Trump's tweets, NFL monopoly

The Data Tech Guy and Daniel Greenfield address two things about the NFL controversy that I think you'll find interesting.

Data Tech Guy writes that the Observer almost gets it on Trump's tweets vs MSM/NFL etc. The point that he makes is that media insists that Trump is obsessed with NFL when in fact it is they who are obsessed. Trump lobs a stink bomb and media reliable takes it every time without fail causing them to use his tweets to spin circles in narrative imagining they're damaging Trump, and winning a conflict of their own creation that they're actually losing while leaving Trump to work on other things that they leave unreported and leave him alone to see through unmolested.

Trump tossed out a provocative line at his rally and noticed the reaction he got there and then and knew in that moment he has something that he can use. He then makes two tweets and gets to work on the things that he wants, and Puerto Rico, while the media was fully concentrating on NFL and congratulating themselves over NFL victory over Trump. Actually reporting Trump is neglecting Puerto Rico. Until he tweets about that.

The Observer wrote that the tweets mean nothing and they take no effort to send. It's absurd that media reports that Trump spends all day caring about NFL, as they are, because he tweeted twice and they spend all day reacting. Media behaves as if all Trump does is tweet because they write dozens of articles about every single one instead of examining what Trump actually does.

Then the Observer writer misses her own point by writing she really wishes Trump would stop tweeting. And that's why Data Tech Guy says Observer almost gets it.

Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish blows my mind. I honestly don't know how he does this. His writing is sweeping and I'm humbled by his work. My own approach is observe from where I stand and relate that on some kind of personal level, find something that matches with personal experience and bring it down. While Daniel Greenfield is opposite by losing himself entirely as he takes grand sweeps encircling his subject from above. He is an impressive historian digging up things that you could never imagine and that for the most part nobody else writes about.

Greenfield writes flatly the NFL must be ended. It is an surprising piece of research.

Greenfield begins comparing salaries of Army recruits and compares them with starting salaries of NFL rookie, turns out to be $20,000 vs $465,000 minimum. Then he talks about about NFL arrests and the nature of their offenses. He writes it's no wonder they're eager to join Kaepernick's protests against the justice system by degrading our anthem, because they are criminals.

Plenty of other writers cover this same point as they do Greenfield's next point about taxpayers subsidizing stadiums. But where Greenfield gets interesting is noting these sweetheart deals are not uncommon. NFL gets a pass on property taxes. Until 2015 NFL was non-profit and the term "Professional football leagues" was inserted into Internal Revenue Code specifically to carve out a special non-profit status (how can he even know this?) while its commissioner Goodell became the highest non-profit executive in the country at $44 million in one year.

NFL is a trust, an illegal monopoly legalized by Congress.

Their monopoly allows NFL to cash in on television licensing and on team gear. And after they rip off broadcasters then ESPN rips off cable subscribers whether or not the subscribers even watch football.

Greenfield writes that NFL leftward tilt is not an accident. ESPN is bleeding subscribers while NFL anti-American turn alienates fans. The left is more likely to bail out their industry. Since they're in trouble, they must move left.

Here is where Greenfield's penchant for history impresses. He writes, once upon a time football was free market with competing multiple leagues. The NFL-AFL merger created a monster monopoly that crushed independent leagues by its control over broadcasting and venues.

This happened to United States Football League that won an antitrust case against NFL, but went under anyway.

The man at the center of the fight against NFL was Donald Trump owner of New Jersey Generals.

The monopoly that created the NFL was the result of Senator Russel Long, who took over his father's seat from his mother who held it after their father Huey P. Long. Russel spent four decades in the senate with no qualifications except his last name. The NFL got a monopoly in exchange for New Orleans getting a franchise. Another Louisiana senator, Boggs, held things up until he had assurance from NFL commissioner that the franchise was assured. It was a corrupt Democrat deal that created the NFL monopoly.

Greenfield writes, of course the NFL thinks the justice system is unfair. It was created by a crime and it's full of criminals.

Greenfield continues with his damning historic review and urges Americans to break up the corrupt Democrat monopoly, demolish the barriers to formation of independent leagues by taking on the NFL, ESPN and it's broadcasting partners in crime.

Okay, this is me bringing it down.

I met Russel Long's brother in Shreveport when I was a teenager. I recall him as a tall and dark thin man always dressed in a suit jacket and pants and tie-less unbuttoned shirt. I worked at Quality Inn that was run by my friend's mother. I did everything you'd expect a lad to do at the hotel. I had several positions over a summer. I basically lived at the hotel. At one point for several weeks I was working nights as cashier in the Hotel's nightclub. I wasn't old enough to drink but I could still be cashier. I met the most gorgeous cocktail waitresses that you can even visualize. Way out of my league but they all liked me real well. One of them liked to talk to me quite a lot. She told me her car broke down so she was driving her boyfriends VW that had manual shift. She did okay with the clutch but she didn't know that you have to press down on the stick shift for reverse. She could not get the car to slip into reverse so she drove all over town in such a way to avoid ever having to. She never parked in such a way that would require reverse, which caused considerable difficulty. I thought that was hilarious.

"You have to shove it down like through the floorboard."

"Oh. Why?"

"To make sure you don't make a mistake that could seriously damage the car."

"oooOOOoooh."

Mrs. Hennigan, my employer, had a friend who'd stop by and sit at the bar for hours each night in one of their plush red stools. His name was Palmer Long, a fallen down drunk. That guy could really sock 'em away. His dad was Huey P. Long, the Louisiana senator who was murdered on the statehouse steps in broad daylight, ganster style, and whose mostly oil-related corruption cast a very long shadow across all Louisiana. An historic figure, actually. Palmer would sit there all night, late into the morning drinking his face off. Listening to truly crap entertainment, usually duets, singing things that drunk people like such as "My Dingaling." And as the customers drank enough for it, everybody really did sing:

Ooooh my ding a ling, Everybody sing
I want you play with my ding a ling a ling
Ooooh my ding a ling, my ding a ling
I wanna play with my ding a ling a ling

I hate that song. It's so stupid. Night after night drunk people singing the same song as if it's the first time they ever heard anything quite so amusing.

Palmer said in his broad expansive very heavy Southern accent, raising his voice, orating actually, "Mah daddy used to always say that Russel will grow up to be senator and I will grow up to be a drunk.

*pause*

And Ah'm just trying to fulfill mah daddy's expectations. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. "

He had a practice of placing a $100.00 bill on the bar top then cradling his head into his folded arms as if passed out sitting at the bar to bait and to test other men sitting near him conversing. If they went for the bill then he'd bust them because he never did get so drunk as to actually pass out. He could really really slam them down. He was funny and engaging and obnoxious, as heavy drinkers often are.