Sunday Night Football anti-gun sermon

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A football announcer complaining about violence. Bob Costas, your paycheck depends on organized violence. You make your living on the backs of young men who destroy their bodies and their minds for the sake of entertainment. How dare you preach about violence!

Jovan Belcher is a murderer who took the coward's way out. The real victims here are Kasandra Perkins and her daughter Zoey.
 
I'd like to be able to send an email but can't find a contact email. Could somebody please post a good email to use?

Thanks.
 
I for one am still watching the game. Costas' commentary is way off base, but it won't make me not watch football.

Petition to get Costas fired? Why would NBC execs want to fire or rebuff one of its employees for delivering a message they support?
 
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Get used to it guys.

Obama siad in the debates he was gonna go after guns and specifically mentioned handguns.

His propaganda machine in the MSM is gonna play up any and every tragedy that involves a gun and especially handguns. They're priming the pump for their new AWB and will be working hard to influence public opinion against freedom and trying to scare them into believing guns are the root of all evil, and gun rights must be restricted and their ownership by the people eventually banned.
 
nbc.com
scroll to the bottom and hit "contact us"
Then tell them what you think
 
Bob Costas comments about guns during NFL game tonight

Watching an NFL game tonight, I just saw Bob Costas politicize the Jovan Belcher murder and suicide. Basically, he said that if Jovan Belcher did not have a gun, he and his girlfriend would still be alive. Costas blamed the "gun culture".

Here is a link to the video of Costas attacking gun ownership:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqYDLfD1O2s&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Here are some e-mail addresses if you would like to send your comments to some executives at NBC Universal:

Brian Steel
Senior Vice President, Public Relations, CNBC
[email protected]

Greg Hughes
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
NBC Sports Group
[email protected]

Adam Miller, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs
[email protected]

John Kelley
Senior Vice President, Pro-Social and Diversity Initiatives
[email protected]
 
I promise to never watch football again until he resigns ;) I will also stop watching basketball this summer as well. :rolleyes:
 
Senseless Tragedy...

However, Bob's comments are based on ignorance and blatant stupidity. If NBC's line is echoed in Bob's comments, they, as well, are ignorant and blatantly stupid.

NBC is no longer on my pocket book's preferred list.

Such arrogance is beyond belief.
 
Really though, NBC shouldn't have been on your pocket book's preferred list anyway.
 
NBC won't care about your opinions, but their advertisers might:

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Let them know how you feel about it.
 
They didn't take a moment to talk about domestic violence? Which really seems to be the problem.
 
ApplePie said:
Watching an NFL game tonight, I just saw Bob Costas politicize the Jovan Belcher murder and suicide. Basically, he said that if Jovan Belcher did not have a gun, he and his girlfriend would still be alive. Costas blamed the "gun culture".

Here is a link to the video of Costas attacking gun ownership:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqYDLfD1O2s&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Here are some e-mail addresses if you would like to send your comments to some executives at NBC Universal:

Brian Steel
Senior Vice President, Public Relations, CNBC
[email protected]

Greg Hughes
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
NBC Sports Group
[email protected]

Adam Miller, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs
[email protected]

John Kelley
Senior Vice President, Pro-Social and Diversity Initiatives
[email protected]
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emails sent!
 
Costas was keying off of the Fox News Whitlock article that took the anti 2A stance below -
I would argue that your rationalizations speak to how numb we are in this society to gun violence and murder. We’ve come to accept our insanity. We’d prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it.

How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn’t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?

Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.

In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.


IN MEMORIAM
We remember those who have died in the sports world in 2012.
That is the message I wish Chiefs players, professional athletes and all of us would focus on Sunday and moving forward. Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

But we won’t. We’ll watch Sunday’s game and comfort ourselves with the false belief we’re incapable of the wickedness that exploded inside Jovan Belcher Saturday morning.
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I will never understand how somebody can blame guns for people being piss-poor individuals.


Gonna try and get some folks to send some letters/emails.
 
Brady Quinn was so dead on in his post game comments. It's a shame that everyone is so socially inept due to modern technology and staring at a screen all day that we don't even recognize that someone close to us has a problem. Think about that Costas.
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What did he say, or is it in the quoted text?

I haven't had any time to watch football this season. I've also always been a Costas fan, but he's given me reason to re-examine that.
 
Whitlock and Costas both took a cheap political stance and completely ignored the cause of the murder. They tossed the tragedy of domestic violence aside to push their personal political agenda.
Where's the outcry against abuse and violence in these relationships? Why didn't they use their national forum to direct attention to that?
Where's the complaint that these young men aren't helped to develop the maturity and life skills of a responsible adult who doesn't hit off the field and certainly doesn't murder?
Where's the outrage at a profession that continues on with a scheduled game before the bodies have reached room temperature? How can they think the players can perform? How is the greed and avarice of the NFL and coaches/owner to be rewarded?
 
I'd wager a good number here are just like me, a veteran of our military. In the course of our service to our county, we went to defend the right of ALL Americans to speak their mind, no matter how ignorant they sound to us, or if we agreed with their opinions.

This is yet another case of an American (2 in fact, given that Costas more or less parroted the comments of Whitlock) speaking their mind.

I don't have to like their message, and I reserve the right to turn the channel when he comes on screen. That said, I will not cease watching NFL Football, nor will I call on his employer to end his employment.

Why? Because we've witnessed too many instances where people got fired for doing exactly the same thing, yet we agreed with their point of view. In my opinion, those fired who stated points of view similar to mine got fired for no reason other than people didn't agree with their opinion. Two wrongs do not make a "right."

I returned from Vietnam, after serving my country, believing I was doing what was right. I got spit on by a young lady who quickly followed that up with the slam "Baby killer!" Did it make me angry? Sure. Did I react to her abuse? No, because I was taught that you don't retaliate against a woman. But I had gone to serve to insure that this young lady had the right to say any stupid thing she wanted to say. That's America.
 
I don't follow professional sports and never have. Spectators who act like they have a personal stake in the outcome of the game turned me off of it. I suppose they just need something to belong to.

I don't really care what they say, the "general public" is already against the "gun culture". I'm not worried about what they say. I wanna know what they're gonna do about it. After all, we are the proverbial "man with a gun". Armed men are free men. Words are just that. Words. But if you want to email NBC, Congress, etc then go for it.
 
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