TEXAS GETTING BLACKMAILED BY NFL AND NBA OVER BATHROOM BILL

The NFL threatens to keep the Super Bowl out of Texas and the NBA threatens the same with its All Star Game if the state passes a bill prohibiting transgenders from using the bathroom of their choice in schools and government facilities

BarkGrowlBite | February 20, 2017

The Texas legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit transgenders from using the bathroom of their choice in schools and government facilities. The NFL reacted by threatening to keep the Super Bowl out of Texas. And the NBA soon followed suite by threatening the same with its All Star Game.

Responding to the threat made by NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said:

“For some low-level NFL adviser to come out and say that they are going to micromanage and try to dictate to the state of Texas what types of policies we're going to pass in our state, that's unacceptable. We don't care what the NFL thinks and certainly what their political policies are because they are not a political arm of the state of Texas or the United States of America. They need to learn their place in the United States, which is to govern football, not politics.”

Well said, Gov. Abbott! The Governor could have added that rather than meddling in the affairs of Texas, the NFL should stick to dealing with its own problems – drug using players, bar brawling players, wife-beating players, etc. – and teach its players to respect our flag and National Anthem.

But then the NFL has a long and successful history of blackmailing the taxpayers in various cities into paying for new sports palaces of billionaire team owners under the threat of moving those teams elsewhere. The NFL rarely fails, but when the taxpayers of San Diego refused to pay for a new stadium, the league carried out its blackmail threat by moving the Chargers to Los Angeles starting next season.. Dean Spanos, billionaire owner of the Chargers, paid the NFL a $550 million relocation fee. That $550 million would have gone a long way toward paying for a new football sports palace in San Diego. .

As far as I am concerned, the NFL can stick the uber-hyped Super Bowl up its collective ass. The same for the NBA with its All Star Game.

The NFL, which allows if not encourages its players to disrespect our flag and National Anthem, has no right to dictate to the State if Texas that it must allow students with dicks to use a girl’s school restroom or that it must allow adults with dicks to use a government facility ladies restroom.

A sensible bathroom policy would require a person with a dick to use the boys/men’s restroom and one without a dick, the girls/ladies restroom.

The bill barring transgenders from using the bathroom of their choice may not pass, but in any event, Texas should not cave in to the blackmail being perpetrated by the NFL and the NBA, nor by any other organizations for that matter.