"Can We Talk About Football?"

[grampahol]

As far as the disgust level in people, well it takes more and more to get people's ire up enough to affect change. 
Think about that the next time you find yourself able to just step over or around someone on the sidewalk begging for a bit of spare change because they're so down on their luck they've been reduced to it.
NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY who has a decent job, nice home and good family just wakes up one day and says, 'You know what? The good life isn't for me. I'd much rather go hungry and be detested by society and have to beg for change than this nice life!'  Nobody just wakes up and says, 'You know, wouldn't it be great if I could become a heroin addict and go to jail today? '
The more you're exposed to these things the easier they become to stomach. 
Just a few years ago NO politician would have dared utter the things Trump did to get elected. Just the mere appearance of siding with fringe political groups used to be enough to disqualify any politician in the public eye and yet the ***** grabbing tape was largely discounted as "locker room banter". If an NFL player uttered such things in public the league would do away with them post haste..but not a politician? The so called leader of the free world? 
That's just one example. There are quite literally millions of others available all day every day on YouTube and other venues. 
We're exposed to death and destruction every single day now in the news and movies not to mention the vile language in popular media. There was a time not long ago no television network would permit the 7 dirty words. Now they're common and many people don't think twice about letting their children watch and listen to it. Hell, for that matter your kids can now log in to watch porn all day and we all know guys who couldn't get laid to save their lives and even if they could they have absolutely no clue how to talk to a woman. How many guys think the way to get a date online is to send girls dick pics?  
 Society has become so utterly absurd nobody could have possibly predicted this just 20 years ago and yet here we are.. Welcome to bizarro world..  

How many of you my age or close thought for sure we'd have flying cars by now? Who even dreamed you could watch football on your phone? 
We want to believe football is a pure sport, but consider the Bengals drafted a guy in prison before Bob Trumpy.. A prison inmate drafted for the NFL? Yes, that happened and that was in 1968..but of course the league isn't corrupt..