This morning, Karen Attiah contributed a piece in the Washington Post about how it’s time to cancel the NFL.  She summarizes the sorry history of the league as pertains to not only race, but to life threatening brain injury and other chronic injuries that result when 300 lb. guys smash into each other for years.  She also points out that the NFL teams have a terrible track record regarding domestic abuse and treating their players more like assets than people.  The league owners are generally ultra-conservative zillionaires who, as Attiah notes, run their teams with “plantation style” politics and tactics.  Said zillionaires are also more than happy to take billions of dollars from taxpayers for their new stadiums, then complain about taxes they have to pay taxes on the billions of dollars that flow into their pockets from people who pays upwards of several thousands of dollars a seat per game to watch 300 lb. guys try to kill and maim each other.  The whole thing is Orwellian.

After this last decision where players must stay in the locker room rather than exercise their right to free speech, I have to say that I’m pretty much done, too.  It’s not a big stretch for me since I love baseball, especially Astros baseball, WAY more, but I’ve enjoyed watching holiday games, and certainly the Super Bowl.  But it’s time to take a stand.  Maybe if the owners are hit in the wallet will their hearing improve.