Posted on 08/08/2020 4:07:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Watch for a bump up in claimed injuries by players once the season starts. This way they’ll be fully paid while not playing. Hopefully it kills the league.
I think most of the COVID restrictions are ridiculous, but these guys are smart. Having constant close physical contact with others during the course of your work is not necessarily a good idea.
66 players will likely be followed by more imo. This along with their kneeling and praising BLM, flying BLM flags under or over the US flag, the constant referencing of BLM by the play by play twirps (this is a gimme) and the lack of energy without attendance should seal their fate.
I’m not interested enough to find how many are white, but it would be an easy way for them to avoid the BLM pressure to kneel without looking like their disrespecting the flag and anthem. After that quarter back was allowed by his teammates to be injured when he didn’t kneel last year, they know it can be dangerous to disagree.
Now they can kneel all the time.
The author doesn’t mention the colors of the players, so why you bring it up is beyond me.
They should just cancel the season without pay. They are nonessential workers, and no one wants to watch a bunch of kneeling crybabies anyway.
Ditto for all sports, is anyone really even watching Baseball or Basketball?
If teachers can get paid for not showing up...
BOYCOTT THE NFL!
Good, let them collect the 600$ a week instead. Football is a declining sport anyhow.
I have yet to watch or listen to any MLB but do check the Covid cancellations. Theyre up to 21 cancelled games. With ratings crashing and MLBs blm self inflicted wound, youd think ownership would write off this season. These players who are opting out, are they locked up, hiding at home? Are they really that terrified of the sniffles? Someone should explain to these brainiacs that the virus doesnt age you fifty years which would make having it dangerous.
Oh no! Who will kneel during the national anthem now?
I think the mentality of these players is no different than the people that took advantage of $600 p/w unemployment. Why work when you can whine Covid, stay home and collect.
Covid is the new “the dog ate my homework” excuse for wriggling out of just about anything.
Funny how the Kraft team has the most. Any connection to whom is buddy with?
These players will not receive their full salary for 2020 if they dont play. I believe they will get a $150,000 payment that is an advance against their 2021 salary.
Those who refuse to play dont pay
“They are nonessential workers, and no one wants to watch a bunch of kneeling crybabies anyway.”
The FR Sunday NFL thread would cry over that.
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