Posted on 10/06/2016 1:59:35 AM PDT by EliRoom8
However, one factor that appears to be making a large dent in the ratings and continuing to grow is the backlash resulting from the 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick sitting or kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against African-Americans. A percentage of fans are now boycotting the NFL in reaction to Kaepernick’s protests and/or the lack of discipline from the league offices resulting from them. It’s likely that a sizable chunk of the rating decline is due to fans swiftly and decisively responding to Kaepernick’s growing protests by turning the games off entirely
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Liberals RUIN Everythi ng they touch!
Tell them to ask Target what it feels like to bleed money.
Amen!
Got that, NFL? Either deal either with these attention whores or a continued fan exodus. Your call.
Also... telling an employee to stand while in uniform for the National Anthem is NOT a violation of his First Amendment rights. What he does off-duty is his prerogative, but in uniform, he represents the NFL in general and his team in particular.
Kapernick = the most expensive player in NFL history.
In truth, it is the commissioner who is to blame, for not sanctioning that disloyal twerp.
Time for a new commissioner, before he wastes all of the owner’s investments.
That is the design-—to destroy all American Traditions and emasculate and hyper-sexualize young boys so they remain puerile and unable to commit to “the Other” so children remain fatherless and immature and puerile-—which destroys all cultures/future.
They need all Traditions and REASON and Wisdom erased so that the Marxist (psychopathic sodomite elite/ba’al worshippers) can create NEW WORLD ORDER-—new traditions of no families-—massive orgies with children with blood sacrifices for their He/She goat god. They are Lucifereans and radical egalitarianism (complete removal from Reality) is their endgame where Slavery is Freedom and Girls are Boys.
They have to get the MIND CONTROL of everyone-—particularly little boys so they can warp them and sexualize them so they are incapable of maturity..
Deconstruction of EVERYTHING, particularly concept of male/female to create division and hate between male and female to destroy children.....it is pure Marxism.....to infiltrate all the institutions and destroy it from within...they did it to education, all mainline churches, to “health-care, to IRS, Banks (Fed Reserve), all newspapers.......etc. etc.
Without a reversal to Christian Ethics in our “Justice” System, we will collapse. Without Virtue, there is no Freedom possible. Our Justice system only promotes vice which is unconstitutional because it will destroy civil society.(Cicero).
The NFL is experiencing the Trump Effect.
This guy (and others) are right about the declining quality of the game, but they miss the major point - that factor *buttresses* the flight from viewership, it doesn’t much cause it. When I quit watching football this year, I was surprised how little I missed it - of course we’re talking the Bears of 2016, not the Bears of the late 80’s (they’d be tough to give up on).
But that’s the whole point - I’ve been a sports fan all my life; the sports go through ups and downs, as do one’s favorite teams. You stick with ‘em partly out of habit, partly out of loyalty; when the habit’s broken (thank you very much, Kaepernick) and there’s not much to hold your loyalty - poof, there goes TV viewership and there goes ad revenue. The longer it takes Goodell to figure that out, the worse it gets. And I don’t expect much of the leftist sports media, with its head up its collected behind, to ever see it.
Nicely said.
The NFL is in a bind, because if they do ANY sort of restriction - even by way of offering the entirely reasonable “let’s keep politics out of sports, we’re here to play football” - the black players will just go on strike, en masse. Season over.
And everyone knows it, so nobody at the NFL offices does anything, holding their breath that it doesn’t get any worse.
This has the potential to ruin the NFL in a way concussions never did.
I haven’t watched much because of it.
If they let it seep into college sports, it’s over.
Another positive would be the reduction of concussions.
Ban American style football.
As a Miami Dolphins fan, I'm very disappointed to report that the Dolphins began the season as the single worst offender in the entire league, with 4 players kneeling for the anthem in Week 1: Arian Foster, Jelani Jenkins, Kenny Stills and Michael Thomas. Subsequently, they have retained that distinction, with at least 2 players kneeling each of the last 3 weeks (due to some injuries to "ringleaders" such as running back Arian Foster).
For someone like Arian Foster to come to a new team, with a first-year head coach, and immediately start instigating such distracting turmoil, to me is unconscionable.
And for the team ownership (Stephen Ross) and the new Head Coach (Adam Gase) to not merely tolerate, but embrace such behavior is absolutely shameful, and is an alarming sign of weak leadership.
I'm positive that I'd ever see such despicable antics occur on any Don Shula-coached or Joe Robbie-owned Dolphins team, in any era. Shula would sit such players right on the bench, or send them off the field altogether.
This is why it's no surprise to me that the Dolphins have begun the season 1-3, what with such disunity being sown on the team and among fans.
No employee has a right to cost their employer clients and revenue, or damage the company'a brand. Political protests should be done on personal time to avoid such damaging pitfalls.
So I hope that the #BoycottNFL movement becomes stronger and stronger, until the league has no choice but to institute some policies which strongly discourage such disrespect for the nation and its anthem and flag.
Leagues like the NBA apparently already have such policies in place.
NFL fans are some of the most patriotic people in the country, and the players are doing more damage to the league brand with each passing week.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
That’s a very perceptive take - the interesting thing to me will be how the black players react to the reality of the situation - that is, the reality that they’re losing money, and they may end up losing big money.
The league is full of thugs, with an entitlement mentality and an inability to see that ticking off the public eventually affects their pocketbooks. But it also includes a large number of smart individuals who are very insightful, guys with incredible work ethics and solid values. They’ve got to know what’s going on. Whether they decide to push back against the thug element - or even if they actually can - will be intriguing to watch.
It is telling that two of the premier franchises, Pittsburgh and New England, have not had an America hater disrespect the anthem. I give the Colts credit for cutting Cromartie right after he did it. Some teams are doing the right thing.
Goodell works for the team owners who own the league. It’s on them, collectively.
Outstanding. Well said.
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