> ... football players these days pay a steep price for their paychecks. The average player career now lasts only a little over three years. But the much longer careers of players in positions that don’t face as much physical contact distort that average. Running backs regularly last no more than two years.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/06/the-super-bowl-and-the-super-rich-partners-in-slime/ #AmericanFootball #GringoBall #TheNFL
The Super Bowl and the Super Rich: Partners in Slime
The number of U.S. billionaires — only 13 in the first Forbes 400 count in 1982 — jumped to 66 in 1990 and 298 in 2000 and then all the way up to 404 in 2010 and 614 in 2020. All these billionaires desperately needed new high-profile playthings. Many found them in NFL franchises. In quick order, teams that had been selling in the tens of millions began going for hundreds of millions and then billions. In 2018, the hedge funder David Tepper spent $2.2 of those billions buying the Carolina Panthers. Four years later, Robson Walton, an heir to the Walmart fortune, led an ownership group that shelled out $4.65 billion to take possession of the Denver Broncos.
> The day, as programmed by the NFL, was set to celebrate New Orleans’s incredible history of Black music and culture. Yet, given the current climate of voluntary surrender to Donald Trump’s “anti-DEI” (anti-Black) obsession, it would not have surprised me if the NFL pulled the plug and just showed a hologram of Hank Williams Jr. on a loop...
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/super-bowl-chiefs-eagles-mahomes-hurts-kendrick-lamar-maga/ #uspol #SuperBowl #TheNFL #DavidZirin #EdgeOfSports
The Super Bowl Will Be a Spectacle of Black Excellence, but You’ll Need to Tune Out MAGA’s White Whine
The NFL, to my shock, has not prematurely surrendered to Trump and Elon Musk’s agenda of Black erasure.
Ariana Grande’s Divorce Settlement Blocks Ex Dalton Gomez From Future Tea-Spilling
The same media blackout applies to Grande, but it’s pretty clear which of them would have more to gain from a tell-all book.
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Matty Healy Pledges to 'Do Better' and Asks Crowd to Applaud His Apology
During a show on Monday, The 1975 frontman also said that some "men would rather do offensive impressions for attention than go to therapy.”
I Lived for Football Last Night
Patrick Mahomes learned the value of a comma, and anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers made his much-hyped debut as Jets QB only to be carted off the field seconds later.
Michael Oher of 'Blind Side' Fame Claims White Couple's Adoption of Him Was a ‘Lie’
In a new court filing, the retired NFL star says the Tuohys exploited him for profit via a conservatorship.
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