Goodell this week said San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick’s protesting of police violence against African-Americans by not standing for the national anthem is not a significant factor in the declining ratings.
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He is an idiot.
The insulting of our country and its flag and national anthem is precisely why I and millions like me, formerly a 50 year fan have turned them off.
Keep whistling past the graveyard as the overpaid players insult your revenue source and dig your graves.
This started when they got rid of Bocephus...that was the beginning of the end. That and the constant anti-gun, politically correct nonsense.
The players and owners will keep quiet, as they are all losing money with this nonsence.
I have been a fan of the 49ers since the year before Joe Montana came out of Notre Dame (I was 11 years old). I was with the team, cheering them on, through the good years, the Championship years, and the bad years.
As an old football dog, I miss the legacy ‘9ers, but still wish my team the best, no matter who is at the helm. Until this year. That has-been Suck-a-d**k, has ruined my ‘9ers, as well as snowflake head coach, front office, and NFL commissioner. For the first time as a football fan, this year, I have not watched one ‘9ers game, nor will I watch any NFL games.
I will not hold my breath that Goodell and/or the 49ers front office, will suddenly realize that the reason this year, more than other years, that so many of us are tuning out the NFL, is precisely because of these ‘protests’.
Not the 3+ hour games, not the over-priced tickets or merchandise, not the laughable reporting (in the booth or on the sidelines), not the horrible officiating and spastic/arbitrary/confusing league punishments of players (and not punishing players), not the Pink, and not even the thuggery of the League. As a fan, while I decried bad calls, bad reporting, thugs, I still watched, for victory, for entertainment, and for escape.
But this is the first year I can remember (and perhaps because it is a presidential election year, and we are more sensitive than ever to ‘politics’ in everything), that I am angry and disappointed that rank politics, racial divisiveness, and moral cowardice both of the 49ers and the NFL in general, have interfered with my football, and have tainted my beloved ‘9ers, perhaps forever.