"wtf damn football can wait": Not Everyone Said Racist Things When NBC Pre-Empted Sunday Night Football

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"wtf damn football can wait": Not Everyone Said Racist Things When NBC Pre-Empted Sunday Night Football

By Stephen Douglas December 17, 2012 3:41 pm ET

By: Stephen Douglas | December 17, 2012 3:41 pm ET

NBC interrupted Sunday night’s football game between the 49ers and Patriots to show President Obama’s speech at the Sandy Hook tragedy. This prompted some idiots to use racist words on Twitter. It was shocking! I’m sorry, do you need help? Because I can only assume you just fell out of your chair. I know. I was shocked too. Even more shocking? A bunch of people said non-racist things about Obama’s speech pre-empting the football game.

If your complaining about President Obama interrupting the Patriots game to talk about a tragedy then you really need to reevaluate yourself

— Danielle Kavey(@dmkay1) December 17, 2012

Have some respect, this is for the kids who lost their lives, no need to explain how you hate Obama, get over it. Football can wait — Zaine Taff (@taff96) December 17, 2012

If you’re seriously upset because you care more about a football game than Obama’s speech on the shooting in Newtown then you have a problem

— Samantha. (@senojmas_) December 17, 2012

Of course Obama’s gonna address what happened. No football game is more important than the people who lost their lives in this freak tragedy — Patrick Johnson (@Patrick_Coe) December 17, 2012

Obama is on because innocent little kids lost their lives . wtf damn football can wait . y’all some dickheads for that smh .

— Jalen✌☺♥ (@jalen_greene) December 17, 2012

Friday everybody was so upset about the tragedy. Today, everyone’s pissed that Obama’s speech is interrupting football. Yeah… — Mike Joyce (@mf_joyce) December 17, 2012

Patriots game means nothing to me right now. When President Obama started reading off those names I couldn’t hold it together. Beautiful.

— Brett Madore (@bmadore7) December 17, 2012

President Obama speaking live in Newtown CT…& I’m okay with it interrupting the Patriots game. Some things are more important than sports. — Andrew Taylor (@andrewtaylor09) December 17, 2012

People are complaining that Obama interrupted the Patriots game to say a prayer for those who died in Newtown #areyoukidding #respect #rip — Rachel McManus (@rachmcman) December 17, 2012

Wow #NBC is going to pre-empt the #49ers and #Patritos game for Obama’s press conference.That’s the way it is supposed to be, this is a game

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Comments

http://www.thebiglead.com Jason McIntyre

*slow clap*
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ payaso

Scandal.
http://i.imgur.com/Ns8ac.gif VladimirCrouton

Sad.
Babar 2.0

I think this was viral marketing by NBC…it forced me to find NBC Sports on DirecTV…it took me a few minutes, but by god it exists.
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

salacious!
MP III

i dont give a shit about your opinion, good or bad.

/just contradicted self
Babar 2.0

Viral was not the right word…point stands.
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

Viral was not the right word…point stands.

bacterial marketing.
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*slow clap*

Agreed 100%. The buzzfeed/huffington/gawker posts of stupid things said by people are the laziest and most predictable things in blogging, nice to see the other side of it.
http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/10/12/ncaa-finds-no-major-violations-in-the-cam-newtonauburn-ca rittyrich

I love it when people have rational thoughts in response to irrational people and we think that makes them rational.
sctrojans

In CT they split-screened the early part of the ceremony with the Cowboy-Steeler game, with audio from the ceremony. I wouldn’t have complained, but it was a Rabbi singing Hebrew for several minutes before I muted the tv. Needless to say, I had no clue what the fuck he was saying
http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/10/12/ncaa-finds-no-major-violations-in-the-cam-newtonauburn-ca rittyrich

And I understand that people feel like they have to validate their feelings by posting the obvious on facebook and twitter (“I feel so sad”), I just wish more of them would grow to be confident in themselves since nobody else really cares.
http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine YYSA

bacterial marketing.

Thats Carmex’ motto.

/I don’t know if it does help, but it will make them more shiny and noticeable
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

I wouldn’t have complained, but it was a Rabbi singing Hebrew for several minutes before I muted the tv. Needless to say, I had no clue what the fuck he was saying

not a matisyahu fan i take it?
Riggs

The buzzfeed/huffington/gawker posts of stupid things said by people are the laziest and most predictable things in blogging, nice to see the other side of it.

Agree. Thanks TBL crew for putting this together.
Riggs

I wouldn’t have complained, but it was a Rabbi singing Hebrew for several minutes before I muted the tv.

Lol. No disrespect here, but I did the same thing. I tried to be sensitive but after a minute or two – I just muted and watched 🙂
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

whatever happened to separation of synagogue and state?
sctrojans

not a matisyahu fan i take it?

Funny you’d say that. I actually got dragged to his concert in Providence this year by friends
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

Funny you’d say that. I actually got dragged to his concert in Providence this year by friends

“friends”…i see you use that term awfully liberally. with friends like those, who needs enemies?
GloriousMullet

Talk bad about Obama again, and I’m goin in ya mouth.

/Poindexter’d
http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/10/12/ncaa-finds-no-major-violations-in-the-cam-newtonauburn-ca rittyrich

“friends”…i see you use that term awfully liberally. with friends like those, who needs enemies?

Friends like these, huh Gary?
Thats right, Dude.
Scouser

I wouldn’t have complained, but it was a Rabbi singing Hebrew for several minutes before I muted the tv. Needless to say, I had no clue what the fuck he was saying

You’ve never heard the 140 BPM version of Haavah Nagila? It’s fun to watch a bunch of drunk people at a Jewish wedding “dance” to this song.
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

You’ve never heard the 140 BPM version of Haavah Nagila? It’s fun to watch a bunch of drunk people at a Jewish wedding “dance” to this song.

is this supposed to be fast?
https://twitter.com/#!/ParrishWalton HuskerDawg

No. 3 is a scared white dude’s nightmare. Some cool photos though.
http://www.majorleaguejerk.com/ spencer096

No. 3 is a scared white dude’s nightmare. Some cool photos though.

holy shit, number 11.