Posted on 10/05/2017 10:57:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai
“Liberal, socialist elitists” are running the National Football League (NFL), ten-year NFL veteran Burgess Owens tells CNSNews.com.
Interviewed by CNSNews.com on the Conservative Commados Radio Show, Owens, who won a Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders in 1980, was asked how he thought Pete Rozelle, the NFL commissioner during his playing days, would have reacted if players had protested the National Anthem at games.
Owens said that players were held to higher standards then, as the league was still in the process of branding itself as an “All-American” product:
That was a time in which the NFL was being built. They were looking at a brand that was patriotic, that was All-American, that was about teaching the American Way.The answer, he says, is for black conservatives like himself to step up, get involved in their communities, and teach positive values to young people. …As a matter of fact, they had a very high standard for players. They expected players to be respectful, to have character, to represent the brand of the NFL. […]
We have now left that age. We now have, at the very top of the NFL, elitists — liberal, socialist, elitists. And they’re paid very well; they couldn’t care less about the impact that they’re having right now, because their ideology is more important than anything else. […]
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Can anyone explain to me why black players would risk killing the goose that lays the golden egg? Makes no sense unless they’re gambling that there is no risk. A violent REACTION in a bar t something can get them in deep doo doo but they have plenty of SOBER time to think about what they’re doing. Maybe the first million is all they want.
After one of the games was over last night on a tv at a bar I work at espn literally ran like an hour long documentary comparing Mohamed Ali to kapernick. Made me sick.
Muh Raiders
The commies have taken over just about everything.
America’s football fans are patriots.
And they WILL allow the league to decline and tank.
Lets just get on with it.
"You'd rather look good and lose rather look bad and win, how many dinners did your necklace set your family back?"
It's all about looking "gangsta" and "defiant", like they're bigger than all that.
The best example on full display is "Last Chance U" on Netflix, but the NFL is filled with kids like this.
As much as people think that NFL players (having spent time in college) are so smart...I would speculate that most players (doesn’t matter on ethnic status) are probably not capable of grasping how you’d be lied-to and deceived on some social agenda episode.
Nor are most players sitting there and calculating...25-percent fewer people watching games. Bars not having a NFL Monday night episode. Fan paraphernalia not selling at previous levels. Ticket sales off by 20-to-30 percent, with discounts being given to cover this period.
All of this would point toward a serious problem with ticket sales in the spring/summer of 2018, and a stagnation effort on salaries for current players. I’d also guess that incoming NCAA players will see a 20-percent drop in bonuses as the draft occurs.
All of this will lead to a strike period in 2019 or 2020, where players think they are unfairly treated on stagnation of salaries, and the owners saying fine...go ahead and strike.
SUICIDE by arrogance and stupidity .
NFL >>>>>>> RIP .
The Media like to put Muhammad Ali up on a pedestal like Martin Luther King. Truth is Ali was a much more flawed individual. The sports culture of disrespecting one’s opponent pretty much started with him.
what these kneegros fail to understand is when you goto war, you need a definitive goal and a tangible metric to prove you've met that goal and won the fight unfortunately these geniuses have neither and now their silly little tantrums only outcome will be the destruction of the nfl
die nfl die.
I haven’t watched an NFL game since the players chose to kneel or lock arms rather than stand with their hand over their heart during the National Anthem and, you know, I haven’t missed them.
For many, I think,
1. Not too bright to begin with
2. Have unearned wealth and media exposure
3. Were never taught to be responsible
4. Were never taught to appreciate those that enabled their wealth
More...
99.9% of the NFL multimillionaire brats have never served in the military. They feel entitled and have been exposed as supporters of BLM which is nothing more than a police-hating terrorist group.
Wait: A black, Patriotic, Conservative, Christian former Pro Football player?!?
How come the Media haven’t had Mr. Owens as a counter-opinion on all of their shows?!?
God Bless our Conservative patriots of ALL sizes, shapes and skin-tone, we are in this together!
NFL players’ union teamed up with GEORGE SOROS to fund leftist advocacy groups
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/5/nfl-players-union-teamed-george-soros-fund-leftist/
Left to themselves, most players wouldn't protest, but it becomes a "them against us" thing and players don't want to be on the side of them.
It's not necessarily about race -- or protest, either. Some players are showing solidarity with their teammates.
Sure. They are retarded. Average black IQ: 85. That's retarded.
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