Posted on 09/25/2017 11:12:06 AM PDT by janetjanet998
The NFL’s top corporate sponsors haven’t expressed any concern about the unprecedented wave of player national anthem protests this weekend, a league spokesman said Monday.
NFL players engaged in widespread demonstrations on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump called on the league’s owners to fire ‘son of a [expletive]’ who kneel during the pregame national anthem. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the vast majority of the league’s 32 owners issued statements in solidarity with players and condemned Trump for engaging in divisive rhetoric.
“We talk to our sponsors all the time, whether it’s raining or the sun is out. We’ve talked to them, we keep them informed. I haven’t heard of a single issue of a sponsor that is worried or has raised particular issue about the weekend,” NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart told reporters during a conference call Monday.
When millions of disgusted consumers stop buying their products, they’ll be concerned, that I can guarantee.
Make them concerned.
#changeAmerica
The look on the players faces in a couple of years when the salary cap plunges is going to be priceless...never a good idea to keep pushing the people who are ultimately paying your bills and your salaries.
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sponsors need money to be sponsors and when that dries up ,D’oh
“It’ll all blow over.” Think so? Watch.
At the moment, if their advertising costs are based on TV viewership, I can imagine they think they’re getting a windfall. When viewers (and non-viewers that notice) take up the boycott meme, they’ll be whistling a decidedly different tune.
Taking a knee means nothing.
The NFL should donate all of this year’s tv revenues to the NAACP.
In a show of solidarity, the networks should match the donation.
Money talks....bullshit kneels.
Just wait. It’s all about the money to them. If the money starts drying up (and I predict it will) then they will pull their advertising.
Joe Lockhart is the NFL spokeshole? Ewww....
The billionaire NFL owners and millionaire NFL players are committing suicide.
Hmmm.... Someone should produce Confederate flags with the NFL’s logo in the center.
That would cause a commotion.
Of course they havent. Our population grows more unAmerican every day. The thing is, the more wealthy the seem to be, the more unAmerican they are.
They won’t know what hit them until it hits them, then it’s Hillary crying all over again.
Puke.
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