NFL Football Is Hurt by the Recession. Good

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Anyone who loves sports and cannot respect the opinions of someone who does not is a meat head. Stop killing your brain with beer for one second and use your head for something usefull for once.

Ryan of IL 5:38PM November 29, 2009

You are sad people lol no one cares what she has to say. Sports are sports, part of americas culture. get a clue

Travis of MO 4:22PM October 29, 2009

I disagree with her. But I'm not mad at her either. Like everything in life, the issues are more "textured" rather than black and white. Somehow she has convinced someone to cut her a check for spewing nonsense - and I'm sure she has an audience (like Ann Coulter) who totally agrees with her uneducated, uninformed comments.
Rather than rail against Football – why don’t you put that self proclaimed intellectual superiority to some other good use?

Kevin of CA 8:10PM February 25, 2009

I'll just jump in here and defend you. The NFL can suck my left nut, and I could give a flying crap about grown men who play a game for a living and make millions of dollars per year parading around in multi-hued tights and a bunch of padding that only a gigantic wuss would consider wearing while playing a real 'sport'. The NFL blows, I hope they go completely under, and that all of you tools who are so caught up in living vicariously through sports stars have to go and get actual damn lives. Thank you very much.

Ben Jenkins of NY 4:47PM December 15, 2008

Hey, Gloria Steinem...how about actually laying out some coherent argument for why you disklike football? "Intellectual nullity"? Do you have any idea of the level of intelligence it takes to create a playbook, install an offense or defense, scheme against other coaches/players, etc.? Could you diagram a football play if your life depended on it?
Football..the NFL (and presumeably college as well)...is "offensive" to you? That's what you're wasting your column inches on? Really? With all of the truly evil, offensive things that go on in the world, this is the burr under your saddle?
US News management...when the axe must fall, I think you know where to look. Someone that's so glib about others losing their jobs would be a good person to eliminate from your payroll.

Matt of MN 4:53PM December 14, 2008

So because you don't like football, you revel in people who work for the NFL losing their jobs? These people don't work for the teams. They aren't players. They aren't NFL execs making any of the choices that might offend you. They are the people running the web site, working at the film and television production facilities, secretaries working in the office.
Hopefully US News has layoffs next week of just one, and then people can write celebratory articles about your own misfortune.
You, bonnie, are an abomination of your race.

Martin White of CA 4:51PM December 14, 2008

Let me get this straight, Bonnie. You're happy about 150+ people losing their jobs, just before the holidays no less. Working class folks who live paycheck to paycheck; folks who now may not be able to afford to stay in their homes (particularly in NY and NJ). The NFL didn't cut multi-million dollar salaried players, or 6-figure income earning upper management types, nor did the owners take a pay cut, dear. They fired people like you and me. Well, ok, not people like you - people like me actually care.

Sculptor of NJ 4:37PM December 14, 2008

But it seems mored than a tad bit ungracious to find joy in another's sorrow.
Ironic when a journalist chooses to depict the decline of American civility over the more stereotypically "brutish" football player

Derrick Gibson of FL 3:20PM December 14, 2008

Frankly, I am not sure where to begin. I have a multitude of things I would like to say, but I will keep it short and on point: Quite simply, schadenfreude is never appealing. It is exponentially less appealing when you are exhibiting pleasure at seeing 150 people... who, regardless of who they work for, are human beings... lose their jobs as the holidays approach. I am not above snickering at the downfall of the self-important or downright evil among us who take rather than give to society... Governor Blagojovich I am looking your way. However, as far as I know, none of these people lied or cheated or cooked the books or ran Ponzi schemes or conspired to sell a U.S. Senate seat or do anything particularly wrong beyond working at the wrong place at the wrong time when the economy went sour. To somehow take pleasure in this because you don't happen to like football is... well... not very nice.

Ken of NJ 3:07PM December 13, 2008

the number of men it leaves crippled, the way it encourages young athletes to "shoot the moon" and plan for the pros, only to leave 99 out of 100 of them overweight and undereducated after they haven't made the team...
Nevertheless, having some non-players cut from office jobs doesn't do anything to reform Pro football; it just hurts workers out of a job. I don't think Bonnie thought this one through before pressing "Post".

of WA 8:25PM December 12, 2008