Bob McNair

[Arky]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Before now, McNair was considered a model owner - someone who built mediocre teams, spent enough but not too much, willing to be on various committees and generally stayed out of the headlines. I was happy to see the Texans largely ignored in this whole sideline thing.

That was, of course, before the "inmates" comment and now McNair is Bull Connor with the fire hoses. Proof again that you can say and do 100 things to help blacks and the black community and the first time you open your mouth in opposition, the media lynch mob comes out to accuse you of fondling white hoods in your private moments.

Where is Rick Smith while his boss twists in the wind? Does he not speak or is the media unwilling to give him a voice because it might dent their narrative?

They're comparing McNair to Donald Sterling who, you'll recall, won awards from the Los Angeles NAACP prior to his being pilloried by the press and also sold the Clippers at a huge profit to another group of whites. Some punishment.

Also, aren't the black athletes who are offended self-identifying as prisoners by voicing their offense? If he said we can't let the clowns run the circus, would they self-identify as clowns?

Nonetheless, several here expressed their firm desire to see McNair sell the team and I suspect he'll be hounded until he does unless he kisses ass sufficiently. All you need to do is look around the NFL to see the quality of ownership around the league to realize it could be much worse than what we have.

Totally agree. Good post. I might add:

KEEP THE POLITICS OFF THE FIELD

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Arky

KEEP THE POLITICS OFF THE FIELD

It's not politics. I'm sorry you see it that way.

[Arky]

Originally Posted by chuck

It's not politics. I'm sorry you see it that way.

It's not? Well, you need to get the word out. How about the word "agenda"? Better?

If I pay for entertainment, I want entertainment not entertainment + politics/agendas. The golden goose that is the NFL is being given small doses of poison each and every week. Many have left. I am not far behind.

[chuck]

McNeck's at it again.

Sexual harrassment is literally a joke to this fkface.

[HPF Bob]

A link might have been appropriate.

This appears to be it:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...son/457174002/

McNair is defending outgoing Panthers owner Jerry Richardson claiming Richardson's comments "might have been joking" and "didn't mean to offend anyone".

But it's really hard to tell what was said from all the editorializing contained in the story.

I'm sure McNair and Richardson are both friends and Carolina "good ol boys" and McNair probably hates to see a friend and someone he sees as a model owner being forced out. That's how I read it. Can we expect men in their 70s who grew up in a completely different environment than the hypersensitive one we live in today to completely "get it" when others accuse them of inappropriate comments? In our #MeToo generation where a hand on a shoulder can be blown up into a firing offense?

McNair would have been smart to simply say "no comment" or steer the conversation elsewhere but he sees a friend under siege and wanted to offer some support.

[barrett]

He basically said Richardson got a raw deal and shouldn't have had to sell the Panthers because sometimes rich guys pay sexual allegations off because it's cheaper.

The comment is debatable if it came from a guy defending himself. It's beyond idiotic when you come in from the outside to defend a guy who paid off sexually based allegations. It's almost as idiotic as the prison inmate comment. It's like he's totally unaware he's a public figure and his casual/generational racist/sexist comments won't play well with that public. Either he wants to crusade for the rights of those who pay off sexual harrassment allegations which is just dumb and hurts his franchise, or he is losing his faculties and things he normally wouldn't say out loud are slipping out as a result. Either way Cal needs to find a way to remove the old man from all media contact.

[chuck]

Hypersensitivity? Uh, no. Women have decided that they do not need to tolerate being sexually harrassed in the workplace (Hand on the shoulder? Come on, Buford.), and a lot of us have decided that casual racism on the part of powerful people needs to be punished severely because one of its results is innocent people being shot twenty times as they stand in their back yard minding their own business. And then they get handcuffed. (Nice touch, eh, Buford,the handcuffs?)

Large business, ideally local businesses, need to pull their sponsorships from the team. If I lived in Necktown I would go out of my way not to patronize the team's sponsors.

It is absolutely amazing to me how out of touch this freak is.