Posted on 09/27/2017 8:12:45 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Rowe explained that he was disappointed in Donald Trump’s assertion that kneeling NFL players should be fired because it assumes that team owners and league commissioners are in charge of the game, when it is in fact the football fan who is in charge.
I was disappointed last night, to hear President Trump encourage owners to fire players who refuse to stand for the anthem. Not because I dispute the owners’ right to do so, and not because I would grieve the dismissal of anyone who chooses to disrespect our flag. I was disappointed because the President’s comments presuppose that the owners are in charge of the game. They’re not. We are. We decide what to watch, and that decision – far more than any other consideration – will determine the what the owners choose to do. And that in turn will affect what the players choose to do.
As leader of the country, the President had an opportunity to remind us that The NFL, the networks who broadcast their games, and all of the players – standers and kneelers alike – work for us. He might have also used the occasion to remind us that he too, serves at our pleasure.
The fans of professional football are not powerless – we’re just not yet offended enough to turn the channel. Should that ever change in a meaningful way – if for instance, a percentage of football fans relative to those players who chose to kneel during today’s games, chose to watch something else next Sunday – I can assure you…the matter would be resolved by Monday.
Rowe concluded the post with a video of “some actual heroes – combat veterans who made sure today’s athletes have the right to kneel for our flag, or honor it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
What? Is Mike Rowe some kind of capitalist or something?
We’ll see how many of these fans have the discipline this Sunday.
I like Rowe.
As I mentioned on another thread, A Day Without AFan!
He's a red blooded American conservative.
Already done Mike. Way ahead of you.
Boycott the Nancyboy Faggot League.
Stop giving them your money to insult you.
He has an excellent point. There’s no use in excoriating the teams, owners, etc, if, in the end, you still support what they did and said by watching them. It shouldn’t even be that difficult to do. All the talk about “a gun behind every blade of grass”, but not when there’s a feetball or thugball game on the tube?
I’ll bet Mike is a Freeper.
I did.
Got a lot of good reading in.
I’ve never watched a football game in my life——but have a question.
How does not watching the game on TV affect the NFL’s bottom line?
I understand the ad revenue-——but how is TV viewership measured?
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Perfectly stated. I really don’t care if players take a knee or not. That’s there prerogative. Its a free country. And I’m also free the turn off the TV and ignore the sport. Which I have been doing.
Just drop cable all together.
I bet if 10 million people cut their cable, all at once, this crap would stop by weeks end.
The NFL makes the massive amounts of money it does based on television contracts (among other things). Fewer viewers means less ad revenue means less revenue for the carriers, means less leverage for the NFL next time contracts are negotiated.
Its a long game... this won’t be fixed overnight.
I say “keep it up you overpaid brainless snowflakes”. Very soon you’ll be kneeling to be begging for our support instead of dissing the Flag.
What? do the players hear the click and get up off their knees?
Trump didn’t tell the NFL owners to fire these jerks. He just said it would be great if they did. Rowe is right though. Anyone who watches these jerks play is tacitly agreeing with their protest.
Turn it off and then watch them squirm.
“If Fans Want NFL Players To Stop Kneeling, They Should Turn Off The TV”
That will fix them, but good.
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