Socialism is what makes football so great
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New Rule: With the Super Bowl only a week away, Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That's right, for all the F-15 flyovers and flag waving, football is our most successful sport because the NFL takes money from the rich teams and gives it to the poor teams... just like President Obama wants to do with his secret army of ACORN volunteers. Green Bay, Wisconsin has a population of 100,000. Yet this sleepy little town on the banks of the Fuck-if-I-know River has just as much of a chance of making it to the Super Bowl as the New York Jets - who next year need to just shut the hell up and play.
Now, me personally, I haven't watched a Super Bowl since 2004, when Janet Jackson's nipple popped out during half time, and that split-second glimpse of an unrestrained black titty burned my eyes and offended me as a Christian. But I get it - who doesn't love the spectacle of juiced-up millionaires giving each other brain damage on a giant flat-screen TV with a picture so realistic it feels like Ben Roethlisberger is in your living room, grabbing your sister?
It's no surprise that some 100 million Americans will watch the Super Bowl next week - that's 40 million more than go to church on Christmas - suck on that, Jesus! It's also 85 million more than watched the last game of the World Series, and in that is an economic lesson for America. Because football is built on an economic model of fairness and opportunity, and baseball is built on a model where the rich almost always win and the poor usually have no chance. The World Series is like Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. You have to be a rich bitch just to play. The Super Bowl is like Tila Tequila. Anyone can get in.
Or to put it another way, football is more like the Democratic philosophy. Democrats don't want to eliminate capitalism or competition, but they'd like it if some kids didn't have to go to a crummy school in a rotten neighborhood while others get to go to a great school and their Dad gets them into Harvard. Because when that happens "achieving the American dream" is easy for some, and just a fantasy for others.
That's why the NFL runs itself in a way that would fit nicely on Glenn Beck's chalkboard - they literally share the wealth, through salary caps and revenue sharing - TV is their biggest source of revenue, and they put all of it in a big commie pot and split it 32 ways. Because they don't want anyone to fall too far behind. That's why the team that wins the Super Bowl picks last in the next draft. Or what the Republicans would call "punishing success."
Baseball, on the other hand, is exactly like the Republicans, and I don't just mean it's incredibly boring. I mean their economic theory is every man for himself. The small market Pittsburgh Steelers go to the Super Bowl more than anybody - but the Pittsburgh Pirates? Levi Johnston has sperm that will not grow up and live long enough to see the Pirates in a World Series. Their payroll is about $40 million, and the Yankees is $206 million. They have about as much chance at getting in the playoffs as a poor black teenager from Newark has of becoming the CEO of Halliburton. That's why people stop going to Pirate games in May, because if you're not in the game, you become indifferent to the fate of the game, and maybe even get bitter - that's what's happening to the middle class in America. It's also how Marie Antoinette lost her head.
So, you kind of have to laugh - the same angry white males who hate Obama because he's "redistributing wealth" just love football, a sport that succeeds economically because it does exactly that. To them, the NFL is as American as hot dogs, Chevrolet, apple pie, and a second, giant helping of apple pie. But then again, they think they're macho because their sport is football, when honestly - is there anything gayer than wearing another man's shirt?
By Bill Maher http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mahe ... 15673.html
Whether you like him or hate him, Maher does have a point here.
Now, me personally, I haven't watched a Super Bowl since 2004, when Janet Jackson's nipple popped out during half time, and that split-second glimpse of an unrestrained black titty burned my eyes and offended me as a Christian. But I get it - who doesn't love the spectacle of juiced-up millionaires giving each other brain damage on a giant flat-screen TV with a picture so realistic it feels like Ben Roethlisberger is in your living room, grabbing your sister?
It's no surprise that some 100 million Americans will watch the Super Bowl next week - that's 40 million more than go to church on Christmas - suck on that, Jesus! It's also 85 million more than watched the last game of the World Series, and in that is an economic lesson for America. Because football is built on an economic model of fairness and opportunity, and baseball is built on a model where the rich almost always win and the poor usually have no chance. The World Series is like Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. You have to be a rich bitch just to play. The Super Bowl is like Tila Tequila. Anyone can get in.
Or to put it another way, football is more like the Democratic philosophy. Democrats don't want to eliminate capitalism or competition, but they'd like it if some kids didn't have to go to a crummy school in a rotten neighborhood while others get to go to a great school and their Dad gets them into Harvard. Because when that happens "achieving the American dream" is easy for some, and just a fantasy for others.
That's why the NFL runs itself in a way that would fit nicely on Glenn Beck's chalkboard - they literally share the wealth, through salary caps and revenue sharing - TV is their biggest source of revenue, and they put all of it in a big commie pot and split it 32 ways. Because they don't want anyone to fall too far behind. That's why the team that wins the Super Bowl picks last in the next draft. Or what the Republicans would call "punishing success."
Baseball, on the other hand, is exactly like the Republicans, and I don't just mean it's incredibly boring. I mean their economic theory is every man for himself. The small market Pittsburgh Steelers go to the Super Bowl more than anybody - but the Pittsburgh Pirates? Levi Johnston has sperm that will not grow up and live long enough to see the Pirates in a World Series. Their payroll is about $40 million, and the Yankees is $206 million. They have about as much chance at getting in the playoffs as a poor black teenager from Newark has of becoming the CEO of Halliburton. That's why people stop going to Pirate games in May, because if you're not in the game, you become indifferent to the fate of the game, and maybe even get bitter - that's what's happening to the middle class in America. It's also how Marie Antoinette lost her head.
So, you kind of have to laugh - the same angry white males who hate Obama because he's "redistributing wealth" just love football, a sport that succeeds economically because it does exactly that. To them, the NFL is as American as hot dogs, Chevrolet, apple pie, and a second, giant helping of apple pie. But then again, they think they're macho because their sport is football, when honestly - is there anything gayer than wearing another man's shirt?
By Bill Maher http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mahe ... 15673.html
Whether you like him or hate him, Maher does have a point here.
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I don't know, the constant slapping of another man's ass seems quite gay to me as well. I competed in a lot of sports over the years, but never felt inclined to do the ass slap. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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I'm very new to football, just trying to learn the game and don't know about the politics
so
I don't have much else to add except...are you ready for some football!
I kind of like the ass slapping
Hey, I'm rooting forthe Packers too! Of course, they might very well have the gayest team name in all of football... :shock:
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plus, fucking revenue sharing will never get the vikings to win a superbowl, in fact I know every year they have no chance
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
This
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
It's not like every team has the same payroll. The difference is not as dramatic as in baseball but the Raiders payroll this year was 70 million more than the Chiefs.
Give the NFL time and if no salary cap is put in place and the haves and haves not will emerge.
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Just a bit off topic, but, Solat13, is your avatar a real sticker? I have never seen one and that is awesome!
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
Now I don't have to type a long response.....thanks FiveB...
Dammit....thanks again. I saved a lot of time not having to type tonight.
Have a good tomorrow, all. P.S. I love the fact 40 million more people watch the Super Bowl than go to church in Christmas.....oh, the hypocrisy of the "religious."
At least us agnostic/atheists/pagans/heathens/"those who are wrong" stick by our principles/
Also, I don't recall taking a census when I left church services this last Xmas. Where did you get your statistics from?
The premise of revenue sharing may support Bill's socialism theory, but no matter how evenly distributed it is, the capitalist nature of business will find ways to circumvent the system, namely signing bonus (which don't hit the cap) and back-loading the contract so that in the early years of Tom Brady or Peyton Manning's contracts have a negligible hit on the cap. The players reap a huge payday of guaranteed money while the owners can bring in more talent to fit under the cap.
Granted, I do love the notion of the salary cap as evidenced by baseballs chasm of talent. Revenue sharing is great, but it is the salary cap that keeps teams in New York and Chicago outspending smaller markets, not revenue sharing. If revenue sharing was kept intact and the salary cap ended, do you think teams in Jacksonville, Buffalo, and Carolina would be able to field competitive teams?
I'm sure that the owner's of the Jets, Giants, and the Cowboys are making much more off of tickets and concessions then a team like Green Bay (I had a G.B. ticket 20 rows from the 30 yard line and it was $67 two years ago; I imagine that ticket is at least $250 - $400 in NY). If the cap is lifted, those big market teams would still outspend just like in baseball.
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
And MikePegg, any sport can be appreciated by fans, but that's not what makes them fair and balanced in terms of competition.
And Unsung, the CBA is up, so they're renegotiating the incomes and sorting out some other issues. What does union negotiations between owners and workers have to do to anything other than simply just that? Not sure what your comment is directed at. Care to explain further?
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
I believe so. And if it does, that will be the beginning of its transformation into the MLB.
I f%$&ing hate professional sports!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A-Roid (Alex Rodriquez) makes $20 million dollars a year to hit a ball with a wooden stick? Let's see him patrol Afghanistan for .001% of that salary. Our society is so f&%$ing backwards.
also, we can see a socialistic style of economy strive such as seen in the NFL because the population size is 32 and its in each individual within that population's best interest to maximizes their revenues by partaking in this form of economy.
If the population is over a billion (see Russia / China), then the dividends become diluted and the results are not nearly as lucrative and the model falls apart.
The NFL is an example of socialism succeeding on a small scale.
His contract is amazing but Albert Pujols will top it. Word is 10 years/$300M, and he is currently 31 from what I was just told.
Pujols is the only All Star Calibur Dominican not to get caught. Hmmm walks like a duck...