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.
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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.
32 owners recently voted to renew Goodell’s contract ... 44 million ... I’m baffled.
Good read
I will continue to post this until I see it reported in the NY Times, WaPo, and on NBC, and CNN
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Letter to the NFL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcFR_uQwiw&feature=emb_logo
NFL = No Fans Left
In Joe Biden’s America, watching politicized games will be mandatory.
NFL’s social justice experiment is no touchdown.
Biggest FUMBLE in history.
The billionaire class is largely anti-American. There may be exceptions, but that observation is mostly true.
The billionaire class certainly is not interested in sacrificing their wealth and power, but they have no hesitation in sacrificing your job and your rights.
When are these jackasses going to realize that they are being paid big bucks to play football, not for political demonstration? They are ruining professional football for all but the weak-minded who continue to go to the games.
Antwon Rose II
What is it with people calling themselves II rather than Jr.
Apparently they don’t know the difference and think II sounds better?
Roger Goodell and the NFL can kiss my ass and go to hell.
Don’t watch anymore.
It’s probably for the best. The suffering won’t last as long as the death spiral accelerates.
I saw them linking arms and looking so thoughtful before the Browns game. Then I shut it off. A bunch of dumbass fools. If it wasn’t for the NFL, they’d most likely be in prison.
You know when the NFL will get the message?
When a marquee player who stands for the national anthem walks out into the middle of the field, lays down his helmet, removes his jersey and drops it beside the helmet, then announces he quits.
After that the NFL might begin to get the drift.
32 owners recently voted to renew Goodell’s contract ... 44 million ... I’m baffled.”
The short sighted idiot owners had the way out of this mess in their hands. They could have blamed Goodell for botching the whole kneeling thing and sent him and his woke staff packing instead, they renewed and gave him a huge signing bonus. Idiots.
It’s that “We wuz Kangz!” thang.
King Antwon Rose II sounds more serious than King Antwon Rose Junior.
BLM version of Fantasy Football...
Will the law-abiding ever get tired of highly-paid black athletes spitting in their faces and flacking for deceased black felons and black impunity? I have my doubts. We put up with it from showbiz people, so this is just left-wing crap migrating from showbiz to spectator sports which, when you think about it, is just another form of showbiz. The ratings will go down somewhat, but people will keep watching. It’s not as if athletic scumbaggery was ever a deep, dark secret. But for many, these people are now no longer on a pedestal to be worshiped as living gods, and that is a positive development.
I don’t think that means he had the same name as his father. Henry Ford II was the grandson of Henry Ford. It’s not the same as junior.
What the NFL needs is a lot more people like Villanueva...
Now we don’t.
We don’t need any politics period either good or bad. If you allow one side then you allow bot sides and so on.
They all need to just STFU and play the game.
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