September 04, 2020
A Game that has Lost it's Way
Mark Musser
In 2017, I wrote an article for the American Thinker entitled, "The Leaven of Political Football" not realizing how prophetic the piece was as the NFL has now become completely politicized. The Left believes everything is political, one of its major pillars, and so here we are, including football now too. Yet everyone knows that politics ruins everything. It ruins churches too, not just governments or economics or even marriage/sex/biology. I used to love to go down to my McLane voting precinct to vote in person when you had to show them your voting registration card and then vote in a private booth to secure the sacredness of the vote, but that is now over as well with mail-in balloting. Since that started, virtually everyone I vote for today never wins. I used to love the weather, until that got politicized through the political foolishness of the global warming apocalypse. I also used to like football too in the autumn, but that is gone now too thanks to the COVID madness and an egregious political correctness that now extols Nazi style racism as something positive and good. Yet I grew up on the Super Seventies of the NFL, not realizing then how spoiled I was by it as I have watched the game slowly deteriorate and become increasingly politicized and ruined by legalism and lawyerism. It has been going on for quite some time really, building more and more since 1978 with some serious rule changes that specifically favors offenses over defenses. And then there was the destruction of the James Gang of University of Washington football program in the early 90's as a harbinger of the much bigger things to come that we see so much of today. Don James was one my favorite coaches of all time. He has since passed away and was a Christian who taught a number of college youths on how to become men - Warren Moon being one of them who would later go on to the Hall of Fame.
The Rams were my favorite in the 70's, but the Raiders were a very close number 2 thanks to John Madden. Here is their Autumn Wind song, which is full of nostalgia now for a game that has completely lost its way - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLmxtiVOe0&list=LLIq5Jdn61sTeof2Zi0pAJ3w&index=115.
In 2017, I wrote an article for the American Thinker entitled, "The Leaven of Political Football" not realizing how prophetic the piece was as the NFL has now become completely politicized. The Left believes everything is political, one of its major pillars, and so here we are, including football now too. Yet everyone knows that politics ruins everything. It ruins churches too, not just governments or economics or even marriage/sex/biology. I used to love to go down to my McLane voting precinct to vote in person when you had to show them your voting registration card and then vote in a private booth to secure the sacredness of the vote, but that is now over as well with mail-in balloting. Since that started, virtually everyone I vote for today never wins. I used to love the weather, until that got politicized through the political foolishness of the global warming apocalypse. I also used to like football too in the autumn, but that is gone now too thanks to the COVID madness and an egregious political correctness that now extols Nazi style racism as something positive and good. Yet I grew up on the Super Seventies of the NFL, not realizing then how spoiled I was by it as I have watched the game slowly deteriorate and become increasingly politicized and ruined by legalism and lawyerism. It has been going on for quite some time really, building more and more since 1978 with some serious rule changes that specifically favors offenses over defenses. And then there was the destruction of the James Gang of University of Washington football program in the early 90's as a harbinger of the much bigger things to come that we see so much of today. Don James was one my favorite coaches of all time. He has since passed away and was a Christian who taught a number of college youths on how to become men - Warren Moon being one of them who would later go on to the Hall of Fame.
The Rams were my favorite in the 70's, but the Raiders were a very close number 2 thanks to John Madden. Here is their Autumn Wind song, which is full of nostalgia now for a game that has completely lost its way - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLmxtiVOe0&list=LLIq5Jdn61sTeof2Zi0pAJ3w&index=115.
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