One hundred eighty years ago, in this nation, black men took a knee to show subserviance to their masters, Wondering how many NFL players today know this.
If this country is so terrible I propose giving each of them a million dollars, tax-free, a one way ticket to any other country in the world that will accept them and they give up their US citizenship the minute that they get there. I think that would actually save us money in the long run.
The real money tied to the NFL isn't the fans in the stands, team memorabilia, or even the ad revenue, it's the money bet on the games. All the wrong people are pissed off which doesn't bode well for a group of mostly thugs with habits and secrets they can go to prison for.
One money trail to the people in charge showing they paid a team to shade the score or manipulate a ref even one time in the past twenty years (you know someone has that kind of proof for leverage, too) and the whole mess will change hands nearly overnight for a dime on the dollar right along with the college football it depends on collapsing.
It's the old, "If we can't control it, it doesn't need to exist" attitude in spades.
JMHo
I’m sure that somewhere there’s a 18th century painting of a slave on his knee before his master.