Politics and the National Anthem Kneelers League.
Recently Brent Bozell posted an article saying the NFL has rebounded more recently after networks stopped showing the kneelers.
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/l-brent-bozell-iii/brent-bozell-nfl-recovers-kneeling-frenzy
>>The National Football League is back on top of the ratings heap after both conference championship games were so competitive they spilled into overtime. The panic in NFL offices has ended. The bleeding stopped. Everyone knows why, and it's not the powerful high-scoring offenses and the snazzy touchdown celebrations. The NFL put an end to the national anthem kneeling protests. The focus could then return to sports, not silent gestures meant to drive home the leftist argument that we should be deeply ashamed about how America is horribly racist and police officers are a pack of murderers. This controversy drove away viewers on both sides of the debate, the patriotic Americans and the "woke" community. A Media Research Center poll found that 74 percent of likely voters said they were "trying to get away from politics and do not want to be bombarded with partisan political messages" in their sports and entertainment shows.
Maroon 5? I guess they couldn’t get a real band.
Link to Bozell article:
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/l-brent-bozell-iii/brent-bozell-nfl-recovers-kneeling-frenzy
Sports and politics...the champion Red Sox are supposed to meet Trump at the White House but manager Alex Cora isn’t sure he wants to meet DJT and at least one player, Mookie Betts, does not want to go, either.
I believe when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup, goalie Tim Thomas boycotted the Obama White House.
Everything is a political message in the USA today. Nothing is just entertainment.
Just play the game and shut up about oppression - you are the most privileged individuals on the planet.
I’d love to know what a 30 second spot is going for this year....
Hey that's a good idea. Let's get David Allan Coe for halftime.
Heads would explode.
Maybe the “controversy” will draw a few more eyes to the commercials ...
Rumor has it that whiter than wonder bread Maroon 5 will be "taking a knee" mid-performance.
Oooh! How brave! It's gonna be soooo woke! Adam Levine. So brave. So woke.
Not at all...
Who cares about the halftime show? For me it always looks like a worship service for someone else’s religion.
First World problems. Slave descendants are fortunate to live in this country. Their distant cousins fare far worse in this cruel world.
I don’t care!
The NFL can self-destruct without me, because I am not watching and I don’t care!
Did I mention that I don’t care?
"The NFL owners, they only see the bottom line. Let's be frank," he told AFP.
No, YOU be Frank, Vic. :0)
All race all the time. It’s sickening.
Isn’t “Up With People” available?
“Since 2016 the NFL has seen its reputation increasingly challenged after Kaepernick began taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem, a bid to draw attention to racial injustice.”
The only “racial injustice” I see is young blacks are less than 10% of the population, yet commit more than 50% of murders nationwide. I see racial injustice in FBI stats that show the number of white women, some quite elderly, raped by blacks, and zero black women raped by whites. Homie need to clean up his act.
I will have to read the after action reports. The NFL is banned in my home.
Really? Since when? I think you meant LA.
If you want REAL Atlanta sound, ask the Allman Bros to come out of retirement. Or get the Black Crowes. Or Lynyrd Skynyrd. Or .38 Special. Even REM is Georgian.
It was better with “Up With People!”
Maybe they could try something original-—like a good college or high school band?
Let’s see. Super Bowl Halftime, that’s when America goes to the bathroom, freshens up their drink, gets some more spinach dip and wings, takes some of those little hot dogs out to dog in the backyard, and gets back to the game asking, “Did I miss anything?”. “Nope”