NFL Protests Reach A Boiling Point, As Players, Owners Cancel Social Concerns Meeting

Deadline Hollywood ^ | October 29, 2017 | Bruce Haring

[C19fan]

Things are going from bad to worse regarding relations between NFL players, owners and fans.

On a day when the largest national anthem protest yet was staged, it now appears that players and owners will not be meeting as planned to discuss a solution to the ongoing social justice concerns that prompted the protests.

Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, one of the key spokesmen for the players, says a meeting between the owners and players to discuss social justice initiatives has been canceled. Jenkins claimed the league did not accept an invitation for the meeting, which was to be held Monday in Philadelphia, saying scheduling issues would not permit them to attend.

[clamper1797]

This lifelong Raiders fan no longer watches the Negro Felon League ... and especially no longer supports the Raiders.

[Kozy]

Agree.
Yesterday, spend morning with my wife catching up on some house things. Then off to see my grand daughter play softball in the afternoon. Home and one hour of exercise in the pool. Then I cooked dinner and we relaxed in the evening. Not one minute of NFL. Guess what I had an enjoyable day with my family. Never going back.

[Sicon]

I have not seen a game all season and I do not miss it.

Ditto. Getting more stuff done around the house and spending more time having fun with my family as well.

[SoFloFreeper]

That would be me ever since the bigoted Roger Goodell decided Rush Limbaugh was not worthy of being a minority owner of the Rams.

I began to walk away from the NFL then and began using my Sunday afternoons to read, socialize with family, relax, and ignore sports hype.

Much happier Sundays. Makes me wonder why I ever wasted my time with the NFL.

[TexasM1A]

But, he has a "Right" to play in the NFL and make a million plus a year. It has to be in the constitution somewhere..

[mulligan]

Good idea. Waste of time. It would only be a meeting of people who do not understand the basic problem.

[TexasM1A]

Criminal Justice was always my favorite.

[kosciusko51]

Last year, the NCAA games did make a big deal of Joshua Dobbs (QB-Tennessee) being an aerospace engineer. But that was the exception. The only other time I see majors mention is in regard to some student-athlete honor being awarded.

[jimmygrace]

This was not a KKK comment. This was in response to Jesse Jackson’s comments as well as the owner of the Texans. You need to keep up...

[Blue Jays]

Kozy...I am increasingly led to believe your football experience is the norm.

My sister and brother-in-law were the epitome of diehard fans. He really turned her onto the sport years ago.
The two of them would spend all day, every Sunday, watching games.

They are also patriots and dropped the sport cold turkey.
Now they find lots of other stuff to do midweek as well as on Sundays...and love all the productive time they have since regained.

[kosciusko51]

Reminds me of the Steelers throwback uniforms...

[MrEdd]

You can’t return, really.
I haven’t owned a television since March of 1995.

I see television programming occasionally if I go to a restaurant, or am in a waiting room on some errand.

After a few years of no television, sitcoms begin to grate like fingernails on a chalkboard. Every sitcom. The stilted delivery and the long, unnatural pause between lines for the laugh track are no longer filtered out by your mind.

[TomGuy]

from tvbythenumbers.com TV Ratings Sunday: World Series tops ‘Sunday Night Football,’ CBS dramas take a hit

	Adults 18-49 ratings/share	Viewers (millions)
World Series Game 5	5.5/17	20.00
Sunday Night Football	4.3/13	12.67

==

I have not seen numbers for the Sunday day games.

[SoFloFreeper]

I quit eating Papa Johns. I like the product, but refuse to buy.

[Let's Roll]

Something tells me that THIS is why Goodell has been holding Jerry’s star running back Zeke Elliott’s future hostage.

IIRC the allegations against Elliott were from actions that he allegedly committed months before Elliott was in the NFL. Actions that local cops and prosecutors didn’t find conclusive enough to prosecute Elliott with at the time.

But somehow the meddling and generally incompetent Goodell thought the NFL should bring charges against Elliott anyway.

[Cheerio]

This is all so reminiscent of the Eastern Airlines Union forcing their employer out of business

Eastern Airlines Brought Down by a Strike So Bitter It Became a Crusade

By AGIS SALPUKAS
Published: January 20, 1991

As word filtered out Friday night that Eastern Airlines would shut, some members of its machinists union, which has been on strike since March 1989, rejoiced.

[Haiku Guy]

Yeah, except for the fact that the networks are on the side of the players, and we know the networks will stick to their liberal dogma no matter what.

Put solidarity with the players on one end of the table, and a few hundred million dollars on the other end, and see which end the networks sit down at.

[bus man]

This is all so reminiscent of the Eastern Airlines Union forcing their employer out of business

Eastern Airlines Brought Down by a Strike So Bitter It Became a Crusade

By AGIS SALPUKAS
Published: January 20, 1991

As word filtered out Friday night that Eastern Airlines would shut, some members of its machinists union, which has been on strike since March 1989, rejoiced.

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Watching the machinists union, and its head Charlie Bryan, gleefully destroy Eastern Airlines is what fired up my long-running disgust and hatred of unions.

[DallasBiff]

The difference between the MLB and NFL, are the players.

Players in the NFL only need 2 skills, strength and speed, and they are spoiled from high school.

The MLB players, usually have to scrap through a farm system, and they need more skills. Also, they appreciate their nice paying jobs, since they were not coddled in a college system;

[fortheDeclaration]

Seeing them kneel down, they look like they just got out of prison.