Posted on 09/20/2020 8:05:35 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Anthem protests began in 2016, when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat and later knelt during the anthem, followed by several other players for other teams doing the same thing. It was a significant factor in the 8% plunge in viewership for a league that had previously been seen nationwide as a great unifier.
That ratings plunge continued the next year after the protests expanded in President Trump's first year in office. This time, the plunge was 9.7%.
For years, the NFL was the glue that for generations gave a guy sitting in his game room in East Palestine, Ohio, a deep connection with a guy in a penthouse in Manhattan because of the passion for their teams. Instead, the league became a social justice organization that was no longer holding them together.
Last week, the Steelers played their first game of the season with a social justice message on their helmets. Villanueva, who served three tours in Afghanistan, instead chose to honor a fallen veteran, Alwyn Cashe, who died during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2005.
The rest of the team honored Antwon Rose II on the back of their helmets. Rose, who was black, was shot by a white police officer in June 2018. A jury that included three black jurors found the former suburban Pittsburgh police officer not guilty after deliberating for 3.5 hours.
The young people the league is trying to bring in are more fickle. Older fans are tired of politics infecting everything they do — whether they agree with the sentiments or not, they just want to enjoy a game without being lectured.
What the NFL needs is a lot more people like Villanueva, not for his patriotism but for his willingness to search outside what everyone else thinks he should do.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Which I have never understood.
In the US we are proud we threw off the yoke of Kings.
“If you allow one side then you allow bot sides and so on.”
Are you sure you want to advocate banning American flags because if you allow American flags you have to allow anti-American flags?
This is a better idea: do whatever you can to help make the NFL smaller and insignificant. Soon maybe it can become just a distant, unhappy memory.
It’s my understanding that II is used when a generation is skipped. If you share your grandfather’s name you use II
Since when is the American Flag political? It’s the flag that much of the world reveres. People don’t like what’s toning on? Vote wiser. Don’t blame the American Flag.
Problem is the league (Goodell) and the spineless owners. It’s a business and they have failed miserably at it since the whole Kapernick BS.
It should have been squelched immediately by firing his ass and anyone else who knelt, protested or otherwise. They failed and now it’s just a shxt show.
I’ve already given up on all pro sports and college is getting just as bad just because of the colleges.
Got up early to watch F1...not a thought about football until I saw this article.
Guess I have already moved on.
Antwon was a junior, not a II. His father was the senior.
Some people - even Obama - have the notion that Jr. has the same meaning as II. It doesn’t.
Years ago when multiple generations lived together a baby might be given the name of a grandfather or an uncle. The designation ‘II’ was put after the baby’s name to distinguish the baby from the older relative.
Then you’re right. Had no idea that people were doing that!
But he did have the same name as his father. That's what is so funny about people using the II designation.
Ping
All pro sports are down. How many of you even knew the Stanley Cup games have started? The new Magnum PI reruns did almost as well as hockey and much better than baseball yesterday, although the college game between Louisville and Miami did OK.
http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/2020/09/saturday-tv-ratings-91920.html
More LFL, less NFL. (L=Lingerie)
Heidi Klum for Commish!!
Wow - you type fast. Looks like we were typing at the same time.
I always assumed anyone who used the designation II, rather than Jr., knew the difference. Then Obama was elected and realized some people didn’t and they thought II was a classy way to say junior.
Back when players had real jobs in the off-season.
It’s the ones that use the ‘I’ designation after their names are the ones you have to worry about... :-)
Who would have ever thought that big, tough, football players would turn out to be such cowards?
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