The greedy, raaaaacist NFL, from Roger Goodell down to the waterboys,
are hoping like hell that football catches on anywhere outside the US ...
That chart ends with 2012 and I guarantee the 2013-2016 numbers are even worse.
Posted on 02/16/2017 5:34:36 AM PST by SJackson
JERUSALEM -- Only five of 11 NFL players have arrived on a sponsored trip to Israel, tarnishing a program aimed at improving the country's image.
The ministry for strategic affairs and public diplomacy issued a news release after the Super Bowl boasting that the visit would bring "influencers" who would serve as "goodwill ambassadors" when they returned home.
The announcement led Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett to pull out. He accused the government of trying to use him for PR purposes and cited sympathy for the Palestinians:
everal other players followed suit, including Bennett's brother, New England Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett, who retweeted his brother's letter.
Rambam Health Care Campus spokesman David Ratner said Wednesday that only five players arrived for a planned visit to the hospital. The ministry declined to comment.
According to the Times of Israel, the five players who went on the trip were Arizona Cardinals defensive end Calais Campbell, Oakland Raiders defensive tackle Dan Williams, New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan, Tennessee Titans tight end Delanie Walker and Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Mychal Kendricks.
In addition to Michael and Martellus Bennett, the players who were scheduled to appear but didn't make the trip were Seattle Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills, San Francisco 49ers running back Carlos Hyde and Denver Broncos running back Justin Forsett. Retired NFL linebacker Kirk Morrison also was originally scheduled to appear.
Kendricks and Jordan have posted pictures and video on social media from their visit.
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— cameron jordan (@camjordan94) February 15, 2017 The visit will include stops at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center and a meeting with the Black Hebrews, a community of African-Americans who live in southern Israel.
They’re not only America-haters, now we find out they are Jew-haters also. Way to go NFL!
Wish Wikileaks had hacked the NFL. I’ll bet any emails about Tim Tebow would have been very interesting. And have some bearing on this issue as well.
Closet muzzies in the NFL
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Shame on them.
Maybe they found out that it is out of range for their ankle monitors, or their parole provisions forbid them to leave the state?
Israel will be in the World Baseball Classic next month. Their pool division includes Taiwan, SKorea, and Holland, so they don’t have a snowball’s chance in Beersheba of making it past the first round, but the MLB is much less racist, much more diverse, and much less controlled by leftist useful idiots, so maybe sending baseball people there would make more sense. Am yisrael chai!
Hope the guys who went had a great time.
Honesty, who would invite these ghetto rats into their country? Is American football popular in Israel?
And ESPN wonders why they are bleeding subscribers?
Do the math you jewish hating network...If you bless Israel you are blessed if you curse it as you are you are cursed...enjoy going bankrupt!
Why would you invite players who have zero connection to Israel? The fans of these players will never step foot there. It makes no sense. Why does Israel need the NFL? There are many better PR opportunities. Bring CEOs over there. Bring soldiers. Bring PhD students. NFL players? Dumb.
I know, I know, not all female pro hoops players are lesbians and not all messicans are rapists and illegals, but I'm a deplorable bigot, what can you espect frum a tabaccy chewen, gun toten, rednecked, ruffian, xenophobe???
Now, I axe you?
Since ESPN has ceased being a news source, here’s the relevant details:
The trip is sponsored by some Israel government ministries together with America’s Voices in Israel. The players, their agents, and the NFL could not have misunderstood the nature of the trip.
For years, AVI has been organizing trips to Israel by journalists and celebrities. AVI was founded by Malcolm Hoenlein, a very well-known spokesman for numerous, mostly Leftist, Jewish organizations.
The players simply caved to some outside pressure after having first agreed.
Meanwhile, North American Jews voted Obama TWICE and HillDaBeast at 70%, in effect... a boycott of Israel .
FU-NFL!
I don’t understand why any American patriot would even watch them.
but the MLB is much less racist, much more diverse, and much less controlled by leftist useful idiots,
it’s very simple, to the point where it’s unseemly to mention it, but MLB is also less dominated by blacks...and lefty talking points are not rote assumptions...
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