South Carolina bar refusing to show NFL games until national
Northern Kentucky bar to hold NFL merchandise burning party
Leominster bar skips NFL, listens to patriotic piano music instead
Norwich bar quietly takes stance against NFL protests
Greenville bar won't show NFL games until all players stand for anthem
We are not watching at hone either
They are less and less going to public places where they have no control over who will be there.
I have gotten a handful of calls in, probably, the last six months from friends who have been places (costco, another was a woman I know was paying their kids bill at the nearby community college, another was a large department store) and they all said, "WTF is happening--I was the only white, not only white but American born person in the entire place". One woman described the scene as "Tower of Babel level"
I have another friend who went and stayed at a resort for an anniversary type thing. Stayed at a decent place. It said they never wanted to leave the room because the place was loaded with dirties--tattoos, degenerates. He figured he had spent enough to not be around that kind of thing. He figured wrong.
Even still they are not feeling safe in their own homes. People's houses are routinely cased here, in broad daylight. They come up knock on your door and ask something weird such as "Are you interested in selling that Toyota out front" or "I am looking for Julie selling the computer off Craig's List". What they are doing is checking to see if anyone is there.
This happened to me three times in the past five years. Once they kicked the door in. Another was just last Friday. Before they came to my house, they went to another house int he neighborhood and tried to get the woman out of the house to talk to the father who wanted to "buy the truck". This was at 5:30PM on a Friday evening.
So, yeah, are people starting to not want to go these places. Probably. Wouldn't surprise me that their worlds are shrinking and probably will continue to get much smaller.
Yesterday I went to the Ohio State bar and was surprised it was less crowded than a couple of years ago. I know the article is about sundays games but I used to go to sports bars on Saturday because sometimes the Ohio State or Big Ten game was not on cable so one had to go to sports bar to see it. Now that’s not so. As for the NFL the Redzone channel has eliminated any need for most people to go to sports bar on sunday and then add to that the reactions to the anthem protests.