Comments on: Attention NFL: Nice Message You’re Sending the Kids

By: Rick Foster

Rick Foster — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:04:16 +0000

Hi there. Well, the NFL ads. You know, asking the advertisers to advertise nice is like asking everyone involved in the Western expansion of the US to not dispossess the American Natives.

Wasn’t going to happen.

Ain’t going to happen.

However, if there are enough people of a similar mind, and one could actually organize them…

Boycott the darn media in question.

Hit ‘em in the pocketbook.

Then they have to listen.

You can’t play nice with Big Money. It doesn’t work.

Rick

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:16:14 +0000

Of course Vic should be allowed to work. He just shouln’t be allowed to play FB, with the high salary it brings. Find another job, like the rest of us. Won’t watch when the Eagles play either, Lisa.

By: Lisa Hoover

Lisa Hoover — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:39:29 +0000

You make good points, but I’m afraid I wasn’t too clear in this post. My issue now is with Goodell, not Vick. Of all the talented players to choose from, why him? Why not choose a QB without the stink of dead dog on him?

I *will put my money where my mouth is and I’m *not watching any Eagles games, even when it means missing a Bucs game in Oct. This isn’t about Vick, or his crime. This is about yet another instance of society overlooking talented and capable people who Do The Right Thing and ignoring a pathological character flaw in someone in order to fulfill their own agenda (i.e. “put butts in seats.”)

Every day I see adults and children conduct themselves in ways that leave me speechless. It’s no surprise, really, when you consider that there are precious few real consequences for anything anymore since no one seems to be willing to hold the bar any higher than floor-level.

By: Wolfger

Wolfger — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:56:15 +0000

As reprehensible as what Vick did is, people are really, seriously, taking things too far. If you had your way, the man would never have a job again. There are worse crimes than dogfighting, and none of them carries with it that sort of penalty. Our legal system may be flawed, but it is what it is. Vick was caught and punished, and it was not just a slap on the wrist. Should it have been more severe punishment? I think so, but the courts did not. It is not the NFL’s place to dish out punishment to criminals. It is the NFL’s place to put talented football players on TV, so that the fans can enjoy the game.

So it’s on *US*. Do not watch any games in which Michael Vick is present. Send letters to the NFL and the Eagles informing them that you will not watch any game in which Michael Vick is present. You think his job is to throw a football downfield. It is not. His job is to put butts in seats and increase revenue. If they feel he is not doing his job, he will lose his job.

Of course, that won’t happen. Philly fans will still fill the stadium. If Vick starts and wins games for them, they will cheer him. This is not the NFL’s fault. But nobody wants to blame themselves…

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:06:10 +0000

I couldn’t have put it better. MAYBE they’ll listen (riiight!). I overheard my 5 & 9 yr-old grandsons talking. They love football & basketball, the older one playing football. The 9 yr-old stated that he was going to practice & be good at FB because he wants to play on an NFL team because he can do anything he wants & nobody will punish him. They’ll just get mad for a while. The younger one wanted to know why FB players are always doing “bad things,like Michael Vick, but later it’s OK”. It’s a real testimony to young men when you have to use sex in your ads to keep them watching your game. One day a child growing up now *will be president. Glad I won’t be here then.