The Obama administration is running a left-wing sweep on the National Football League. Recently, the political correctness police banned Rush Limbaugh from partial ownership of the St. Louis Rams, and now the White House has released a new video that has the NFL backing the seemingly benign Obama program "United We Serve."

What are we to make of this hilarious yet disturbing propaganda, which has Obama running a crossing route and catching a lofty toss thrown by New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees? Are we to infer that Obama is also a Saint?

There is practically nothing more conceivably antithetical to the left's worldview than American football. This makes it a sitting target, kind of like Barack Obama coming across the middle on Ray Lewis. [How would Obama talk his way out of the reality that he would get smoked?] The left is therefore working to co-opt the NFL and put it in the service of socialism.

One might object that the NFL has partnered with "charitable" organizations in the past. The league has maintained a long and mutually beneficial relationship with The United Way. But United We Serve is no charitable organization, it is a political policy designed to get Americans used to the well-established socialist dream of everyone working for free. Sounds like slavery - with a smile.

For those who believe this is no more than right-wing pontification, observe the language on the White House "blog" describing United We Serve: "It's going to take all of us working together to build a new foundation for America and it will happen one community at a time." Yeah, kind of like ACORN - does the NFL want a piece of that action? [Furthermore, did we just survive a nuclear holocaust that the mainstream media didn't report? Or is the White House simply describing the economic after-effects of government intervention into the housing market?]

There is always the possibility that the NFL is simply clueless and sees nothing wrong with inviting a politically divisive figure to serve as representative of the league. But what is not believable is that the Obama administration is simply promoting a seemingly worthy cause in good faith. Obama is targeting the NFL and watering down its cultural significance with the leftist ethos of altruism, because the NFL represents a defiance of the socialist narrative virtually en toto.

Does anyone think that leftists fail to grasp how important professional football is to American culture? The NFL has all the traits that effete modern liberals despise. There is capitalism, manliness, and competition - making the league a perennial institution of solid American values so provocative that neomarxist shock-troops cannot help but try to co-opt it.

Professional football is an inherently conservative institution. Teaching both individual greatness and teamwork, football brings out the best in men through competition.

Best of all, in football results matter. This makes a football game a test of two teams: There is a superior team and an inferior team on any given Sunday. This black or white, up or down way of evaluating superiority clashes mightily with the left's morally relativist worldview.

The National Football League is also a powerful indictment of the Marxian myth that there are two classes in a capitalist society, haves and have-nots, and that the former class unremittingly and perpetually exploits the latter. Professional football players come from all socioeconomic backgrounds (in fact usually lower and middle class ones) and they work their butts off to make the most of their talent; there is no free ride, and no excuses here. The NFL, without any affirmative action policy and simply through the standard of open competition, confirms an argument that conservatives have been making for years: That a true market is colorblind. In the NFL, the rule is simple: Either you are a great football player or you are a fan. Black, white, latino, whatever - once you put on a helmet you are all a part of the team (kind of like the U.S. military).

Football players sell themselves and their unique set of skills to the NFL - and if successful, they become millionaires. The ultimate reason they become millionaires? Because the middle class has the time, the technological means, and the money to financially support the game.

The NFL constitutes a running threat to the leftist narrative. The Gramscian march through all the institutions of the culture in order to subvert the economy continues, and professional sports is merely the last of American bastions to resist the left's creeping program.

Here's a hail Mary, keep the ubiquitous President Obama and his socialist message out of my Sundays. If you think Tea Party activists are bad, you haven't seen thirty thousand angry Cleveland Browns tailgaters.