leeblair
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We don’t like Dak Prescott as the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. He doesn't stand in and take the hit while delivering a perfect strike to a receiver. He isn't a warrior on the field who will sacrifice himself for the good of the team. He is a pretender; he pretends to be a superstar.
But the NFL has changed. It no longer requires that a team find a guy who can make the team better on the field. He doesn't get hit. He doesn't need to be a leader of men.
He just needs to appear that he does all those things to the fans.
The NFL watered down the game in the name of player safety. They watered down the quarterback position, saying that NFL franchises couldn't be without their most valuable player, so they changed the rules so that anyone who hits the quarterback would be fined and villainized by the league. Now all a quarterback needs to do is to look good and appeal to a certain percentage of the fans and sell tickets.
Most players don't even wear knee pads anymore.
Because it's not a game anymore, but a show. So as the league learned when the Jets paid Joe Namath $400,000.00 back in the sixties, the big dollar contracts - not the quality of the competition- is what draws fans to the sport.
People worship the almighty dollar. So, while those of us who remember what professional football was complain about the poor quality of play in the NFL these days, a new generation of fans who choose their team because they like the colors of their uniforms are being courted by the NFL.
So it doesn't matter if the guy can play or not. All that matters is whether or not the NFL can sell him to this new breed of fans who don't go to the game for the football.
They go for the party.
And they're dumb enough to gamble on who has been chosen to win.
The NFL wins.
But the NFL has changed. It no longer requires that a team find a guy who can make the team better on the field. He doesn't get hit. He doesn't need to be a leader of men.
He just needs to appear that he does all those things to the fans.
The NFL watered down the game in the name of player safety. They watered down the quarterback position, saying that NFL franchises couldn't be without their most valuable player, so they changed the rules so that anyone who hits the quarterback would be fined and villainized by the league. Now all a quarterback needs to do is to look good and appeal to a certain percentage of the fans and sell tickets.
Most players don't even wear knee pads anymore.
Because it's not a game anymore, but a show. So as the league learned when the Jets paid Joe Namath $400,000.00 back in the sixties, the big dollar contracts - not the quality of the competition- is what draws fans to the sport.
People worship the almighty dollar. So, while those of us who remember what professional football was complain about the poor quality of play in the NFL these days, a new generation of fans who choose their team because they like the colors of their uniforms are being courted by the NFL.
So it doesn't matter if the guy can play or not. All that matters is whether or not the NFL can sell him to this new breed of fans who don't go to the game for the football.
They go for the party.
And they're dumb enough to gamble on who has been chosen to win.
The NFL wins.
