Trump had nothing to do with it.
NFL management at all levels has been exposed for the wusses they are.
The NFL has rules for this sort of behavior....this is a little like Hillary doesn't have to follow the laws of her office and America's jurisprudence.
Commissioner, you don't "have to snap your fingers" to tell these nits they either behave like adults and show some respect for their country or they're fired!
ESPN?
This might be true and it might not be depending on how it will make liberal politics look.
The “Smith” cited here is DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFL players union. If that guy can’t even understand the damage that his members are doing to pro football, then it’s no wonder that NFL players have long been regarded as having the weakest union of any major sport.
Translation: NFL owners to need emergency treatment after riding the fence for weeks.
First of all it should be acknowledged, as another poster alerted me, that ESPN was writing articles about why players need to “protest” before Colin Kapernick started his idiocy. As others joined in, the sports networks, led by ESPN reveled in the mess they had helped create.
Goodell could have stuck with the rules and helped out the individual owners, who could have had the moral cover of league rules if they lacked the backbone.
After a year, Trump mentions it in a Senate primary campaign speech and ESPN and leftists call for every slime ball to act out.
A year ago, I said that the NFL had ruined their brand and lost me as a fan. Nothing has changed except now they disparage our President even more and act to threaten those they don’t agree with.
You are a Pussy if you watch or go to the NFL.
They had the power to stop previous expressions of support for the police, the military, and Christianity. So he’s lying. Because they’ve always shut down expressions of support for anything conservative.
It’s very simple, lead by example, period. Take the PC PR hit but retain the admiration of the AntiPC nation.
I applaud the NFL for giving these guys the opportunity to get out of the Hood but looking at the number of arrests afterward indicates they don’t get very far out of the Hood.
Retain it?
That ship has sailed boys...
You lost control when you let Kapernick get away with his on-field protest last year.
There are two kinds of football teams now: those where the coach runs the team and teams where the players call the shots.
The teams run by players lost last week. These losers are infecting college, high school and pee wee football with their vain `Look at me!’ nonsense. Boycott the NFL.
Doesn't the league normally fine players for rule violations?
[At the end of the day, this is a group of players who are exercising their freedom. There is no room for me to snap my fingers and tell our players, ‘It’s time for you to give up a freedom.’ Just the idea offends me.]
Fine them then. Like dog piss boy on the Giants.
We know now. A lot of NFL players hate America and white people.
So, they and the league can go to hell no matter what they do from here on out.
It’s too late.
What attacks from Trump?
The owners let this get out of control by not enforcing the rules right from the start. Now it will never recover millions of fans that they feel they were taken on a political crap run by mostly the black players.
Yup, Obama setting back “race relations” by 150 years.
Last time I looked NFL players are contracted employees...
Maybe the owners should stop being such wimps and start acting like they own the teams...
Try driving a coke truck and drinking a Pepsi...
You will terminated on the spot...