Posted on 01/16/2018 11:11:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I thought some Saints stood. What happened there?
Because we are not watching the NFL.
Just another butt hurt Freeper that I called out the hypocrites for saying one thing and do another thing. It’s simple:
DO NOT state you are going to boycott the NFL ..THEN I find you on Impy’s or Bender’s NFL thread. Man up, talk the talk and walk the walk. I meant what I state. Men do that..
I’m sure the lawyers for the forces of evil would argue that.
The most important job for the lawyers of an NFL team is to anticipate what arguments would be made in a dispute like this -- and to assess the prospects of how likely a court would buy those arguments.
I can't afford to see the NHL but I go watch the farm teams every chance I get.
It is not ten seconds of play and stop for ten minutes. Even when switching players the game does not stop.
If the rules extend to behavior 24/7, I’m sure “during game” rules include from moment player steps into the stadium to the moment of leaving it - the entire time they’re “on the job” in (at minimum) public view.
“I can guarantee you that the CBA covers obscene gestures.”
That’s an argument against the kneelers. If one posture can be wrongful, then so can another.
All NFL contracts have what amounts to a “moral turpitude” clause. If a player gets arrested or makes some social media comment that is detrimental to the team, they can cut him. If the owners had balls, they would have invoked it.
Nobody is going to issue a statement that they can’t do anything about it. That’s the worst of both worlds. If they did that then the people angry about the kneeling will still be angry because aren’t stopping it, and the people who support it will now be angry because the owners have said they’re against it. Ignoring it and hoping it goes away (which it mostly did, twice) was really they’re only path.
“If they did that then the people angry about the kneeling will still be angry because aren’t stopping it”
I don’t think so. Many people would understand why they weren’t stopping it.
Taking a side would have been better. As it is, both sides hate them.
2. Can you think of any context where a player flipping the bird is NOT "misconduct?"
Maybe you should treat free republic like the NFL and boycott it. Then go around telling everyone, like they care.
You’d be hard pressed to find five people outside FreeRepublic who would consider kneeling to be “moral turpitude” in any sense of the term.
Technically, you are correct. However, the implication is there, whether you meant it or not.
Also, on Impy’s threads, I’ve seen Impy, Bender2, and other Freepers call worse names than hypocrites. But at least it was said to their (figurative) face.
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You do live in youer own little world!
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Conduct detrimental?
Collective bargaining is possible I think more likely is the collective hollering of racism that the media would have released.
No they wouldn’t. Just look at your own reaction. The players would still be doing it, and folks would be hammering the owners for allowing themselves to be powerless. From a business perspective taking a side, especially when you can’t ACT, is generally a huge mistake. Just look at Papa John, he took a side, then didn’t like who was agreeing with him, took another side, tanked sales, and got fired. When in doubt the best business move is shut up and let the news cycle do it work and move on to another subject. Really their plan was working great until Trump re-roused the rabble. Less than a dozen players took a knee in week one and nobody paid any attention to them, it was a dead topic until it wasn’t.
I won’t see it, because I won’t be watching.
I don't follow bowling.
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