Posted on 09/26/2017 9:09:40 AM PDT by rktman
Players around the NFL knelt, sat or even refused to come out of the locker room for the national anthem on Sunday in order to protest social inequality. Despite favorable media coverage, mainstream outlets forgot to mention one key factor: how much money those players actually make.
Case in point, the seventeen players who protested the anthem before the Jaguars-Ravens game in London have contracts totaling more than $448 million.
And that’s just from TWO OF THE TEAMS. More, from The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Robert Donachie:
Combing the total value of each players contracts adds up to a whopping $448,373,425, a figure greater than the gross domestic product of over a handful of the world’s nations.
ESPN reported that 10 Ravens players and roughly the same number of Jaguars players took a knee during the national anthem Sunday at Wembley Stadium in London.
The Ravens players include: Terrell Suggs, C.J. Mosley, Za’Darius Smith, Tim Williams, Tyus Bowser, Mike Wallace, Carl Davis, Tony Jefferson, Anthony Levine, and Lardarius Webb.
On the Jaguars sideline, Jalen Ramsey, A.J. Bouye, Calais Campbell, Yannick Ngakoue, Malik Jackson, Tashaun Gipson, and Leonard Fournette.
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Maybe this will send a message to the Pittsburgh Kneelers et. al..
For what it is worth, a quick perusal of the article makes me think they are talking about the players’ income, not net worth.
Still a valid point by the writer, but just wanted to clarify.
A classic battle between the (1%) one percenters in wealth versus joe six pack.
Not. For. Long.
They keep their America bashing up, and they will bankrupt the NFL, and put themselves out of a job.
The Ravens and Jaguars did stand , some with hand over heart, for “God Save the Queen”.
Sheesh.
Millionaire players, led by millionaire coaches, led by a millionaire general manager, and owned by a millionaire. It’s all a pyramid scheme...the little guy has to pay $131 to see the Chicago Bears (2016: 3-13 record) play another marginal and loser team. What idiot would go and pay that kind of money? The whole NFL is a franchise pyramid design.
What would it take to revoke Big Football’s tax-exempt status?
Headline is misleading.
The 17 players are getting an average of $26 million.
I wish I was that disrespected, that abused, that discriminated against.
Nah. White privilege is plenty for me. That way I never had to dig post holes by hand in the desert. Oh, yes I did. Never lived in half a mobile home. Uh, yes. Mixed powdered milk and regular milk to make 2 gallons out of 1. Done that. Yeah, the good old days.
Poor Joe Schlub.
He works hard to provide for his family.
Maybe once or twice a year he can come up with a couple hundred dollars to take his son to an NFL game.
Once there he gets stiffed $35 for parking a half mile from the gate, $5 for a soft drink, $6 dollars for soggy fries, $12 for a cold, precooked hamburger
and $11 for a flat beer that tastes like the cardboard container it’s served in.
Then he sits down in his nose-bleeder seat to watch semi-literate surly black millionaires demonstrate about the bad social justice in America for blacks.
They disrespect the National Anthem and stomp around on the field like gladiators after making a play, giving the Black Power Fist to the crowd.
They tell us how the country should be run, what bad people we are and how we should live our lives to make the country better for them.
Next time Joe has a couple hundred bucks pulled together he will probably take the family to watch a hockey game, a baseball game or a NASCAR race where they don’t take his money while disrespecting the nation and patriots.
They don’t need tax-exempt status in the first place. It needs to be revoked.
The American people have no interest in subsidizing a bunch of overpaid socialist America hating thugs.
What would it take to revoke Big Football’s tax-exempt status?
Since they have become political it is time to get them on the tax roles.
Yep.
They had better enjoy it while they can, cuz after they p___ it away and football is over they will be standing in line trying to get a job at McDonalds complaining how they don’t work for less than 100,00 a year. ha ha!
I’d love to know the size of that group’s charitable contributions to, say, inner city youth?
Especially with the culture many NFL and NBA players come from there’s a big difference between income and net worth. Easy come, easy go. For many, a million dollars is like an ice cube in the Saudi desert.
Yes, a small, hollow ice cube at that!
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