It would be easy for me to state about the crowd fights and the like that happen (and ARE getting worse every year...
It would be even easier for me to state about the home domestic violence which rises when the guy's team loses, so the cunt feels he has to take it out on his woman that the team he identifies with for his life and sacred honor is defeated (doubly so if the game is close and/or a screwjob)...
It would be even still easier to add in and state about the damage to property that has become YouTube meme all over the place when a team loses (Dallas and numerous television sets, Alabama and "You ain't shit, you ain't shit, you ain't never been shit...")...
This, though, is far more ominous, and is inspired by recent reports, including continuing reports today, indicating a rising showdown between NFL Colin Kaepernick supporters and the police across the country.
There is going to be violence against NFL players who support Colin Kaepernick this season. Mark those words down.
I have already taken into some account in the back-of-napkin math I did to make the numbers work that the NFL will punish them on the field.
Many MAGA Republican fans want the NFL to start fining, suspending, firing these players -- so much so that it has become essentially impossible to actually use Twitter to find any fines, as discussions by anti-Kaepernick sympathizers have swamped any possible reporting of fines.
I think it's going to go far beyond that, and it now appears as if the police are striking back.
It started in Cleveland, as the policemen's union didn't take too kindly to the protests the Browns made in a preseason game, as over 10 players kneeled and several supported them in their Kaepernick protest -- including Kenny Britt and Jabrill Peppers, according to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. They and their paramedic counterparts will not take part in the traditional gigantic USA flag ceremony many NFL teams have to start their season.
And that, to me, is the right way to go about it, if the police choose to counter-protest. They have the right to protest, the cops and the like have the right to counter that protest with one of their own.
What we had on the night of the Money Farce, however, in Las Vegas, is something completely different and portends an ominous and violent outcome.
Michael Bennett of the Seahawks has been very public on his stand pro-Kaepernick, and is one of the people who has said that Kaepernick is being blackballed.
He may very well have nearly paid for that opinion with his life, the night of the fight.
As would be completely expected with a situation like Mayweather-McGregor, Vegas was more than a little...... interesting that night.
Bennett was one of numerous celebrities in Las Vegas for the Money Farce, and a group of people near the hotel to which Bennett was returning were scampering for cover when they (and Bennett) thought they had heard gunshots.
Two Hispanic (racial identification from the LVPD) officers quickly cornered Bennett, one forcing him to the ground and demanding he stay still or he gets his head blown off (his gun was at Bennett's temple). A second one jammed his knee into Bennett's back.
The LVPD contends that, given information they had, they thought Bennett, who had taken cover behind a gaming machine, was involved in the shooting!
There was no body camera footage (how convenient!!!), and he was detained for 10 minutes.
Now the LVPD wants an NFL investigation, thinking Bennett was lying -- and probably thinking Bennett was, in fact, involved in whatever it was (no shooter was found) that went on that night.
Roger Goodell has put out platitudes with respect to Bennett (a little surprising given Bennett's position on Kaepernick, but...).
Someone is going to get put out by either an enraged MAGA fan or a police officer for supporting Kaepernick.
I've always believed that the best place many White middle-class football fanatics have for Kaepernick is the nearest tree at halftime of tonight's first bloodfeast.
It's on, and going to get ugly. Be ready.
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