| | '''Unplug the NFL''' is advocated by ''Conservapedia'' in response to the NFL's [[paganism]], its lack of true athletic competitiveness, its promotion of [[gambling]] rather than sportsmanship, its predictable outcomes in playoffs due to obsessive coaching, and its [[Blacklisting Tim Tebow|exclusion of Tim Tebow]] apparently for quoting the [[Bible]] too much.<ref>The slogan "unplug the NFL" was created by ''Conservapedia'', with this entry. Others are welcome to use this slogan with attribution.</ref> Collusion among owners and coaches makes the NFL more like rigged professional wrestling than genuine athletic competitions like the [[Olympics]]. | | '''Unplug the NFL''' is advocated by ''Conservapedia'' in response to the NFL's [[paganism]], its lack of true athletic competitiveness, its promotion of [[gambling]] rather than sportsmanship, its predictable outcomes in playoffs due to obsessive coaching, and its [[Blacklisting Tim Tebow|exclusion of Tim Tebow]] apparently for quoting the [[Bible]] too much.<ref>The slogan "unplug the NFL" was created by ''Conservapedia'', with this entry. Others are welcome to use this slogan with attribution.</ref> Collusion among owners and coaches makes the NFL more like rigged professional wrestling than genuine athletic competitions like the [[Olympics]]. |
| − | Compulsive coaching dictates who wins, which is silly. Watching an NFL game today is like watching other people (coaches) play a [[video game]], and grown men who pretend it is meaningful deserve mockery.
| + | Addiction as a spectator to football may cause dementia. Studies show that watching 3.5 hours of television a day increases dementia, and the mind-numbing habits of addicted football fans are similar or worse.<ref>https://nypost.com/2019/02/28/watching-3-5-hours-of-tv-a-day-increases-risk-of-dementia-study/</ref> Anecdotal evidence of addicted football fans developing dementia is commonplace. |
| | Players are cut from NFL squads based on what they say on [[social media]], and the [[Super Bowl]] no longer showcases the top talent. Additional reasons for unplugging the NFL include how it bilks taxpayers for an estimated $1 billion annually and even got the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] to waste money on searching for a player's jersey in [[Mexico]] in 2017. | | Players are cut from NFL squads based on what they say on [[social media]], and the [[Super Bowl]] no longer showcases the top talent. Additional reasons for unplugging the NFL include how it bilks taxpayers for an estimated $1 billion annually and even got the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] to waste money on searching for a player's jersey in [[Mexico]] in 2017. |
| − | Coaches increasingly seem to prefer players who cheat rather than the best athletes. Herschel Walker, one of the greatest athletes ever, is excluded from the NFL Hall of Fame despite having had a tremendous career. The top recruits out of college rarely realize their potential by playing in the NFL anymore, and almost none of the top athletes in the league get to play in the [[Super Bowl]].
| + | Grown men deserve mockery when they pretend that there is anything meaningful about the NFL. Compulsive coaching dictates who wins, and watching an NFL game today is as pointless as watching people (coaches) play a [[video game]]. Owners and coaches increasingly seem to prefer players who cheat rather than the best athletes. Herschel Walker, one of the greatest athletes ever, is excluded from the NFL Hall of Fame despite having had a tremendous career. The top recruits out of college rarely realize their potential by playing in the NFL anymore, and almost none of the top athletes in the league get to play in the [[Super Bowl]]. |
| | The NFL panders to the [[liberal media]] and encourages "[[fantasy football]]," a form of [[gambling]] and false worship.<ref>"From very early times gambling was forbidden by canon law. Two of the oldest among the so-called canons of the [[Apostles]] forbade games of chance under pain of [[excommunication]] to clergy and laity alike." See [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06375b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia], which continues to observe: "The 79th canon of the Council of Elvira (306) decreed that one of the faithful who had been guilty of gambling might be, on amendment, restored to communion after the lapse of a year. A homily (the famous "De Aleatoribus") long ascribed by St. Cyprian, but by modern scholars variously attributed to Popes Victor I, Callistus I, and Melchiades, and which undoubtedly is a very early and interesting monument of Christian antiquity, is a vigorous denunciation of gambling. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215), by a decree subsequently inserted in the "Corpus Juris", forbade clerics to play or to be present at games of chance. Some authorities, such as Aubespine, have attempted to explain the severity of the ancient canons against gambling by supposing that idolatry was often connected with it in practice. The pieces that were played with were small-sized idols, or images of the gods, which were invoked by the players for good luck."</ref> Genuine fans—as opposed to gamblers—are mostly irrelevant to the NFL profit model.<ref>[https://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/01/rams-chargers-raiders-move-to-los-angeles-london-nfl-owners-proposal When will fans realize that NFL owners don't care about them?]</ref> Beginning in 2016, the NFL has allowed displays of defiance against the [[National Anthem]]. '''''Search on "demonic" and "NFL" on the internet and see a half million websites discussing it'''''. | | The NFL panders to the [[liberal media]] and encourages "[[fantasy football]]," a form of [[gambling]] and false worship.<ref>"From very early times gambling was forbidden by canon law. Two of the oldest among the so-called canons of the [[Apostles]] forbade games of chance under pain of [[excommunication]] to clergy and laity alike." See [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06375b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia], which continues to observe: "The 79th canon of the Council of Elvira (306) decreed that one of the faithful who had been guilty of gambling might be, on amendment, restored to communion after the lapse of a year. A homily (the famous "De Aleatoribus") long ascribed by St. Cyprian, but by modern scholars variously attributed to Popes Victor I, Callistus I, and Melchiades, and which undoubtedly is a very early and interesting monument of Christian antiquity, is a vigorous denunciation of gambling. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215), by a decree subsequently inserted in the "Corpus Juris", forbade clerics to play or to be present at games of chance. Some authorities, such as Aubespine, have attempted to explain the severity of the ancient canons against gambling by supposing that idolatry was often connected with it in practice. The pieces that were played with were small-sized idols, or images of the gods, which were invoked by the players for good luck."</ref> Genuine fans—as opposed to gamblers—are mostly irrelevant to the NFL profit model.<ref>[https://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/01/rams-chargers-raiders-move-to-los-angeles-london-nfl-owners-proposal When will fans realize that NFL owners don't care about them?]</ref> Beginning in 2016, the NFL has allowed displays of defiance against the [[National Anthem]]. '''''Search on "demonic" and "NFL" on the internet and see a half million websites discussing it'''''. |