[2ndDivisionVet]

I worked at Ameriquest right beside an Arena Football center.

[BlueStateRightist]

In Virtue Signaling Commieland a 5% of reduction in profits is acceptable. In their minds, all for a “good cause,” and they feel so much better about themselves. However, 25% I’m not sure about.

[blueunicorn6]

Taking a knee or waiting in the locker room never helped one American of African Descent.

President Trump hired Americans of African Descent before he was President.

[Rurudyne]

Three Words: “High School Football”

Less expensive, more variety, local interest w/rivalries ... and they run the ball...

[Jolla]

The policy my mother cashed in when my father died was sold to him in the early 1960s by a retired New York Giants player

Tom Landry was in insurance for a while, wonder if it was him.

Tom Landry (Army Air Corps) Roger Staubach (Navy) and Ernie Stautner (USMC) could kick any of these guys butts, and two of them are dead

[rightwingcrazy]

Sadly, one by one, institutions that Americans had in common are being ruined. Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, now the NFL. Even if the Left “loses” this and the NFL goes down, they’ve won.

[CGASMIA68]

Trump vs Goons & Thugs in Tights

[Alberta's Child]

Over the weekend, Mara called Trump’s remarks “divisive,” but given what Mara himself has seen and heard over the last year, what did he expect?

That's a very interesting item in this piece. I suspect John Mara and Steve Tisch (the co-owners of the Giants) issued their public statement against Trump for a very simple reason:

1. As owners of one of the oldest franchise in the NFL, and the one that has been a fixture for decades in the city where the NFL has its corporate offices, the Mara family has assumed a sort of role as "guardians" of the NFL's interests.

2. Mara may despise these orc-like mutants protesting on the sidelines during the national anthem before NFL games, and he might even agree with President Trump even if he doesn't like the colorful language that the president used. But having the President of the United States criticize the NFL for ruining football by turning it into a boring game, and calling for fans to boycott the NFL over these protests, is about as damaging to the NFL's image as having every active player arrested for violent crimes in one weekend.

[grumpygresh]

The regular old time working class football players that had to scrape to get by vs the tattooed thugs and felon prone players of today.

Rhetorical questions. Who was more patriotic? Who owes more to this country’s prosperity?

These players today are total ingrates and out of touch with regular Americans just like the Holly-weirdos and most politicians (ie Dems and rinos).

This is not racial; it’s the peasant class vs the patrician class.

[LoneStarGI]

One of the biggest ‘hurdles’ for many people trying to ‘cut the cord’ was giving up sports. Well, methinks this might just make the decision a little easier for some people. It was hard for me at first, but I now know that was simply because of a lifetime of bad TV viewing habits. I now have so much more time and better activities than watching TV.

[Kickass Conservative]

Merlin Olsen used to work for my friends Father at a Beer Distributor in Los Angeles in the off Season back in the late 60’s. He wasn’t making the big bucks back then.

[Albion Wilde]

"Until as recently as the late 1960s, NFL lineman worked construction or loaded trucks in the offseason to pay their bills. Players with a college degree traded on their celebrity status to sell stocks or insurance. (The policy my mother cashed in when my father died was sold to him in the early 1960s by a retired New York Giants player). Many of today’s players, by contrast, live in a world of ostentatious homes, fast cars, and red-carpet celebrity appearances, far from the struggles of those whose support pays their salaries. These players have deemed themselves important enough to impose their political views on ordinary fans watching sports as a respite from life’s daily grind."

Yep. Shut up and play.

[Billthedrill]

If players and officials think Trump will retreat on this issue, they haven’t been paying attention. And if they believe that their world is impervious, they’ve forgotten that America has had, over the last 75 years, several different favorite sports—from boxing to baseball—that eventually gave way.

Whether Trump retreats or not is irrelevant. This is way beyond Trump. Once again he served as the voice of a lot of Americans who have been assiduously ignored by the MSM, who appear to be slow to recognize the size of the anthill they just kicked over. This started before Trump and is likely to continue for quite some time.

It's becoming clearer that to quite a majority of the MSM and indeed, to a majority of the pampered millionaires who are now sermonizing from the sidelines, this patriotism thing is shallow, outdated, and marginalized. None of them have ever had to make any sacrifices for anything but themselves. What a shock, therefore, to be forced to admit that to the unwashed they disdain, patriotism is real, and real things do tend to bite the unwary on the ass now and then.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Let them get real jobs.

I’m done with them.

[tumblindice]

Bonuses earned by NFL players in the 2016 postseason:

Super Bowl winner: $102,000
Super Bowl loser: $51,000

Wild-card round — division winner: $25,000
Wild-card team: $23,000
Divisional round: $25,000
Conference championship: $46,000

Seattle Seahawks defensive tackle Michael Bennett put it bluntly when describing how winning a Super Bowl can help you take home more money before his team played the New England Patriots last season.

“If you win, you’ll get more money,” Bennett said. “If you’re a champion, people love you more. You get more stuff. You get to hang out. You get to be on TV.”

The winners of the AFL-NFL championship 1967, the first Super Bowl, each got about 7 grand.

[Ken H]

I remember old baseball cards that said about the player, ‘During the off season, he sells insurance.’