Posted on 09/30/2017 3:03:03 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Like an offensive coordinator attempting to find the right way to break through a defensive line, the NFL has called for a number of plays in its efforts to accommodate both their players who feel compelled to protest during the national anthem and their increasingly angry fans.
These efforts have ranged from having the players stand together with locked arms during the anthem, to keeping players in the locker room until the anthem is over, and even to having the team kneel before – rather than during – the anthem’s playing. However, none of these tactics have been completely successful, as NFL TV ratings continue to be sacked by viewers who are throwing a penalty flag at the protestors.
Now, according to the Charlotte Observer, the NFL may be ready to call a new play in advance of Sunday’s Patriots-Panthers game. And it’s a bit of a Hail Mary.
While it’s uncertain if Carolina Panthers players plan protests during the national anthem during Sunday’s game at New England, there is a chance that television viewers won’t get to see them as they happen.
In other words, if it offends too many people to either stand for the national anthem or see people NOT standing for the anthem, let’s simply not broadcast it at all.
Eric Shanks, the president of Fox Sports, told Newsday’s Neil Best earlier this week that his crews plan to return to “standard procedure” this week for NFL broadcasts. That doesn’t include showing the national anthem live for most games because the network normally airs commercials then.
Shanks left the option open, however.
“So I think we’re going to pay attention to events,” Shanks told Newsday. “… A lot of time is happening between now and then.”
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A couple? Whole teams and owners kneeling?
Sounds like you can’t see (or refuse to see) the elephant even when it’s NOT under the rug.
I’ll take a wild guess. You’re hooked to their opiate and you ain’t about to kick the habit, even if all the players gave a finger during the anthem. How close am I?
It’s too late.
Fans will record video, show it on YouTube and the beat goes on.
A month ago not broadcasting the Anthem might work, but now it’s too late.
“The fact of the matter is it’s a boring topic.”
Actually, I find it interesting - and appalling - that so many millionaires and billionaires disrespect the flag and the Republic for which it stands.
And that they want to drag their trashy actions uninvited into my living room.
And that many of them view police officers as pigs.
And that the NFL and their auxiliaries have signed-on to the Democrats anti-American agenda.
That has my attention, but not in a good way.
I don’t see the improvement of taking something away from a person who wants to be part of it because someone else wants to disrespect it, or harm it, and have it removed from your life.
When you have someone, or a group of people, that want to change your life, or activities, to further their cause by taking parts of your life away from you, harming you, that’s called terrorism.
Terrorism is defined as the use of intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. I don’t see the difference. You can ruin it for me, or you can get it taken away. I lose, you win. No compromise, just resolution for one side. Nothing positive was gained. We’re right back where we started. Only worse.
rwood
What if a JAW-DROPPING solution is broadcast but nobody is there to see it?
They’re not thinking....unless they forgot that there will be people in the stands too.
You don’t cheer for people who hate you. The masks are off and it’s over. The league will keep going with less people; that’s all.
“forfeits the game?”
Never stand up in court. And if all the money is taken away from either the owners or the players, or all the people and networks that has spent an S-pot of cash on this, it will go to court. And it will be in court for the next 50 years until the Supreme Court hear’s it and doesn’t kick it back down stairs. It will cost everyone more money than most people see in a lifetime.
rwood
They’ll hide it from the viewers but what about the thousands of people in the stands?
We’ll still hear about it and who did it.
Isn’t this sort of like the employee saying, “You can’t fire me! I already quit.”
Here the NFL teams are saying, “We won’t show you the opening ceremony, when we’re not even turning on the television.”
With all due remorse and sadness, this once and former NFL fan (I liked the Broncos until last week, now they are all nothing to me) has now re-discovered yard-work and doing important things in the garage.
The NFL, by its' own doings, has chosen to be the jane fonda (ugh) of this generation.
There is, and there can be NO coming back from that.
We have choices when we look for things to do on Sunday (or Monday or Thursday).
This Veteran chooses to Not be, or have his very fine Country, or way of life be, in any way a supportive part of the insults from the likes of some ignorant and ungrateful NFL millionaires who just plain hate us.
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I wonder what they’ll do with that Pro Thugball Hall of Fame building when it shuts down?
I don’t watch the NFL anymore, but just seeing the players kneeling on the news cites is nauseating. Or clutching each other in their damn gay group hug.
Expressing unity? I don’t give a damn for their unity. How many problems will that solve?
They Just. Don’t. Get. It.
“They usually don’t show the anthem...Going back to the old ways is a fine solution.”
Usual GOP solution - give them what the want, in this case no more anthem showing pride in America (at least on TV), and then declare victory and move on.
Kind of reminds me of Mario The Pius, when, during our saturation bombing of Iraq in Jan, 1991, he said that we should “declare victory and go home”, rather than launch the invasion necessary to extract them from Kuwait.
Nope, SORRY, but now that they’ve put the knees and arm-locking IN MY FACE for the past month (really year plus), they will have to get on their knees one more time, except TO ME, Mr. (former) Football Fan. And, of course, it will take much more now than just begging me to ‘forget it ever happened’ as their contracts melt away, so I don’t give the NFL much hope.
who is this solution supposed to help ? Both ? either ? none ? the networks ? NFL ?
If you have a “protest” an hardly anyone sees it, did it happen ? so it’s a win for me.
I don’t want to see this “protest”, so it’s another win for me.
I really can’t think of a win for the protesters.
“... efforts to accommodate ... their players who feel compelled to protest...”
What other organizations move Heaven and earth to “accommodate” unruly and disruptive employees? You accommodate decent, cooperative employees, and you discipline or terminate the trouble makers.
What kind of wimps are TPTB in the NFL? A case of the tail wagging the dog.
To have the national anthem and our flag associated with the scumbags in the NFL only taints our national symbols. They don’t deserve to be able to fly the flag or play the anthem. Forbid them to use either.
The masks are off...
To watch a professional football game (any professional sport, really, but especially football) requires a large dose of “willing suspension of disbelief”.
What do we suspend, normally?
We suspend our disbelief that they are not really doing this for us.
We suspend our disbelief that they are not really doing this for Our City. (That they have any connection to Our City whatsoever.)
We suspend our disbelief that we are all on the same side.
We suspend our disbelief in a common goals with a shared concept of common good.
And as we are no longer willing to suspend our disbelief, it is then that... not so much that the masks are off of THEIR faces, but that the rose-colored glasses fall from OUR faces.
Instead of seeing an exciting sports match in which we are all bound up in the same common excitement, we see them for the cynical millionaires and leeches that they are.
Very difficult to re-suspend the disbelief after THAT happens.
My gosh...it’s NOT complicated!
Stand for the flag and anthem...Put your hand over your heart
Sing
Play Ball!
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