Go Nebraska! /s
Posted on 08/21/2017 8:13:50 PM PDT by longsufferingjetsfan
CLEVELAND -- Eleven Cleveland Browns players knelt in a circle during the national anthem prior to Monday's preseason game against the New York Giants.
While the group knelt behind the Cleveland bench in front of the Gatorade buckets, several other players stood nearby and put their hands on a kneeling teammate's shoulder in support.
Those who took a knee were tight end Seth DeValve, running backs Duke Johnson Jr. and Terrence Magee, safeties Jabrill Peppers and Calvin Pryor, cornerback Jamar Taylor, receivers Kenny Britt and Ricardo Louis, linebackers Chris Kirksey and Jamie Collins, and running back Isaiah Crowell (who was not in uniform).
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Hmmmm... What to do this fall... enjoy Sunday afternoons fishing at the lake on the pontoon boat.. or waste my time watching a gaggle of self-absorbed multi-millionaires pummel each other on the field while pontificating about social justice?
Viewers tune in to sporting events to ESCAPE political noise, not be further exposed to it. But I guess that won’t occur to these cretins until NFL revenues start dropping by more than half.
“Every dollar you spend on a NFL ticket, season ticket, or team promo product lines the pockets of these anti-American, unpatriotic, over-paid millionaire thugs who in turn donate big bucks to anti-American organizations and politicians who put the touch on them.”
In addition by not watching the games on TV, it reduces the revenue to the networks that are so fair and balanced.
Thank you for introducing me to a new word, which I shall try to use somewhere other than FR because folks here would know I swiped it from you.
“The question is not whether they could lose everyone (of course not), but if they could lose some millions of fans.”
The bad part is the press will now claim they can’t determine whether the loss in viewership is due to people protesting about the lack of respect for the flag or protesting Kaepernick not having a job.
Re Browns ownership:
@NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The truck-stop company owned by Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has agreed to pay a $92 million penalty for cheating customers out of promised rebates and discounts, authorities announced Monday.
Awesome. :D
Good grief, the NFL is at this again?
Cannot wait for college football to start.
Go Nebraska! /s
Go Connecticut! Go UConn!
Welcome Back Coach Randy!
Waiting for women’s college b-ball.
Go UConn!
NF what? Who watches these overpaid ingrates consistently anymore? If you buy the big NFL package available for every game, you really have judgment problems. There is more to life that passively watching crappy sport with “always protesting” whiny players.
There is great PGA golf and EPL soccer and even MLB baseball on TV every Sunday, and the officials running these alternative entertainment packages have yet to demonstrate to me that they consider ESPN's good opinion more important than mine.
Not quite. It's OUR entertainment league also. How so?? Read on.
Technically, the NFL is a non-profit due to a special exception from Congress in the 1960s. A "non-profit" although the league makes billions of dollars of profit each year while paying their team executives seven-figure annual salaries.
The majority of NFL franchises get taxpayers-funded freebies from city and state governments, including taxpayer-funded stadiums, free sewer and water services, power, stadium improvements, a pass on personal property taxes, and more.
If the governments don't hand over, the teams threaten to leave, and the pols don't want to be blamed for losing a city's favorite team.
Greg Easterbrook wrote in "The Atlantic"...."the NFL is about providing entertainment, which it does very well, PLUS exploiting taxpayers, which it also does very well".
Judith Long of Harvard, an urban planning expert, calculates that league-wide, 70% of the capital cost of NFL stadiums has been provided by taxpayers, not NFL owners.
Even states and cities that are in or near bankruptcy can be duped into providing public cash. They have little money for schools, but they have plenty of money for subsidies for shiny new stadiums.
The owners reap millions in personal income every year, the local politicians get donations and personal luxury box seats, and the taxpayers get the shaft.
Now, Cherry, let me repeat your post to me..."All sports are for entertainment....and they have the right to fix games as they want...it's their entertainment league."
Do you care to stand by your post?
Leni
Same here. I stopped watching last season.
Some people just don’t want to give up watching football, no matter what. :(
Leni
Hey NFL and your crappy anti-American players:
Why don’t you just take your crappy “game” and move it to a country more to your beliefs and understanding? Maybe Zimbabwe would be a cool choice for ya.
I like National Football Losers a lot. :D
I know what you're saying (concerning a historic symbol that will really get them incensed and apoplectic), but, unfortunately, that was just an image I found in a Google "image search" that someone else had made. (I have neither the skills nor the tools to do that. Maybe someone else here can make one like that. Here's as close as I can get.)
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