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Kaepernick, activism and politics. The NFL doesn't know how to stop this row
UK Guardian ^ | August 23, 2017 | Les Carpenter

Posted on 08/23/2017 11:30:10 AM PDT by C19fan

On Wednesday afternoon, the NFL will be forced again to confront a story it must wish to go away. At an hour when the league’s employees should be hustling home from their New York office they will walk into a rally on the street outside, organized to ask the same inexplicable question that has perplexed many for months.

“Why is Colin Kaepernick still unsigned?”

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: football; nfl; thugculture
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To: Gman

The NFL asked for this with their wearing pink, Hispanic month, etc. If the NFL is forcing the players to participate in those things when how can they force the players to do stuff they care about.


21 posted on 08/23/2017 11:44:33 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: econjack

Same with the patriots.They have no problem saying bye bye.


22 posted on 08/23/2017 11:45:35 AM PDT by freedomtrail (We're here.We have guns. Don't resist.......April 19,1775. John Parker. Lexington Minutemen)
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To: C19fan

There is no reason to play the National Anthem at these games. If you don’t play it, you take away their protest platform. Think about that.


23 posted on 08/23/2017 11:45:56 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: rlmorel

If he was worth what he asks, he’d be employed immediately.

He isn’t.

End of story..........................


24 posted on 08/23/2017 11:46:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: C19fan

You are correct. I call it Dixie Chicking em.
My time will be elsewhere on Sundays’.
Those advertising and TV contracts may start to hurt.


25 posted on 08/23/2017 11:47:36 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: econjack
Well we are coming upon the 2nd Anniversary of the takeover of the University of Missouri football team, the campus and the administration.

http://archive.is/hZWHR#selection-2511.0-2511.20

Seems it is not working out well for Old Mizzou. I draw a parallel to the NFL. They too had a brand. Now they are branded like Mizzou. NFL viewership is down 11% and I expect it to fall again. The NFL is a big time business loved by fans, have money thrown at it by local governments, advertisers bed and will pay any rate to get on a broadcast. Until the NFL gets hold of its brand again, fans and viewers will leave like those of Old Missou. What the NFL had carefully built up over 50 years was destroyed by one lousy football player. It will get worst this year. One way to stop it. You kneel doing national anthem, $50,000 fine and 15 yard penalty. Coaches are fined $100,000 per incident. Players go to national awareness classes, 10 hours minimal. Second offense, 4 game suspension. Football is a tough game, be tough. Oh by the way, no camera shoots, no announcers commenting on it. Announcers fined $25,000 for discussing. As Lucy would say, it's my game and ball. I make the rules.

26 posted on 08/23/2017 11:47:37 AM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: C19fan
organized to ask the same inexplicable question that has perplexed many for months.

It's not the least bit inexplicable. The owners don't want to lose millions of dollars in lost ticket sales.

27 posted on 08/23/2017 11:48:07 AM PDT by libertylover (Fake News = Hate News)
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To: C19fan

The NFL would rather destroy its franchise than betray its SJW mandate.

So be it. The NFL is dead to me.


28 posted on 08/23/2017 11:49:05 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: C19fan

The NFL is at the edge of an abyss, and they don’t seem to understand it. They have been led/pushed there unwittingly by yet another organized, leftist, cultural-revolution-style, political campaign

First the “Redskins” issue, then concussions, now #BLM, Kaepernick and increasing numbers of idiot players “taking a knee.”

it would be a big notch in the belt of the organized mob left if they could destroy an American cultural institution like the NFL.


29 posted on 08/23/2017 11:49:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Just cave in to the America-haters demands? No way.


30 posted on 08/23/2017 11:49:46 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: C19fan

Get the players union to explain to players where salaries come from. And how salary caps and player contracts will likely change with say 10% increase in consumers vs 10% decrease. And what future TV contracts (which pay salaries) will look like if viewership increases vs decreases between now and then.

I think the players union understands and isn’t making the stink they could because of that. But, they are not explaining to the players that their job is entertainment. And upsetting customers by bringing “reality” into the viewer’s “escape from reality” time is a bad business plan and will hurt their income as well as the owners.

It’s time for the union to stop trying to balance players’ egos and players’ salary and start focusing on the best financial outcome for it’s members. It shouldn’t be a hard sell if coming from the union:
“The NFL has given you fame and money that allow you to create your own platform for change. But doing that during “entertainment” events on the owner’s platform is not appropriate or smart business for your personal income future. A few people kneeling hurts all owners and thus will hurt income for all players. So entertain on football Sundays and work on your social change platform on other days”


31 posted on 08/23/2017 11:50:06 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: rlmorel

Interesting, thank you for posting.


32 posted on 08/23/2017 11:51:19 AM PDT by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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To: rlmorel
Thanks for your post. That sums up what I've been hearing about CK and his problems playing QB.

I would just add this league is ruthless about evaluating personnel and they have no guaranteed contracts, so anybody can be cut.

If CK could help a team make the playoffs and is asking a reasonable price somebody would sign him in a minute. And tell those of us who don't like his behavior to pound sand. The fact he isn't signed means nobody out there thinks he can help their team.

33 posted on 08/23/2017 11:52:40 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: C19fan
The NFL asked for this with their wearing pink, Hispanic month, etc.

Good point - they pushed the "we are all things to all people," now its being used against them.

34 posted on 08/23/2017 11:53:37 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: C19fan

They are looking at a 10 percent drop in viewership this year. The Browns players are a huge increase in the insult to fans. Goodell is not a leader. A leader would rule that this nonsense has to stop; players can have any political beliefs that they want, but disrespecting the flag and the national anthem is not permitted. They need patriots to address every team and explain to them what the flag symbolizes, what the anthem was written to celebrate. The flag symbolizes the freedom of Americans, the past sacrifices of Americans, and the rights of Americans, including the freedom of black athletes to believe whatever they want. It is the flag that protects them, even if they stupidly believe that all cops are racist and that BLM is a good cause. The flag symbolizes a nation that protects BLM. It protects Nazis. It protects patriots. It unites us against foreign enemies. It is not their enemy.

But Goodell is not wise enough to say that and to send emissaries to every locker room. Instead, he maintains his war on pot, which 90 percent of the players use daily, and which is legal in a growing number of states. As I said, stupid.


35 posted on 08/23/2017 11:54:46 AM PDT by Defiant (It's not antifa, it's actually antifafa. Antifa Fascists.)
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To: rlmorel

Thanks - that was very interesting to read.


36 posted on 08/23/2017 11:56:02 AM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: C19fan

I didn’t miss NFL last year. I won’t miss it this year.


37 posted on 08/23/2017 11:56:09 AM PDT by heights
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To: C19fan

Any player on the roster who kneels during the Anthem gets a $5k fine.

Problem solved.

5.56mm


38 posted on 08/23/2017 11:57:12 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: rlmorel

Great post.

I guess that also explains why RGIII had no success after his rookie year.


39 posted on 08/23/2017 11:58:32 AM PDT by Defiant (It's not antifa, it's actually antifafa. Antifa Fascists.)
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To: C19fan

I no longer care. The NFL has gone off the rails. I’d rather be out fishing on my pontoon boat anyway.


40 posted on 08/23/2017 11:58:59 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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