“No they wouldn’t. Just look at your own reaction.”
I was willing to cut teams slack if they had no kneelers.
Then the Cowboys came out and knelt as a team.
“folks would be hammering the owners for allowing themselves to be powerless.”
I think you underestimate people’s intelligence. People understand about contractual obligations.
“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.”
Looks to me like his problem was more changing his position than taking a stand. “Sir, negative, sir. Sir, the private believes that any answer he gives will be wrong, and the Senior Drill Instructor will beat him harder if he reverses himself, sir.”
But they weren’t going to have no kneelers, so you weren’t going to cut them any slack.
No people don’t. I’ve explained these contractual obligations to folks on multiples of these threads over the two season and most people willfully don’t get it. Most of them take the position that anybody that would sign any document that keeps them from firing any employee any time for any or even no reason must be stupid.
Problem for Papa John is as soon as he took a position his pizza became part of the issue. Extra bad news for him of course that his pizza is mediocre, but that alienated some customers and some of the support for him on the web was from less than savory folks (let’s face there are people whose primary reason for getting up on this issue is the chance to say nasty things about black people, it’s a big world, some people just suck). Then he tried to back around to gain separation from the people that just suck, and wound up alienating the non-suck people that supported him. And if he’d just kept his fool mouth shut his only problem would be mediocre pizza and he would have alienated nobody. Instead his problem is mediocre pizza and managing to alienate both sides.