They are subordinates and it implies that they are unsuited to be running the show....because they are. The players are only looking out for their own short term interests and whims which is fine, but given that they aren't concerned with the long term interests of the league, their input is inferior to that of the owners. The players don't care if there is an NFL 20 years from now....which is why they are ill suited to run the asylum that is the NFL.
Good research, although while it doesn't have any provable racial connotation, it definitely has a negative and pejorative one. Chaplin's utterance here is also somewhat self-referential and self-deprecating, McNair's is not.
My first high school required everyone to play sports, had black and white football jerseys exactly like this.
Not too long ago, I said this phrase to a couple of my employees directly about them. I meant it sincerely but in a joking way. They laughed and took no offense. I knew they wouldn't. (BTW, both are white). Pretty dumb of McNair to use those words in that particular context. While cringeworthy, it isn't enough to prove he's a racist. I don't believe he is. At the same time, if you can't understand why a lot of players are upset, you are totally clueless and emotionally ignorant. The choice of words, the timing and the fact he's a well-known Trump donor are the perfect storm. Maybe we should cut McNair some slack because he's a really old guy.
Bob McNair is possibly the nicest sports owner this town has ever seen. When talking marketing the inmate cliche applies. The inmates don't understand nobody has to pay money or watch them toss a ball around. It's entertainment. They aren't bringing attention to a subject. All these police incidents are well documented and NFL players are in no position to preach on humanity given the type of trouble some of their peers get into. Can't me when an owner kills his estranged girlfriend or her brother as two separate players have done in the recent past
lol I might be the only one in the us of a that likes that steelers early 1900s uniform. But I also like the Juventus kit.
The American public does, and has to an increasing degree, for the last forty years. The owners have each been gifted quarter to half billion dollars in franchise value in the form of taxpayer funded stadiums because of the inmates' abilities. The owners have been granted a regulatory exception to century-long antitrust law to preserve their profitability and sabotage any and all competing leagues. The "inmates" who have been training and performing at a legitimately elite level from late adolescence onward understand their value and role, which they continue to perform at full capacity for three to four hours after a silent, non-emotive, symbolic gesture during a two-minute waltz. The "inmates" are intelligent enough to hire agents and publicists, just as the owners are intelligent enough to hire coaches, accountants and salespeople, each to leverage as much cash as possible.
This has got to be one of the more laughable examples of SJW nonsense I've seen in a long while. Thank you CTE for providing the comedy.
So is that why the owners gave Roger Goodell discretionary suspension power to try to stop players from getting in trouble off the field. You think they did that because the players understand their legal problems can be a drag on everyone's pockets?
Everyone understands that and the players aren't inherently criminal, they perfectly understand their role and prominence as reflected by the amount of community and charity work they do, as well as their daily interactions with the press from college onward; far more relevant than whatever behavioral insecurity you're projecting onto them because of our shared heritage.
I agree with this. I don’t think it’s racially charged. But disrespecting your employees by basically saying “hey, they’re idiots; why let them have a say?” is a pretty classless thing.
Bro I'm not projecting. NFL players have been involved in murders. The league did give Goodell expanded suspension authority. Yes most players don't get in trouble but the. NFL did have a criminal element problem.
The reason I'm talking about the players and their law enforcement problems is because the outraged over something like McNair's comments is ridiculous in the grand scheme of things. Secondly the players protesting the police when the NFL has by far the worst history of crime as far as sports leagues makes it look even more ridiculous An owner never committed murder
This is something I've brought up before. For a long time I've been very bothered by the idolization of Ray Lewis yet we didn't see calls to take down his statue in Baltimore until he kneeled during the national anthem and as a retired player at that. I agree with you that there are far larger problems in the NFL with players being involved in crime as one of them. That said you didn't see wide scale protests towards the NFL over those issues but you do now over kneeling during the national anthem. From what I can tell many of the same people who idolized and defended Ray Lewis before are the same people upset at him kneeling. In the minds of many unanswered questions regarding a murder and possible obstruction of justice isn't as important as a symbolic protest.
