Note to the brainiacs at ESPN: Thanks for giving the XFL such great free publicity!
Bwah hah hah hah hah!
Using the term Whitewashed negatively is racist.
So he’s saying Blacks will be excluded because they won’t stand for the anthem and they all have criminal records?
So Wilbon is tacitly confirming that black NFL players are a) not patriotic and b) criminals?
IM Offended.
And WTF is wrong with an idealistic form of the sport?
Wilbon is what he is. Black first, always, right or wrong.
I cannot believe that someone running a company such as the NFL would allow employees to destroy a company. What type of leader stands by when employees cause a 30 percent drop in customers? Rule number one of business, never insult your customer.
Up until 10 or so years ago I used to enjoy these two guys. But when they went political I dropped them and almost the rest of espn.
“... it will require players to stand for the National Anthem and will not allow athletes with criminal records to play.”
So blacks are ineligible? That’s racist!
No felons.
I’ll watch.
Heh, guess ESPN believes on the “equal felons rule”.
Ahh yes, "PTI" the Ebonic Sports Political Network's marquee show of diversity, socialism, and mob rule.
Format for the game show: Pit one aging, weak, arrogant East Coast faux intellectual suffering from the appropriate white guilt against an obese, lisping, inner-city idiot dripping with excessive racism from his white envy. The show immediately progresses deteriorates into a social studies petri dish where all the bacteria grows on the far, far left side as each component tries to out-liberal the other.
In a sane world, this show would not have lasted to the second episode. The two "hosts" are the least telegenic people they could find, their IQs and attitudes are in the gutter, their "discussions" are so politically correct they are offensive to the majority of humans and their politics would make Mao smile.
McMahon should start a sports network at the same time.
Panic much, ESPN? The NFL and ESPN deserve to sink together.
This is why I no longer watch NFL games period!
FACTS
In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his eyeblack to avoid glare, and made him take it off.
In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health
disorders.
In 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said “Know Jesus Know Peace” but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
In 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing “Find the Cure” eye black for breast cancer awareness..
In 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (Not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem...)
In 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
In 2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression, all of a sudden...
It seems quite clear based on these facts that the NFL has taken a position against any action by NFL players demonstrating RESPECT for any issue: For God, social causes such as mental health, cancer, domestic violence, for cops killed arbitrarily for being cops, for the Memory of 9/11..
But, they will allow demonstrations of DISRESPECT for our National Flag, our National Anthem, for America, and for the American People, if it will help mollify a particular Group and its supporters (such as BLM, and other leftists)
That is who and what the NFL has shown itself to be.
Dear ESPN,
Will the business enterprise turn a profit? If so, that will be a winner for the ordinary John Q. Public.
Regards,
Former Football Viewer
Football is a ball game. A game. Not a social justice platform. The Negro Football League has lost its focus one what it is all about. Football.
If someone is such a bigot that everything is measured in terms of skin color and race they need to seek help to deal with their mental illness, not be playing ball games.
You mean they just go out and play football without any politics involved?