Posted on 08/20/2020 4:40:39 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A backlash against the National Football League’s embrace of “wokeball” is beginning to develop, with over 80 percent of season ticket holders for one team opting out for the upcoming season.
Green Bay Packers team president Mark Murphy made the announcement of the fan exodus over the weekend. He blamed the COVID-19 pandemic for the formerly hardcore fans rejecting the NFL product.
“The fact that that high a percentage of our fans were not comfortable coming to games was a factor that weighed into my thinking,” Murphy said in an interview published Saturday by Packers.com.
Green Bay is typically the NFL’s most rabid fan-base, with a massive annual waiting list for season tickets. This is no longer the case, as football rejects the patriotism that helped build its brand over the years.
“Obviously here in Green Bay, we know how much our home games mean to the local economy and to the local community,” Murphy said. “But at the end of the day the most important thing was protecting the health and safety of our community and our fans.”
Murphy believes that the NFL will be able to hold games with fans in attendance this year. Right now, the National Basketball Association (NBA) is hosting their games in a bubble with virtually no audience due to fears regarding the spread of COVID-19.
“Daily (COVID-19) testing gives us something compared to a bubble,” Murphy said.
Since the death of serial felon drug addict George Floyd spurred an orgy of racialized violence nationwide, the NFL has capitulated to the mob and embraced the anti-white, anti-American ideology of Black Lives Matter.
Big League Politics has reported on the NFL’s plans to play the so-called “Black National Anthem” before games this season:
The National Football League is planning to play what some call the “Black National Anthem” before every Week One game during the 2020 season, a nod to dissatisfaction with the American National Anthem within the league’s player base and the broader liberal social justice movement in the United States.
The league will feature the song ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing,’ playing it in a manner similar to how the Star Spangled Banner is traditionally played at games. Sources indicate that the former will be played before the latter.
NFL players will also be permitted the option of memorializing individuals who are allegedly the victims of police violence, wearing a sticker on their helmets with the names of individuals such as George Floyd.
There’s clearly a considerable demand among the player base and the mainstream media to wholly replace the American national anthem with an alternative suitably focused on racial identity politics, and it’s possible that the Star Spangled Banner could be replaced on a permanent basis with the new addition to NFL games.
As the NFL tunes away from traditionally unifying cultural practices such as the American national anthem in favor of a new racial identitarian approach, the league runs the risk of alienating much of its traditional viewer and fan base, who tire of the growing all-encompassing inclusion of social justice propaganda in every facet of American entertainment and society. However, the league’s leadership appears unconcerned, moving forward with a leftist cultural transformation of the once broadly culturally appealing football league.
The NFL may go on to become the most prominent example of the “get woke, go broke” phenomenon.
Happy its up there
Disappointed its not almost 100%
The golden goose is on life support...
NFL really is done. Died of a self inflected wound.
My friend here in Minneapolistan has had season tickets forever. He said he will not be going now for two reasons.
1. Kneeling. Screw dat.
2. It’s not safe to go into the occupied territory of Minneapolistan anymore.
It’s quite amazing that a mega business like the NFL has decided to shoot itself in the foot. The problem for them is that the foot happens to be a vital organ.
I have been a lifelong Packer fan. I mean, I wached the Ice Bowl as a kid. I have organized my professional schedule around the Packer season games. As of this year, after they have gone all-in on the Antifa-BLM, I now want absolutely nothing to do with the team or the NFL.
I’m takin’ a knee on the NFL.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, blame the flu bug, Murph. I give The Team Formerly Known As The Redskins about one more season before Little Lord Danny is forced to sell controlling interest in the team. And about two more before they either implode, pull an Irsay and move in the middle of the night to a smaller, ‘woke’ market (Portland, anyone?), or do a reverse AFL and join The Rock’s Showboat League. Whatever the outcome, Roger Goodell found a way to destoy an almost century old franchise, and crapped on George Preston Marshall’s tombstone in the process.
None are so blind as those who will not see. Looks like when COVID-19 ends, so will the NFL.
Fixed.
Even if this is the real reason for the drop, I’m reminded of the old saying about the road to hell...
Idiots.
Owners are catering to their stars. If they can't field a team, they can't make money.
America needs to end its obsession with sports. Make those players go back on the field for pocket change while holding down a job somewhere else.
Goodell’s dad was a liberal NY GOP senator
His son is Stalin in comparison
I wonder how these kneeling players will feel after their salaries are cut by 70%.
And yet far too many, even here on FR, will rush back to them after the kneeling story disappears. Like an addict to a fix, or a battered wife with Stockholm Syndrome, they will run back to their dealers and abusers, claiming that all is now well.
Many of them played football extensively in high school or college. I present them as exhibit A that football causes brain damage.
“...as football rejects the patriotism that helped build its brand over the years.“
Ehh... No.
“as football rejects the country that helped build its brand over the years.”
Its BS
Most of the stadium are open air (not enclosed)
Tailgating outdoors was fun
Rooting for your team without prejudice was
fun and was a great way to relax and forget troubles
Now
No one with any self respect is paying a dime to
militant racists who crap on them with all
kinds of agitprop
No one with any self respect is paying a dime to
teams who would make them wear a mask outdoors
“it’s possible that the Star Spangled Banner could be replaced on a permanent basis”
Baseless laughable BS.
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