Why the NFL is Racing Down the Drain
The answer is more than just wokeness. The league has been conquered by feminism. The victory is worth billions.
Michael O’Fallon from Sovereign Nations posted the following tweet this morning:
This speaks into a trend that I’ve been observing for some time: that the NFL has become progressively more female-friendly, at the expense of what used to be the most masculine sport in America.
I wrote the following in response. It sums up my thoughts on what pro football has become, and the direction that it will continue to go.
It also explains why my own interest in pro football—and sports in general, including the Olympics—has greatly diminished over time:
I'll see Michael O’Fallon and raise him.
The NFL has been on a decades-long quest to expand its viewer base to include women. This is part of feminism's quest to eliminate male-coded and male-friendly spaces.
The NFL is a battlefield that has been taken in record time.
This push is made obvious by watching ads. How many car commercials feature a woman in the driver's seat, including if a man is in the car?
Pay attention next time you watch.
It also explains the push for on-field, in-booth, and in-locker room female reporters. I don't think there's a man on Earth who really cares what a woman has to say about male sports. I'm sorry that's just true.
And yet, why are there female sports reporters everywhere now, especially on ESPN?
The shift is also evident in the gameplay. The NFL has made rule changes to make the game:
Less violent
More focused on offense vs. defense
Geared to star performance over team effort
The net effect is to create a game that's less about effective, anonymous systems (ie., defense) and more about marketable faces, their jerseys, and memorabilia (offense).
Finally, this explains Taylor Swift + Travis Kelce, and why the Chiefs *had to* win.
Men are by nature interested in systems and competition. Women are by nature interested in relationships. (Yes, men and women are different. Time to grow up.)
How best to inject a relationship into pro football?
What about a classic "star player-meets-prom queen" romance?
The woman would have to be a pretty big deal, though. Someone a middle-American man's wife and daughters will be enthusiastic to see.
The only answer is Taylor Swift.
The story also has to unfold throughout the season to complete the effect. Hard to have the romance be culminated if the Chiefs are knocked out in the playoffs.
Therefore, the Chiefs had to beat the Bills, whatever it took. There was no universe where the Chiefs did not win.
So, I predict a Chiefs win, followed by a Travis Kelce on-field proposal to Taylor Swift. Hearts will melt across the nation... and pro football as a male-coded space will die.
Remember, "the Agenda" didn't just go away with a Trump win. Its tentacles are still gripping major parts of American culture.
Plus, the NFL made $20 billion in 2023, up 10% from 2022. There's zero incentive to stop this train.
Time to go to church with your families and read books on Sundays again, guys.
Pro sports used to be about the ultimate in human achievement, largely for men but also for women.
Now it’s about viewers, stories, relationships—the so-called “human element.”
But I don’t watch sports to see how the players are “just like me.” I care about how the players are not at all like me, because they’re blessed with gifts from God to do things I could never imagine.
That is offensive to the egalitarian spirit of our age that denies that men are more athletic and physically dynamic than women, and that some people are gifted and others simply are not.
But it is profitable. Because men can watch football with their families now. It’s not the forbidden thing they do on Sundays while their wives and kids indulge them. It’s family-friendly.
The only cost is human excellence.
Fitting. Sad, but fitting.