Posted on 10/11/2017 11:13:06 AM PDT by Enlightened1
And I can post a picture of the Dallas games.
The numbers are what they are but one FReeper said ticket sales are at all time highs but ticket brokers who bought a lot of seats are screwed.
That would make sense. :)
Players who don't like the work rules of their employers are free to quit at any time.
Contrary to this bozo's opinion, this isn't a 1st Amendment issue. That amendment forbids the government from suppressing free speech - not the private sector.
As false as the rationale for the protests.
They could apply for the Canadian football league.
Not very often that a headline invokes a single-word response from me.
This one does. The single word I have in reply to it is: “Good!”
If they can’t stand they should quit.
Classes were mundane. In other words, he had no intentions on being a CPA, or engineer or doctor, but rather a dumb jock football player. It's unlikely he would have ever passed the SAT tests to enter the university as a student.
Mr. McCoy, if he wants to kneel and protest something, it would be the system that allowed himself and his limited intelligence into a university whose primary objective is education, ahead of a true student who couldn't play football and whose family could not afford the tuition costs..........
Idiot. His Constitutional right to free speech only means he won't be taken to jail for not standing. But others have Constitutional rights as well. Owners don't have to put up with this disrespectful BS in their workplace, fans don't have to attend the games, and nobody has to watch on television.
I think there is some possibility that the NFL season may be cancelled after Sunday.
And to that I say, "So it ain't all bad.." d;^D
Someone should tell these jocks that they are in the entertainment business. The world lasted for thousands of years without football, and it could again. When you making millions for doing an non-essential job, you’d better keep pleasing your boss.
If the players with a grievance want to kneel during the Anthem, that is their choice. But my nose includes the respect for that anthem, and my response is economic. I have already found several other things to do with my Sundays, and I'm actually glad to be done with the NFL. I've gained back some prime time to do with as I wish. Protest or not, it doesn't really matter. I'm gone as a fan.
That’s why I said when this started that there was no positive way out for the players or the league.
I predicted pain then and still do.
> I *never* felt like a slave.
Libs will try to redefine yet another word.
Maybe “doing what your employer says” will be called “micro-slavery” or “systemic slavery”. And that will be called “worse than old-time slavery”. And they can just use the word “slavery” to describe the “abuse” workers suffer from employers. And ANY discussion of it is off-limits unless you have personally experienced it.
Actually they are free to kneel, squat or whatever, no matter what the League, owners or coaches say.
And the boss is free to fine, suspend, fire, etc.
Deferring to Shakespeare, it is being “hoist by one’s own petard”.
I give zero sh*ts what these millionaire ingrates, who play a kid’s game, do and the owners and the Fascist NFL can rot. Their true colors are who they are and have been revealed. They sh*t where they eat and sleep. They sh*t on the flag and country. For me as an NFL fan, it is over as it once was and that will never come back.
Attendance is a lagging indicator.
Attendance next year is on the line _now_.
Many of us will remember this the rest of our lives and permanently boycott the league.
Some will return.
But—the NFL glory days are over.
Reading between the lines - I assume “by design” is a reference to public school educators - yes?
We fill our kids with a bunch of abstract junk, not teaching them Contract Law in the context of a constitutional republic. And this is what we get.
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