Posted on 09/27/2017 5:35:53 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Allan Jones, CEO of Hardwick Clothing and Check Into Cash payday loan company, announced on Tuesday he is through with sponsoring the wardrobes and advertising on the NFL.
Hardwick Clothing is America’s oldest suit maker.
In his statement Jones said, “Our companies will not condone unpatriotic behavior!”
The Times Free Press reported:
Two years ago, Cleveland, Tenn., businessman Allan Jones was proudly showing off his newly acquired Hardwick Clothing-brand suits by providing the wardrobe for NBC’s on-air talent during the network’s broadcasts of NFL football games.
But after NFL players and coaches challenged President Donald Trump and many took a knee during the national anthem played before their games over the weekend, Jones said he is through sponsoring the wardrobes or advertising on stations that air the National Football League.
Jones, CEO of the payday lending chain Check Into Cash and owner of Hardwick Clothes — America’s oldest suit maker — tweeted his criticism and change of heart Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Open Letter To The NFL Commissioner
The following letter was copied from Allen B. West’s Site.
https://www.allenbwest.com/2016/09/17/marine-owns-nfl-brutal-letter-commissioner/
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Commissioner,
I’ve been a season pass holder at Yankee Stadium, Yale Bowl and Giants Stadium.
I missed the ’90-’91 season because I was with a battalion of Marines in Desert Storm. 14 of my wonderful Marines returned home with the American
Flag draped across their lifeless bodies. My last conversation with one of them, Sgt Garrett Mongrella, was about how our Giants were going to the
Super Bowl. He never got to see it.
Many friends, Marines, and Special Forces Soldiers who worked with or for me through the years returned home with the American Flag draped over
their coffins.
Now I watch multi-millionaire athletes who never did anything in their lives but play a game, disrespect what brave Americans fought and died for. They
are essentially spitting in the faces and on the graves of real men, men who have actually done something for this country beside playing with a ball
and believing they’re something special! They’re not! My Marines and Soldiers were!
You are complicit in this!
You’ll fine players for large and small infractions but you lack the moral courage and respect for our nation and the fallen to put an immediate stop to
this. Yes, I know, it’s their 1st Amendment right to behave in such a despicable manner. What would happen if they came out and disrespected you or
the refs publicly?
I observed a player getting a personal foul for twerking in the end zone after scoring. I guess that’s much worse than disrespecting the flag and our
National Anthem. Hmmmmm, isn’t it his 1st Amendment right to express himself like an idiot in the end zone?
Why is taunting not allowed yet taunting America is OK? You fine players for wearing 9-11 commemorative shoes yet you allow scum on the sidelines
to sit, kneel or pump their pathetic fist in the air. They are so deprived with their multi-million dollar contracts for playing a freaking game! You condone
it all by your refusal to act.
You’re just as bad and disgusting as they are. I hope Americans boycott any sponsor who supports that rabble you call the NFL. I hope they turn off
the TV when any team that allowed this disrespect to occur, without consequence, on the sidelines. I applaud those who have not.
Legends and heroes do NOT wear shoulder pads. They wear body armor and carry rifles.
They make minimum wage and spend months and years away from their families. They don’t do it for an hour on Sunday. They do it 24/7 often with
lead, not footballs, coming in their direction. They watch their brothers carted off in pieces not on a gurney to get their knee iced. They don’t even have
ice! Many don’t have legs or arms.
Some wear blue and risk their lives daily on the streets of America. They wear fire helmets and go upstairs into the fire rather than down to safety. On
9-11, hundreds vanished. They are the heroes.
I hope that your high paid protesting pretty boys and you look in that mirror when you shave tomorrow and see what you really are, legends in your own
minds. You need to hit the road and take those worms with you!
Time to change the channel.
Col Jeffrey A Powers USMC (Ret)
Vista, California
Message sent a short time ago to a major NFL endorsee . . .
Is it wise to have the NFL name affiliated with both Papa John’s and a bunch of thugs who denigrate the very country that allows us all to conduct business lawfully, freely, and honorably? Think about it. We love Papa Johns. These days the NFL has a smell about it, however, and it is not the smell of fresh pizza.
Where can I buy a Hardwick suit?
I am enjoying it as we speak!
NFL has killed the golden goose! IOW, the fan base!
And I could care less!
The price of corn is going up because of this!
You know, all the popcorn we’re going to be eating watching the NFL kill itself.
Go Vista!
Whites people will eventually be blamed and told they are racist for not watching and supporting the NFL and all endeavors nonwhite people do. Don’t like rap music - because one is a racist. Don’t like Black humor - because one is racist.
On a Christian talk show on AFR on my drive home today a black 59 Christian man very well spoken basically said white people will never understand and that until all people in authority positions in the USA are non white or black America won’t know justice and be free of racism and oppression. The Christian theologian and host did nothing but agree with him for 20 minutes spouting off how oppressive whites are. People need to grow some stones and be able to vocally disagree. Christians should not embrace untruths ever as we will all be judged.
Part of the problem is in today’s relativistic world no one is unpatriotic or a traitor. Been that way for decades. If one person sees and envisions the USA as a communist tyranny of social justice then that is just as valid if not more so than some racist hateful oppressive Constitutional republic version. Been like this since the 90’s but no one clarifies the competing world views that are incompatible until now as it is in everyone’s faces nonstop.
Roger that!
Schadenfreude popcorn?
Just wonder if the sponsor exit will come quickly, or if it will be fairly slow with a mass exit at some point in the future.
That’s shocking and disgusting.
Sent a Quickie,,,
DUMP THE NFL!
Awesome- Winning.....
Good for you.
I can guarantee that they’ll call us racists when the NFL ratings drop off more than they already have.
That is sad and disgusting. thanks for sharing.
Yes, they’ll say we’re racists for not watching NFL games.
Good for you. Now we’ll be called racists.
So, that's their 'end goal'?? And idiots like Goodell and every other fool going along with this are just fine with this?
Anybody had any experience with Hardwick’s product?
https://hardwick.com/collections/suits
Looks like a new startup reviving an old brand. The suits look pretty nice to the extent you can tell from a suit posed on a tailor’s dummy. Made in Cleveland, Tennessee using mostly Italian fabrics. They emphasize the Made In USA angle...breaking with the NFL now was a pretty alert marketing move.
I think that it is time to look into their product line.
Takes courage to stand up against the media and leftist pols, so if I need a suit, will look to Hardwick :)
Were I the CEO, I would have quietly canceled my ads without comment.
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