Did Rush explain the owners going along with it, participating in it, the NFL itself participating, condoning it.
The players can do what they want. It is the team owners and NFL organization that would make the difference between fan support or fans leaving.
If the owners had benched those protesting and the league fined them, the fans would have stayed.
It aint Soros.
I would humbly disagree. The owners are more or less focused on NFL ‘business’. Because of social media, the owners are trying to quietly walk around this issue because if they say anything negative over players and their protests...they will get blasted via social media. I think in their mind...at least at the beginning of the season, this would be a short-lived thing.
I think the marketing people behind the 32 franchises are sitting there now and looking at tickets unsold...trying to rig discounts that aren’t obvious and just trying to get through the 2017 season. Most tickets were sold back in the spring period, so their issue isn’t that bad. The merchandising people will speak to a downward trend on t-shirts and hats, with X-mas season approaching and forecast a very bad sales season. They will simply drag themselves down to the Super Bowl and then forecast into the 2018 season.
My prediction is that the NFL draft episode will be very interesting as you see players offered lesser bonus money and any NCAA player noted with BLM hype....gets downgraded. If the protests continue through 2018? I’ll predict that salaries are cut in some fashion, and this leads to a 2019 walk-out or strike period. The owners won’t care and the players will then realize the damage caused by this whole affair.