[Enchante]

Lots of owner and player statements in this article. Another swamp to be drained!!!!

Some owners, at least, have decided to push back against President Trump and angry fans. Fans need to shake the NFL to its foundations, immediately!!! bOYCOTT!!!!

[Theophilus]

They’re playin with deflated balls!

[Sarah Barracuda]

Id love to see these rich overpaid scum bags give the majority of their salaries to help the communities they claim are “SO oppressed” they won’t give a dime, they wont give a dime to help the inner cities, to fix up the schools, to clean up the neighborhoods..they give ZERO of their money..instead they all move into white neighborhood mega mansions and they cry about being oppressed..I wish I was so oppressed it would be nice living in a 15 bedroom mansion with 10 bathrooms

[hardspunned]

49er CEO blasts Trump?!?! This is how his team is drawing after offering $15 seats. This guy is a marketing genius.

https://sportshub.cbsistatic.com/i/r/2016/10/24/c9e7d3f7-8e69-44f7-b12d-bc8bf22c34a9/thumbnail/770x433/0969b9c0c9e691cefcf1af01b8d5d0fe/niners-bucs-crowd-10-23-16.png

[jacknhoo]

This is wonderful. A purge will take place and also a reset. The anti-Americans’ masks are being forced off their Marxist heads.

[uncbob]

Wonder how much thought a forehand Trump put into his speech

The line in the sand has been drawn

And it seems like the owners are giving in to the players

[ForYourChildren]

34 percent less likely to watch - Rasmussan Poll

44 percent less likely to watch - Yahoo Poll

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/goddell-nfl-players-defense-anthem-protestors-likely-backfire/

[Chainmail]

I’m with you!

[onyx]

One hundred percent Racist Rat Trap.
100% Racist Rat Trap.


However, don't dare accuse the black players of any wrong doing!

Don't try to make this a black versus white issue!

It's a power versus the non-powerful!

They're righteously pointing out social injustice!

Nothing racial about that, right?

Nothing against our flag, per se, got it?

That thing, (our flag) is only an object, got it?

Don't be so goddamned sensitive!
It's not like they're burning it! They're just not standing!

White Americans need to get over themselves.

FORK OVER THEIR MONEY.
FILL THOSE STADIUMS!
BUY TEAM GEAR
KEEP THE NFL IN BUSINESS!

[Kevin in California]

Don’t worry, the NFL will soon cease to exist.

Most, if not all of these ‘kneelers” are not Trump’s base...I can guarantee you.

The NFL’s ratings will only get worse as we move forward....watch and see.

[Skywise]

Trump is right

[uncbob]

Donald Trump absolutely loves the United States with every fiber in his body

This disrespect has poed him BIG Time

He will never back down

[Deplorable American1776]

Boycott the NFL...

[Let's Roll]

‘In a tweet, Trump said Goodell is “trying to justify the total disrespect certain players show to our country.” ‘

What Goodell and owners - the supposed cooler heads in the NFL - should be doing instead of justifying disrespect is encouraging their pampered performers to ponder on the words of Thomas Sowell - black economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author:

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment (then) seems like discrimination.”

In one sentence Sowell nails why so many young blacks think they’re being discriminated against and babble about white privilege while what whites see is them getting special treatment and only demanding more.

[lonevoice]

Thank you, Mr. President. Take it to them!

[Vision]

America. Love it or leave it. Especially spoiled athletes.

[trebb]

NFL might as well be put on suicide watch - gonna complete its own destruction by the end of the year.

[MrKatykelly]

A business owner once sat all his employees down and asked them why they worked there. After many accolades about the customers, company, and products, he ask “how many would continue working without pay”?

When there was no response, he said “now we all know why we’re here, let’s work to make it profitable”.

[topher]

NFL = Nothing-but Foul-ups-and Losers

[Eleutheria5]

Personal boycott already underway. Haven’t watched a game in decades, except for ten minutes that I saw with my son. I couldn’t believe how sissified it’s become. The referees were more in motion than the players. Boooring.

[enumerated]

As a red blooded American male suburbanite I have long been in the awkward and politically incorrect position of being bored with national league sports.

My dad, one of my brothers, and a couple of my sons (all of whom I love dearly) are WAY into following sports, so I certainly don’t see sports fanaticism as a character flaw.

Yet, I have to admit that there’s something about it that seems a bit unhealthy, obsessive, disproportionate.

I suppose any time two people don’t share the same level of enthusiasm for something - there is a tendency for the less enthused one to think the other is obsessed, and the enthused one to think the other is apathetic.

But a hundred times a week I’m asked for details about a game and when I say I don’t know, I get a mind boggled look, as if to say WTF? You aren’t glued to the screen? You aren’t a repository of relevant statistics? You don’t have a ready analysis of team dynamics that you can articulate complete with the appropriate jargon? You won’t be devastated if one thing happens or ecstatic if another thing happens?

“No, I wasn’t watching” I say, to their amazement. If I were to say I was reading about Rocket Man, and wondering if he’d do something crazy, they might look bewildered and wonder which professional athlete I’m referring to.

Oh well.

I, for one, wouldn’t mind one bit if these spoiled brat millionaire athletes went too far with their smug comments and obnoxious behavior and did something to piss off the fans - break the spell they apparently have over sports fanatics.