Posted on 09/20/2016 3:50:48 AM PDT by servo1969
What about players simply self policing other players in the NFL?
Why can’t the cool players send a painful message to the jerks? Do this protest garbage all you want, celebrate routine plays with fruity gyrations and chest slapping all you want, but be prepared to face the fire afterwards. I think maybe each game is too important to the season and they can’t risk penalties and suspensions with modern replay, so the level of jerkitude will remain high in the NFL.
Freegards
We need 1 central thread or Box at top of page to keep up with this crap.
Multiple links to Posted articles
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How? Most of the sponsors are Bud, Nike, FedX, Sprint, Apple, AT&T, etc. Kind of hard to boycott them.
It’s not like boycotting a local sponsor which actually works. You see the full stands still.
Hubby is Ret. SCPO 20 yr career Navy to many years of following stupid orders are ingrained. Add in 20 yrs as a Jr. College Prof he’s 76 not about to change his habits or I’d have cancelled the sports package we pay extra for, hates what they are doing, doesn’t turn the game on until after the National Anthem is played now, because he doesn’t want to hear ME gripe. Then watches the game hoping to see one of the idiots get his clock cleaned and career ended. I read a book. I refuse to watch. We have gotten into a few rows over it. And we have never had one before. He does not have the concept of “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
Keep the players in the locker room until after the National Anthem is played if you can’t control these cretins any other way. Do not give them a stage to show disrespect.
I will watch NASCAR with him at least they show the respect due.
Garfield (Seattle) High School players kneel during National Anthem
Excuses, excuses-——you do a great job of justifying your husbands self pity, etc.-——WW2 combat vet——cheers
There was a story on here yesterday about the ratings drop for the NFL already. I think it was 10-25% depending on the market.
With the 25% being the drop for the Niners whose owner said he didn’t have a problem with his players ‘protesting’. Well, we’ll see how he likes a drop in advertising money, unsold tickets and Niners “gear”.(or do they all share in gear sold across the NFL? even if they do, that should also drop)
An even better idea is to keep just the trouble makers in the locker room until after the anthem.
Don’t let a few miscreants destroy our traditions.
“I think they took so much heat in the social media”
Not to mention the loss of existing endorsement contracts and the slowly dawning realization of some of these rocket-scientists that protesting during the national anthem makes them poison for any future endorsement contracts.
NFL should write into future contracts that behavior likely to decrease the marketability of the NFL (TV revenue, jerseys, etc.) will result in a one or more game suspension w/o pay.
Since TV ratings went down last week due to behavior (which could be verified by surveys as to the reason fans didn't watch) would be an example.
Probably need some good lawyers to set this up. I'm sure they have a few dozen already.
You will not die if you do the same. Do some onl-fashioned stuff: Take bakc your life from the NFL, take a walk, do those things you never seem to get done, ask Mrs. or Mr. Freeper if there's anything they would like to do since you aren't watching the game, take the family out for a picnic, wash the car/truck, change the oil, clean out the garage, get on that dusty treadmill and work off your frustration with these immature fools, etc.
Like many FReepers, I’d contribute nothing to a boycott as I haven’t watched NFL games (unless the Giants are in the Super Bowl) for years. Even before it became touch football with players splashed in pink, I simply couldn’t get past the massive amount of commercials...
I figured the NFL was having issues when their results were featured on Spanish-language news; I have yet to meet a Hispanic born abroad that watches American football.
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