Did you know that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is the son of a former GOP Senator from New York? It's true, although father and son barely resemble one another in their worldviews. Thanks to his opposition to the Vietnam War and other now-lefty positions, Charles Goodell (who died in 1987) would not be welcome in today's club of hatemongering knaves and fools known as the Republican Party. Roger? We're pretty sure he was in the voting booth last November checking the box for Donald Drumpf.
Pretty amazing when you consider that the younger Goodell has just been squeezed into the awkwardest of positions by America's mentally ill President, to whom many NFL owners have made huge political contributions. And now Drumpf — to distract from the looming debacles in Congress and the Alabama Senate race? — is lecturing them about how they should fire players who take a knee. Poor Roger: He's had to accuse Donald Drumpf of "divisive comments" and "a lack of respect" for the the league. Gosh, it must have just killed him.
On the other hand, maybe Roger really is mad. After all, most of his bosses— we'll leave out the nonprofit Green Bay Packers, who are publicly owned — are fervent capitalists who don't like anyone from government telling them how to run their businesses. They don't tell Drumpf how to run the country, do they? (Well, maybe in the case of Jets owner Woody Johnson, they do. Johnson is, inexplicably, the Ambassador to Great Britain.)
Personally, we cats hope that players sink to their knees en masse at today's games. We dislike football and its unthinking, testosterone-fueled culture, but we may set all that aside and tune in. Drumpf's assumption that "team owner" means people like Johnson and Lurie and Benson and Kraft own the very African-American human beings who play for them is just that offensive. Kneel away, guys! We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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