HELP BRING DOWN THE NFL

    The long-overdue backlash against the corrupt and degenerate National Football League is accelerating and showing no signs of abating. The decline of this organization appears now to be irreversible. Unless they institute some radical reforms they're heading down the tubes along with their confederates in the Corporate Media.

    Here's a few resources that have come to light over the last few days, for those readers whose activism is inclined to go further than boycotting games or publically burning NFL regalia---which is also going on across the country.

     1. The Wall Street Journal and Zero Hedge have been reporting today that subscribers to Direct TV's NFL Sunday Ticket service have been cancelling their contracts. There are reports that subscription refunds in various forms are now available. At any rate, fans who subscribe to Direct TV or similar services should cancel and try to get refunds. It may not always succeed, but where it does it means money that won't go to the NFL.

      2. An online movement has started to boycott Wall Street/Corporate NFL sponsors.

        Consumer boycotts usually have mixed results; but putting consumer pressure on these companies is certainly possible. What has a huge impact is when stockholders---including people with IRA-type funds---start divesting shares in these firms and encouraging stockbrokers not to trade them. Significant shareholders can pressure the company more directly. In any case, the monopoly-minded NFL likes giving exclusive 'sponsorship' rights to certain companies; so it is relatively easy for consumers to switch from one of these companies to another.

          Just as a side note, USAA---one of the companies listed---is a financial services company for military veterans. Veterans can contact their local VFW or other veterans' groups to apply the appropriate pressure.

          3. Several other bloggers have been exposing the fat tax subsidies and illegal tax breaks and monopoly privileges that the NFL gets from politicians at all levels. The NFL is also a tax-exempt non-profit organization (how that is legal we've no idea). Political activists can move GOP (and even sympathetic working-class Democrats) officials to take political action. Some suggestions:

          a.) Revoke the NFL's non-profit standing since they violate it by taking political positions.

            b.) Lobby to end any taxpayer subsidies to NFL.

            c.) Pressure legislators and state Attorneys-General to bring anti-trust suits against the NFL.

              And we're certain that legal minds can think up other creative ways to bring the NFL to some kind of accountability.

            There's a growing movement to start a new professional football league on the ruins of the old. The last major competitor to the NFL was the USFL during the 1980s. As an interesting side-note, President Trump used to own a USFL team. So we can presume the White House would be sympathetic to the idea.