Featured Discussion Saints vs. Buccaneers Game Day Thread

[TheOak]

Originally Posted by Flipx99

I can appreciate your frustration with discussions turning political.

From a different perspective, there are a lot of people who followed the Saints for decades who feel that something that was a big part of their lives has been taken from them by a cultish, dishonest "movement."
We are only starting the season, so I think it's understandable that people are just getting used to yet another "new normal." (Thanks 2020).

You may think we should just ignore it and carry on. Personally, I don't think that acquiessing is the right answer.

We are seeing the corrupt message of BLM downloaded to our society at every turn.

The BLM message is not a system upgrade. It is malware.

The players and the league made this about them, we didn't.

So here is my reply as a fan for many decades.

The New Orleans Saints football team was born out of political corruption and dishonesty so please forgive my disillusion. For me to say that something was "taken from me" means that I allowed something to be taken from me and this old soldier isn't near ready to entertain that.

This league and game have always been about the players, the fans made it about the players when they started wearing jerseys with their names on their backs, when they started looking up to the players as role models, when fathers started carving time away from family to watch their favorite players.

You say that by watching the Saint's that I have acquiesce, where to the contrary they have taken nothing from me because I refuse submission. On the other hand the movement set out to disrupt your life and as you have pointed out, they have succeeded by taking a pleasure from you.

What you and many thousands fail to understand is that had Kaepernick keeled and no one said a word, *****ed, or moaned.. it would have gone away by now. Once 'they' saw the misery they could inflict they knew they had power and stood on the throttle, it was the angry viewers that gave them their voice.

You are more than welcome to search all my replies here to see how i feel about the entire thing, its no secrete that I thought it was a cowards action in front of a captive audience. Not for one minute will that sort of poor character take something from me. Ever.