“if the protests continue, the NFL will make official rules dictating..”
The horse has already left the barn.
Too late NFL.
Fans ave turned away because the NFL has refused to be patriotic. Sorry, boys. Does not matter how you slice it. Unless the kneelers are fired for behavior unbecoming the NFL is doomed.
“if the protests continue, the NFL will make official rules dictating..”
Doesn’t the NFL already have a rule dictating that they stand respectfully? Maybe they should try enforcing that.
I want them to kneel or stand arm in arm or make that stupid black power fist. I want to know who they are.
Like you said - it's over. The NFL is full of racist ingrate manchilds. The culture is rotten to the core.
The NFL can not survive unless they dismiss all the ingrates and start over with new players who love the country.
There is no other workable solution. Period.
I no longer care what the NFL says or does. Ain’t watching these ungrateful and disrespectful prima donnas.
YUP!
I'm done for life. (In fact, all the 'professional' sports.)
However....
- Roll Tide -
Well, it looks like finally pride walked away with the NFL so badly that it’s become a honkin’ joke.
I have a bittersweet sense about ball games, personally. I remember following those of my high school and college, and cheering when they were winning.
But again. They weren’t kajillion dollar affairs either. The very magnitude of hoopla over the pro games (which makes it possible for them to BE pro games) says one thing to me: Idolatry.
Ball games were a cause of contention between me and my father. He’d threaten to punish me rather than to socialize with his very young son, if he was sitting in the living room watching one on TV. Now I hope the supreme irony of that really sinks in. Not even “Son, let me show you how football, etc. works.” No wonder I never really cared for the sports. They seemed like an alien thing to me and I never had the heart to really embrace it all.
And now, many decades later, to see the piper FINALLY getting paid in that obscene scene... well I confess to some Psalm 2 grade laughter. Why should the nations rage? Well, they shouldn’t. Not over a sport, especially!