Fans Can Take the NFL Back

October 17, 2025

I just had a conversation with a man at the local food store this morning, and he was venting to me about his disappointment with the NFL’s decision to go overseas and play games all over the world. The truth is that the National Football League has gone global, and it actually bothers me to say this, but football is no longer America’s game. It belongs to the world.

Let’s slow up for a second though, because other things have been happening along the way that a lot of people aren’t happy with. Collin Kapernick’s decision to kneel during the National Anthem at the start of NFL games to protest police brutality and racial inequality in the United States angers people, and I understand their frustration. Football WAS America’s game, and if you have the privilege of playing in the NFL and are allowed to earn a paycheck in the United States of America, you should want to stand for your country’s national anthem. In addition to that, people want the game of football isolated from outside political and religious influences. I agree, and I believe that Roger Goodell should’ve taken a stand on allowing the NFL to be used as a political platform by one or more of its players.

Let’s see, what else. Well, there’s the whole feminization of football in general brought on by female referees, players wearing pink, and random pictures popping up on the internet of homosexual players kissing one another. Then, we have the situation with the targeting call. The man who plays the game the way it was meant to be played and accidentally makes a tackle or hit that’s judged to be “targeting,” well, he gets kicked out of game, booed by the fans, and vilified.

Can you imagine? That unfortunate person is now the bad guy and made to feel like he did something wrong.

A cancer has gotten into the NFL, and it happened once former commissioner, Paul Tagliabue resigned. It’s the same cancer that plagues America today. It’s the same cancer that used the George Floyd incident to riot, loot, murder, and destroy our country’s historical monuments for seven months, it’s the same cancer that believes all white people are privileged and racist, and it’s the same cancer that fights for illegal immigration, wants transexual men to use woman’s bathrooms, and attacks good people for speaking the truth. It’s the same cancer that will be angered by this article and question how I was allowed to even write such a thing-like as if I’m not allowed to express my opinions or the concerns of others.

Who is Roger Goodell? Well, he’s the Commissioner of the NFL, and he’s a man that bent to the Black Lives Matter movement. Roger Goodell’s cousin, Andy Goodell, was an American politician elected to the New York State Assembly in 2010, and he was or is a lawyer and managing partner of the law firm, Goodell & Rankin.

Roger Goodell’s father, Charles Goodell, who’s also Andy’s uncle, was also an American politician who represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1968 and the United States Senate from 1968 to 1971. In both cases, Charles took office following the death of his predecessors.

Charles Goodell was actually appointed by Nelson Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Hmm, that’s really interesting.

So, as you can see, the Commissioner of our game comes from a family that’s powerful and politically connected in the United States, but especially in the state of New York.

Under this man’s watch, the NFL made it cool and fashionable for men to embrace and wear the color pink, hired women to officiate games, allowed people to disrespect our flag and our national anthem, allowed a second black national anthem (which promotes further division in this country), vilified, fined, and booed players for making innocent tackles, and sold our sport out to the entire globe.

That’s politics in the United States, and Goodell allowed politics to poison the game of football, but you know what? If the fans stopped going to the games and stopped watching the sport entirely, then I’m sure Roger Goodell would have to reevaluate some of his decisions.

But, as a nation, this is where we fail. When it comes to drawing lines and saying no more, we fail as a people. People are selfish, and heaven forbid if they missed a game. So, it’s business as usual and American’s will go on believing that football is still our game, even though it’s clearly not.