I wou
ld be willing to bet every last dime I have, I have ever had, or I will ever make, that If Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick were to kneel down on the sidelines to protest Muslim Islamic immigration into the USA or infringement of Second Amendment rights, neither the League, the President of the USA, or major media would defend them or, for that matter, allow it.
Political correctness as I have said many times on my radio show, and in this award-winning newspaper, is a death knell to the United States of America. We have extremely wealthy, spoiled men living in a nation run by a black president protesting what a rotten country the United States of America is. And now it has filtered down to other NFL stooges, high school teams and, if my guess is right, into fan stands at a theater near you. About a month and a half ago, your Dallas Cowboys asked the league to place a sticker on Cowboys’ helmets for the 2016-2017 football season in support of police officers murdered by a sniper this summer in Dallas. The League said no.
As Joseph Farah has written, members of your LA Rams football squad ran out on the field last year in St. Louis with their hands up spreading the lie that Michael Brown (remember: “Hands up, don’t shoot”) was an innocent victim of police brutality in Ferguson — and again no League consequences. NFL players have scrawled in black markers the words “I can’t breathe,” referring to Eric Garner, the black man who died in NYC, supposedly at the hands of brutal cops. Does anyone remember Reggie Bush being punished for that? I am, like so many thinking people, realizing what political correctness has done to destroy this country and its allegedly hard-hitting media. Kaepernick, on a national level, is being treated like a Beatle, and did anyone ever witness the fawning by Denver’s mommy media of Brandon Marshall?
I was the only one, in the Front Range media to point out that Century Link was advertising Brandon Marshall, in a Broncos uniform with the snake head horse picture, bundling Prism TV and all of your NFL games.
Enough of our audience, getting contact information for Century Link from our KNUS website, began calling Century Link and by 4 p.m. that afternoon, the company kicked Brandon Marshall to the curb.
I personally want the Denver Broncos, The Denver Post and Century Link to know, I take full responsibility for what happened to their spokesperson. I watched enough of the Monday Night Football games with the San Francisco 49ers on it and local sportscasters and media outlets treating Marshall and Kaepernick like heroes.
And now we discover, earlier this summer Marshall claims in Miami, in an unnamed restaurant with three unnamed people, he was manhandled, tackled and shackled and had a taser put on his chest by five of Miami’s finest. Who knows what happened to his three unnamed friends but in any event they just wanted Brandon. He claims that they promised to release him if he didn’t tell anybody. Of course, if the story is true he just broke his word, but what kind of idiot would trust Brandon in the first place. Secondly why has it taken this courageous social warrior so long to tell the story.
There, of course, would be reports and police communications that would be public records if he wanted to have the public truly believe him.
In an act of incredible generosity, Brandon has announced he will donate to some yet to be determined charity, $300 for every tackle he makes this season which will total $30,600 based on his performance last year. Considering he makes $8,666,666 base salary this year it is the equivalent of a $350 contribution for someone making $100,000 a year. How about showing you’re, in fact, a real social warrior Brandon, and you tithe 10% to as many of the of socially conscious like to do, or $866,666. This would leave you a mere $7.8 million to live on this year. How about it your wonderfulness.
For a man who says he wants to stop the hate and promote love why did you get fined $24,309 for a cheap shot on another African-American (Cam Newton). I thought that black lives matter.
Now it’s important to remember that during professional sports in Denver, baseball teams can empty dugouts and fight on the field, professional football players can remove their helmets and swing at one another, soccer players intentionally trip one another and your Colorado Avalanche, well that speaks for itself. Anybody see the cops get involved? The fact that the Chief will meet with him just simply shows the Mayor, Manager of Safety and the Chief of Police approve of Brandon Marshall’s social warriorism.
Now, here are my questions. By what metric will Brandon Marshall be satisfied that progress will be made over a problem he can’t define? Not one brave combat ready Denver media member will ask Brandon Marshall that question or “Brandon, when will you stand again?” or “When will you be satisfied that your nebulous demands have been met?” Not a chance in hell — those people would become overnight racists.
So when linebacker Marshall was told that his sponsors were dropping him, his quote was, “I won’t lose any sleep over that” — WHAT DEDICATION. What a sense of pride he must have taking people’s money to be their spokesperson. What a bunch of lay downs run the NFL. We know, political correctness does not tolerate free speech. The National Anthem and the U.S. flag hardly represent every racist thing in the United States of America. The flag and the anthem represent the Constitution, the freedoms and the rights. The good of our country outweighs the bad more than any country in history. Hey Brandon, go try it in North Korea. I don’t know about the rest of you, this reflects on the ownership of the Denver Broncos as well. The “blood of the city,” my dying rear-end.
Happy Halloween.
— Peter