Not sure I agree with the naysayers here. Isn’t this a win? As long as they stop dissing the national anthem and flag, aren’t we good? I say this as someone who does not watch the NFL.
“Isn’t this a win? As long as they stop dissing the national anthem and flag, aren’t we good?”
No, not really, as it can be spun, and moreover other industries can take comfort in that the boycott-fu of the Right is nothing much to fear beyond a week or two, and they can continue with their old politics.
A destroyed industry, especially such a high-profile one, however, is going to be, always, that corpse hanging over the gate that cannot be ignored.
The actions last weekend were so egregious that there is no forgiving.
Besides, nothing has changed. These people hate America... and don’t let them claim otherwise (watched a guy last night try to spin it as, no the really do love America). Actions speak louder than words and last weekend spoke VERY LOUDLY.
No, because they don’t think they did anything wrong!
No, I don't think we are. The point of moving political protest to this particular arena was to make the whole thing about something more than football, at which the demonstrators have succeeded. What they failed to apprehend was that in doing so they make it about something more than Black Lives Matter, at which they also have succeeded. It turns out that the choice is between patriotism and Political Correctness, the latter of which has grown so overblown with a sense of self-importance that its proponents think they have superseded patriotism. They are finding out that they have not. That lesson needs to be brought home once and for all time, and since they've selected this particular battlefield, right here and right now.
My personal view is that I'll consider returning to viewership when every single NFL player, coach, and owner who took a knee to disgrace and humiliate his flag, his anthem, and his country is out of the game for life. Until then I'm gone. The point needs to be driven home unmistakably, with no room for media spin or activist re-framing. Anyone who has decided that his loyalty to his team supersedes his loyalty to his country needs to go.
Or NFL football needs to go. That might be simpler. And I'm fine with it.
“As long as they stop dissing the national anthem and flag, aren’t we good?”
No, we are not “good” . “The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” T. S. Eliot
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Did they say they were sorry? No go.
The NFL’s own rule spells out proper conduct on the sidelines during the playing of the national anthem, standing straight in a line, eyes on the flag, helmet in left arm and right hand held in a respectful fashion. If the NFL would Enforce their own code the fans would return.