What the NFL sells is entertainment. The players are, from a commercial perspective, entertainers. The NFL is a little different from other entertainment organizations in that it has engaged, quite successfully, in a decades-long PR campaign to achieve identification with the "America Fuck Yeah" version of Americanism. It's not just entertainment; it's fucking symbolic.
Many entertainment consumers (but certainly not "everyone") feel that an entity that wants to symbolize America should, perhaps, expect a higher than average standard of behavior from its employees. Consumer sentiment in the free market and all that.
Nothing to do with yesterday's "whupping" of the Vkings? Clearly, they missed that filip of near-homicidal rage that Peterson brings to the game.
Welp, I see my Sundays being full of Doctor Who and Star Trek reruns, as well as this "outside" place that is apparently very popular.
What the NFL sells is entertainment. The players are, from a commercial perspective, entertainers. The NFL is a little different from other entertainment organizations in that it has engaged, quite successfully, in a decades-long PR campaign to achieve identification with the "America Fuck Yeah" version of Americanism. It's not just entertainment; it's fucking symbolic.
Many entertainment consumers (but certainly not "everyone") feel that an entity that wants to symbolize America should, perhaps, expect a higher than average standard of behavior from its employees. Consumer sentiment in the free market and all that.
I suspect it also has to do with the fact that they pay Peterson a large fraction of a million dollars for every game, whether he plays or not.
A rosary, six holy cards, and a Costco-size six-pack of lube!
Nothing to do with yesterday's "whupping" of the Vkings? Clearly, they missed that filip of near-homicidal rage that Peterson brings to the game.
Welp, I see my Sundays being full of Doctor Who and Star Trek reruns, as well as this "outside" place that is apparently very popular.
We have a winner!
Remember when Dubya used to talk about Saddam's "rape rooms"?
Abuse needs its personal space!
Maybe you can get bullfights on Telemundo.