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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What was the NF’nL?
Not. Amazingly, they don't understand their fan base.
This is small change for the NFL, anyway. It's a little more than $14 million per year. The NFL probably spends a lot more than that every year striping the parking lots. Derek Carr makes $25 million per year.
If anything, it'll make the fan base even more irate! The NFL caved, and people will know it!
LOLOLOLOL.
Good. That will make the league bankrupt even faster.
And the stupid white male with NFL sponsored beer in hand and NFL jersey on, will be helping to support it.
If you’re stuck on stupid then I guess it seems right to spread it around.
yep
What are the chances that the NFL wont exist in seven years?
Sorry, but you won’t use my money for this cause. National Felons League will die...
That’s a happy sight to see. Needs to happen to all of them.
WTF?!?
In an earlier thread I had proposed a five year boycott—guess it will have to be seven years now.
By that time I will have forgotten what the NFL is.
That was my first thought awhile back. Looks like the players have just graduated from the Jesse Jackson School of Shakedown.
Bender will continue to worship at the altar of the NFL with his obscene NFL Picks threads . . . and post his “Up Yours” to all that disagree with him.
The Bender2s of the world will help the NFL through these trying times.
They call it Goodell disease.
The only known cure is pre-frontal lobotomy.
great! hope they bankrupt themselves in the process, because they have less money to give with attendance and viewership down.
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