Posted on 02/01/2022 1:47:54 PM PST by bigdaddy45
Maybe promote some kneeling when the National Anthem is played? Use only rap music for half-time shows?
I think deliberate tanking is a lot more prevalent than people might imagine in the NFL. It may not be throwing of individual games, but a lack of a commitment to win.
I live in Jacksonville; the Jaguars have become a laughingstock of a team since Shad Kahn bought the team 10 years ago, yet I read he purchased the team for 700 million and it was recently valued at 4.8 billion. That is a helluva ROI for a team that is a bottom dweller. The amount of money the NFL makes is crazy and many owners simply don’t really care if the team wins or not.
I don’t think the Jaguars are throwing individual games, but they have no talent and when they do manage to draft a quality player when they out play their original contract and are due a huge raise, they get traded leaving the team to constantly rebuild.
That being said it was refreshing to see the anthem being sung, fly overs and no Kneeling this Sunday, maybe that is partly responsible for the increased viewership.
He’s a good coach or at least he was in the past two years. 10-6 in 2020 and 9-8 in 2021. Why did he get fired? I’m not aware that Miami Dolphins have a franchise QB.
Hold my beer (black man speaketh)...
Awww, the Rooney Rule... the most openly racist policy the NFL has ever laid down. You must INTERVIEW a minority even though you DAMN WELL know you are not gonna hire them. You see, you black coached shouldn’t even go to the interviews - knowing its a waste of time.
Um, Black Coaches, the NFL hires on MERIT. If you don’t get the job, its because, and ONLY because its been decided that you’re NOT GOOD ENOUGH. And suing won’t make people hire you. Its the kind of crap teams don’t want or need in the locker rooms and front offices.
If you want to file a lawsuit, sue to get rid of the Rooney Rule. That way, you can get treated as equals, not minorities.
Ya know, just like the players are now.
just me $0.02
jimjohn - OUT.
Spot on…
Given the amount of money the NFL makes it ought to be forced to subsidize college football. Get it off the back of the state taxpayers who think they are paying for education. If donors to private colleges and universities want to pay for football over education, let them.
Flores is being niggardly in his selection of suit targets...
He forgot to include Trump...
In what universe did that happen?
Yes, I agree with you there. And JUST MAYBE they are starting to understand that their viewership and survival are dependent on not insulting half of their audience, every game.
If true….this makes the Saints “Bounty Gate” look lame.
That’s true to a certain extent, but the big-time college football powers are self-financing, for example I went to and am a fan of the University of Florida, they bring in enough revenue to pay for all the scholarships, build new facilities, and pay for all the other sports that are being subsidized, in fact most of the teams in power 5 college football conferences are self-financing, certainly the teams in the SEC are.
And Gail Benson will hire him….lol
Snyder never sold - he still owns WFT.
I stand corrected, he hasn’t been forced to sell yet, but he’s under investigation and they’re tons of stories out there about him being forced to sell. The NFL can force an owner out and force him to sell.
Leonard Tose, former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles was forced to sell in 1985.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-apr-16-me-tose16-story.html
I corrected the statement below, he’s under some type of investigation and there is a move to force him out, we’ll see what happens, but the NFL has forced other owners to sell in the past.
They try but very few of the big-time university football\basketball programs make money. I don’t have the articles or links on this computer but even I was surprised by the programs that in the red.
Ok, I found an article that pretty much repeats what the other articles on my other computer say.
From the article below ...
“....
For the NCAA, they define self-sufficiency (aka profit) as revenues (not counting university subsidies, student fees, or government support) exceeding expenses.
So using this pretty reasonable definition of revenues vs. expenses, do college athletic departments make a profit?
No.
Not even close.
This week, USA Today released their annual analysis of athletic department revenues and expenses (they do yeoman’s work every year putting this together). According to their analysis, just 24 of 230 public Division I universities made a profit.
That’s 10.4%.
Perhaps even more striking is that all 24 schools came from four athletic conferences: Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and the Pac-12. Even as a so-called power, the ACC did not have a school that made a profit although N.C. State came close losing only $165,000.
.....”
https://higheredprofessor.com/2015/05/28/do-college-athletic-departments-make-a-profit/
That article says Tose was forced to sell the Eagles because of his gambling debts, not because the NFL made him sell the team.
Back then Gambling was not allowed by anyone in the game, that’s what caused the NFL to force him to sell. True he was in debt and had to sell, but the NFL has rules on how much debt a team can take on, he could have taken out loans to pay off the debts, but the NFL probably put a stop to that.
Now the NFL is practically in the bookmaking business.
The black population is 13.2% in the US. Make it a rule that 13.2% of all coaches and players in the NFL are black! 13.2% and not more or less than that number. Wouldn’t that be true equality and equity?
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