PETA and the NFL

PETA, be forewarned. You can picket the NFL offices. You can picket NFL games. You can picket the Falcons, Home Depot, whoever. You may or may not have any progress. Just don't step in the face of any football fans. You will get your wig split. Personally, I can't wait to hear about it. "Housewife gets a fat lip for spilling football fan's beer; Pet lover gets reamed by own picket sign for being a pain."

If PETA would put this much effort into something productive, the world might not be in the state its in right now. Imagine if that many people bothered the government over something like, education or homelessness. Not to say that animal protection isn't a worthy cause, just not more important than something that involves bettering the lives of humans, like reducing emissions.

I don't want to hate PETA, but when they're being bothersome like they are right now, it's hard to support them. Whenever they get up in arms about something, all I can do is just roll my eyes and say, "oh, God, what now?"

Yeah, their methods are effective, but look at who they go after. Corporations, who tend to not have any backbone whatsoever. They're just following the money, whether they are right or wrong on the issue. They don't want to be on the side of the issue that's likely to upset the person who will create the biggest stink, so they'll fold everytime.

When corporations pull out, then it's pretty much over after that. But you're staring down the NFL, the most popular sport in America. I can't see the NFL getting punked by PETA, because who the f*** is PETA? No one's going to pull out of doing business with the NFL, because no one's going to stop watching NFL games because PETA is picketing. It's football. The corporations know this, and most importantly, the NFL knows this. The football fan and the PETA person have two different mindsets, a lot of the time. I know that there's some overlap, but the NFL is going to do whatever it's going to do, regardless of whether or not a bunch of hippies are outside yelling at the building. Don't any of you have jobs? I guess not, because you're standing outside the NFL offices at 10 in the morning, yelling at a brick wall, knowing you'll be tasered if you come inside.

Why aren't you picketing Bush? At least that's a fool's errand that I can get behind.