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Gronkowski is a moron

Mr. Scot

By Mr. Scot,
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48 minutes ago, carolinanimal said:

When did not saying stupid stuff in public become "PC culture"?

over time the words "pc" came to just mean "being a good person," and there are a lot of people in this country who absolutely refuse to be a good person and get furious if you even suggest it. why do you think gilette caused a meltdown for making a commercial that said "be a good man?" because half the people alive right now are disgusting people and will be angered if you suggest they try to not be

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47 minutes ago, rodeo said:

over time the words "pc" came to just mean "being a good person," and there are a lot of people in this country who absolutely refuse to be a good person and get furious if you even suggest it. why do you think gilette caused a meltdown for making a commercial that said "be a good man?" because half the people alive right now are disgusting people and will be angered if you suggest they try to not be

Maybe once, but I have to respectfully disagree.  PC morphed past not being an ogre and into "Somebody, somewhere might be offended, so I am offended, and you are an evil person for saying that."  Like pretty much everything else, it has gone to the extreme.  Frankly, you may want to look at your last sentence and see how that fits in.  Since half the people alive probably do not agree with you (which is pretty much normal for anything from anyone), they are disgusting people.  Really?  

You'll notice that I have not gone into the abyss of the Gillette commercial.  It was another shrug from me.  Anybody setting their moral compass off a television ad has enough problems.  As for companies running ad campaigns, they base those decisions on whatever they believe will sell more product after the ad than before, because of the ad.  There is a long history of companies claiming to take a moral high ground only to backtrack when the response is not what their advertising agency claimed it would be. 

The NFL is no different, BTW.  Putting PC aside, they were full bore into promoting big hits, and as ESPN used to say "all jacked up," right up until they weren't.  Taking any judgement of merits of that sudden shift aside, they turned on a dime.  Promoting the hits (legal or not per NFL rules) was great while they were perceived to attract a bigger audience, and then, overnight, they were evil and not to be talked about at all.  Moral compass change?  Nah, potential to pay out a huge settlement in litigation with the videos being one of the plaintiff's exhibits caused a "clarification."

 

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19 minutes ago, Sgt Schultz said:

Maybe once, but I have to respectfully disagree.  PC morphed past not being an ogre and into "Somebody, somewhere might be offended, so I am offended, and you are an evil person for saying that."  Like pretty much everything else, it has gone to the extreme.  Frankly, you may want to look at your last sentence and see how that fits in.  Since half the people alive probably do not agree with you (which is pretty much normal for anything from anyone), they are disgusting people.  Really?  

You'll notice that I have not gone into the abyss of the Gillette commercial.  It was another shrug from me.  Anybody setting their moral compass off a television ad has enough problems.  As for companies running ad campaigns, they base those decisions on whatever they believe will sell more product after the ad than before, because of the ad.  There is a long history of companies claiming to take a moral high ground only to backtrack when the response is not what their advertising agency claimed it would be. 

The NFL is no different, BTW.  Putting PC aside, they were full bore into promoting big hits, and as ESPN used to say "all jacked up," right up until they weren't.  Taking any judgement of merits of that sudden shift aside, they turned on a dime.  Promoting the hits (legal or not per NFL rules) was great while they were perceived to attract a bigger audience, and then, overnight, they were evil and not to be talked about at all.  Moral compass change?  Nah, potential to pay out a huge settlement in litigation with the videos being one of the plaintiff's exhibits caused a "clarification."

 

No one called Gronk evil, they called him stupid, which he is. He's been given countless opportunities to prove it. He shouldn't have made the joke. It wasn't even funny for an adult. It's something a fifth grader would say to his friends. 

Gillette and Nike have both posted positive financial results as a result of their commercials. Telling people they can be better, even through schlocky commercials isn't 'PC.' It's common sense advertising. I'll bet you can't name me five companies/instances in this long history of backtracking you refer to.

ESPN, not the NFL, came up with 'All Jacked Up', and if we learned anything from the short-lived series Playmakers, it's that ESPN and the NFL's interests are not always aligned. Having concussions brought into the national conversation helped force the NFL's hand, but working to reduce those big hits is to the NFL's long term benefit. Who cares why they did it as long as they're doing it now. 

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2 minutes ago, PanthersBigD said:

No one called Gronk evil, they called him stupid, which he is. He's been given countless opportunities to prove it. He shouldn't have made the joke. It wasn't even funny for an adult. It's something a fifth grader would say to his friends. 

Correct.

But hey, that's just Gronk being Gronk.

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17 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Not that this should surprise anybody...

Gronkowski in hot water over suggestive remark to female reporter

I was hoping this would take some of the light off of the Aints moaning and b*tching, but it has kind of fallen by the wayside.

Maybe we can get Cam Jordan and Vicodin Payton to start wearing #UsToo shirts for their cause to majorly change NFL rules because they were the 731st team in NFL history to get screwed by terrible reffing?

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