Idiots complain about President Obama pre-empting football (Language warning)

[TheMightyFavog]

http://tinyurl.com/ce2ylzv

NBC pre-empted the first quarter of tonight's 49ers-Patriots game to show President Obama's speech at the Newtown memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. As you might expect, many football fans didn't take kindly to this. (So, too, some Bob's Burgers fans.) Here are those idiots, led by someone who claims to be a Division I football player in the state of Alabama.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Fuck football

[bluestateguy]

2. I like football, but I don't like how it just seems to dominate everything

The way football just seems to tower over everything, and all are expected to worship at its altar.

[brewens]

3. None of that on my FB page. If I see anything, I will post this link. That should

give them an idea of what kind of racist half-wits they compare with. I'm curious to know if FOX "news" carried it?

[boxman15]

4. I'm a huge football fan, but it is so small and petty compared to Friday's tragedy.

Anybody who thinks an NFL game takes precedence over this is scum.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Then their gripe is with NBC.

meh.

[JeffHead]

6. 20 defenseless 1st grade kids were slaughtered...

And all they care about is 22 men beat the hell out of each other. Fucking neanderthals. Rot in your own personal hell all of them.

[asjr]

7. I don't know how many on DU remember it but once

NBC cut off a game in order to allow Heidi to be run. I can't remember the playing teams but it certainly stirred up a hornet's nest.

[Historic NY]

8. This countries priorities are AFU.

[TheMightyFavog]

9. It said one of these people is on a college football team in Alabama...

Hopefully the coach does the right thing and kicks him off the team.

[xmas74]

14. Look at my link below in another post.

Kid's a liar, pure and simple.

[TheMightyFavog]

16. Maybe a few activists can confront him on this?

[xmas74]

17. I already sent out a message to a few people I know playing in the DII.

One of them is passing it along to his friend who plays for UNA, just to watch the fireworks. DII is pretty stringent about that kind of language-last thing they want is for someone to pretend to represent them and say nasty things.

(Just wanted to add-looked back at his Twitter account and a few minutes ago he asked why everyone thought he was racist and that he'd lost his phone a few days ago. Maybe he's telling the truth, maybe not.)

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

10. FANTASTIC and about time. Maybe they can now comprehend there is more

to life than a stupid football game.

[NICO9000]

11. Wow - that was disgusting

Shower time for this boy.

[Marrah_G]

12. I don't think it's many fans, just some fans

[xmas74]

13. I looked at his Twitter account

It's not DI-it's DII, supposedly for Uni North Alabama.

Interesting how he supposedly is a big deal at the school yet his name appears nowhere on the roster.

http://www.roarlions.com/Lion_Sports/Football/Current_Season/2012%20UNA%20Alphabetical%20Roster.pdf

The internet can disprove some crazy stories, now can't it?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. There are Bob's Burgers fans? I call bullshit!

[Ruby the Liberal]

18. They kicked him off the team tonight for that tweet.

https://twitter.com/UNAAthletics/status/280516342698872833