Posted on 08/30/2017 8:10:55 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The Squeezing of the NFL
All of this puts the NFL between a rock and a hard place. Even before the 2017 pre-season is over, a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Alabama accused the NFL of racism and announced a pro football "blackout." Two sports bars in Chicago are also boycotting NFL games until Kaepernick gets a job, and the NAACP has threatened a similar boycott.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the TV set, fans are up in arms. In the wake of Cleveland's show of disrespect on August 21, social media lit up. A local VFW post in Strongsville, Ohio (Post #3345) announced that it would no longer show Cleveland Browns games, and Ohio Supreme Court justice Bill O'Neill announced a boycott of the Browns, calling the player protest an attack on the military.
At the end of the day, black players want social change, and fans want football without the anti-America politics. The NFL just wants the problem to go away. It remains to be seen how many teams will join the "disrespect America" protests in 2017, and how many fans will respond with their clickers instead of watching their favorite sport become a political football in America's new culture wars. It also remains to be seen how the NFL will stop hemorrhaging both viewers and advertising revenue.
There's a lot at stake, and it's not just money. One more season of this, and we'll have a better idea of whether professional football in America has crossed the Rubicon. And a better idea of where America's culture wars are heading.
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Packers were named after the ACME Meat Packers. What are you talking about? That wasn’t a public relations move.
The teams are allowing their employees to perform peaceful protests that have no effect to the on-field product. Sure, some fans are offended, but I've had just about enough of people being offended by everything. Free Republic members have been preaching for YEARS how being offended doesn't mean you're right. It usually means you're a wuss. I see no difference here. We are literally talking about grown men taking a knee during the National Anthem. Do I support it? No. But I support their ability to do it. But I also support the owner's ability to fire them over it.
He turned down the offer SF made him, so he was offered a job. And he’s bad for business that’s why the others don’t want him. What is being discussed in this thread is how the NFL, due to their initial capitulation to the leftist social agenda for YEARS now, has painted themselves into a corner.
We’re discussing the article posted. Nobody started this thread to complain about being offended. As conservatives we’re called nazi everyday in the media or social media. I think we have tougher skin.
We’re talking about how the NFL allowed themselves to be in this position by being cowards instead of focusing on FOOTBALL. That’s why they overcharge for tickets and for advertising during their games...FOOTBALL. They, like many corporations, bend over for any leftist social agenda while alienating most of their consumer base. Again, we’re discussing an article.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sponsor
Perhaps you wandered into the wrong forum. FR tends to lean towards factual representation. Thanks for visiting, however.
The biggest NFL stories are not about the athlete's capabilities....the recent NFL stories are about racism, assault & battery, homosexuality, and willful disrespect of our republic. These are not positive and will not generate new fans, enthusiasm, excitement for the game.
Add in the concussion issue (health) and the largest growing youth sport is soccer, it spells trouble for the NFL.
I loved professional football in the 70's & 80's. It was a better product back then. Announcers talk about football, not politics. The men were tough and the matchups were legendary. Players did not switch teams as frequently as today and they were not overpaid entitlement crowd we see today.
I have not watched a game in years, I have better things to do than watch a product that repeatedly insults me. I find the product, the politics, and the NFL revolting.
If the players strike, it’s an inconvenience, if white fans strike it’s the end of the league.
Good suggestion
But this isn’t about a peaceful protest or about police brutality. It is now and always has been about a racist black guy trying to disrespect whitey .
Kaepernick and his girlfriend are racist, militant idiots who gambled and lost.
Best and most succinct statement on this I have seen. Thank you!
If they don’t politicize themselves, just shut up and play football, their problems would clear up.
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