Posted on 11/20/2017 6:56:27 AM PST by Kaslin
President Trump took to Twitter Monday morning to harshly condemn NFL player Marshawn Lynch after he stood for the Mexican national anthem, yet took a knee for the U.S. Star Spangled Banner during Sunday Night Football over the weekend.
Marshawn Lynch of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders stands for the Mexican Anthem and sits down to boos for our National Anthem. Great disrespect! Next time NFL should suspend him for remainder of season. Attendance and ratings way down.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2017
Marshawn Lynch sits during the US national anthem, stands for Mexican anyhem pic.twitter.com/8wdaKprEki— Ben Volin (@BenVolin) November 19, 2017
Lynch is a running back for the Oakland Raiders and was playing against the New England Patriots when he made the controversial move.
President Trump has regularly criticized individual NFL players for refusing to stand for the U.S. national anthem. He's also gone after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who refuses to implement an enforced policy that requires players to stand.
Since protests against the national anthem started last year, NFL ratings have plummeted with fans citing players' refusal to stand for the American flag as the main reason they're tuning out of games. The business cost to the NFL is enormous.
As Roger Goodell, Jerry Jones, and the NFL engage in an ugly internal fight over the future leadership of the NFL, TV partners at CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC are staring at their own internal conflicts — namely a substantial decline in NFL ratings that is on pace to cost the four networks up to $500 million in lost revenue.
Already several hundred million in lost revenue has been booked in 2017 and it has the league’s top executives and television partners scrambling to figure out what went wrong. How did a league that was setting ratings records in 2015 suddenly see its audience fall by nearly 20% just two years later.
Because Barack Obama isn’t President anymore.
I understand some of the players are not happy about playing in a foreign country....plus what about the lost revenue to Oakland (vendors, restaurants, bars, etc. surrounding the stadium, city and state tax revenue....and so forth).
I'm not really up on this goofy situation...I don't even know if I know what I'm talking about, LOL......maybe someone here can explain it.
I see some NFL games are now played in London...is the National Football League to become the GFL....i.e...."the Globalist Football League?
Leni
He hates this country. Suggestion. Send him to a m*slim country, where he will be forced into slavery and be begging Trump to release him.
That arrogant pos should have never been president.
Big time
Interestingly, Jaime Nunó Roca, who composed the music of Mexico’s bombastic and bellicose national anthem, wasn’t even Mexican. He was a Spaniard working in Mexico in 1854, when he wrote the music. Later, he came to the US and settled in New York City, where he worked as a music director until his death in 1908.
Your post is the best I’ve seen in a long time.
Did they play against a Mexican team, and if why?
Looks like some idiot made a stupid decision.
Same reason you can see Mexican flags at the same or at higher level than Old Glory all over San Antonio.
Because he is an arrogant, hate filled, racist, anti-American, ungrateful mutant.
What a feral loser. Who watches the nfl or supports their sponsors? Only those who are brain-dead sheep or anti-American losers. I laugh at these rich feral morons.
Well, for starters Marshawn Lynch scored a 14 on the NFL Wonderlic test...So, essentially he is about as smart as an 8th grader...It also means his IQ is somewhere in the 80s...What else do you need to know.
Why did he kneel...He’s stupid!!!
Perhaps that thug should focus more on his game! Oakland had good prospects this year but are blowing it. Good! Maybe during next year’s anticipated earthquakes they will fall into the ocean along with San Francisco. Solve a lot of problems.
Actually... I guess maybe it IS trying to become the Globaliss Football League. That actually would explain a great deal of this crap, and the playing games in international cities strongly supports it.
I really think the offensive line tanked on Carr!
Top executives and television partners scrambling to figure out what went wrong.
A fool never learns.
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