You mentioned the Packers but I’m assuming you were NOT in Green Bay?
Not so much protesting. It’s theFLAG
Con not go against the Flag and survive
It’s primal
Godell is an idiot. So are tge owners and their wives are too for not dope slapping them out of this
The hoopla didn’t start when Trump chimed in.
The waiting list for Redskins season tickets has fallen over time from 20 years to available right now. For the past few seasons there have been billboards promoting tickets for the NY J-E-T-S. There was no need for marketing NY J-E-T-S tickets when I was growing up in the area.
Carefully listen to and observe the sidelines and post halftime and post game interviews. Both the interviewer and the interviewer are reading off of carefully and totally consuming scripted cue cards.
Pathetic.
NFL management will do whatever it takes to bring in the $$. They will suck up to leftist ESPN and media with their narratives, and then go over-the-top on the military appreciation for fans who like that.
I had tickets to a few games also. The week Trump called Kaepernick a “bastard” our local stadium had a military flyover before kickoff from 3 jets - hadn’t had even ONE in the previous 4 years. Coincidence?
NFL management are simply tone-deaf, crony-capitalist, elitist media insiders, trying to squeeze every last $$ out of the public. I’m sick of it.
I saw pics of the armed forces tribute and it looked like the stadium was full. I have friends who are diehard Packers fans who kinda watch thru their fingers til they see whether anyone kneels, and if not then they enjoy watching the game. The NFL is definitely getting the message, they just aren’t doing anything about it yet.
They probably feel we’ll forget all about this and their pampered millionaires can do whatever they wish.
Too little too late.
That $90 mil says otherwise.
F the NFL.
They have NOT gotten the message.
The NFL is going to pump 100 million into SJW projects in the next couple of years with no guarantee the protests stop.
While the Packers aren’t taking a knee, they are all “linking arms in solidarity”, so protesting some vague inequality boogie man.
I’ve been a lifelong Packer fan, wrote Mike Murphy ( President of the GBP) and Goddell when this crap started. I spent several thousand a year on NFL from going to games, to NFL Sunday Ticket and Game Pass ans merch. No more.
Did they lock arms? That’s just as bad.
Actually, kneeling, locking arms, standing there silent and pathetic, or even actually singing with their hands over their hearts, it doesn’t really matter. We KNOW what’s going on. And we have all the evidence we need that players standing now were kneeling weeks ago. The cat is out of the bag.
If you’re a raging alcoholic, and your boss says to stop drinking on the job, unless you get into a program to reevaluate your life and genuinely stop, you’re probably just going to conceal it better. If you’ve bought into the idea that you’re a victim of racism your entire life or you’re an idiot that thinks sticking with your team is more important than respecting your country, then you’re probably not going to change the way you think; you’re just going to conceal it to try to make people forget about it. Too bad. You’ve already been recorded showing your true colors on camera.
Also, I’ve felt for a long time that military tributes are just increasingly used as a kludge to help a company’s marketing or smooth over PR disasters. I don’t buy into it. When we sing the songs of the armed forces and honor all their members at my church around Independence Day, I believe that most people there genuinely respect those people. When I see expensive flyovers and flashy tributes that feel completely empty, I just get annoyed. Maybe if the NFL would commit to donating $100 million to military charities as opposed to “social justice” causes, I’d even start to consider that they might be serious. Never gonna happen.
That's when it's really going to hit the NFL.
I read somewhere that 12 players knelt at various games this past week.
Don’t know about the number locking arms, which I think is worse.
The big test for the NFL comes when 2018 season tickets go on sale.
People get enough politics... they want football to be a break from that sort of thing.
I think I’ve come up with a good analogy of what I reasonably expect during the National Anthem from the players:
Suppose an American team plays in the Olympics and finishes 2nd or 3rd, so they would be on the podium during the ceremonial playing of the winning team’s National Anthem.
Further suppose that the winning team is from a country that most Americans find reprehensible (take your pick). So, what would I expect from the athletes with “U S A” printed on their jerseys during the playing of the reprehensible country’s National Anthem? I would expect them to stand there on their part of the podium politely and respectfully. It’s not a time to make a political statement about the winning team’s country.
For NFL players it’s not a time to be a Democrat or a Republican; it’s not a time to be a Black-American or a White-American; it’s time to be an American and at the very least stand politely and respectfully.