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Players debating NFL's proposed donation to social justice organizations ($100 MM) [ed]
ESPN ^ | November 29, 2017 | Jim Trotter Jason Reid

Posted on 11/29/2017 4:43:07 PM PST by C19fan

In an unprecedented move for a major professional sports league, the NFL has proposed partnering with its players to effect social justice change, though not all players are in agreement on the proposal. On Monday, the league submitted to players the final draft of a proposal that, according to documents reviewed by ESPN, would contribute nearly $100 million to causes considered important to African-American communities. The NFL hopes this effort will effectively end the peaceful-yet-controversial movement that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started when he refused to stand for the national anthem last season.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: football; nfl
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To: dynachrome

They’ll wind up using the money to buy tickets for low income households so they can fill seats at empty stadiums.

Now accepting EBT cards at the beer stand.


21 posted on 11/29/2017 5:06:31 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (BANNON YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!)
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To: C19fan

Neither $100 million nor $100 billion will stop this. Rewarding stupidity only creates more stupidity. Why not instead reduce ticket prices to fans.


22 posted on 11/29/2017 5:10:15 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: C19fan

Malignant Stupidity


23 posted on 11/29/2017 5:12:31 PM PST by tomkat
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To: C19fan
The NFL hopes this effort will effectively end the peaceful-yet-controversial movement that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started when he refused to stand for the national anthem last season.

If you subsidize something you get more of it. Dolts.

24 posted on 11/29/2017 5:17:56 PM PST by pa_dweller (President Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. Because I know you like seeing it.)
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To: C19fan

If you pay the Dangeld, you’ll never be rid the Dane.


25 posted on 11/29/2017 5:19:19 PM PST by dangerdoc
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To: C19fan

BLM party time. Where da 8 balls and hookers at?


26 posted on 11/29/2017 5:19:32 PM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

My first thought was that poem.


27 posted on 11/29/2017 5:20:43 PM PST by dangerdoc
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To: C19fan

I am also done with the NFL. Now they are putting themselves out as a black only organization. Screw them.

If they think that 13% of the population many of whom are entitlement people are going to support the stupid high money made by overgrown boys playing with a pointed ball they are stupid. They are going to go broke wondering why but like true liberals they will blame it on everyone else.

Maybe we need to start a white and native american organization that gives all that money they used to spend on the NFL to the non inner city and reservation schools.

That would be a big screw you to the boys who will be going back to the hood dead broke.


28 posted on 11/29/2017 5:21:39 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: C19fan

How in the world did these morons become team owners? Are they not businessmen? They have forgotten who their customers are?? Hope everyone remembers this next time the league wants to build a mega stadium on the taxpayers dime.

Idea for President Trump: Hold a fundraising rally - to air opposite the Super Bowl to raise money for police, first responders and military!!


29 posted on 11/29/2017 5:22:35 PM PST by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: dangerdoc

Danegeld. Why does autocorrect have a problem with Danegeld, doesn’t it come up frequently in conversations?


30 posted on 11/29/2017 5:24:00 PM PST by dangerdoc
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To: C19fan

If they have that much money for social-justice donations, I guess they really don’t need those tax breaks after all!


31 posted on 11/29/2017 5:27:04 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: C19fan

NFL? What’s that?


32 posted on 11/29/2017 5:28:03 PM PST by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
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To: Obadiah
So, basically a ransom. Reparations.

Remember ACORN? You know, disgraced "community organizing, social justice" slushfund for the democrats? Probably this will become the new ACORN?

33 posted on 11/29/2017 5:30:15 PM PST by pepsi_junkie
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To: C19fan

NFL just keeps digging they’re own grave .......doom on em. They’re dead to me.


34 posted on 11/29/2017 5:31:41 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: C19fan

Heh. Social “justice” organizations, eh?
Riiiiiiiiight.
And the mafia was a publishing clearing house.
Shove it up your collective Obamaholes, buttwipes.


35 posted on 11/29/2017 5:32:27 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: C19fan

Keep pissing on your blue collar fans stupid NFL. I can’t believe anyone still watches that silly football it’s from the devil.


36 posted on 11/29/2017 5:34:14 PM PST by wgmalabama
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To: C19fan

What are the players debating .. the best way to redirect the 100 million to their favorite cause .. namely, themselves?


37 posted on 11/29/2017 5:36:23 PM PST by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Ha. Goodell will take that idea and run with it. Need racial quotas for the stadiums


38 posted on 11/29/2017 5:37:49 PM PST by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: C19fan
They figure they can buy off the players, which they probably can, but they don’t realize it will be at the expense of losing millions more fans. Bad idea, but then, who really cares any more.
39 posted on 11/29/2017 5:44:02 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: dangerdoc

How about an older term that fits more of this problem than ‘Dane’geld, Jizya? Nothing Danish here beyond MN’s handle. But many fit the latter’s handle


40 posted on 11/29/2017 5:52:14 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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