So Then We’ll Make Abbott Wear a Bonnet With Bows On It
Okay, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has gotten himself into a street fight with the NFL.
Yeah, start your eyes rolling now because it gets worse.
The NFL has warned Texas that if they pass the “Show Me What You Pee With” bathroom bill, another Super Bowl in Texas might be “out of the question.”
Abbott shook his finger at the NFL (literally, he shook his finger) and said that if they are going to be that way about it, he will “force football players to stand for the national anthem.” And if they don’t stand, he will boo them. Because that’s the only tool he’s got to enforce that.
Once Abbott’s people discovered that his threat carried about as much weight as a hungry pissant, they decided that he was “only kidding.”
Abbott, who has studied at the knee of Donald Trump, now says he was making a statement about the NFL.
“It was intentional hyperbole to make a point: demonstrating the NFL’s own shortcoming of how they are disconnecting with their fan base by allowing players to disrespect the U.S. flag,”
Yes, mind the flag and shred the constitution. Welcome to Republicanland.
My head will fall off someday from all the shaking it does, involuntarily. I live near the other Land of LaLa, outside DC.
1Good idea, Greg. Will you stand as well? Oh yeah, right. Excuses, excuses…
2Has Abbott ever stood in a bathroom line at an NFL game? He’s taking on not only the NFL, but football fans who have to pee (beer, beer, beer) and want to get back to the game as quickly as possible before they miss anything.
Somebody was pissing in the wind right from the get-go.
3The really sad news is that we seem to elect these kind of folks over and over….Abbott, Perry, Bush. Time to wake up my fellow Texans.
4Hope the NFL follows through. Nothing like losing a s***tload of money to wake up the nutjobs.
5UPDATE: Add the NBA to the list. With a good expectation that the NCAA will join them. Sports is looking awfully grim. Add Major League Baseball and Miss Juanita Jean Herownself will go ballistic! She loves her some baseball.
6If he rolls within range, I’ll show him what I pee with.
7Good for major sports groups. They are one of the few industries with any power in Texas besides the oil lobbyists.
WOW!
A monopolistic State gets in a pi$$ing match with monopolistic billionaires game owners. Hard to find a side to take here.
As AG why didn’t now-governor do-nuthin investigate drug use, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and general bad citizen-ness amongst NFL owners, their families, coaches, and players. Oh yeah cause star athletes and such in Texas draw a bye. What unadulterated bull$hit.
8Abbott and Patrick are really keen on the Texas version of the Peckerchecker/Skirtlifter Bill. Kind of makes me wonder what os on their personal computers.
9Just saw the new Bill Maher show. His bit about the “Big R” is the best I’ve seen yet on IOKIYAR.
10How much did it cost for Trump to buy Abbott? $35K? Talk about cheap. When is a bribe not a bribe? When its a campaign contribution.
11A-Butt and Indicted Patrick have egg on their faces. Hope the cow was ovulating when she placed them eggs there.
12I guess I should post the synonyms for hypocrisy/snacilbupeR again. How about these for shameful/snacilbupeR?
immoral, criminal, evil, improper, naughty, shameful, unethical, wicked, outrageous, horrible, awful, bad, brutal, foolish, offensivey
Yeah, I’d say those are fitting synonyms for snacilbupeR.
13OK. that just about clarifies something that I have thought for lord knows how long: that athletics REALLY is organized religion in Texas.
14@montag#9- Got to chasing things around the intertubez net thingy and found there was such a thing as a skirt-lifter.Not speaking of two nephews of mine who felt they needed to check a mannequin( for anatomical correctness) in the department store in a small town out on the northeast plains of Colorado.I guess they concluded it was correct for a mannequin, anyway, the subject never came up again.
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