Posted on 01/23/2018 6:35:25 AM PST by Red Badger
The National Football League has rejected a Super Bowl advertisement from American Veterans urging people to stand for the national anthem.
The nation's largest veterans service organization had been invited by the NFL to place an ad in the Super Bowl LII program. AMVET's advertisement included a two-word message - "#PleaseStand." Click here to see the ad.
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Die NFL, die.
Let the sonsovbitches bleed out.
The super “toilet bowl”. Let the SOB’s go down the drain. Not watching it here.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy defended the league's decision to ban the American Veterans' advertisement noting that the game day program "is designed for fans to commemorate and celebrate the game, players, teams and the Super Bowl. It's never been a place for advertising that could be considered by some as a political statement"
time for the annual stunt commercial submissions already. Of course the NFL would veto a commercial critical of their players. But the free publicity you get when they reject you is so awesome, especially since you don’t even have to pay anything to get it.
Hoping Super Bowl advertisers lose their butts.
Do you get to spout politics on company time?
The most visible thing we own is our car. Put a home made sign in the window that says what you think.
Mine says THE NFL DOESN'T STAND FOR AMERICA
I know it gets attention because I see people stop to read it as they walk by in parking lots.
“...political statement...”
It’s NOT a political statement.
It IS a patriotic statement.
That’s why the nfl is losing.
Fug the NFL!!!
If everyone tweeted that video at the NFL nonstop they’d get the message.
As it is they’ve guaranteed it a very large audience by suppressing it.
‘There’s no such thing as bad publicity’ .......often associated with Phineas T. Barnum, the 19th century American showman and circus owner.
If you (still) have cable, turn on your tv and set the channel to something else while the game is on, even if no one watches. The cable companies will be tallying who’s watching what, so the more people “watching” anything but the game there are, the worse the game’s numbers (and their subsequent ad value) will look. If you really want to make the point, choose a channel with something pointedly *not* a high-value program i.e. don’t watch episodes of “Game of Thrones” or Vikings or anything; watch something like “Puppy Bowl XIV” or The Fireplace Channel or something equally empty.
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Hit the advertisers in the pocket book!
There are lists out there of advertisers on the NFL, but these three are prominent drinks and eats.
Roger Goodell has evidently never learned the First Rule of Holes.
I have a full day of programming scheduled. “13 hours”, “American Sniper”, “Lone Survivor”, “We Were Soldiers”, “The Pacific”.
Not at all interested in the Sh*thole Bowl or anything that has anything to do with it.
That's been reserved for the halftime thugs and sluts.
I missed it last year (for the first time in decades). I’m going to skip it again this year. Screw them.
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