I said early on that the protests were doomed. Once started, there is no positive path out without capitulation for the players and the league.
They can’t claim “racial inequality” is solved, or even improved. All they can claim is that they’ve hurt their league and their standing with many Americans, football fans and non-fans alike.
Everyone was already aware of America’s racial issues, so there is no “awareness” to be raised.
There. Is. No. Upside. Available.
It’s. A. Loser.
Yep. The league made a fatal mistake in not nipping this in the bud the first time it happened.
I don't know if the NFL ever recovers from this. There were a lot of guys like me who had grown tired of the thug behavior, the arrests, the drug use, DWIs, the taxpayer giveaways to thankless billionaire owners and see this as the final straw which to say, "I'm done watching football."
I haven't watched a single minute of play this season.