Get. It. Through. Your. Heads.: The entire existence of the National Football League is a lie.

Keith Olbermann hit it out of the park in today's scathing edition of his iHeartRadio podcast, Countdown.  If you're not interested in the Democratic Popcorn Fest which is the Speaker of the House situation, it's the second segment, past 15 minutes in.

His second segment was devoted to the Damar Hamlin death on the field and the NFL's lies about it and the history of lies surrounding the NFL, going back to Kennedy's assassination.

He details:

• The misguided decision to play on the Sunday after -- just two days after -- John F. Kennedy's assassination.  On top of that, this was literally hours after the public and national execution on television of Jack Ruby, for whatever end you believe that all went down.  Pete Rozelle was at one of the games, and, after identifying himself to a fan at the games who asked him, the fan decked him.  Rozelle waved off any attempts to arrest the man, and claims that the decision to play the games that weekend was the biggest mistake of his time as Commissioner.  The AFL, in contrast, cancelled all games that weekend.
• The decision to play the Monday Night Football game in San Francisco the day a crazed homophobe/political hack assassinated Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone and got away with it on November 27, 1978.
• But perhaps the most damning previous statement comes to the feet of Paul Tagliabue, and the genesis of the National Religion of the NFL, 9/11.  As late as Thursday the 13th or Friday the 14th, the plan WAS to play.  Tagliabue was going to force the teams to play, as a similar function to the two Rozelle incidents above.  And he announced later that the NFL was magnanimously holding off play.  He was lying:  The Federal government could not assure that the NFL teams could actually get to the games, even though some air travel was restored two days later.
• But the coup de grace was to call the league out and remind America (Playmakers, anyone?) that the NFL has absolute control over the broadcasts of the games.  What networks, what announcers, what is being said (even to the point of having an overseer in the press box from the league).  So when Joe Buck said that, 30 minutes after, the teams were being given five minutes to restart the game, Buck was doing so on orders from the NFL.  And when the NFL and Troy Vincent, the head of the NFLPA said Tuesday that never happened -- they were gaslighting the few remaining sane football fans of the nation and lying to you.

But of what secret is any of that?

The entire existence of the National Football League, it's entire place as the National Religion of Sport, Society, and Culture, and the 365/366-day a year water-cooler event and social center of many parts of this nation is a lie.

I could be as simple with you as a function of the calls on the field and the like and be truthful -- and, most days on this blog, I try to show that to people.  I believe that a simple and cursory look, as an increasing number of people are doing in social media, of the events on the field, the inconsistent -- if not capricious -- application of the rules, the actions of supposed "professionals" making millions, etc., would prove the entire existence of this game is a lie and a lie people are dying for.

Including a man who died playing the NFL game on Monday night and was brought back.

But it's that last separated statement which makes this even a more powerful situation.  Damar Hamlin was killed on the field Monday Night.  He had to be brought back TWICE -- once on the field, once in the University of Cincinnati Trauma Unit.

As a corporate entity and as The National Religion, I fully believe that the NFL would openly EMBRACE a player dying on the field -- their words otherwise notwithstanding.  And the worst part of it is the silent majority of NFL fans who, words and feelings aside, would actually embrace the concept of "All deaths after the first are free."  That they could then actually encourage their players to maim and murder on the field, knowing that there are players on many teams who would actually do so, once the delimiters are removed (with one of the largest of them being the fact that no player has died on the field since that incident in 1972 -- which many on the American Right deliberately choose to ignore).

And that's the last part of what Olbermann went off on with this show:  The John Stockton "thousands of athletes have died to the vaccine" crowd who, if we had actual laws in this country, would be rounded up and jailed.  (And don't give me "free speech", a concept we do not have in this country -- the governments at all levels, with the great acceptance of society, have workarounds which far pre-date social media and the Internet.  So stop it!)

These idiots want a mass culling, and are willing to use any piece of supposed "evidence" to basically state that the efforts to defeat the coronavirus (which have failed (and that failure killing MILLIONS in this country alone)) were never efforts to defeat anything, but to kill many Americans.

They need to be shut up, forcefully and with the law if necessary -- unless you actually believe them, but then I ask you:  With my background and "contributions", would I not be on The List to be culled fairly immediately?  Why would I not have been given a lethal dose of whatever you think is in the vaccines if you are so inclined to believe this bullshit?

Stop.  Just fucking stop.  You're worse than the football fans -- and a lot of that I never thought possible.