The National Boycott of the NFL Did Not Matter

American Thinker.com ^ | November 19, 2017 | Lloyd Marcus

[Kaslin]

Sunday, November 12th, I joined fellow veterans in their national boycott of the NFL. However, I do not sense that thousands tuning out the games made much of a difference. NFL players and management still display a screw-you-America attitude. America hating Leftists never back off or surrender ground.

As a matter of fact, to continue poking a finger in the eye of normal Americans, Leftist rag GQ magazine outrageously named Colin Kaepernick its Citizen of the Year. Kaepernick is the player who started NFL players shamefully kneeling during our national anthem. Sports media instantly declared Kaepernick, a mediocre quarterback, a hero. And yet, sports media is obsessed with pressuring an NFL team to hire Kaepernick.

NFL players have been fooled into believing their protest is about fairness and justice. These young men are clueless that Leftists view them as useful idiots in their long-term plan to bring down America economically, culturally, and globally.

Leftists say, "We hate this country because America is unjust; founded on racism and bigotry. America is the greatest source of evil on the planet. So screw your traditional family values. Screw traditional marriage. Screw capitalism. Screw your sacred institutions of Christian faith. Screw free speech. Screw your constitutional right to protect yourself. Screw your philosophy of education, hard work and making right choices to achieve success." We've allowed Leftists to fill our kids' heads with this negative view of their homeland for decades.

Leftists have taught our kids that because we have stolen so much of the world's resources, it is only fair that we erase our borders to allow the world to feed on the breast of America; non-Americans coming and going as they please. Screw immigration laws. Screw vetting for diseases and criminal intentions.

[Conservative Gato]

Fake news.

Boycott worked and is working. Costing the league hundreds of millions and serving as a warning to other sports.

SJWs takrnover and kill the host. That’s what we are seeing. Even business institutions can be destroyed from within by leftists.

Agreed. Behind the scenes it has to be a mess but we're seeing a bit of it as there seems to be a civil war going on with the owners and Jerry Jones and his supporters. It's going to be ugly as they continue to tear the league apart.

I hope the SJW's are defeated in the NFL but if not, I'm prepared to move on a support another pro football league. Business is about opportunity and the opportunity is more than ripe for a new league.

CGato

[RedMonqey]

Leftists have taught our kids that because we have stolen so much of the world's resources.

Of course these same Leftists and their willing millennial dupes conveniently overlook that their lifestyles that allow them to travel in carbon based tools of the capitalist using “stolen” resources to provide their above average lifestyle their fellow comrades only dream of in Socialist states to “fly over “ those “racist redneck dupes of the corporate-industrial- military complex that keeps the multicultural masses of the people crushed by the rich, white MAN.

All of which will be corrected by the Socialist government and the “New soviet American Man”

Which will work cuz up til now, “true socialism” has never been tried!

Right?

RIGHT?

[fuzzylogic]

I’ll make a prediction. The real boycott effect will emerge next year. Just like many people I didn’t expect the kneeling protests. Which means many people still bought season tickets. A few burned them as they understood just selling them would still put people into the stands. Most probably sold them at a discount. The stands, even with the lower attendance, are still artificially full due to people getting very cheap tickets. This also doesn’t hit the NFL financially as the tickets were still sold at full rates.

That won’t happen next year. The real pain will be when large numbers of fans don’t buy the season tickets at full price. They’ll have to severely discount the price, even then, many are done with the NFL, it won’t matter. This will lead to more available tickets on a per game basis. The question will be, how low will they have to go to fill the stadium? Will the cost of business be lower then revenue? ...time will tell, but if they think they’ve hit rock-bottom already they can think again.

[dfwgator]

I’d like to see ticket prices drop to the point where it will mostly be hoodrats attending the games.

[Alberta's Child]

Of course he is.

But he destroys his own credibility when he claims that he took part in the November 12th "boycott" even though he apparently had no problem watching the NFL in the weeks leading up to it.

[Alberta's Child]

Don't assume that people can't affect the bottom line of these huge business operations.

Last month I was at a business meeting with three other people. I was shocked to learn that three of us (including me) had all ditched our cable service in the prior few months. This had nothing to do with the NFL, either ... we just got tired of paying more and more money to watch TV that was getting crappier and crappier over time.

[dfwgator]

It’s not going to happen overnight, but the NFL is going to suffer the same fate as Boxing in the not-too-distant future.

[Alberta's Child]

There's a contingent of New York Jets fans that has been engaging in a comical racket of their own over the last few years. This has little to do with the national anthem protests and is more an issue of just how bad the team has been in recent years, but you can see how easily the whole thing works.

These are fans who signed up for personal seat licenses (PSLs) in the new MetLife Stadium when it was built a few years ago. They were paying $5,000 to $10,000 for each seat license, and the payments were spread over 10-15 years. The season tickets had to be paid separately, so these people were paying several thousand dollars a year for their Jets tickets.

Within a couple of years the team was doing so poorly on the field that the price of tickets on the secondary market (StubHub, for example) dropped in a big way. This group of fans sat down and realized that they were getting shafted, so they came up with a great idea: They stopped making payments on the PSLs, mailed their season tickets back to the team, and basically challenged the Jets to sue them to get the remaining payments.

And here's the best part ...

In the meantime, they've been buying tickets on the secondary market at a big discount and attending every Jets home game anyway. In some cases they're getting better seats on the secondary market than they had before, and they're paying less money for them. LMAO.

I believe the NFL is a "commodity" whose price is only going to be heading down in the coming years.

[foreverfree]

Bump

[Alberta's Child]

All you have to do is look at all the NFL stadiums. A year ago you would see almost all NFL games either sold out or close to it. Today you see lots of empty seats.

Is this related to a "boycott" of any kind, or has the NFL simply priced itself out of the reach of its fans? I think it's more of the latter. You've seen the same thing with NASCAR in recent years -- to the point where many NASCAR tracks have been removing seats in order to avoid having so many unsold tickets.

[fuzzylogic]

Wow, that just shows how far the NFL is out of touch, at least the Jets - although I’d bet they’re not unlike many other teams.

[Maris Crane]

It seems to take a long time for results to be seen. For instance, GE, with the leftist CEO, made me furious many times for their decisions. Now, GE’s stock price is below $10. And Target, which is only now seeing some hurt in sales, is suffering from the loo kerfuffle. And there are other examples.

Because it does take time, it is hard to apply the “cause and effect” principle, since the cause is so far from the effect. But, I have seen, after many years of observing, that if you are patient, the reward will come.

Fingers are crossed in the Clintons’ situation.

[boycott]

I’ve been saying the same thing for 20 years. Athletics really have nothing to do with higher education.

Either they get in on their own or they don’t play. I believe it would be one of the best things to ever happen to the black community. A lot of young kids think they might make it to the NFL. I believe it’s like 1-10,000 end up playing in the NFL. If they all try harder academically and don’t make it, that’s a plus for all of us. The athlete will at least have a better education and they’re not having to be taught reading and writing in college.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well said!

[Maris Crane]

Thanks, Diane

[boycott]

I agree. And I am an Alabama fan.

I would like to see the game turned over to real student-athletes. Propping up good athletes from middle school and all the way though colleges and universities isn’t fooling most of us. They don’t need to be accepted if they cannot get in on their own.

[vette6387]

“Propping up good athletes from middle school and all the way though colleges and universities isn’t fooling most of us.”

Public universities and colleges have become the de facto farm system for the NFL. And when you delve into what these publicly financed institutions do to “recruit players” and to “keep them enrolled” despite the fact that most of them are not smart enough to eject a bent quarter from a Coke machine.

[TennTuxedo]

Let’s wait and see how things shake out next season when tseason ticket sales drop in a dramatic fashion.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Beautiful! Agreed!

[Impala64ssa]

I started watching NFL at my father’s feet
Same here, Jets and Giants through thick and thin, YA Tittle, Joe Namath, John "The Diesel" Riggins, etc. And I also admired the Steelers, back in the glory days of the Steel Curtain, Franco Harris, Rocky Bleier, Mean Joe Green, etc. When my Dad passed away we actually took some solace knowing you can actually see Met Life Stadium from his gravesite. But yeah, it's kinda sad but I don't know how the Jets or Giants are doing this season and I don't GAFF.