Posted on 10/22/2017 8:25:17 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Dallas owner says he has heard from concerned sponsors
The Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who this month said he would bench any of his players who “disrespect the flag” during the national anthem, says that the protest movement is damaging the NFL.
This season dozens of NFL players have knelt during the anthem to highlight racial injustice in the United States. The movement has split the nation, with many perceiving it as disrespectful to military veterans. The NFL’s television ratings are also down, although it is not clear whether this is directly linked to the protests, as TV sports audiences have fallen across America.
“There is no question the league is suffering negative effects from these protests,” Jones said on Sunday.
Jones’s Cowboys are valued at around $5bn, and he said he had heard from concerned sponsors. “Our ability to be substantive is based on having a strong NFL, a league that people are really interested in and want to watch and want to watch the games,” Jones said. “At all times, if I am anything, I am first and foremost a proponent of making the NFL strong. Making us have as many people watching the game as we can and watching in light of what we are doing and that’s playing football. If all this makes you stronger to represent messages, let’s don’t do it in a way that tears down the strength of the NFL.”
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Yep. Some people have very short memories.
The amazing thing to me to this day is that the issue completely fizzled out by the playoffs last year and did not permeate into any other sports. Than it came right back when the new season started complete failure by the nfl to handle this situation. No NBA issues. No college issues. No baseball issues. Just the nfl. So dumb.
Did Jerry take a Mulligan for his kneeling stunt a few weeks ago?
>><<
He wants to but it won’t work.
Agreed. I was always skeptical of Jones’ leadership. But in the current wretched mess, any voice of reason is welcome.
Day late and a dollar short.
But he linked arms with the players and took a knee a fornight ago.
Well, he just lost all credibility. Too late, then.
Jerriiiii... oh Jerriiiiii...
You’re the one who let those whack-jobs hijack you.
Way to go idiot.
Then why was he FOR the kneeling ( pictures don’t lie)
He is not one of the good guys
He chose who’s side he’s on.
He chose the terrorist blm.
He does not care about MAGA.
Didn’t the nfl know their fans were Trump voters?
Just dumb.
Yep. This is not Ron Artest getting into a brawl with a fan in the stands. This is not a bunch of players trying to get an edge through doping. This is a business siding with certain employees who are giving their customers the finger. Damage control after they realize what they’ve done is not going to fix it. I’ll never come back.
Jerry doesn’t miss a trick does he. Of course he was slow to catch on though.
“But he linked arms with the players and took a knee a fornight ago.”
His grandchildren are going to be so mad he lost all that money.
you dont say !
wow... just noticed that did ya Jerry?
lol
It is fun watching the NFL circle the drain because of these disrespectful grandstanding “protests.”
I hope the NFL and Hollywood are in shock that millions and milions of us are turning our backs on them. They think they can spit on our values and there will be no consequences.
Guess again, @holes.
Jones also took money to put on all those NFL events for the military
Screw you NFL and screw you Dallas Cowboys !
See my post 28.
You are correct.
The nfl, its "games", their "scores", the players are ALL totally irrelevant and utterly meaningless.
The nfl has become like the ancient gladiatorial games, the Circus Maximus; the famous gladiators and the charioteers of "renoun" from the ancient Romance Empire.
Their arenas are nothing but crumbling ruins and who can recall or name any of their "famous" gladiators or charioteers? The answer is no one! This is the fate that awaits the once "glorious" nfl:
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is the future that awaits the nfl, and they destroyed it all with their own hands!
ALL THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT IS THE MONEY, THAT IS ALL!
They literally strangled to death their fan base "goose that laid all of their billion dollar nfl solid gold eggs" with their own hands. The goose is permanently dead and they killed it! Now, all too late they want to put Humpty Dumpy back together again and resurrect the goose from the dead.
This is rich, the National Felon League chose to side and kneel with hate America, only blm, sjw, hate whitey, communist anarchists over America and their own nfl fan base and now their fan base has been totally alienated and the very monsters they willingly aligned themselves with have turned on them and are now eating them alive.
All too late the nfl has awoken to the reality that the entire league, has an INCURABLE CASE OF SELF INFLICTED FINANCIAL EBOLA and is hemorrhaging money out of every conceivable orafice to the tune of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A WEEK with no way out and no end in sight.
The once financially lucrative nfl is circling the toilet bowl into obscurity and is quickly becoming totally irrelevant and financially worthless.
We choose to STAND with Americans for America; we choose love of country, we choose patriotism, we choose to "Live Free or Die", rather than "huddle up", "bend the knee" and subjugate ourselves, our families, and our beloved nation to the black racist, socialist, sjw, PC tyranny and perverted ideology of the National Felon League.
They want us to compromise our patriotism, our love of country, flag and nation and symbolically join the NFL in show of rebellious "unity" but "What fellowship does light have with darkness, good with evil (and subjugation for the sake of 'unity')?"
The answer is a resounding NOTHING! We can have no "unity" with those who hate our nation, its flag, its values and with those who despise us.
The anti-American National Felon League has, to quote Admiral Yamato: "awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve".
We are at war; the NFL started this cultural war against US, against America and they are attacking EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR, BELIEVE IN AND HOLD NEAR AND DEAR.
Like WWII, there can not be any, truce, or "compromise" for the sake of their false notion of "unity", no "cessation of hostilities" with the nfl and those who have made themselves our enemies with out a cause.
We Americans who love our county more than any game have now taken up the fight forced upon us by the nfl and like "the greatest generation" we too will settle for only one outcome: NOTHING LESS THAT THEIR TOTAL SURRENDER!
Lots of people won’t go back to watching... the game’s ‘different’ now.
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