Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.
October 2, 2017
I rarely drink beer and can count on one hand football games I've watched in my lifetime. Still, I called y'all Sunday and left a message. Hope you've checked your machine, though I have a feeling that the message may get lost seeing as so many folks have been calling.
Let me be very clear: everybody knows NFL players are "taking a knee" for all the wrong reasons. But their "taking a knee" is going to be good in the long run for reasons they have no clue about. For that reason, your company should not stop advertising on the NFL shows because to do so would go completely against your company's fine tradition of supporting the Constitution of the United States.
In case you have forgotten —
— that fine document is the foundation upon which millions, if not billions, of people depend. You got natural-born citizens of the U.S. You got legal immigrants here to seek opportunity and a better life. You got oppressed peoples around the world looking at the United States with hope — Hope! — and saying, "They did it. Freedom is possible."
Heck, as a company, y'all have depended on the Constitution to build your business — and even go out of your way to hire people who fought to defend it.
Which means you owe it to your employees as well as your customers to understand the roar of the crowd calling for the heads of shortsighted NFL players. The fans know something is not right about what the players are doing. Hear them for that. But your job is to focus, focus, focus on what is actually happening and help the players to do a better job of choosing the hill on which they will die.
To bring you up to speed, read this article I wrote in support of the NFL just the other day. You will also want to read my totally brilliant but also spot-on serious article here I wrote last year when Colin first started this thing.
Unbeknownst to themselves, Colin and the others are making a stand for what the United States is all about, the reason it was formed in the first place, and the reason we have such a strong Constitution.
You see, the Constitution guarantees freedom to think and act according to one's conscience in all things political and religious, and that economic sanctions should not be imposed by any entity in power because those stands are taken.
Way back when the kings of England ran folks out of their country to these shores and then exported their tyranny across the pond, it caused folks here to write a letter they called Declaration of Independence.
They laid out all the reasons the kings were wrong and set forth their intent. If you haven't read it, you should do so now.
But even then the 56 declarers of independence knew that most folks don't think deeply or long-term. That's why they said, and I quote —
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
In other words, the writers (many of whom liked beer and, I daresay, brewed their own) understood they should not make any decision hastily. Therefore, before they declared independence, they allowed the English king to prove he was not going to change.
There is no doubt the NFL's business is being affected negatively because these guys are taking a knee for all the wrong reasons. So, as a business decision, all this is not good, as I wrote in this article. And you, as a company, will not want to pull your ads hastily. Find another way because —
Isn't it at times like this when one should act with prudence?
Taking a knee is not the problem because the real problem is what has been happening behind the scenes for over a hundred years: There is a concerted and growing effort to gut the protections of the Constitution of the United States and turn it into a country ruled by one of the Big Isms. Read what I say about that here.
NFL players who are taking a knee themselves do not know they are defending the Constitution of the United States. But they are defending it. Granted, that defense is getting buried in a mucky mess of political correctness and it is that political correctness you should be fighting because it is designed to destroy freedom.
Dear, dear, dear Anheuser Busch. You who have the hearts, ears, and eyes of millions of folks on and with you. Yes, it is you who should get that marketing agency of yours busy on a series of ads lauding the fact that the Constitution is so strong it will defend the freedoms of even those easily manipulated idiots on the field.
Get them to put together a kick-ass ad campaign that will show domestic and foreign rabble-rousers — hell, let's call them what they are, terrorists — just how much the U.S. citizen will not put up with.
I can see it now. That cute dog of yours makes a stupid decision and goes to play in the woods all alone. Doggy sees other dogs, not knowing they are big, bad, and mean. Doggy is set upon! Doggy yelps. Your horses hear their dog friend yelping "Help! Help!" Horses come galloping around the corner as a body and kick the sh*t out of the predators. Horses safely escort Doggy home. Happy ending.
See? Brilliant! Metaphor dripping everywhere.
Fans will love it. Terrorists will not, but they'll get the point.
Do your duty.
Sincerely,
Lover and defender of freedom.
But not a beer or football fan.
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