There are legitimate race issues in pro sports, but you have not addressed any of them here. A few trivial responses to your trivial article:
1. The percentage of NFL fans who are black is almost exactly the percentage of Americans who are black. The NFL has a huge, huge audience in black America.
2. It's not only the owners in the NFL who are white, but a large percentage of the players, many of whom have also had their own careers ruined by concussions and stress-related injuries.
3. If you really cannot understand the difference between sanctioning dogfighting and the contact that occurs in sport, then you don't have much business writing about sports in the first place.
Your last paragraph probably explains this article better than anything else: you've taken a decade(s) old memory and generalized it to the attitudes of millions of people. You were right at the beginning of the article: you don't know much about sports.
On The Dementia Bonus: Football as Black Servitude
There are legitimate race issues in pro sports, but you have not addressed any of them here. A few trivial responses to your trivial article:
1. The percentage of NFL fans who are black is almost exactly the percentage of Americans who are black. The NFL has a huge, huge audience in black America.
2. It's not only the owners in the NFL who are white, but a large percentage of the players, many of whom have also had their own careers ruined by concussions and stress-related injuries.
3. If you really cannot understand the difference between sanctioning dogfighting and the contact that occurs in sport, then you don't have much business writing about sports in the first place.
Your last paragraph probably explains this article better than anything else: you've taken a decade(s) old memory and generalized it to the attitudes of millions of people. You were right at the beginning of the article: you don't know much about sports.