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The Pride And Vanity Of The NFL And Its Fans

What Has The NFL Truly Become? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Let’s just talk about this slavish adulation of the pro football player, pro basketball player, pro baseball player. Few pro athletes, before they will accept any accolades for what they do -- they won’t even take them. The first thing they will say is: I just want to thank God. I want to thank my Lord and Savior […]

September 22, 2014 2

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The Cult Of Football Is Bloodthirsty

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – You can see that the religion plays out on most Sundays during late August all the way up till mid-January or so. Instead of finding yourself in a church for the actual participation in a religious ceremony, you will find yourself at a ballpark or at someone’s house as a facsimile of a ballpark for the proverbial tailgating and all that stuff. Check out […]

September 24, 2013 4

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NFL Breeds Culture Of Violence, And The Players Are Paying The Price In Brain Injuries

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If I understand what has happened here, players who think they may have suffered some dain bramage because of incessant blows to the head, helmet-on-helmet blows, may have suffered minor concussions and didn’t know it, their case is: They never told us we were suffering concussions. They should have told us that. They probably knew, they just didn’t tell us. They bring this lawsuit. […]

August 31, 2013 4

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Time For a Braunier MLB?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re going to pursue this from a naturalist point of view, is the sports-going, ESPN-digesting public going to be okay with baseball players that can’t hit the kind of homeruns that you can hit today, that can’t have -- you know what’s funny about this, or what’s interesting to me is that records like DiMaggio’s hitting streak, for example. We don’t know, we […]

July 23, 2013 17

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Phil Mickelson Is A True Gentleman Athlete And Role Model

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s stop right there. Some of you are going: Okay, what’s the point? Is there a punchline here, Mike? Well, there actually is. I have heard others who have won golf or football or baseball or basketball championships that say it’s the greatest moment of their lives. Mickelson said, and he repeated it, said it twice that it was the greatest moment of his […]

July 22, 2013 13