Rush is way wrong. The NFL is being destroyed because the majority of fans are finally coming to terms with the fact that the majority of players hate their guts.
Precisely, the anthem was merely the final straw.
You don’t spit in the fans faces and have fans left.
Well, that's it. I'm apparently an incorrigible racist, and don't deserve to be able to watch NFL players perform unless I am willing to sit through a weekly pre-game lecture on my wickedness.
OK, then...bye. :)
Ditto for the whole entertainment industry.
“Rush is way wrong. The NFL is being destroyed because the majority of fans are finally coming to terms with the fact that the majority of players hate their guts.”
Perhaps, but we probably could have lived with it. After all, people on our side spend billions watching Hollywood movies, even though the ‘talent’ never skips a chance to remind us of just how much we’re hated.
The difference is this time is that they BROUGHT IT ON THE FIELD. To continue with my Hollywood analogy, it would be like watching a high-quality action movie - and then, right in the middle of it, the actors all turn towards the camera and tell us how much Trump sucks, then they get back to the movie, chasing, fighting, and shooting each other.
...and, as bad as that was, the producers, rather than fire the actors and cut out that part, LEAVE IT IN, and in some cases, JOIN THEM in the next movie, and tell their audience to suck it up, if they don’t like it.
In the cases where they are in our face, such as late-night television - they’ve already written us off, so it doesn’t affect them - but they do lose a lot of potential upside. Football is different, as likely 2/3’s of their market are people who support America...so it will REALLY HURT them.
The NFL has slowly priced itself out of reach for its own fan base. The national anthem “controversy” just gave these fans a reason to walk away on principle.
Sadly, that appears to be true. Most of the NFL players (whom are black) absolutely hate white people and want to see them exterminated from the earth. Their hatred came to the surface with the recent anthem controversy.
I knew when Obama was elected that this would happen. Any white president thereafter would be an affront to (many) black people and that hatred of white people would be the result. This is the inevitable result of "identity politics" in which only the color of your skin, your gender or your sexual preference is important. And if you happen to be a white male who prefers women as sexual partners, you are in the worst possible position (with these people).