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Sources: NFL agrees to commit nearly $100M over seven years to social justice causes
ESPN ^ | November 30, 2017 | Jim Trotter and Jason Reid

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: anthem; bankruptcyu; blackmail; castro; communism; corporateliberalism; football; fundingtheleft; kneeling; marxism; nfl; sjw; sports
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

What was the NF’nL?


81 posted on 11/30/2017 3:28:01 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
That should bring back the fans!

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.

82 posted on 11/30/2017 3:35:17 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented")
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
And they think that just because they're going to donate money to so-called "social justice" causes that that'll justify what the players have been doing or placate the fans?

If anything, it'll make the fan base even more irate! The NFL caved, and people will know it!

83 posted on 11/30/2017 3:41:25 AM PST by ducttape45 (Every Saint has a past, Every Sinner has a Future!)
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To: FreedomPoster

LOLOLOLOL.


84 posted on 11/30/2017 3:52:20 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Whaaaat? You don’t think they’ll spend the money where it is most sorely needed!?
85 posted on 11/30/2017 4:04:05 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
DIE NFL DIE!!!
86 posted on 11/30/2017 4:16:04 AM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Good. That will make the league bankrupt even faster.


87 posted on 11/30/2017 4:16:51 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

And the stupid white male with NFL sponsored beer in hand and NFL jersey on, will be helping to support it.


88 posted on 11/30/2017 4:19:03 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

If you’re stuck on stupid then I guess it seems right to spread it around.


89 posted on 11/30/2017 4:22:31 AM PST by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: GraceG

yep


90 posted on 11/30/2017 4:29:28 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

What are the chances that the NFL won’t exist in seven years?


91 posted on 11/30/2017 4:31:14 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Sorry, but you won’t use my money for this cause. National Felons League will die...


92 posted on 11/30/2017 4:31:25 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Brown Deer

That’s a happy sight to see. Needs to happen to all of them.


93 posted on 11/30/2017 4:31:55 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

WTF?!?


94 posted on 11/30/2017 4:33:35 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

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.


95 posted on 11/30/2017 4:34:14 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: TXBlair

That was my first thought awhile back. Looks like the players have just graduated from the Jesse Jackson School of Shakedown.


96 posted on 11/30/2017 4:35:51 AM PST by MomwithHope (Law and Order and that includes Natural.)
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To: Yaelle; Bender2

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.


97 posted on 11/30/2017 4:37:29 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
'agrees to commit'≠'has committed' I'll believe it when I see it.
98 posted on 11/30/2017 4:39:41 AM PST by know.your.why
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To: Old Yeller

They call it Goodell disease.

The only known cure is pre-frontal lobotomy.


99 posted on 11/30/2017 4:41:22 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

great! hope they bankrupt themselves in the process, because they have less money to give with attendance and viewership down.


100 posted on 11/30/2017 4:41:27 AM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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