The NFL

In spirits of the Superbowl, I decided to due a post upon it. Not really bout the teams, cause really I'm a Phins fan, and they're going to be there soon, but about the business of its entirety (of course as I sit back and not give a **** bout anything else, I will be rooting the underdog Cardinals).

On Chris Rock's stand-up special "Never Scared", Rock happens to say what NFL really stands for, "Nigga Fucking Large" (hilarious till the end), and to an extent I can qualify this true - except for all the white offensive line. As Rock exbounds himself on the topic, he calls the NFL the next form of slavery - from chains and a plantation, to the slave codes to continue oppression, and now sports of NFL and I'd like the NBA too, let's go one at a time. So since picking cotton out in the fields, some slaves were supposedly trained into super-slaves - larger, stronger, and quick as hell, and today we recruit these descendants to play for money.
Now how are they still slaves if they are making more money than the average Joe, and they have star power in the hood? That's easy, part of which is explained by Chris Rock, these football players are rich, not wealthy; the main difference is that a rich person can pay for excess things for the here and now, the person who signs their check, has money to last them their lives, their kids' lives, and their kids' kids' lives (gotta love that Andre 3-stacks lol). So in the form of money there is an obvious oppression, then in the form of material items oppression comes forth. A fancy car and spinning rims isn't cheap, along with that 52" LCD screen in every room, and nothing lasts forever. Basically, rich football players are at the mercy of the team's owner.
Yet they still have star-power, the fame, the glory. Fame and glory isn't all that when you're being attacked by mobs of fans, or stalked by a crazy. There are other set backs, ask O.J. Simpson, famed, got away with murder, yet can't keep his name out of the papers and into the hole he goes. There's also Plaxico Burress, a wide reciever for the Giants, shot himself in the leg, turned himself in, and still was chargeed criminally for holding an unregistered handgun. Michael Vick, the old QB for the Atlanta Falcons, was charged for holding dog fights in Virginia. Does this really seem to be sane behavior? These NFL players are being put back into slavery, where each and every mintue of their time is watched and known about.
The NFL does have its part in continuing slavery, but it also brings kids to come up with an inspiration, given a decent role model to follow.