{"id":40406,"date":"2013-12-11T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40406"},"modified":"2013-12-12T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:07:10","slug":"its-apparently-not-just-the-players-who-are-suffering-from-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40406","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Apparently Not Just The Players Who Are Suffering From Concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Roger Goodell, President, The National Football League<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0It&#8217;s Apparently Not ThePlayers<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Goodell,<\/p>\n<p>You run a tax-exempt &#8220;non-profit&#8221; that is the biggest license to print money in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Your organization regularly loots city and state treasuries to build your venues &#8211; including mine. \u00a0You&#8217;ve crudely extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from our idiot governor and from a bunch of legislators who should have known better, using tactics that well befit the mobsters that are among the main beneficiaries of your profits.<\/p>\n<p>Your athletes have turned, over the past thirty years, from role models into reprobates.<\/p>\n<p>But you turned down <em>this <\/em>Super Bowl ad, from <a href=\"https:\/\/danieldefense.com\/\">Daniel Firearms<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQLQxnOZmvc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(To whom I&#8217;ll be giving free advertising, today and on Super Sunday, and likely more than a time or two in between)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m picturing the reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because you&#8217;re worried about violence<\/strong>: \u00a0So are we. \u00a0Especially when I go into a bar or restaurant where there might be NFL players present. (Yep, I used to DJ at the old Eddie Websters. \u00a0To be fair, back then the biggest danger was being on the same stretch of road as a Viking after closing time).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because you&#8217;re worried about the game&#8217;s image<\/strong>: \u00a0Right. \u00a0Hey, is that Miley Cyrus&#8217; ass at the halftime show?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because you&#8217;re in bed with a bunch of liberal metro-area politicians<\/strong>: \u00a0Oh. \u00a0Right.<\/p>\n<p>I think you might just be creating some baseball fans out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Roger Goodell, President, The National Football League From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: \u00a0It&#8217;s Apparently Not ThePlayers Mr. Goodell, You run a tax-exempt &#8220;non-profit&#8221; that is the biggest license to print money in the United States. Your organization regularly loots city and state treasuries to build your venues &#8211; including mine. \u00a0You&#8217;ve crudely extorted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,77,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-40406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-rare-sports-post","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40443,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40406\/revisions\/40443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}