. That’s what thugs do and
white-hat good guys are no match!
JB Williams
Co-Founder
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