Posted on 10/01/2017 4:38:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
ESPN will pass on showing live player protests during Week 4 of the NFL season. The Disney-owned network told Sporting News it won't air the playing of the national anthem before Redskins vs. Chiefs on "Monday Night Football."
The NFL's TV partners normally do not show players before the unfurling of the American flag and singing/playing of the national anthem, except before the Super Bowl and other select games. But given viewer interest around players staging demonstrations last week, ESPN, Fox Sports, NBC Sports, CBS Sports, NFL Network and DirecTV all provided live anthem coverage during Week 3.
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NBC Sports says it will televise the live the playing of the U.S. national anthem before the Colts at Seahawks on "Sunday Night Football" (8:30 p.m. ET).
ESPN told Sporting News it won't televise the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before its "Monday Night Football" matchup of Redskins vs. Chiefs.
On Sunday, CBS Sports televised the anthem live before its game telecasts.
Meanwhile, Fox Sports showed the anthem from the 9:30 a.m. ET matchup of Saints-Dolphins in London -- but declined to show it for later U.S.-based games such as Buccaneers-Giants.
(Excerpt) Read more at sportingnews.com ...
I won’t notice - won’t be watching.
Great idea of showing the flag waving and scenery while the Anthem is played!
Agreed. Copernicus formulated that the Earth revolved around the Sun, instead of the other way around, the EXACT opposite of Krapdick, who thinks the universe revolves around him.
OK !!!
,,,, let’s see how that works .
Are they really trying to p!$$ US off ???
ESPN is anti-American. It’s what happens when you’re part of Disney.
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Here’s an idea....how about these “pro America” networks only televise those who respect the American flag and the values it represents.
The NFL is quietly desperate for a solution.
Trump blew the lid off their elitist, PC, crony capitalist thinking
Received this in an email earlier today. I think it’s a worthy read and one to share:
“...I think the NFL is beginning to learn their lesson, but I wont be watching today anyway. Id like to think this will be the LAST week of any controversy and theyll all be standing! Well see...
This message was written by the Commander of an American Legion Post regarding the ungrateful moronic NFL players.
I see you
I see you, professional football player, as you kneel down during the playing of the National Anthem
I see you, with your arm raised in protest
I see you thinking you are doing something to unite people over social and racial injustice.
I see you
But, more than that here is what I really see
I see a man pushing the wheels of his wheelchair as he returns home from a foreign land unable to function as he once did, due to fighting to protect you as you kneel on the ground.
I see a young widow, dressed carefully in black, mourning the remains of her husband, hugging a coffin on the tarmac of an airport.
I see that same woman clutching a perfectly folded flag to her bosom as taps is played at his graveside.
I see her young son, tears streaming down his face knowing his father would never come home again.
I see graveyards full of tombstones, here and overseas, with names of those fallen, with dates showing a much too early death.
I see so many, from so many different wars and conflicts, crosses and stones. They are too numerous to count.
I see the sacrifices made, the hearts broken, the tears shed, the shattered lives all in the name of freedom all in the name of that red, white and blue piece of cloth that you choose to protest.
Social and racial injustice? You who make millions of American dollars for playing a game in a country where you have more opportunity to make a better life for you and your family than anywhere in the world? Really? The hypocrisy of it astounds me.
First of all, if you really want to protest, give your money and time to make changes. Give to those less fortunate than you. Help those people get an education, buy them food and shelter. Show them opportunities to make better decisions. Teach them that they have a purpose in life.
And if you really want to protest injustices
Protest the treatment of veterans, who have to wait extremely long periods of time for healthcare, who are living under interstate bridges, in boxes, who are committing suicide. Today over twenty of them will take their lives out of hopelessness and despair.
Protest the people whose goal in life is to make sure an unborn baby doesnt see the light of day. There will be around 3,500 of them today. There is no greater injustice than that.
Protest the loss of religious rights as some atheist complained so much that public prayer by a group of young players on an athletic field is not allowed.
When I see that flag, when I hear that song, when I sing those words, I give homage to those who died for this land, who continue to protect this land, who dont know if and when they will ever see their loved ones again. Some say that they died for your freedom so that you can take a knee. I say they died for your freedom so you can stand proudly and be thankful that God has blessed you enough that you can live in a country of so much opportunity.
Go ahead
Go ahead and kneel
Go ahead and be ungrateful.
I am watching
As are millions and millions of others.
We dont see a protest of unity
we see a protest of disgraceful ignorance.
Please Pass This On To EVERYONE On Your List..”
FOX and ESPN are disgusting.
They think by not showing the kneeling we will come back, it’s a Hail MARY FAKE OUT! As this article from Allen West shows.
HAIL MARY WE ARE GOING TO FAKE YOU OUT!!!!
NFL broadcasters hint at JAW-DROPPING solution for anthem protests DON’T BROADCAST THE PROTEST!Sundays Patriots-Panthers game.
https://www.allenbwest.com/2017/09/30/nfl-broadcasters-hint-jaw-dropping-solution-anthem-protests/
The bigger issue is, when are these two teams going to name themselves something different.
My TV ‘will not carry’ the Redskins-Chiefs on ‘Monday Night Football’ - there, fixed it.
The so called “geniuses” at ESPN and Disney, think this is the answer to their falling ratings and boycotts.
Haha! Idiots!
I know a lot of people that are turning them off. Oh well I know their will be a lot of happy wives and girlfriends.
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