This brings up the question, Why does a group of multi-millionaires who get paid to move a piece of leather up and down a field once a week have a union?
Yes. Next question.
And here's the root of the problem:
Most NFL fans think of themselves as the team's "customers," and to some degree they are right. It's the fans who buy tickets, buy merchandise, and buy food at the concession stands.
But the NFL's fans are not the only customers the NFL has. More importantly, they're not even the most important customers of the NFL.
The NFL has two other groups of customers who actually provide most of the league's revenues:
1. TV networks
2. Corporate sponsors
These are the same TV networks and global corporations that have demonstrated an increasingly open hostility over the last few decades to the very things that many Americans hold dear.
When you see Jerry Jones and the rest of the Dallas Cowboys kneeling on the field last night before the national anthem like a scene from 'Brokeback Mountain' on steroids, they're doing this because they're more concerned about keeping the two "customers" I listed above happy than they are about keeping their fans happy.
WOW!!! All of a sudden, football players who kneel have become brilliant, intellectual, noble, saintly beings who are resisting a
racist-bigot-ignorant-unintelligent moron of a president who was elected by the moronic beings who inhabit flyover country.
Wow!
What a transformation!
/S/
IMHO
Shame is a powerful tool.
Greed is a powerful emotion.
The football players know that they have it good.
They are being shamed by their fellow Americans of African Descent.
The very least, and I do mean THE VERY LEAST, thing they can do is some sort of stupid protest.
They don’t actually care, they just want the heat off of them.
If they really cared, they’d live in a one bedroom apartment and drive a compact car so they could give their salaries and endorsements to other people.
It’s all just baloney.
Appears that way.
Liberals worm their way in foundations and schools and gov’t and the unions have always spouted socialism while demanding more money for themselves.
Solution is to never hire liberals in positions where they can destroy the institution.
The NFL’s corporate collectivism is merely the public/popular face of the culture Herby Marcus and his Marxist corporate playmates wanted to create.
Bread and Circuses
Are you not entertained?
Trump is winning .
Rush has turned off NFL football .
The fans are turning off the NFL in great numbers .
The sponsors will follow or face boycott .
We are mostly a proud country and most understand our greatness in the world when it comes to helping other countries . We are proud of our service people in keeping us safe in the world . Our flag has nothing to do with CK’s protest and we resent the NFL for using it as a protest vehicle . The NFL will lose on this challenge .
It’s an extension of OFA, BLM, and the other leftist, race-baiting groups. You see, black voters didn’t turn out for Hillary like they did for St. Barack. Worse yet, many broke ranks and voted for Trump (the horrors!). The Dems need 2 things to regain seats in the mid-terms, and the White House in 2020: a widespread belief among the electorate that Republicans = racists, and an energized force of voters that are going to whatever Dem candidate is on the ballot.
Unfortunately, Trump took the bait. Stupid. If he had ignored the take-a-knee phenomenon, it would have died off on its own. Or, if he had ridiculed it - perhaps by tweeting out a picture of some of the players “taking a knee”, and captioning it with “NFL Players kneeling and bowing in reverence for our flag and country.”.
The other response that has yet to be made is that the protests were started/inspired by the BLM movement, which itself is built upon a foundation of lies. No one dares question the motives of the BLM crowd, lest they too be branded as racists.
ALL of this, with the faux-outrage from the left, is manufactured and contrived specifically to divide the nation.
YES.
We need to remember how useful to leftists, liberals are. Most liberals are ignorant and easily inflamed. They are the ones who do the actual work and take the actual risks for the leftists. Soros and his ilk never break a nail.
And remember too, useful libs are thereafter completely expendable and tossed away like the trash whores they are after their usefulness expires. It isn’t about them, but they always fall for it.
Dumb question! “Union” is synonymous with “left wing stooges”.
Also, does ice feel cold?
I don’t think this latest stunt has anything to do with the Unions.
The sad fact is that the leftists have co-opted American Sports. And have used the players as idiots to promote their anti-American agenda.
From the NFL, the owners, ESPN, the players and yes, the unions too..... They all are liberal.
So what to do? Ignore then. Do not go to their games. Do not watch them on TV. Boycott them all.
Yes. Absolutely. Without a doubt.
I knew it when I saw the coaches and owners kneeling. Substantial pressure has been brought to bear.
Stooges implies they are being fooled into a position they don’t already hold. Unfortunately a large percentage of blacks (and a smaller percentage of whites) are raised to believe this is an evil, oppressive country. They have no clue how lucky they are to have been born here, and no idea of what life is like elsewhere.