Trump Booed at NFL Game After Demanding Stadium Is Named in His Honor
www.thedailybeast.com
Football fans didn’t hold back their thoughts about the guests of honor at a game in Maryland.
  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    5 days ago

    Was at a bar watching NFL with the bros when they kept showing his fucking face.

    We tried to ignore it at first but they just kept showing it.

    We started loudly booing. At one point I shouted “WHY AM I BEING FORCED TO STARE AT A FELON RAPIST JUST TO WATCH FOOTBALL?”

    This bar is in California, but I guarantee some conservatives were there. Too bad. They’re filth and are putting felons and rapists on television during football games. I don’t give a fuck if it hurts their feeling for me to say this shit in a public space. Decorum goes out the window when you’re forcing sports fans to sit and listen to a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and insurrectionist.

    The NFL is getting pretty fucking gross. Just in the last few weeks they’ve put a felon rapist on the air, one of their ex-quarterbacks stabbed an old man, and a new player ran from the cops and then blew his brains out.

    The fuck is going on with that organization?

      • atmorous@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 days ago

        This is why we shouldn’t have any monopolies on any sport. NFL is only big thing for Football, etc

    • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      5 days ago

      I feel like the problems you listed with the NFL have always been there, you may have just glazed over them since it only involved the organization and players\coaches and not a president.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 days ago

      The fuck is going on with that organization?

      My two-cents on the matter: The NFL’s relationship with problematic decisions and/or optics, have been a thing for a long time now.

      • Military flyovers1
      • Strictly IMO: player “draft” process resembles an auction
      • Predominantly black player base with white team ownership
      • “Redskins” as a team name for far longer than the public felt it acceptable
      • Entire league suffering from concussions2, life-altering injuries after retirement
      • History of team owners doing all kinds of problematic stuff, but keeping their jobs regardless
      1. My problem here is that we’re talking commercial sports, an institution one could feasibly use as a refuge from politics. But we add rah-rah military back in, opening the door for nationalism, because screw all that.
      2. There are lawsuits out regarding a possible cover-up (going back a long time) by the league in this area, as highlighted in recent news.
  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    6 days ago

    I can’t find a longer video than what’s in the article. It’s pretty harsh. I had to check since sometimes it’s not as bad as they say. What is he reading?

    Edit: I had to do the thing, it’s in the article:

    The jeers came down even harder when Trump, flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, read out the military Oath of Enlistment to swear in new troops.

    • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
      12·
      6 days ago

      Bonespurs’ tongue should have burst into flames, him reading that oath to others is… rich.

      God I need to stop reading news these days.

  • turdcollector69@lemmy.world
    34·
    5 days ago

    I really haven’t heard booing in any of the clips. I hate trump but these Rorschach clips are so annoying because it’s obvious that people just hear what they want to hear.