Posted on 12/15/2016 10:31:06 AM PST by blam
Warner Todd Huston
December 15, 2016
An article at SportingNews.com warns the National Football League not to ignore the growing number of NFL fans who have checked out over the constant anti-American protests indulged by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players. In his December 13th piece, Sporting News writer Michael McCarthy highlights fans who have grown sick and tired of the anti-Americanism infesting their national pastime.
“This has left such a bad taste in my mouth,” one 46-year-old elementary school teacher and now former football fan told McCarthy. “I don’t know if I can ever forgive them to tell you the truth. I don’t know if I’ll get the opportunity to find out. But it’s not looking good. They may have lost a fan for life.”
McCarthy goes on to focus on a Twitter hashtag campaign NFL fans use to express their outrage over the protests infesting their entertainment.
“Using the hashtag #BoycottNFL,” McCarthy wrote, “a small-but-vocal group of NFL fans have lodged their own protest against Kaepernick’s protest by refusing to watch game telecasts.”
McCarthy goes on to point out that the NFL has seen a double-digit plunge in ratings over the numbers seen in 2015, a drop that “has puzzled the league,” McCarthy writes. The sportswriter reminds readers that NFL officials and TV executives have steadfastly refused to accept the idea that Kaepernick’s anti-American protests play any part in the ratings crash.
But McCarthy warns that this penchant to dismiss fans who oppose the protests is likely a big mistake.
“All along,” McCarthy writes, fans have found themselves “mystified by why the NFL (which clamped down on the Cowboys for trying to honor slain police officers in Dallas) passively allowed Kaepernick to hijack its name,” and use the NFL
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Damn Kaepernick it the first time in decades that my Buc's are relevant
But all their players stand and Sunday night they play the Cowboys who are Patriotic so I will watch
let the babies babble but why didn't the grownups right the ship?
So is the NFL ready to walk back their support for these “protests” that have no resonance with the spectators that are the reason the sports venue even exists?
Discipline and more discipline to preserve the purity of the brand. Politically correct has no place on the playing field.
Still not watching.
The NFL has been taken over by the sissies, referee timeouts, and anti-American morons. I don’t pay any attention to them anymore.
The Bucs had Mike Evans protest right after the election, but to be fair to the organization, he quickly returned to standing and paying proper attention to the flag. I’ll forgive for that one.
Kaepernick and the 49ers lost again this week, in overtime, to the New York Jets, running their record to 1-12.
My fantasy season is a bust, but it has been nice watching Kaepernick lose. So the season is not a total loss.
It ain't the individual teams I'm boycotting. It's the NFL organization itself, who supports this anti-American ignorance across the board. ANY viewing of ANY game only supports un-American activity, and I cannot be a party to ANY of it.
When the NFL banned those support stickers for the five killed cops but let another team wear those BLM shirts that did it for me. I like football but not NFL anymore. College games are more fun to watch anyway.
Screw the NFL. Hate them almost as much as ESPN.
I know his lousy play is sure hurting the 49’ers. Two weeks ago he had more sacks than passing yards.
Once fans leave, many of them will fill that time with other activities and never return. This is a lot like being caught flaunting adultery - a choice that cannot be taken back. Even once they stop insulting us, we will never like, trust, or care about them again.
Does anyone actually need evidence that this nonsense is hurting the NFL? Anyone at all? I didn't think so. Realists know that starting a "dialogue on race" by insulting our country, our flag, our national anthem, and our parents/grandparents who died defending freedom is a step in exactly the wrong direction. Liberals (the only people who do not instinctively recognize the truth) wouldn't believe the facts if they had data showing a whole season of reduced viewership as evidence.
“Still not watching.”
I don’t watch either. I gave up on the NFL over a decade ago. I haven’t watched a single game - not even the Super Bowl - in all that time and I don’t miss it.
Exactly
One way to identify and eliminate the NFL protestors is to give them a third grade reading test.
That almost has to be an NFL record that will be very hard to break. As a long-time 49ers fan, I have really soured on the team this year not just because of his antics but especially because of the team's refusal to do anything about it.
Not only that, he is being paid franchise QB, top 5, dollars even though he couldn’t start on any team in the league. Why did they keep him on the roster this year when they could have gotten a QB just as good for a quarter of the price?
All the NFL has to do is keep the overpaid babies in the locker room until the Anthem is over . Let the fans enjoy the game without any protest . End of story.
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