The Uncivil Race War: Donald Trump is an idiot, Roger Goodell is now a MAGA shill, and other Captain Obvious moments

Well, it's clear...

The tide on the National Anthem protests is turning away from the right side and is going to the wrong side -- the MAGA side.

And a lot of people are going to point out that the boycott of the NFL is working.

Of this there is no doubt -- IT IS.

Though Monday Night Football was up 9% ratings, 14% viewers, it is almost certain that was because ESPN cross-promoted with Disney partner Lucasfilm for Star Wars VIII, with a new trailer at halftime, to get those kinds of numbers.

Sunday Night ended up a complete mixed bag, effectively even in both ratings and viewers over last year (and last year was a major Presidential debate!).

Only two of the six Sunday Night games have increased ratings and viewers.

Only about a third of the windows of any of the games have posted increases, with the Cowboys going 5 for 5 in this regard for most of them.

So it's no surprise that the needle moving back toward the White Right starts in Dallas:

• It started with Jerry Jones, after a meeting with Donald Trump, reverting back to his preseason stand that any Cowboy who protested during the Anthem would be an ex-Cowboy in short order.
• He was joined by the owner of the Miami Dolphins soon thereafter.
• Adolf Twitler (Donald Trump, for those who don't know the slam) has gone on the offensive against the protesting players.  Today, ESPN reports his belief the players would not have taken the knee if the NFL had done it's job and suspended Colin Kaepernick last year.

He IS that fucking stupid!

I swear to God, he IS that fucking stupid!!

Why are they protesting in the first damn place?  Why has this gained such traction in the NFL among (mostly) Black players?

It's BECAUSE Colin Kaepernick has been successfully blackballed from professional football as a result of his protests!!

• He's also saying he wants to go after the tax status of the NFL.
• Roger Goodell has finally began to buckle down (in what might be the first real buckling down an NFL commissioner has done in a long time -- and sets a frightening precedent as to what Donald Trump may think he wants to do, both in and out of sports!!) and sent a memo reasserting the rules that all players should stand for the Anthem.  He, however, has stopped short of God-Emperor Pussygrabber's position that the players must stand -- it still comes across as a SHOULD -- FOR NOW.

So the question from here is:  What happens if that ends up on my Fine Blotter?

My prediction:  It gets ugly.

The NFLPA has requested and received a position at a meeting of the owners with respect to the National Anthem protests.  The meeting will take place next week.

I think we are heading for at least a partial work stoppage later this year.

There have to be at least 50 players who will be blackballed from this league as Kaepernick was -- and there are several prominent names on this list.  The Bennett brothers (one in Seattle, the other in Green Bay) and Marshawn Lynch the first three off the top of my head.

The fact is, once Donald Trump and the MAGA White Right Football Fans of America force Goodell's hand (and they appear to have the upper hand in doing so, as it is now over a year of deteriorating ratings in the face of these protests!), the only real avenue left of protest is probably going to be an outright work stoppage, as you (as one reader of my blog has already said to me applies to the fans, and that reader is correct!!) cannot support both Trump and his positions and the NFL.

I don't know if it will get games cancelled or what the heck.  But I do believe the next logical step of this, especially if the MAGA White Right gets their way and the players do start getting benched/fined/suspended/fired, you will start seeing a deliberate work stoppage on some level.

I mean, as a final consideration on this post:  Three weeks ago, when Oakland lost it's first game, it was believed by sources credible to the San Jose Mercury News that, at minimum, the offensive line of the Oakland Raiders may have deliberately allowed David Carr (a white QB) to take excessive hits in that game as a message that he needed to get in line with their protests of the National Anthem!

Carr was injured with a back injury the next week, and has been out the two weeks since!

Do we now have a case where one team's season has been irreparably compromised because of these protests?

If so, how do you think the protesting players will respond if they are disciplined (or worse!) for these protests???

This is about to get further ugly and FAST!