Posted on 09/25/2017 2:58:01 PM PDT by monkapotamus
The Dallas Cowboys plan to protest during the national anthem before Monday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals, per multiple sources.
Nothing has been firmed up and they will likely come to some decision in the locker room. It may not be a coordinated effort. It may just be a few individuals.
One player said, “We have to do something.”
Said another, “It’s not going to be business as usual. He crossed a line. Something will be done...”
The majority of the NFL’s owners and/or teams issued statements in response to Trump’s comments over the weekend.
The Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones have yet to do so...
Garrett, however, has made it clear that he likes how his team has stood for the anthem.
That stance may change Monday night.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
At some point, if the NFL persists it's anti-American position(and Goodell isn't fired), the collapse in cartel power becomes a potential business shark card game. Like all things in life, the Pareto principle applies ie the 80/20 rule. Same is true with the NFL - one could reasonably conclude that Dallas, DC, Giants, Chicago, GB, Pitt & NE are the Big 7.
If just a few got together and convinced another 8-10 teams to create a new league, it would be tantamount to going pig in a hi-lo poker game. Without the dilution of all the other minor, 2nd tier teams, the new rump league could probably generate the same amount of revenue with less than 1/2 the teams.
Of course, for any of this to work, the teams would have sweep clean any conflicts. For one, the Kneelers, Pats and others would have to issue a strong mea culpa and promise to never do it again. The new league would have to institute rules about behavior & termination, with a collective promise from other teams to enforce a black list.
It could work. The NFL only appears monolithic, but that's fairly recent history. Up until the 50s, the league was in constant financial peril. The 50s & 60s saw (successful) competing leagues and expansion.
At present, the entire league is TV driven. A new league, with a new start, adapted to new viewing alternatives, may have come about anyway at some point in the future. If this boycott continues - as I believe it will because it's incredibly simple to effectuate by simply *doing nothing*, then the downstream effects are going to become really interesting.
Black players are being exploited by white leftists, who want to destroy their livelihoods, deprive them of their millions and disrupt the communities and familiies who come together once a week.
ALL OF THIS IS ORCHESTRATED!
Kaepernick did not one day just wake up and said he hated this country. The NFL has been in existence since 1920. All those turbulent decades - through the 60s - black players played together with white players and all stood for the anthem. Now America is racist and evil?
Follow the strings being pulled. They are being pulled by Soros-front groups, Obamanites, and DNC operatives.
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Saw an eye opening post earlier today that the manipulation was started by MB activist/jihadist linda sansour romancing kaepernick right out of his $25 million/yr job as back up QB
I like the way you think!
I’m sorry to say this but can’t the fans take to the field with American flags and stop the game? Damn it protest FOR America!
Your post is perfect. I agree. Show them who crossed the line.
And another one gone, another one gone
Another one bites the dust!
I’ve been a loosely connected Cowboys fan since 1966, when I went to go see them in Dallas when I was 15 years old.
Wow, if they protest, it’s over.
The NFL is done.
Not even the Cowboys can save it. Would be nice if there was at least ONE team, though, that didn’t cave to the leftists.
Oh well.
Same here.
If the Cowboys kneel or hide in the locker room,
I will switch the channel and never return.
Good idea.....bring them to one of the air bases when
the famlies are there to recieve their hero loved ones arrive.
I sure hope Freepers are smart enough, and sufficiently patriotic to NOT tune in to find out what happens.
Drudge will let us know.
If you tune in for even one minute you will be counted as a viewer by the cable company.
And that will PAY these rotten bastards.
Despise the NFL..
It's so sad that they are speeding the end of their own profession to the glee of all the leftys who hate their game and desire to shut it down.
Sadly, I'm betting on similar "useful idiots" to shut down college football as well, as some of their players are making similar moves and most of their alum just won't back up their stupidity with their $$$$$, a la Mizzou!
I'm thinking the ratings numbers can be massaged to be better than what they really are. I'm also thinking that the majority of the country is pissed at these friggin' assholes and won't watch!
They couldn’t be “exploited” if they didn’t already feel that way. Unforunately a large pecentage of blacks in this country have been brought up to hate and resent America.
I'd probably go one step further and add the last verse of the Anthem to be sung, while clips of injured Vets salute the flag on crutches, wheel chairs, etc. to "educate" all Americans what genuine sacrifice and the true meaning of "hero" is all about.
(To those who've never had the opportunity to hear or sing that most poignant of verses: "O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand, Between their loved home and war's desolation! Blessed with vict'ry and peace, may the heaven rescued land, praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto - "In God is our Trust,"and the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave, o're the land of the free and the home of the brave!
God bless America and especially all of those blessed brave souls who have fought or stood against oppression to preserve us!
Congratulations, idiots. You’re just racing into your own (proverbial) coffins. Kiss the NFL goodbye.
You are so right TChris, they forgot about the “Dixie Chicks” debacle. They stood up at a concert in England and openly Disparaged the USA and the current Administration. This resulted in professional suicide for them as they alienated over 85% of their FAN base. That was over 12 years ago and they still have not recovered and will not at this stage.
You know the line we’re not allowed to say or protest anything they do and we got to just take their s*** constantly. I mean I’m pretty sure that when you knew for that Anthem you are supporting a movement called black lives matters and they are you shot and killed by police officers in Dallas and the Cowboys are doing this but that’s fine
In their stupid zeal to be anti Trump they’re forgetting the fact of why he made those statements in the first place. And they’re also forgetting why CK was kneeling and what it represents. They are telling their majority-white viewers that yeah we support black lives matters and the whole Ferguson lie of hands up don’t shoot.
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