Posted on 08/30/2017 8:10:55 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The Squeezing of the NFL
All of this puts the NFL between a rock and a hard place. Even before the 2017 pre-season is over, a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Alabama accused the NFL of racism and announced a pro football "blackout." Two sports bars in Chicago are also boycotting NFL games until Kaepernick gets a job, and the NAACP has threatened a similar boycott.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the TV set, fans are up in arms. In the wake of Cleveland's show of disrespect on August 21, social media lit up. A local VFW post in Strongsville, Ohio (Post #3345) announced that it would no longer show Cleveland Browns games, and Ohio Supreme Court justice Bill O'Neill announced a boycott of the Browns, calling the player protest an attack on the military.
At the end of the day, black players want social change, and fans want football without the anti-America politics. The NFL just wants the problem to go away. It remains to be seen how many teams will join the "disrespect America" protests in 2017, and how many fans will respond with their clickers instead of watching their favorite sport become a political football in America's new culture wars. It also remains to be seen how the NFL will stop hemorrhaging both viewers and advertising revenue.
There's a lot at stake, and it's not just money. One more season of this, and we'll have a better idea of whether professional football in America has crossed the Rubicon. And a better idea of where America's culture wars are heading.
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They could have ended it the first time...You stay in the locker room until the National Anthem is over..or else
If the NFL owners hired Roger Goodell to destroy the league they couldn’t have picked a better guy for the job.
I would be harsher saying you are on our paid time as such you will conform. Otherwise don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen reports of fights between pro- and anti-”sitting-during-the-anthem” fans. One of these days I expect to see an Antifa-type brawl in the stands.
Hope it does. Soccer too. Both are incredibly boring any more and the PC has ruined it.
While we are at it, let the anti-Christian ESPN and its parent Disney CronyCorp go the way of the dodo too.
One thing the NFL screwed up big time with this last year was when Kapernick started doing is kneel down, the NFL also disallowed the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a patch commemorating the 4 officers killed by the BLM scumbag.
On a side note, when your team is 1-15 the year before the last thing you want to do is piss of your fans this year by kneeling down for the National Anthem. Congratulations Cleveland Browns...
What is happening now is in essence the laws of the jungle, karma, what happens when you are a moral contradiction, when you lose vision of what your primary purpose is.
Instead of the NFL being about FOOTBALL, a number of years ago they decided they’d be a Social Justice Experiment and put their heads into the yoke of Socialism/Marxism. For some preferential treatment, or perhaps responding to liberal blackmail, they’ve sold their souls to the Devil.
You reap what you sow NFL!
This is all on Roger Goodell. Every time he has a choice to make when it comes to player conduct he gets it wrong. Every time. He is clueless. Whether it’s Ray Rice, BountyGate, Tom Brady, Ezekiel Elliott, or flag protests his natural instinct is to make the decision that will come back to bite himself and the NFL in their collective endzones. He can’t help it. He is simply incompetent.
I usually don’t watch the sidelines when the National Anthem is played....BUT this season, I will be looking. ANY team that has a player kneeling, fist raised, turn their back or any other visual....my TV will be changed, and that team will never be watched again.
We don’t need the NFL...but they do need us.
Imagine if they had squashed this when it first happened. Now? Gee, who could have predicted that the problem would spiral out of control?
The NFL is dead to me. When they tell the multi-millionaire infants to stand and salute the flag or get the he!! of the field and team, I may, only may, consider watching a particularly interesting game or two a year.
Pffft!
One other thing, contrast the NFL with how NASCAR treats the National Anthem. I don’t even like NASCAR but I know they and their people respect all the great gifts this country has given them and it shows.
The Antifa types are never at the games, nor the left wing lunatic fringe, as they can’t afford it.
I have been to a number of Husky football games over the year and when I look around, 99.99% of the fans are white. EXTREMELY few black people attend pro level sports games.
Perhaps the vast majority of fans who go to games in all but a handful of cities are disgusted. The Cleveland Browns were swamped with fans asking why a bunch of men-children being paid millions of dollars to play a game are allowed to disrespect their fan base while they're on the job.
Besides "Whitey, gimme all your stuff" and freely killing each other, does anybody know what "social change" they want?
I haven't heard any of them demanding the things that most people do to succeed in life: get a good education, stay in school, don't do drugs, stay sober, get a good job, show up on time every day, don't have babies out of marriage, denounce violent anti-woman rap crap, respect the police and authority, treat everybody civilly, be polite, call your mother.
A rock and a hard place? Rather an American place and a libtard place.
The NFL is learning the lesson the hard way that appeasement does not work. It is basically a monopoly that lays down stringent rules on even the most minuscule details such as how players can celebrate after TDs (amended this season).
Yet in the name of political correctness, they let one malcontent loser in Colin Kaepernick create a hateful social movement within its ranks that has alienated many of its fans. Guess what, league, conservatives watch more football than pajama boy liberals.
If they laid down the law from the beginning - players will rise for the anthem or risk fines and suspension - they might have gotten flak from the social justice warriors but that’ll have dissipated soon enough.
Instead they tried to appease and that never ever ends well.
The NFL is at the top of the bowl beginning to circle the drain.
The circling has just begun, and it’s slow now, but it will increase in speed as it approaches the drain.
Clueless administration, pandering to the SJW mentality, the concussion problem, outrageous ticket prices and a virtually unlimited number of entertainment alternatives make the NFL’s demise inevitable.
Sports bars refusing to carry NFL games....talk about cutting off your nose. This is just plain idiocy. Who wants a washed up trouble maker who won a total of one game last season. Fact is he is neither wanted nor needed of anything a football team requires!!!
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