Posted on 10/17/2017 3:44:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Indications from Tuesday's meeting between NFL owners, players, executives and NFL Players Association personnel are that all sides identified "common issues" and engaged in "productive" conversation about how to "work together to promote positive social change and address inequality" in the wake of peaceful protests across professional sports.
The meeting, which came a day after reports that the NFL would formally endorse criminal justice legislation and finance a social activism boot camp, marked a "coming together," according to the league and NFLPA. NFL Network's Judy Battista suggested the dialogue Tuesday in New York was the "best communication [there] has ever been between players and owners."
And ESPN's Jim Trotter reported that NFL owners expressed "unconditional" support to work with players in addressing social issues, "meaning there was no demand by owners that players stop kneeling" in protest during pregame national anthems.
What the meeting also signified, according to Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN America, a New York City-based organization centered on defending free speech and persecuted journalists, was a rebuke of commentary on the situation by President Donald Trump....
(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...
So the NFL is now an official Social Justice organization.
Respecting the flag and anthem is now divisive....right gotcha..../sarc
I dare say a classic case of projection here
The NFL & NFLPA can virtue-signal all the way into bankruptcy for all I care.
“identified “common issues” and engaged in “productive” conversation about how to “work together to promote positive social change and address inequality””
F**k ya’ll: the only thing you should be engaged in conversation about is football.
In order to address inequality, the NFL must purge over 20 percent of its Negro players, and hire White players. Equality would be 50-50, correct?
Maybe they're protesting all of the blacks murdered in Chicongo.
In reality they are just trying to shift the blame for problems of they're own making onto White society and it's not working.
We’ll see what the fans say and do
oh, it’ll be a meeting....and in the end, the owners will have their billions in other investments. And the players will have....nothing.
no matter to me. I have found better things to do on Sunday. Much better things.
This was long before the national anthem. We were puzzled about it. They did show the player (I don’t know who he was) on the big screen and it all had the appearance of something that wasn’t expected. Don’t know if it was related to the protests or not.
I believe I’m a baseball fan now.
>> And ESPN’s Jim Trotter reported that NFL owners expressed “unconditional” support to work with players in addressing social issues
Blatant pretense obvious to everyone paying attention. Perhaps they could throw in sex-addiction therapy.
Democrats, Hollywood and the NFL never learned the first rule of holes....
See my post Number 56
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