The future for No Fans Left, aka the former NFL!
So here's the conclusion: Unless you pay the NFL, they won't respect the flag. However, if we pay them, they will.
I am speechless. Saw this today on RT of all places.
Depressing, in several different ways.
And I think I read the ‘pay to “respect the flag, etc.” ‘ was started under the Obama Admin. Maybe the players are upset that the ‘pay’ ended and now are quite willing to show their true feelings. Sadly, in Obamaland, it frequently turns out to be ‘all about the money’.
Probably not a lot of folks know that all those “honor the military” events were paid for using tax dollars. Sure wasn’t out of the goodness of the nfl’s heart. Well if there was a heart.
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The NFL only cares about money, just like all the breast cancer awareness nonsense.
It’s been a slow creep of politicization fueled by bribery.
This is totally on the owners and coaches. When the NFL was being paid for patriotic performances, there were demands on the players. Now that the money has dried up, they allow, and now in some places encourage or demand, that players sully these ceremonies. Any team that in the past accepted this money but now hasn't fined or suspended the ingrates should be held accountable by the fans.
The future for No Fans Left, aka the former NFL!
So to honor the flag they violated the 10th Amendment....
Did they do this before or after Trump won the election? It has a different connotation if it was after.
Why didn't they do it years ago?
No the conclusion is if you pay them they’ll do anything. They didn’t used to have an “official beer sponsor” until Coors offered up a bunch of money. The simple fact is the TV networks pay thousands of dollars a minute for the NFL, they’re not using any of that time for anything unless they’re getting paid. They were doing the anthem and stuff before 2009, but then the DOD offered them money to make a bigger deal of it, so they did.
As I understand it, the effort was for recruiting, in a time when the military was having a “hard time making (recruiting) goals.” I could be wrong.
Paying for the flag.
Reminds me of the following joke:
A Cardinal approaches the Pope. Your Excellency, there is a representative from the Hershey’s company to see you. He is willing to make, how should I put it, a substantial contribution, if you could see it to have Holy Communion celebrated with a chocolate bar instead of bread.
What are you asking, said the Pope, with a harrumph. Holy Communion is not for sale!
But, your Excellency, we are talking, if I heard him correctly, of as much as $2 billion per years.
$2 billion? Excuse me, but would you get me the Wonder Bread company on the phone.
I say, “If they take a knee, give’em the FINGER!!
Bravo NRA, herein: https://youtu.be/z3j1ZKz7PWQ
I think I will start a class action lawsuit on behalf of the millions of kids who were required to say the pledge of allegiance in school and never were paid for it.