Posted on 11/29/2017 9:47:26 PM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
The NFL and a group of players reached an agreement in principle late Wednesday night to partner on a plan to address social justice issues considered important to African-American communities, ESPN has learned.
The unprecedented agreement calls for the league to contribute nearly $100 million over seven years to projects dealing with criminal justice reform, law enforcement/community relations and education.
During a conference call Wednesday night, Malcolm Jenkins and Anquan Boldin, who lead roughly 40 players who have negotiated with the league office about demonstrations during the national anthem, guided the group through the highlights of the package, which represents the NFL's largest contribution to a social issue, surpassing that of Salute to Service or Breast Cancer Awareness/Crucial Catch.
The partnership came a day after some players broke away from the Players Coalition because of their dissatisfaction with how Jenkins and Boldin have handled negotiations. Commissioner Roger Goodell, believing that an agreement was at hand, was furious when ESPN reported that players were breaking off, according to one source. But during an afternoon call, Jenkins asked that the commissioner and the owners continue to stand with the players and allow them to do important work in the community.
The agreement does not include language calling for players to end protests during the national anthem in exchange for funds; there's no implicit quid pro quo. But the NFL hopes this effort will effectively end the peaceful yet controversial movement that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started in 2016, when he refused to stand for the anthem.
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I wonder if Jesse Jackass helped with this shakedown...
I’m shocked!—SHOCKED!
No F...ing Lucre At least no money from me anymore. NFL GTH!!!!!
The shakedown yields fruit.
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Around one year of the Commissioner's salary would almost do.
(fellow Pittsburgher)
One more nail in the NFL coffin.
This fund is racist bribery.
Sources: NFL agrees to commit nearly $100M over seven years to social justice causes.
translation:
Sources: NFL agrees to commit suicide by giving nearly $100M over seven years to communist causes.
What is this N. F. L. you speak of? Can’t say I’ve ever heard of it...
Stuck on Stupid
My veteran of WWII dad will be rolling in his grave. Football is officially gay. A dance for socialist fags in tights slapping each other on their tight butts
Another successful shakedown
Further proof that Roger Goodell and the NFL owners haven’t got a clue as to “what the problem is”.
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!! FOREVER!!!
Boycott, regardless if they ever stop kneeling!
“They are so done, so finished and just oh so clueless. “
Yeah, bad precedent for sure. There will be more to come. Also, higher ticket prices will turn off more fans. Goodell and owners who support him are just plain stupid - and gutless.
Does this thing all unravel so fast that the Municipalities and the Teams in those Stadiums take it in the shorts like we have never seen and default on the Muni-Bonds? You have some cities that might not be financially healthy to begin with, can they really afford this, No.
What do they do with the Stadiums afterwards? Giant White Elephants they will be.
Perhaps this is good, Culture of Savages Borders, Language, and Culture is possibly being changed back. The Bread and Circus aspect to Football and what today is called Music is driving people away from both of them, maybe we are getting off the "Dole" rather than the crowds screaming to increase it, and they did it to themselves, we are just responding to save ourselves from their madness, as we walk away.
Jeez... what a way to double-down on stupid! Do they really think their fans give a rodent’s rectum about those issues?
I’m wondering which groups pushing for two-parent families and improved K-12 education will be seeing a windfall? After all, these are perhaps the key shortcomings in the minority community.
A victory for BLM and other SJW groups with hands outstretched.Unless of course people turn off the damn channel and not buy the tickets and utterly reject what has turned into a vehicle for left-wing politics.
A drop in the bucket compared to the tens of trillions of dollars spent since Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty 50 years ago. WHICH DID NOTHING to quench the thirst of the dindu nuffin crowd. So, good luck, NFL. Fools.
Burn them to the ground. They will have a hard time paying $100 million in blood money if they are bankrupt.
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