Posted on 09/25/2017 12:16:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If you are proud of this s#it, you hate America.
Trump must have some really bad dirt on Goodell and the NFL
My cousin Frances wrote it.
However, from the statement:
Apparently, his ties to this boob got Goodell the younger his $ 40 million a year at the taxpayer supported NFL.
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It seemed poster was indicting the $40 million salary was coming from taxpayers...though stadium construction is a lot more money probably.
I cannot stand NFL.
“”I spent a lot of time listening to our players and coaches and owners over the past two days,” Goodell said . . . “
He forgot the main component of any business model, the customer.
I am proud of our County, I am proud and blessed to have been born an American.
I defend the right of anyone to protest and to exercise their 1st Amendment rights.
However, while I may defend their right to protest, I don't have to give them my money or time.
That is the dilemma that the NFL players have created. The polls indicate about 1/3 of the public feels the protests will cause them to stop following the NFL. TV ratings are down by over 10%. The public is giving the NFL AND its players a pretty strong message.
If you are proud of your NFL league, take note of what the public is doing. There are not many business organizations that can stand loosing 10% to 30+% of their customer base.
You might want to have some diversity talks within the locker rooms around the league to discuss the long term implications of mixing politics and entertainment/sports.
P.S. ESPN which has been doing this for quite a while, should be a less in what happens when you mix politics with sports.
How does the NFL enjoy federal tax benefits? First, the NFL has an exemption from the antitrust laws, not enjoyed by other businesses which makes tickets, salaries and owner profits far more than they should be. Second, the NFL’s new stadiums have received an estimated $3.8 billion in tax-free bond interest in the past few years, according to Senators Booker (D) and Lankford (R) who seek to remove it. Third, many new stadiums are taxpayer funded on the specious reason, disproven, that they generate tremendous business for the local area. Fourth, the NFL has gotten free support in flyovers and other military presence at its games. I could go on.
It's interesting that you say that. The fans aren't really the customers of the NFL at all. The fans are the merchandise that the NFL sells to its real customers: TV networks and sponsors.
With this simmering uprising of NFL fans, what we're watching here isn't really a case of the customers turning their back on a business establishment. It's the case of the merchandise getting up and walking out the front door of the store.
The USFL won the case but it was meaningless to them. They were only awarded $1 in damages because they couldn't prove that the NFL's violation of anti-trust laws caused them any financial harm at all.
Yes, but unfortunately do you ever see the do-nothing GOP in congress or senate ever taken up an initiative to stop the exemption?
Clutch your chest and croak, Goodell!
Is Goodell proud of the empty seats and ratings decline?
yeah, maybe so.
I recall a few years ago that a PRC company started a gambling operation based on the NBA. Apparently, USA pro sports has a significant international following. I am in Mexico right now. Sunday I stopped in a random cafe for lunch. The flat TV screens were broadcasting a NFL game (in English, even) (chicago bears vs pittsburg steelers). The pro sports franchises are now apparently international corporations, or perhaps equivalently, corporations with international markets. So what we may be seeing is just another manifestation of the power struggle between nationalism and internationalism. In his position, Trump probably has considerable recon on where and when the next upcoming political attacks on him will come from. Pro sports may have been first on that list. Rather than let them the pro sports teams grab the headlines, trump took the initiative and called them out.
I don’t have anything against pro sports per se but using my cable subscription money to dump on the US flag and the US as a nation is wrong. If pro sports wants to use their franchises as anti-US propaganda it seems to me only fair to expect a public broadside response from the president of our nation. Let the pro sports franchises go to China and Mexico for more revenue, and cut off their taxpayer paid subsidies. It is counterproductive to the US for US taxpayers and customers to pay for anti-US propaganda.
Didn’t claim Goodell’s idiotic compensation was directly taxpayer supported, but it certainly is indirectly supported, and quite BIGLY, through the federal antitrust exemption for the NFL, the tax-free status as municipal bonds for stadium construction ($3.8 billion according to Sen. Cory Booker), and the direct support of taxpayers for stadiums. ESPN estimated that for football stadiums alone, the taxpayers ponied up $ 6.7 billion for 21 new stadiums. The Brookings Institute has estimated that the total taxpayer funding for NFL stadiums was more in the range of $ 12 billion.
Keep digging, chump.
Yep.
Well, ain’t that a coinkidink!
If the NFL doesn’t have an exemption from the federal antitrust laws, its quite odd that numerous federal legislators have introduced legislation in recent years to REVOKE it. Among other things, it empowers the league to negotiate with tv networks on behalf of all of its teams as a unit, instead of like most businesses, having to do individual negotiations. Sponsores of NFL antitrust exemption repeal include Arlen Specter (2006), Blumenthal (2015) and the DC delegate (2015 out of pique over the Redskins not changing their team name).
Interesting. Goodell’s father was a Senator who betrayed Republicans, marched w/ Hanoi Jane & lost to James Buckley https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=134869072
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