Capitalism is ruining the NFL (F.D. Signifier)

[Cloutius Maximus]

I know this dude gets written off in TLR as a "male feminist" but this video was extremely well done and insightful. I'm an NFL casual and I watched the whole thing in one sitting

He uses the example of running backs like Saquon Barkley being underpaid compared to other positions like wide receiver and qb's to explain why/how capitalism and the old cac owners are watering down the product to make more profit. I didn't even know about "Black jockey syndrome", that shyt was crazy

check this out yall, i highly recommend it. Includes interviews with retired players. you gotta click on the video to see it, you already know NFL gon act like some hoes. maybe download it before it gets inevitably removed

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

bumping this piff

 

[Apprentice]

lol fukk this soft ass nikka he always cryin bout sumn

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

lol fukk this soft ass nikka he always cryin bout sumn

he can come off a little soft but he did a good ass job with this video essay

 

[WIA20XX]

The Coli made it! NFL stopping slander from getting here

 

[Piff Perkins]

What does this have to do with capitalism beyond him attempting to get non-football watchers to give a shyt about the video. And yes, it is hyperbolic to compare the running back to the general labor market or claim "we're all dead" if the running back is dead lmao. Like you don't have to be a genius to understand a private, salary capped organization exclusively for elite workers/athletes is not comparable to...Ford, or Amazon.

I wonder if the running back treatment is a sign of things to come for other positions. If the NFL loses popularity, as young people are less interested in sports and immigration drives the popularity of soccer higher and higher, we could have a situation where salary caps decline. When that happens, will nerds be trotted out to explain why other positions need to be gutted? Remember a few years ago when they pretended like safeties weren't an important position in order to help justify the covert blackballing of Eric Reid? I remember a lot of safeties sitting at home during free agency that year, waiting for deals specifically so the league could pretend the position just wasn't important anymore. Now the entire league is running Vic Fangio 2 safety shell coverages. And ironically the best offense against that revolves around a strong run game...

The best teams in the league this year have good defenses and good run games. After years of AFC quarterbacks running the league, the best teams in the league are largely NFC teams led by...a 7th round pick, Jalen Hurts having an average year, and Jared Goff. If this season ends in the Niners running the ball down Miami's throat in a Super Bowl, will the copycat league of the NFL take notes or stick with the nerds?

 

[concise]

All the rules and decisions they make for "parity" reasons didn't tell you that everything they do is about money?

 

[papa pimp]

The NFL is a direct product of capitalism...

 

[mastermind]

I didn’t watch this video because the NFL is capitalism. I tend to like his videos even tho they are basic, I understand he is talking to stupid peoole.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

I saw this earlier this week and put together a damn good argument. Check out 14:00-16:00 to get a small jest of the vid.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

lol fukk this soft ass nikka he always cryin bout sumn

Soft? Only brehs do that shyt.

 

[KFBF]

I'm not watching the video. Is his argument that before the NFL had a good amount of capitalism but now the capitalism that disadvantages running backs is bad?

 

[Nero Christ]

The NFL is literally set up to make as much money per minute as possible. I've never seen a sport that starts and stops as much as it does and fills all those gaps with the amount of ads they do.

 

[Apprentice]

All the rules and decisions they make for "parity" reasons didn't tell you that everything they do is about money?

Breaking News: Business attempts to make as much money as they can

He put capitalism in the title to get non NFL people to watch it

 

[Harry B]

People talk about athletes like they're teachers, garbage men, nurses or some vital function in society.

It's the purest and probably oldest form of the entertainment industry without any elements of art or other things that make society better.
It's a pure function of capitalism. Schools were generally not fully capitalistic as most good schools are non-profit but even now with NIL, it's getting closer to pure capitalism there too. Same people that be saying "Capitalism is destroying" are teh same people that be saying "Get that money breh, he should be paid twice as many tens of millions"

The bad thing for the NFL players compared to the NBA is that - besides there only one league really - is that basketball players skills are generally a lot more differentiable than the average footballer. You can bring in a college RB and might not even notice the difference between him an a top ranked one. Can't bring in a college PG and him look like Harden or Ohtani or Mbappe. That's the real problem. Another problem with RBs today is how they just tend to plant their heads in big guys chests, not a lot of dime cutting a la Sanders anymore. These kamikaze pilots tend to look very Larry very quickly nowadays.


People wanna compare sports, positions and shyt that are fundamentally different.