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The Fans Who Say They’re Walking Away from the NFL
SI ^ | September 26, 2017 | Peter King

Posted on 09/27/2017 10:13:16 AM PDT by C19fan

Following an NFL weekend that saw players and teams respond to President Trump's comments about the league with more demonstrations during the anthem, The MMQB received numerous emails from NFL fans who said they’d had enough of politics mixing with sports and are done watching the NFL. Here are some of those messages.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: football; nfl; nflprotestprotest; nflwaronfans
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I gave up last year. I still enjoy football that is played on Saturdays.
1 posted on 09/27/2017 10:13:17 AM PDT by C19fan
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Enjoy it while you can. The NCAA is even more PC mush-minded than the NFL.


2 posted on 09/27/2017 10:14:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I quit last year after being a Packer fan for 50 years.

They do not like being the football league of this nation, let them find another.


3 posted on 09/27/2017 10:14:37 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

Yep, also, espn is doodoo.


4 posted on 09/27/2017 10:15:21 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

They think this will blow over.....I sincerely hope not.


5 posted on 09/27/2017 10:16:18 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: C19fan

I gave up on the NFL 20 years ago. I was way ahead of the curve.


6 posted on 09/27/2017 10:16:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Youtube:    Pittsburgh fan, viral  "Done with NFL,  3:18
"............... Pittsburgh Steelers fan—who said his name is Robert L. Williams, a master electrician from Texas, said he’s “done with the NFL.”

He took out “a $450 leather jacket” with the Steelers logo on the back. “Watch me burn it,” Williams stated. He also took out his hats and sweaters.

“My great uncle’s bones are lying in the bones of Pearl Harbor,” Williams added. “You do not disrespect the flag and the country, and the Constitution, and why we have our freedoms,” he said. “So watch this stuff burn.”?.............


7 posted on 09/27/2017 10:17:46 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (I stand for the flag...I kneel at the cross)
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This is the Left’s attempt to destroy everything that we enjoy in life.


8 posted on 09/27/2017 10:18:02 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The NCAA is even more PC mush-minded than the NFL.


But at least the players are not multimilionaire know-it-all egomaniacs—and if they are two out of three, it is more excusable in the 18-22 year old age range.


9 posted on 09/27/2017 10:18:27 AM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yes, NCAA will be next.


10 posted on 09/27/2017 10:19:57 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Lurkinanloomin

We have really learned SO much about the NFL, its managers, its governance, and its politics over these last 10 days or so.


11 posted on 09/27/2017 10:21:01 AM PDT by PGR88
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I gave up last year. I still enjoy football that is played on Saturdays.

Me too but I skip Saturday too. The NCAA is even worse than the NFL in my opinion. Doubt it? Just look at how they piled on NC last year over the bathroom bill.

12 posted on 09/27/2017 10:21:27 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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NFL audience is 75% white and 70% over 35...

13 posted on 09/27/2017 10:22:59 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Yep, Saturday is the Football Day with College Teams and I will watch it unless they go the way of NFL?

I stopped watching NFL last year, (also MLB) and I don’t miss it one bit. I enjoy my Sundays doing other activities, I Boycott Pro Basketball, Pro Football, Pro Baseball, not the NHL though. The NHL is worth watching.

Check Bill O’s.....message on Hannity last night. It’s worth a look and it’s the Truth. Amnen.


14 posted on 09/27/2017 10:23:33 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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We have really learned SO much about the NFL

I would have thought 30 billionaires would be able to hire a half decent PR firm for their club.


15 posted on 09/27/2017 10:24:23 AM PDT by Jolla
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Either Tomlin resigns as Steeler’s coach or the franchise will rot.


16 posted on 09/27/2017 10:25:15 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: C19fan

Unlike Liberals who threatened to leave the USA after the election - and didn’t - football fans who leave won’t be back for a long time, if at all. That was the painful lesson MLB learned.


17 posted on 09/27/2017 10:25:18 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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No. This is the Tea Party. This all began with the breast cancer stuff. It was the introduction of SJW values, the foot in the door. Who could oppose fighting cancer?

Notice it wasn’t prostate or testicular cancer they tried to eradicate i a sport where 90% of the audience is men?


18 posted on 09/27/2017 10:25:55 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Hieronymus

Plus, these young men are steeped 24/7 in the Left’s indoctrination chamber. Forgiveable ... but not if the players demonstrate in uniform on the field...


19 posted on 09/27/2017 10:26:10 AM PDT by glennaro
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I call my team the Voodoo Satans. Nothing saintly about the New Orleans team.

I sent an email to both my state Rep and state Senator to pull Louisiana taxpayer funds from the Voodoo Satans (you might call them the Saints).

I also sent an email to the TV station that handles both Sunday Night Football and Fox sports that I am boycotting the NFL programming. This is KADN 15.1 (Fox), 15.2 and 46.1 (NBC)

20 posted on 09/27/2017 10:26:35 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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