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Anthem issue delays league business, including Roger Goodell extension
ESPN ^ | October 22, 2017 | Adam Schefter

Posted on 10/22/2017 6:03:28 PM PDT by EdnaMode

The debate over NFL player protests during the national anthem has become so big within the league that it has delayed the completion of commissioner Roger Goodell's contract extension, league sources told ESPN.

Goodell's deal is still expected to be completed and has been papered, sources told ESPN, but the process has been slowed while the overwhelming majority of the NFL's attention has been diverted to handling the anthem issue, which has affected TV ratings, merchandise sales and the country's feelings about football.

Had the issue not existed, Goodell's contract might have been completed at last week's owners meeting in New York, sources said. However, because the issue has become so critical to the league, the NFL's compensation committee spent about only 20 minutes Wednesday discussing Goodell's extension, with Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank leading those talks, sources told ESPN.

The committee still insists Goodell's deal will be completed, but there is other business that currently is more pressing.

"The anthem issue has overridden everything -- and I do mean everything," one source told ESPN.

The focus on the issue has overshadowed other league business as well.

At last week's meetings, owners discussed making a dramatic shift from paper game tickets to all-digital ticketing, which will be in place for the 2018 season, sources told ESPN. The NFL also announced the 2018 draft would be held in Dallas, which will host the first draft held inside a stadium. Neither topic received as much attention as the anthem issue.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthemprotests; colinkaepernick; goodell; nationalanthem; nfl; nflcommissioner; nflprotests; rogergoodell
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This could have easily been avoided had Goodell fixed the problem right from the beginning.
1 posted on 10/22/2017 6:03:28 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

hope they fire his @ss!


2 posted on 10/22/2017 6:07:58 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: EdnaMode

Well what do you for a lousy $41 million. You can’t expect him to think of everything


3 posted on 10/22/2017 6:08:26 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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At last week's meetings, owners discussed making a dramatic shift from paper game tickets to all-digital ticketing, which will be in place for the 2018 season, sources told ESPN.

I'm glad they're going to go with this, in order to handle the unprecedented rush of fans who are eager to pay through the nose to by told that America sucks, by a bunch of millionaires.

4 posted on 10/22/2017 6:08:31 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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NFL's attention has been diverted to handling the anthem issue, which has affected TV ratings, merchandise sales and the country's feelings about football.

That's the take away ...

5 posted on 10/22/2017 6:11:36 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
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To: EdnaMode

I never thought Trump’s opening anthem salvo was a coincidence. Back in mid August Goodell was coasting toward a five year contract extension. They were putting the finishing touches on it. Then Trump spoke during a big rally about firing those who disrespect the anthem. Totally derailed Goodell’s glide path to a second term. No way it was happenstance.


6 posted on 10/22/2017 6:11:50 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Steely Tom
$4 Raven's tickets :


7 posted on 10/22/2017 6:14:56 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
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To: EdnaMode

These owners are complete idiots if they choose to renew a contract for an imbecile who’s caused an unprecedented loss of revenue.

What business model follows this logic? Socialism 101?


8 posted on 10/22/2017 6:19:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: EdnaMode

Maybe he should have asked Benghazi Clinton if he could borrow her balls as she wouldn’t be needing them due to her failed presidential bid.


9 posted on 10/22/2017 6:21:05 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Fantasywriter

Good point.


10 posted on 10/22/2017 6:21:52 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode
Taxpayer-funded stadiums

Taxpayer-funded infrastructure around the stadium

Anti-trust exemption

Billionaire owners, millionaire players

This league is long overdue for a 1929 Stock Market crash-style correction.

11 posted on 10/22/2017 6:27:06 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: 11th_VA

Poetic justice! Hit the bastards in the pocket book. What were the price for these same seats BEFORE those idiots started protesting?


12 posted on 10/22/2017 6:33:08 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Jane Long

Sweet t*ts Skinner will be disappointed but at least they got theirs on the backs of the fans.


13 posted on 10/22/2017 6:36:52 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: EdnaMode

It’s a shame Trump can’t fire Roger. He is the President. At the least, he should cause him to be fired.


14 posted on 10/22/2017 6:37:08 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: 11th_VA

Money talks, don’t it.


15 posted on 10/22/2017 6:39:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: EdnaMode

Extension? He does remind me of a hemorrhoid.


16 posted on 10/22/2017 6:48:16 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Jane Long

These owners are complete idiots if they choose to renew a contract for an imbecile who’s caused an unprecedented loss of revenue.


Goodell is the symptom. The disease is the near complete takeover of corporate America by the progressive Left.


17 posted on 10/22/2017 6:49:40 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

It definitely is.


18 posted on 10/22/2017 6:51:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode; ExTexasRedhead

“This could have easily been avoided had Goodell fixed the problem right from the beginning.”

Like hoping the “Three Black Female Congresswomen of the Apocalypse” ( aka Waters, Wilson, and Jackson-Lee) keep up their incessant moronic prattling, having the NFL owners keep Goodell is a “good thing.” Under his “leadership,” the NFL has nowhere to go but down.


19 posted on 10/22/2017 6:52:17 PM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: lodi90

So, why do you suppose all of these owners are willing to stand by while socialism completely takes over? What does that do to their ownership/investment??


20 posted on 10/22/2017 6:52:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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