Posted on 09/30/2017 3:03:03 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Like an offensive coordinator attempting to find the right way to break through a defensive line, the NFL has called for a number of plays in its efforts to accommodate both their players who feel compelled to protest during the national anthem and their increasingly angry fans.
These efforts have ranged from having the players stand together with locked arms during the anthem, to keeping players in the locker room until the anthem is over, and even to having the team kneel before – rather than during – the anthem’s playing. However, none of these tactics have been completely successful, as NFL TV ratings continue to be sacked by viewers who are throwing a penalty flag at the protestors.
Now, according to the Charlotte Observer, the NFL may be ready to call a new play in advance of Sunday’s Patriots-Panthers game. And it’s a bit of a Hail Mary.
While it’s uncertain if Carolina Panthers players plan protests during the national anthem during Sunday’s game at New England, there is a chance that television viewers won’t get to see them as they happen.
In other words, if it offends too many people to either stand for the national anthem or see people NOT standing for the anthem, let’s simply not broadcast it at all.
Eric Shanks, the president of Fox Sports, told Newsday’s Neil Best earlier this week that his crews plan to return to “standard procedure” this week for NFL broadcasts. That doesn’t include showing the national anthem live for most games because the network normally airs commercials then.
Shanks left the option open, however.
“So I think we’re going to pay attention to events,” Shanks told Newsday. “… A lot of time is happening between now and then.”
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OMG- just when I thought the nfl couldn’t get any more stupid....maybe they can have strip searches at the gate and confiscate all phones and cameras....hey..that’s it, that’s it!!!!!! Just have a computer generated score at the end of 3 hours....
“In other words, if it offends too many people to either stand for the national anthem or see people NOT standing for the anthem, let’s simply not broadcast it at all. “
if they had done this as soon as Kaepernikism had started to spread last year, it would have been an excellent solution, as the fools wouldn’t have bothered to kneel if they knew no one (except the stadium audience)were going to see them.
I actually have repeatedly called for that. And this “solution” may still work as long as the majority of a team acts properly durning the Anthem so the cameras have something positive to show. On the other hand, too many fans are so pissed off about all this that nothing but going back to ALL players respecting the Anthem as they did before Kaerpernick may appease them.
“I’m pretty sure having their protest rendered completely anonymous by giving it no coverage or time isn’t actually what they want.”
True, and that would have probably would have worked, had it been done at the outset. Simply don’t point the cameras at anyone acting up. It would have still spread by YouTube and other means, but people, I think, would have laughed at it.
But the cat’s out bag now, the media put it IN OUR FACES and now we (at least the vast majority of people here) look at the players completely different. It will be a long, hard, struggle for them to ever get us to only look at them as athletes again.
DO IT FOR OUR TROOPS, POLICE, FIRE, EMTS AND PATRIOTISM!
Abandoned NFL cities have old stadium debt, new outlooks
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/03/31/relocation-oakland-raiders-san-diego-chargers-st-louis-rams/99848210/
Yeah, that’ll work except...
Al Gore invented the internet.
ML/NJ
I’m not watching either way so ... whatever.
There is a compromise. The half hour before opening kickoff, the networks can have players on voicing their protests.
Some will simply stand and turn their backs to the flag.
No. Give the stadiums to the LFL, since those women promise not to kneel.
Not really because the fans in the stands will still see it.
AND THEY WILL STILL BE DOING IT!!
Of the team owners I should have said all of them, not “so many.”
I don't know the name of even one team owner that has denounced the disrespectful stunts toward the flag and national anthem. The owners should be leading the effort to protect the flag and anthem - and they would be if they were courageous leaders that knew right from wrong.
Some of the players early-on reportedly did stand for the anthem, hand over heart, but the ones I have seen on the electric computer seems to have been stampeded by knee-jerk liberal emotion into protesting in some fashion.
I have not watched an NFL game since year before last. But my recent post still stands: “they want to drag their trashy actions uninvited into my living room.”
What “they” want and what they are getting are two different things.
Can’t show the crowds booing the kneelers or chanting USA USA that would be too patriotic. I was at the FSU Wake Forest game today entire crowd stood and most sang the anthem, it was nice to see
I have a better solution. Let’s offer the nauseatingly smug Chris Collingsworth as a human sacrifice to the Gods of White jock guilt.
You may be right, BUT, this is still the perfect opportunity to teach corporate America a lesson.
And the lesson is, just because the Liberals who control the media, academia, and Hollywood, insist that their beliefs and values are the mainstream, and Conservatives are some out of touch fringe group who should be shouted down and ignored, doesn’t make it true.
Corporations think they can engage in endless Liberal virtue signaling, and Conservatives will just say “oh well, that’s the world we live in now, nothing you can do about it”. Actually, that’s the position of the GOPe for 50 years. But it was never the position of Conservative voters.
And in the same way that we went a different route in the last election, and nominated Trump, instead of yet another GOPe candidate, we also have the power to make an example of a corporation that disses us, so that other corporations will take note of our presence and clout.
Army vs Navy game should be interesting.
If I was 30-years younger, that would break my heart...{:-)
If kneel they must, and want a solution that does not anger the fans.......
then......
perhaps they should kneel in every formation for every play... both, the team on offense and the team on defense.
Even for kickoffs and for punts and field goals and extra points... everyone should kneel.
Perhaps the name of the game should be changed too. To something like, “kneel ball”.
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