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NFL sponsors unconcerned about national anthem protests: Official
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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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; football; illinois; kneel; nfl; nflsponsors; police; sports
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To: janetjanet998

Is there a list yet of NFL sponsors?


21 posted on 09/25/2017 11:20:40 AM PDT by Nevadan
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Anyone have a list of sponsors?


22 posted on 09/25/2017 11:20:46 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: KeyLargo
So, a protest movement that started in part as anti-police, is now supported by police? OK.
23 posted on 09/25/2017 11:22:10 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Angels27
The thing is, the more wealthy the seem to be, the more unAmerican they are.

It's also true at the low end of the scale, at least if you're an illegal alien, or non-white. Both groups are susceptible to "America is evil and/or racist" propaganda.

24 posted on 09/25/2017 11:22:46 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: janetjanet998
From the article: The NFL’s top sponsors include major corporations like Visa, Nike, Anheuser-Busch InBev, PepsiCo and McDonald’s...

It probably won't be long till a boycott NFL Sponsor list appears somewhere with a full listing.
25 posted on 09/25/2017 11:23:27 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Signalman

If I understand it correctly, ad price time is contingent upon eyeball watching time.


26 posted on 09/25/2017 11:23:33 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: TheTimeOfMan

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3588563/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3588793/posts


27 posted on 09/25/2017 11:23:41 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Learn How To Search. Ask Me How.)
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To: janetjanet998

Joe Lockhart? Seriously?

Yea, a former Clinton mouthpiece can be counted on not to lie.....and just proves the leftist lean of the whole NFL operation.


28 posted on 09/25/2017 11:24:44 AM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: \/\/ayne

How about this.....everyone go thru a McDonalds drive thru and tell them you won’t be placing an order because they sponsor the NFL which dishonors our flag and our country.

Have that happen twenty or thirty thousand times, and they’ll notice.


29 posted on 09/25/2017 11:24:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TheTimeOfMan

list here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3588563/posts

I am also going into my local Mcdonalds and telling the owner or manager I’m never coming there again..

I am contacting my local radio station and telling them I’m not listening unless they drop the NFL game on Sundays

etc etc


30 posted on 09/25/2017 11:25:19 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Nevadan

There’s lists posted on other threads. Sorry I can’t be more specific

We’ve already let Verizon know we won’t be upgrading or resigning contracts, effective this month, and we sure as hell told them why.


31 posted on 09/25/2017 11:25:41 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick?)
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To: \/\/ayne

Current Sponsors:
Anheuser-Busch
Barclaycard US
Bose
Bridgestone
Campbell’s Soup Company
Castrol
Courtyard Marriott
Dairy Management, Inc. (Fuel Up to Play 60)
Dannon
Extreme Networks
FedEx
Frito-Lay
Gatorade
Hyundai Motor America
Mars Snackfood
Microsoft
Nationwide
News America
Papa John’s
Pepsi
Procter & Gamble
Quaker
Verizon
Visa
USAA


32 posted on 09/25/2017 11:26:08 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

anyone name the sponsors so we’ll know which to boycott?


33 posted on 09/25/2017 11:26:24 AM PDT by beergarden
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To: Billthedrill

It wont blow over. This started a year ago. It’s like saying Trumpism is a “fad”.


34 posted on 09/25/2017 11:26:25 AM PDT by beergarden
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To: janetjanet998

NFL sponsors offer a target rich environment for a boycott. When I go to the grocery store or to WalMart I read the fine print on the packages. Quaker Oats (part of Pepsico) has lots of products that can be boycotted because they have competitors that do not advertise on NFL games.


35 posted on 09/25/2017 11:29:03 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: janetjanet998

Thank goodness, no beer companies so I won’t have to boycott beer:

Current Sponsors:
Anheuser-Busch
Barclaycard US
Bose
Bridgestone
Campbell’s Soup Company
Castrol
Courtyard Marriott
Dairy Management, Inc. (Fuel Up to Play 60)
Dannon
Extreme Networks
FedEx
Frito-Lay
Gatorade
Hyundai Motor America
Mars Snackfood
Microsoft
Nationwide
News America
Papa John’s
Pepsi
Procter & Gamble
Quaker
Verizon
Visa
USAA


36 posted on 09/25/2017 11:29:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Buckeye McFrog

no talk to the manager and local franchise owner ..not a teen in the drive thru window


37 posted on 09/25/2017 11:29:47 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: 1Old Pro

I was already boycotting Proctor and Gamble over their incredibly racist ad called The Talk.


38 posted on 09/25/2017 11:31:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: janetjanet998

In the name of social justice and in support of affirmative action, I am boycotting the NFL till 55% of the players are white, 30% Hispanic, 12% black and 1% native american and 2% asian.


39 posted on 09/25/2017 11:31:32 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: janetjanet998

I think they are greatly underestimating the incredible damage the NFL has just done to themselves. Who do they think watches football, wrist flapping Hillary worshiping snowflakes? It’s mostly middle class white males who do, 77% of their audience is made up of that demographic of which 37% is above 55 years old and I think we can fairly guess a lot of them aren’t exactly super fans of radical leftism which means you guys running the NFL just committed professional suicide to the extreme.


40 posted on 09/25/2017 11:31:45 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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