Posted on 11/22/2017 10:42:19 AM PST by ForYourChildren
It has not been a good season for NFL kneelers and National Anthem protesters.
Fans have reacted with literal fire and fury as the anthem protests have swept across the NFL. People are tuning out in record numbers while attendance at games has dropped to its lowest level in decades.
The league has been caught flat-footed on the issue and is scrambling to keep the rage of fans at bay as the PR nightmare continues to unfold. Now, it seems the league is ready to make a permanent solution to the problem.
Reports indicate that if the protests continue, the NFL will make official rules dictating where and how the protesters can make their political statements. According to The Washington Post, the new rules being considered by team owners and NFL executives will outlaw all protests during the anthem and confine protesters to the locker room if they wish to sit out the anthem.
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Once players see their big paydays drying up, the protests will stop.
I miss you Ron. We all do.
I don’t care what they do because I don’t watch or follow NFL anyhow but ANYTHING less than standing in silence without linking arms or any other nonsense during the anthem is disrespectful. That includes sitting in the lockerroom.
Screw them, as far as I’m concerned the NFL can burn it’s own house down with everyone inside. But don’t try to tell anyone who loves their country and it’s veterans that what I’ve said above is not true.
The kneelers can consider it a donation to help the people that they pretend to be concerned about.
Doesn’t matter to me what they do, I haven’t watvhed in over a year and have no plans to ever return
Goodell had one chance to nip this in the bud, he blew it.
I no longer care what the NFL says or does. Ain’t watching these ungrateful and disrespectful prima donnas.
Three questions:
1. What’s a Commodore 64?
2. What’s an 8 track?
3. What’s an NFL?
Do any of those pictures you see of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson look like they’re unhappy about not having an NFL??
Dear NFL, just hurry up and go out of business already!
enough is enough!
Let’s clear the path for new teams with new players who won’t insult us with their idiotic anti-American antics and gestures
What if some patriotic players prefer to stand for the anthem on the field and refuse to stay in the locker room during it? Will they be fined or otherwise penalized?
Yeah, and this arrogant idiot, Goodell, thinks he deserves a new contract with 50mil a year, a jet airplane and healthcare for life. If the stupid owners renew his contract, they will get what they deserve.
I still like pro football and what the stupid NFL is doing is creating an opportunity for a new league. I would support that if the NFL continues to court these anti-American commie SJW spoiled brat athletes.
CGato
But the coach has the right to play whichever players he wants, as long as he's coach. If Joe QB wants to kneel, he can also expect to sit, the whole game. And his contract won't be renewed.
If every team followed this rule, I think this mess would clear up pretty quickly.
I always saw the NFL as the urban blue collar sport. The good old boys had NASCAR, but Joe Lunchbucket from the Chicago meatpacking industry, New York docks, San Diego Naval Base, etc., had a physical hard-hitting game they would watch with their buddies, eat bad food and drink cold beer, without politics. A Republican could be sitting beside a Democrat but all they cared about was whether to cheer their team’s success, hate on the opposition, or catcall their own team if it was mediocre. I was at a Jets-Detroits game a couple of years ago at the new Meadowlands stadium, sitting between season ticket holders from Brooklyn and New Jersey. It was a hoot listening to these guys crap on the Jets, give a detailed analysis of the problems, and give their opinions on the solution. One guy was a retired businessman and the other a postal worker. Not a word of politics and you’d have thought these guys were brothers. Very friendly the Canadians sitting in their midst. It’s a disgrace that the NFL, that fought so hard and successfully to connect with its fan base, has thrown it all away because they were afraid to discipline a second-rate punk quarterback. I suspect that the collegiality among fans has been seriously damaged by this stupidity.
most would fail...but a few might make it.....
Yep...that’s when they blew it.
Goodell comes from a long line of communists, he’s one.
I stopped watching football last millennium. A pre-game Jimmy Kimmel turned me off with what was purported to be comedy, but was better suited to a drunken frat party at a third rate school.
But as someone that went to b-school, I find it fascinating to watch an organization fall completely apart for absolutely no reason but sheer self-inflicted blind stupidity.
The Emperor Nero had a better excuse for watching Rome burn than the NFL management does for watching their customer base tune out.
Maybe they're tired of white people as customers, and Mexico is the future.
The workplace is not the place for political protests. Never was and never should be. A place of business must be politic free. Am I wrong? I learned that when I wasn’t even allowed to read a Bible at a job during my lunch break many, many years ago.
Have police and military on hand to go stand in front of any kneeler and face them while holding a flag. That way, they are kneeling before authority and the flag.
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