San Francisco Forty-Niners vs Seattle Seahawks Today 1/19/2014

The Niners play the Seahawks today and the winner will go to the Super Bowl.

I'm a long-time Niners fan, so naturally I am rooting for San Francisco.  I'll be happy if the Niners win, but I won't be crushed if the Seahawks do (I'll be mildly down for the rest of the day, but that's all).  The reason is simple:  sports are for fun, they are not the end-all and be-all of existence.

I am supposed to attend a compulsory meeting of the tax preparers for my employer today, and that meeting would prevent me from seeing the game.  Sports may not be the be-all and end-all of existence, but I'll be damned if I am going to miss the game.  So I informed my wife that I won't be attending the meeting, and if anyone asks, it's because I have a temperature.  Yep, a temperature of 49 degrees F.  Or, Forty-Niner-itis.  What if they fire me??? Let 'em.

Seattle has the home-field advantage, and their fans are purposely noisy in order to disrupt the plays of their opponents, when those opponents are on offense.  Seattle has refused to sell tickets to the game to Californians, probably to prevent any rooting section for the Forty-Niners.  That's a bit chickensh*t, but it does show how seriously many people take football.

Oh, there's another game today as well, between the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos.  That game will decide the other team that goes to the Super Bowl.

Probable winners today?  Seattle and Denver (because both have home field advantage).  However, as I told my friend Curmudgeon of Political Clown Parade, quoting the late Al Davis:  "football is a game of funny bounces."  Nothing is certain when two great teams collide.

Rush Limbaugh 's Rebuttal of the Smears and My Boycott of the National Football League

Rush Limbaugh has written an article for the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Race Card, Football and Me."  Rush writes in his own defense:

I never said I supported slavery and I never praised James Earl Ray. How sick would that be? Just as sick as those who would use such outrageous slanders against me or anyone else who never even thought such things.

The sports media elicited comments from a handful of players, none of whom I can recall ever meeting. Among other things, at least one said he would never play for a team I was involved in given my racial views. My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind society where every individual is treated as a precious human being without regard to his race? Where football players should earn as much as they can and keep as much as they can, regardless of race? Those controversial racial views?

Read it all here.

I have decided to personally boycott football for the rest of the season.  I will not watch or follow any teams or any games, including the Super Bowl.  When even sports in America becomes politicized and tainted by the dirty-pool slander of the left, it is time to withdraw my support.  I am not pretending that this will grow and spread and have any impact whatsoever on the NFL; I do it because I am alienated and disgusted.  I do not wish to be a part of something tainted with slander and injustice.

Update:  Al Sharpton has threatened to sue Rush Limbaugh for his factual descriptions of Sharpton's documented bigotry.  What a laugh that would be!  See graphic above that I created back in 2007.

Related Post:  See Powerline's article on Al Sharpton, "Lucky Al."