The President shouldn't bull-bait a wealthy league that is easy to resent by you cash-strapped, job-insecure Freepers!
Posted on 09/24/2017 2:36:21 AM PDT by Zakeet
How the NFL responds to Donald Trump’s spit-foaming is hardly a test case for whether the republic will stand. Nevertheless, the league is a maker of manners in this country, so it means something that Commissioner Roger Goodell and others are getting it right, striking the perfect calm but resistant tone in response to Trump's gutter-mouthing, a tone that says, "We're not your personal WrestleMania, and don't use us for your sham body slams." The NFL, faced with whether to play to the basest instincts of the audience, declined. It adhered to civility.
The league is apparently unifying around the notion that, whatever side you may be on in the siege-controversy over NFL players kneeling during the anthem to protest racial injustice, whether you see it as a matter of patriotism, activism or some tangled intersection of the two, it is important to talk about it without calling each other "sons of bitches."
Who knows what Trump’s real gripe is with the NFL. Maybe he’s still angry that owners denied him entry to their club years ago. Or maybe Colin Kaepernick’s mute but unrepentant protest really arouses his spittle. Or maybe he's just creating an "Are you not entertained!" circus-maximus spectacle by bull-baiting a wealthy league that is easy to resent by cash-strapped, job-insecure fans.
Regardless, Trump misreads what Americans love about the NFL.
It's beloved not so much for its violence or crudity, but rather the skill that results in violence averted. It's a game, ultimately, of restraint. As opposed to this ...
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The President shouldn't bull-bait a wealthy league that is easy to resent by you cash-strapped, job-insecure Freepers!
Not For Long
Open disdain for your customer base is a business model doomed to failure.
And still, an underperforming athlete who created a political device, to save an her the hill career, is not getting hired...
Stop having The National Anthem.
“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everyone in the company, from the chairman on now, simply by spending his money elsewhere.”
Words by Sam Walton.
The NFL is finished. The NBA is finished. Go elsewhere and spend your money.
Sally appears to me to be an aggrieved woman.. er.. woman might be the wrong pronoun.
As far as I am concerned every NFL player can take a knee for the anthem. I will choose to spend my time and money else where.
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Partial iist of sponsors:
GMC Trucks, New Era, Proctor and Gamble (Tide), McDonald’s, DirecTv, Nike, Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch), Craftsman, Pepsi, Toyota / Lexus
All Democrats should take a knee and show their true loyalty.
Have the National Anthem before the teams come out.
Or stand there and be part of the disrespect, hell boy.
Agree fully ... and can make do quite well without paying tribute to nfl’s sponsors
Play the National Anthem at high speed, one second.
NFL is a game, the survival of national identity is not. One would think that a Berlin FReeper would have a clue.
Happy diversity kafir.
You just ignored the whole set of circumstances, clue boy.
I will not the snowflakes have no suggestions.
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Another leftist news troll who does not have a clue.
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