My NFL boycott continues, even for the Super Bowl.

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So, here we are at what amounts to the last day of the NFL season. And my self-imposed boycott continues.

Typically, I'd be riveted to my 72 inch HD TV screen... because, after all, these teams are alleged to be at the top of their form, and a well played game is a thing of beauty.

But it is the NFL. And I haven't forgotten.

Like the former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons and then the Portland State Vikings, one Jerry Glanville, was want to tell us: The NFL means "Not For Long," since they continue to act with such rank hypocrisy on matters of race, fairness and politics.

So, I'm taking advantage of this fine day to watch the rest of "Silverado" and head to the grocery store. The lines should be short and most of the aisles clear.

And until the NFL gets their act together... I will do everything I can to avoid watching any of their games, and I will avoid buying any of their merchandise.

So, to everyone else, I say: have a great game. A game, in the end, shadowed by the shame of hypocrisy.
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My NFL Boycott continues...

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Just a brief update in the world of $1100/oz gold, horrific and utterly nonsensical domestic and foreign policies (Whoever thought the word "dither" could ever successfully be applied to the word "Afghanistan?") my NFL boycott continues.

As a former jock that loves the game of football but was never all that great at playing it, I was sure I'd miss it or go though withdrawals or something.

But I don't.

There's an awful lot of college ball out there, and while certainly not completely free of the corruptive hypocrisy tainting the NFL, (See the moronic reinstatement of that scumbag Blount by the scumbag Ducks) I believe the efforts out there on the field on not based on any particular views or sentiments of any particular alum or booster.

Refusing to watch the NFL has been far easier than I thought it would be; I anticipate no difficulty in continuing to avoid watching them for the rest of my life or until they do the right thing, whichever comes first.
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My self-imposed NFL Boycott: Week 2

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Linked by such august publications as the "Village Voice" (Yes... THAT "Village Voice") my self-imposed boycott continued on into it's second week as I, once again, engaged in life without the NFL.

Of course, it's not that particularly difficult under any circumstances when the team you've supported so much over the past 3 decades or so is the Seahawks... it's kind of like boycotting a molar extraction... without the Novocaine.

But if the 'hawks were undefeated, that would make no difference.

Bigotry is one of those peculiar tenets of life that does not lessen over time. The NFL's bigotry in failing to support Rush Limbaugh's effort to gain a minority ownership position in the forlorn St. Louis Rams has staked it out as just another leftist outfit, where anyone with a perspective to the right of Lenin is to be shunned; where ideas and their broadcast supercedes the criminal acts of many of the thugs wearing a helmet.

The NFL's rank hypocrisy is the thing, you see. To allow players with CRIMINAL records to get MILLIONS of dollars while instituting a double standard against someone because of their words is no less excusable now than it was last week. And it will be no less acceptable next week, or next season or 100 years from now... leftist double standard notwithstanding.

I say "leftist double standard" because we don't even have to BEGIN to discuss what the left would be doing if one of their more communist icons had been kept from buying a piece of an NFL team.

So, the boycott continues. For me, today, it's up to the shop to organize my tools for starting the thrid gen drag racing project.

It's amazing how much time this has freed up... I should have, perhaps, done this years ago.
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