CNN’s theory is full of baloney, as everyone here knows. No one in the past stopped watching the game because some famous quarterback (pick one) retired. No one ever ceased watching because a player was suspended. I didn’t stop watching when Namath retired or when Bradshaw retired. CNN is, as usual, full of it.
The cultural marxists keep pushing the envelope. They are now attacking the National Anthem, the flag, the founding fathers, and everything that made America into the great nation, with all its flaws and all, that it was, and still could be again. Kaepernick is just one of their tools, and what’s sad is seeing so many people living in this country where opportunity still does abound if you apply yourself, expressing so much hate for their country. Well, maybe it really isn’t their country. If they hate it so much, then they should do as people in countries with real oppressive regimes always do, and emigrate.
Well, I stepped away around comment #51 and the thread has found a second wind since then. Turned on the Raiders vs. Titans game beginning and several players did raise their fist during the national anthem.
I’m not hoping for the demise of the NFL, but I am hoping for a 10% - 15% drop in TV viewership all season long. All big businesses, including the NFL, are geared for a growth in customers and revenue every year. A failure to grow customers is panic time and that’s what I’m hoping will knock some sense into the owner’s who tolerate and even praise this self-absorbed and unpatriotic nonsense.