Posted on 01/25/2018 6:25:26 PM PST by markomalley
The NFL seems committed to angering conservative fans.
They know the nation doesn’t enjoy social protests on Sundays and yet, they’re doing nothing about it.
Now, Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league’s social justice campaign is ‘just the beginning.’
From Breitbart:
Despite the plummeting TV ratings and continued anger of fans over a rising tide of anthem protests, National Football Commissioner Roger Goodell is promising that the league is ready to increase its attention to so-called “social justice” programs and campaigns.
Only a day after news broke that the NFL rejected an ad that the military veteran group AMVETS wanted to air during the Super Bowl because it celebrated veterans and honored the national anthem, Goodell promised that the current spending on social justice is “just the beginning.”
“We’re just getting started with this effort,” Goodell said according to the Bangor Daily News.
Goodell made his comments on Tuesday at a meeting of members of a joint committee of owners and players that had been convened to shepherd the new social justice programs.
More from Daily Wire:
AMVETS officials have a message for the NFL: “Freedom of speech works both ways.”
In what AMVETS say is a case of “corporate censorship,” the NFL, which, unlike several other professional sports leagues, has allowed its players to protest the singing of the National Anthem — and has paid dearly for doing so — has refused to run their “#PleaseStand” ad the veterans group produced in response to the divisive protest movement.
“Freedom of speech works both ways,” said AMVETS National Commander Marion Polk, the Army Times reports. “We respect the rights of those who choose to protest, as these rights are precisely what our members have fought — and in many cases died — for. But imposing corporate censorship to deny that same right to those veterans who have secured it for us all is reprehensible and totally beyond the pale.”
The group says the $30,000 ad featured service members saluting Old Glory as well as their response to the #TakeAKnee message: “#PleaseStand.”
NFL Vice President of Communications Brian McCarthy told the Army Times in a statement that the league asked AMVETS to change their message to “Please Stand for Our Veterans,” but the group was unable to make changes in time for the deadline. The NFL is running a similar ad from the Veterans of Foreign Wars with the message, “We Stand for Veterans.”
While the NFL for two years now has allowed players to sit, kneel, raise a fist or perform other symbolic acts during the performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the league says the Super Bowl is not a time for political messages. The Super Bowl, said McCarthy, has “never been a place for advertising that could be considered by some as a political statement.”
Shame.
We’ll have to wait and see how this year’s Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles does ratings-wise.
Just the beginning . . . of the end.
Farewell and adieu you ungrateful fools.....and KMA.
What happened to SPORTS?!
There is an unspoken agreement between the players and the fans that the game of football is an escape from worldly concerns such as politics. The players have reneged on that agreement. There will be consequences.
Kowtowing to the players with a “social justice” campaign will only prolong and exacerbate the problem some players’ disrespect to the flag and anthem is causing.
Sorry but a 10% drop doesn’t really qualify as plummeting ratings. It’s obvious the NFL doesn’t care. They think they will make it up by getting more snowflakes with this SJW crap. Sadly they may be right. They do not care about us. So F em.
AMVETS should buy an ad during the competing Puppy Bowl and tell the NFL to take a knee up its arse.
Although Animal Planet is probably liberal at heart, too.
Looking forward to 2020 & the XFL’s re-launch. :)
Well if the XFL ever takes off Vince M of WWE fame says MUST stand at anthem, and no players with criminal records, and no politics.
I don’t care what they do, I left last year and am not coming back.
If they were “right”, then it would have happened this season. It clearly did not.
Bkmk
Do snowflakes watch football? really? Because I didn’t think the millennial watched tv and especially not pro football. They certainly don’t have the money to afford season tickets, parking passes and team merchandise. But if the nfl wants to appease them and insult their base customers, then by all means, go ahead. And when it all crumbles, you will have lost people like me for good. Too bad you aren’t making more responsible decisions with your business. Especially in the age of trump. What stupid, ignorant people. Don’t turn your back on your base.
It became a propaganda machine to convert alpha male viewers into dem zombies.
No NFL for me since Krappydick took a knee.
Demographics alone are against them. In 20 years soccer will prevail.
XFL
In the future they can do reality shows on the mansions NFL players could have had without that social justice crap.
Last watched the NFL in 2015. Not missed. Only learned yesterday the names of the two teams in their Superbowl, which I look forward to not watching.
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