Decline to Watch Super Bowl XLIX

Decline to watch the Super Bowl in February 2015.

Make plans to be elsewhere than in front of the TV on NFL game days next football season.  If you really enjoy football, watch NCAA games instead.  They're better anyway.

No further need to use products that are advertised during NFL football.  They don't need your money.

See how long it will take for wealthy pro football sponsors to realize that the general public is their only source of revenue.

I recognize that the owners of the NFL have every right to express their opinion, as everyone does.  But threatening to take the venue away from Arizona just amounts to a rich guys club bullying for political influence.

The only way to make NFL owners understand public sentiment is for the majority of decent people to stand up for what is right.

It seemed to work well enough with the Duck Dynasty controversy.

I have no problem if Governor Brewer weighs the options and decides to veto.  But the NFL has no right to force the decision about legislative merit.

"Gay" in the News: NFL Threatens to Take Away

Arizona warning from NFL - "We have heard from our stakeholders".  I wonder who that could be?

Big money apparently believes they can exert pressure and coercive threats against Arizona governor Jan Brewer to force her to veto the Religious Freedom Restoration Act recently approved by Arizona Congress.

Arizona is currently slated to host the 2015 Super Bowl at Glendale’s University of Phoenix Stadium.  They stand to bring in significant revenue from hosting the party.

Opponents of the bill contend that it will allow Arizona businesses to refuse service to homosexual customers.  The claim is, NO GAYS ALLOWED" signs will suddenly spring up unconstrained all over Arizona - even though the bill itself is all about protection of religious rights, and addresses nothing specific that relates to "gay rights" advocacy.


Without the power to bring government sanctioned righteous wrathful lawsuits down on the impending flood of discrimination and bigotry, they predict that everyone will suffer from injustice and bad karma, and probably athlete's foot.

Sadly, the negative rhetoric appears to bear little relation to the actual legislation.  Vociferous opponents claim the law is nothing less than "Jim Crow" revisited.  But perhaps in this instance, the crow has lost a few feathers.

Perhaps this occasions an opportunity for an honest public expression of public interest from all those who watch NFL games and use products advertised during the televised games.  A note to the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell might change a few sentiments.  (National Football League, 280 Park Avenue Suite 12, New York, NY 10017-1216).

This approach seemed to work well in the case of Duck Dynasty and the Phil Robertson controversy.

"Gay" in the News: Monkey does WHAT to a Football?

 
"Coming Out" is popularized by NFL prospect Michael Sam.

Adds whole new meaning to "coming out", doesn't it?