It sounds like our boycott is working. I’m hoping our side can hold out longer than they can.
>>It sounds like our boycott is working. I’m hoping our side can hold out longer than they can.<<
My Sundays (all day) and Monday nights have opened up wonderfully. I probably won’t go back to spending them watching the NFL.
With me they lost a lifetime viewer forever.
Don't hold your breath. Conservatives are almost always ineffective at boycotting. It's like herding cats.
Watch the NFL thread Sundays here on this forum....some fans can't even give up a lousy couple games this season to pitch into the effort to keep the polls and PR in our favor during this important month.
When liberals boycott, man...they mean business.
I wonder what folks think when they read the weekly seemingly-approving NFL thread here on the "Premier Conservative News Forum in the Country" ???
Well, to each his own, I guess.
Leni
Bingo. In a very real sense, it is a demonstration of the current level our nation's desire/willingness to preserve a fundamental American principle.
Some observers acknowledge we now have a butt-kicking president who is intent on MAGA, but they wonder what kind of support he has and how quickly that support will make itself known.
It seems quite important that we show them. The longer the NFL management holds out the faster, IMO, they can go straight to hell.
You can't argue with facts. Viewership is down. I think it'd be stupid to argue that the protests have nothing to do with the decline.
But the question remains: what is the end-game of the boycott?
We can look at The Packers' financial statements to get a sense for where the money goes. The Packers pulled in $441MM (million ) in revenue, while expenses rose to $371MM resulting in Net Income of $73MM. Of those expenses, about $156MM come from players.
So, if revenues decline, does anyone really think they'll take it out on the players? Most of them are under contract, so in the short-run they won't feel the pinch.
I'm not saying the boycott shouldn't continue. The essence of the boycott is "if you all support Kaepernick taking a knee because he hates the police, when we'll ignore you." Thus, the boycott has a noble underpinning. Anything that results in strengthening of the family and fathers and mothers spending more time with children and less time on panem et circenses is a net positive for society.
But, net-net-net, if revenues decline, the cuts will come in the middle offices and trickled down to concessions employees, parking attendants, etc. The players that many people seem to abhor, will largely remain unimpacted (aside from some loss of endorsements etc.).
From a standpoint of pure superstition, I won’t have much problem holding out against the NFL — each time I’ve watched part of a Lions game this season, they’ve lost (currently 3 and 2, it sez here). Murphy’s Law — and we know that nothing, including the NFL, can resist that. :^)