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ESPN Panel: ‘NFL Players Don’t Speak Enough on Social/Cultural Issues’
newsbusters.org ^ | 8/16/2016 | Bruce Bookter

Posted on 08/17/2016 8:09:36 AM PDT by rktman

ESPN’s Around the Horn has gone from one of the best, longest running panel shows the network has ever had, to an absolutely farcical flagship of left-wing lunacy.

Yesterday, the panel at ATH lamented the fact that Cam Newton didn’t feel racially persecuted. Because, apparently, that’s bad. On Tuesday’s edition of the show, the panel discussed really silly comments made by the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers, who said the NFL’s culture makes players not speak publicly on cultural issues, out of fear of repercussions.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: athletes; espn; liberalmedia; nfl; socialjustice; stfu
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Awwww. Just what we all need. To be lectured by pampered HIGHLY paid athletes. Geez, maybe Newton and Rodgers are just a tad smarter than the panelists on e frickin' spn. Maybe they (Newton Rodgers) realize we don't really want to hear any lectures from them and just want to see them toss the football around. In fact, I think too many of these players do speak out and turn fans off. Of course it's their right to speak but, like Aaron says----repercussions. Then again, e frickin' spn keeps sticking it's collective foot in it's mouth. Who watches it anyway? Not me. Thanks Cam and Aaron.
1 posted on 08/17/2016 8:09:36 AM PDT by rktman
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This is a SPORTS channel not a POLITICAL channel...so they should shut up on everything except sports, and we can turn them off also...just like we have with CNN...


2 posted on 08/17/2016 8:11:09 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: rktman

Isn’t ESPN supposed to be a SPORTS CHANNEL?

Knock off the political garbage and you will stop losing viewers


3 posted on 08/17/2016 8:11:24 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: rktman

The NFL is still powerful though. Very powerful. People watch more football on Sundays than they go to church. Rodgers and Newton are very influential.


4 posted on 08/17/2016 8:11:37 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: rktman

What, this upstart fellow dares to live off of the Liberal Plantation? What does Cam think he is? A free man? What blasphemy!


5 posted on 08/17/2016 8:11:53 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Yeah, riiiiight.

We can all benefit by the intellectual jewels presented to us by a bunch of folks who have trouble spelling NFL.

Sorry, but dat’s the twuth.


6 posted on 08/17/2016 8:12:12 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I think that’s the problem... it’s like a second religion.


7 posted on 08/17/2016 8:12:20 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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before we were being lectured to by Nanny idiots with Harvard degrees.

now we get to be lectured to by nannny idiots with no degrees.

Oh, joy.


8 posted on 08/17/2016 8:12:36 AM PDT by gaijin
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Every time they speak outside the approved narratives they get hammered.

9 posted on 08/17/2016 8:12:51 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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If I want POLITICS, I’ll watch ABCNNBCBSFOXPBSMSNBC.

If I want SPORTS, I’ll watch The Cartoon Network................


10 posted on 08/17/2016 8:12:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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I watch ESPN for football games,nothing else


11 posted on 08/17/2016 8:13:10 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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These Leftists who complain only want athletes to speak when they regurgitate Leftist talking points.
12 posted on 08/17/2016 8:14:31 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Da Coyote

Da MFL.

13 posted on 08/17/2016 8:14:52 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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This is a SPORTS channel not a POLITICAL channel...so they should shut up on everything except sports, and we can turn them off also...just like we have with CNN...

The Left is a parasite. It can't gain legitimacy by creating anything useful and demonstrating success by being successful.

It has to hijack institutions that are already successful, and turn them into conveyor belts for liberalism.

14 posted on 08/17/2016 8:15:13 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Make no mistake, ESPN and the NFL would love for the player to voice certain things on certain subjects. But whoa unto the athlete that voices a conservative or reasoned opinion on any subject. Shame, ignominy or worse would be heaped upon them. The players like endorsement t deals and to be left alone. Only the idiots draw attention to themselves negatively off the field.

I hope they get better advice from their coaches and agents than they do from half baked over-the-hill, ebonix rambling, blowhard ESPN commentators.


15 posted on 08/17/2016 8:15:24 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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Would anyone really care to hear Micky Mantle discuss some social cause....or Yogi Berra talk on HIV....or Johnny Bench talk on slums in Baltimore?

Personally, I think ESPN has reached maximum capacity and unable to really function within their core job. I’d go and bring the top ten guys of the company into a room....then fire them. I’d hire one single guy to replace the ten, and let him know that ESPN is about sports, and that’s it. If he can’t do sports only....he needs to find a new occupation.


16 posted on 08/17/2016 8:15:29 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: HarleyLady27

Amen to that, sister.


17 posted on 08/17/2016 8:15:38 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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Only we aren’t being lectured by highly paid athletes.

Only by lowly paid third-string jock-sniffing erstwhile journ-O-lists who have deluded themselves into thinking their social significance exceeds the fact that they can read off basketball scores.


18 posted on 08/17/2016 8:15:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

[The NFL is still powerful though. Very powerful.]

They’ll go the way of MACY’S if they don’t watch out.


19 posted on 08/17/2016 8:15:43 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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It’s the same as you tell musicians; “Shut up and play.”.


20 posted on 08/17/2016 8:16:00 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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