I agree the NFL is hurting themselves since they could put their foot down and ban all kneeling and other nonsense but how will it hurt the left in the long run?
1. Millions of dollars in funding, fundraising and advocacy they will not get from owners, teams and players if the NFL dies.
2. Black ‘youth’ will no longer be able to rely on football skills to ‘make millions’ and will perhaps apply themselves more in school. If they don’t, we can blame the leftists for ruining football and causing the problem. And if they do, there’s a chance they’ll see through the leftist propaganda they are served in schools.
3. With the end of football as a career path, more ghetto ‘youth’ who want to get out of the ghetto will have to join the military. This will reduce the number of leftists.
Remember back in 2011/2012 timeframe, about the NFL strike that threatened the season? At about that time, the Fast & Furious story was just starting to get traction — I can easily imagine that had the football season fallen through
the surplus attention would have found the Fast & Furious story and it would have been blown wide open rather than kinda swept under the rug.
PS — as for left v. right
or republican v. democrat
these are terrible ways to frame the discussion: the former is completely a variable and subjective scale, to the point of uselessness, and the latter is useless if you're at all cognizant of the Uniparty
, that it is far more instructive and illuminating to frame the argument as elites vs. the common-man.
I agree the NFL is hurting themselves since they could put their foot down and ban all kneeling and other nonsense...
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The NFL already has a rule that requires players to stand with their helmets under their left arms, etc., during the anthem.
Goodell and the owners just are not enforcing the rule.
The rule has been posted numerous times here on FR in recent weeks. I haven’t seen any of the TV media show the text.