[C19fan]

The NFL will stop it when they are hit in the wallet. As with last year I will do the majority of watching football on Saturdays.

[TBP]

Release the players involved. That would stop it right away.

[headstamp 2]

The idiots had an opportunity to nip this in the bud last year. Now they can live with it.

[Red Badger]

“Why is Colin Kaepernick still unsigned?”

BECAUSE HE'S CRAPPY QB................................

[circlecity]

“Why is Colin Kaepernick still unsigned?”

Colin has had offers from teams for this year but he thought he was worth more money. This from a guy who spent much of last season sitting on the bench for the worst team in the NFL.

[Reno89519]

Unsigned and unwanted. No watching NFL or any sport if they disrespect the flag or the US. Simple as that.

[vpintheak]

Oh they know how. What they lack is the intestinal fortitude to do it.

The VAST majority of fans are America loving, patriotic citizens. The NFL is cowing to the weak PC pukes who really don’t give a rats behind about football.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

They stop it by sticking to their core competency- football.

Take the politics out, the social awareness, and the ticky tacky rules that make it almost impossible for players to make contact with each other, and the game will become strong again.

[Gman]

It is really quite simple: Team owners need to grow a pair and implement standards of behavior for employment which include no onfield political activism.

[Alberta's Child]

One important rule in any line of business is that you should never let your focus drift to anything other than your core products and services.

Kaepernick's silly temper tantrum violates this rule in a big way ... and every minute that the media spends talking about it detracts from the NFL's "brand" even further.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

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.

[Joe Boucher]

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.

[libertylover]

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.

[factoryrat]

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

So be it. The NFL is dead to me.

[PGR88]

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.

[LostPassword]

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”

[Defiant]

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.

[heights]

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

[M Kehoe]

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

Problem solved.

5.56mm

[ScottinVA]

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

[ETL]

Kaepernick social media posts laud Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers,...

August 30, 2016
FoxNews.com

“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.

Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.

But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]

During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
________________________________________________

From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

Kaepernick social media posts laud Black Lives Matter, Black Panthers,...

August 30, 2016
FoxNews.com

“'History!' Kaepernick wrote on Instagram Oct. 15 [2015], when he marked 50 years since the Black Panther Party was founded.

Kaepernick has posted 170 photos or videos on his Instagram account in the four years since he created it. Most of his first 128 posts were pics of him in football gear, publicity photos or shots taken with friends.

But 31 of his last 42 posts have strong social justice connotations, often featuring quotes from radical Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, Black Panthers founder Huey Newton and cop killer Assata Shakur. [aka, JoAnne Chesimard]

During a Sunday news conference about the flag flap, Kaepernick dressed in a black hat with a large, white “X” and a T-shirt that featured photos of Cuban despot Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.”

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/08/30/kaepernick-social-media-posts-laud-black-lives-matter-black-panthers-since-dating-activist-dj.html
________________________________________________

From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo [the police].

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969)
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html