Posted on 11/26/2017 6:40:09 PM PST by Kaslin
Well, who would have thought that putting out a bad product and spitting on the American flag would be bad for ratings. The National Football League has seen its week eleven ratings and they’re not good: one million fewer viewers from last year. The NY Post reported that the ongoing battle between Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been the center of NFL coverage. Goodell has put up insane contract demands of a $50 million salary, along with free flights, and health care for his family—for life. This coming from a man who has failed miserably to handle the national anthem protests that has engulfed the league in controversy:
The TV audience for NFL games steepened its slide in Week 11, losing 1 million viewers versus last year’s season-to-date average.
The 6.3 percent slump — worsening from comparable declines of 5.6 to 5.7 percent during the previous three weeks — plagued a week whose off-the-field drama made gridiron tackling seem almost tame by comparison.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones remained the major distraction by continuing to battle with fellow team owners and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Jones brought even more tension to Week 11 when video footage surfaced late last week of the football tycoon making a racially charged remark at a 2013 wedding party.
President Donald Trump added to the off-field antics with a tweet calling for the suspension of the Oakland Raiders’ Marshawn Lynch for not standing for the national anthem during a game played in Mexico City.
Most thought Donald Trump picked a cultural battle he couldn't win when he trashed NFL players who took a knee during the Star-Spangled Banner back in September. Well, that just wasn’t the case, as the overwhelming majority thought taking a knee during the anthem was unpatriotic and disrespectful. Also, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, not Trump, fired the first salvo. Kaepernick spent Thanksgiving celebrating “Unthanksgiving” at Alcatraz.
Today, I was on Alcatraz Island at the Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering, in solidarity with those celebrating their culture and paying respects to those that participated in the 19 month occupation of Alcatraz in an effort to force ???? to honor the Treaty of Fort Laramie. pic.twitter.com/KdNtY3dp72— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) November 24, 2017
WTF would you need Health Care for Life?
You're going to be making $50 million a year!!!
You can't pay for your Health Care??
Oh, that sounds positively terrible!
Say, is this about basketball or soccer?
Regards,
Whatever grandchildren do is endlessly fascinating.
What a blessing they are.
“I thought it was a first class move”
Their earlier actions make it look like a cynical attempt to curry favor.
At least I don't.
“I’ve gone through the book of Job instead of football. Far better use of time, and I feel better.”
Are you comfortable with the whole thing? Because I have head-scratcher moments.
Her being given that appointment would be a real sea change and would attract a tremendous amount of attention.
WHY?
Yes. And I know what you mean. I’ve viewed it the wrong way before, and most pastors teach it wrong.
The nfl has contracted a self inflicted case of financial ebola and is hemorrhaging money out of every conceivable money stream orifice to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a week with no way out and no end in sight.
PERMANENTLY BOYCOTT THE nfl!
I’ve never had an in-depth class on the whole book.
I’d like to, though.
Oh Joy. The "Goodness" of seeing thousands and thousands of hard working people supporting their families out of a job.
But....I'm sure you've got a plan for that.
Should not surprise any living brain cell.
Everything leftism touches, dies a painful and costly death!
“For what it is worth...”
Well, RetiredUSMC, all I can say is, you sure can be bought off real cheap. There is more at stake here than just dissing the national anthem. Having the military high command ordering soldiers to break out their brass bands, covering the field with the flag, trotting soldiers out on the field with football players and introducing them together, all of this is just insincere, ham-handed, ugly dreck intended to bullshiite you and everyone else that the felons in the SJW League and their liberal “owners” give a rat’s azz about this hated country and you, and everyone like you, that populate it.
And I say that as a Viet Nam vet who has shed lots of tears about things that really matter, not over some cheap clown show of waving the bloody shirt. Everything ought not to be about Bread and Circuses.
And it’s common belief — not knowledge — that Condi voted for Obama. She did say she was “proud of” his victory. Between that and her Bush connection, I have no use for her.
I am disturbed by the fact that you even know the names of the teams in contention for post-season play. A true conservative, who is serious about the NFL boycott, tunes the League out completely. Indeed, I do not watch or listen to the NFL, read about the NFL (except for articles about declining viewership and revenues), or follow the standings, scores, or stats. Goodbye to the NFL and good riddance.
Condoleeza Rice would be only slightly better than Susan Rice.
Takes two seconds to check the standings.
Making Dr. Rice the NFL Commissioner would go a long way in mending fences with their viewers.
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