TheJenFootball needs to change.
Primarily Black bodies being harmed for entertainment. Enriching primarily white people who own the teams.
Kinda reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Bruce Mirken@JenWojcik I'd go a step farther: Football needs to end. The #NFL should shut down.
I personally agree, but as a soccer watcher, I cannot go that far without being a hypocrite.
@JenWojcik Soccer is a much less violent sport than American football.
That's also true.
Micaela Olds@BruceMirken @JenWojcik this is my pipe dream, too.
SarahBCalif@JenWojcik One day humans will look back at the sport of American football and realize how similar it is to the gladiators of Rome.
RockyC@JenWojcik It’s not primarily Black bodies. It’s primarily Black bodies at this moment in time. There was a time when Black people were excluded from ALL professional sports and had to fight to be included.
I quit watching American football as soon as I started seeing stories about traumatic brain injury and CTE. The NFL will claim that they have adjusted the rules to make the game safer, but I don’t believe any of it. 
The NFL is horrible. It is the worst of capitalism in a neat little package, including the vertical integration from the university system, who benefits from all that unpaid labor.
Basketball and baseball are the same, but the NFL is especially egregious.