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Jerry Jones Forfeiting Cowboys Reportedly Discussed by Owners over Goodell Saga
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Posted on 11/12/2017 8:45:25 PM PST by TigerClaws

NFL owners have reportedly brought up the idea of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones forfeiting the franchise.

On Sunday, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk cited a league source who said "multiple owners already have been discussing the possibility, which flows from Article VIII of the NFL's Constitution and Bylaws."

One of the sections of the article allows the commissioner to essentially force the forfeiture of a team if the owner "has been or is guilty of conduct detrimental to the welfare of the league or professional football" and a $500,000 fine is deemed "not adequate or sufficient."

Florio granted such a move "would trigger years of litigation" and explained the notion of applying it to Jones specifically "comes from the belief among owners that Jones instigated Papa John's CEO John Schnatter to disparage the NFL, blaming league leadership for ratings declines and, in turn, a reduction in Papa John's revenues."

The news comes after a period of time when Jones' name and the Cowboys were in plenty of NFL headlines.

His team's star running back, Ezekiel Elliott, started his six-game suspension stemming from a domestic violence investigation Sunday during Dallas' 27-7 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. The ongoing case has been litigated throughout the NFL season and will continue to be moving forward.

Jones also weighed in on the notion of players protesting police brutality and racial inequality by kneeling during the national anthem, saying anyone who "disrespects the flag" will not be allowed to play, per Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News.

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported the comments triggered a team meeting.

According to Jeff Darlington of ESPN, Jones didn't even speak with Falcons owner Arthur Blank before Sunday's contest. Clarence E. Hill Jr. and Drew Davison of the Star-Telegram noted Blank—who SportsDay said is the compensation committee chairman for owners who will decide on Roger Goodell's potential contract extension—and Jones "are at odds" regarding the extension.

Hill and Davison said "Jones threatened to sue the league" and "contends that Blank has misled owners about having the unanimous approval of the six-man committee to extend Goodell."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; blm; jerryjones; nfl; nflboycott; rogergoodell
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To: stars & stripes forever

Psalms 97:7
“Worshipers of false idols are confounded...”


41 posted on 11/12/2017 9:32:16 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: PGR88

Goodell is a prog Trojan Horse


42 posted on 11/12/2017 9:32:20 PM PST by Despot of the Delta
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To: TigerClaws
Of course there's always soccer that could replace the NFL. Then we could be just like all the other countries in the UN.

It will be interesting when this happens. Right now there are lots of conservative suburbanites who have hopes for soccer becoming the national sport.

However, when this happens the suburbanites will be pushed to the back of the bus. The best soccer players will not be the intelligent effete elites of the suburbs, but the same brutes that populate the upper echelons of soccer around the world.

Soccer will be king and the "conservative" suburbanites and their offspring will be relegated to college club teams and ultimately the stands.

43 posted on 11/12/2017 9:34:15 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: TigerClaws

League is 75% white.
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FYI:Actually its 60% black.


44 posted on 11/12/2017 9:34:52 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Finalapproach29er

AMEN. GOD keeps His Promises.

PSALM 97:7
Those who worship idols are disgraced—
all who brag about their worthless gods—
for every god must bow to Him.


45 posted on 11/12/2017 9:39:50 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Boomer

“I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to find revenue at the end of this season down 50% or more.”

That can’t happen.

TV deal is in place.

Season tickets are sold.


46 posted on 11/12/2017 9:40:40 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: stars & stripes forever

I agree with your Post 20.


47 posted on 11/12/2017 9:41:23 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Finalapproach29er

Oops. I meant to say 75% black.

According to this it’s 68%:

At the start of the 2014 season, NFL surveys revealed that the league was approximately 68% African-American and about 28% white, with the remaining 4% comprising Asian/Pacific Islander, non-white Hispanics, and those preferring a Mixed Race category.

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If you look though at who actually PLAYS during the games, defenses are usually all black these days. Runnings backs and wide receivers are mostly black. 1/3 of the qbs are black. White guys on the offensive line and tight end. Kickers (punters and FG kickers) are usually white.

Thanks for the correction.


48 posted on 11/12/2017 9:42:11 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws
On Sunday, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk cited a league source who said "multiple owners already have been discussing the possibility [of removing Jerry Jones as owner of the Dallas Cowboys], which flows from Article VIII of the NFL's Constitution and Bylaws."

The NFL Civil War has escalated fast. Can an owner be removed without compensating him?

49 posted on 11/12/2017 9:43:30 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

I would think not!

But here are the by-laws:

https://onlabor.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/co_.pdf


50 posted on 11/12/2017 9:48:17 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: JohnyBoy
"Let the NFL be a lesson to us all: Never let a leftist in your groups. Purge them, drive them out, and spit on them as they flee. They are the great destroyers of institutions and life."

This is the reason we must stop supporting the NFL. Other institutions must see that if you get in bed with the left it's the kiss of death.

51 posted on 11/12/2017 9:55:47 PM PST by precisionshootist
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To: txnativegop

NFL is eating itself. What a glorious day!

YES!   YES!   A thousand times YES!  

The final nail in the pansy-thugs' coffin!


52 posted on 11/12/2017 10:04:47 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Eddie01

“What is even more astonishing are the white mouth breathers locking arm in arm with vile black racists.”
Exactly.


53 posted on 11/12/2017 10:09:53 PM PST by EliRoom8
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To: Blue House Sue

How sickening to see an professing Christian cheer for these “sons of Belial.”


54 posted on 11/12/2017 10:14:15 PM PST by EliRoom8
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To: nickcarraway

Wow, you really don’t get it. The left is thrilled about this. The NFL was one of the last bastions against them. Now they got conservatives, regular people hating it. That’s a total victory for the left.

"The NFL was one of the last bastions against them."    whattabunchacrap.

NFL is a bunch of leftist owners paying leftist thugs to "perform" on leftist networks while promoting leftist ideology.

The deterioration of NFL also means deterioration of ESPN, NBC, CBS, Disney and cable TV in general, which includes CNN and MSNBC.    NFL was already pretty much garbage, so no loss there.

You already admitted you're a leftist, now we know you're ignorant too. No offense.


55 posted on 11/12/2017 10:29:58 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: txnativegop

Yes, it’s a glorious day for the left, who’ve wanted the demise of the NFL for a long time.

It’s really a damn shame. But i boycotted my Broncos today, and wrote the NFL players association a letter explaining why.


56 posted on 11/12/2017 10:43:40 PM PST by moonhawk (My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
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To: TigerClaws

What rubbish

Jerry Jones losing out to Roger?

This writer is high on moon biscuits

Too many libs in the NFL


57 posted on 11/12/2017 10:48:13 PM PST by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: nickcarraway
"The owners aligned with Kraft will fight hard to keep his guy as commissioner. Teams like the sPatriots, the Ravens, the Steeler, and the Seahawks will fight hard for their guy."

Seahawks = knelling hawks. Don't tell my formerly watched, never missed a game, people infected with Truth Deficit Disorder, {A.K.A. lying S.O.B.'s} that Hawks Soar, they don't knell.

850 video's later and still no lawsuit from a certain person, who claimed he was maligned, by Las Vegas police, and was starting a lawsuit. I wonder if he was able to figure out that he would lose big in court?

58 posted on 11/12/2017 11:19:14 PM PST by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s).)
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To: TigerClaws

Make no mistake- they’re protesting the President. If Barack Hussein Dindu were president - this would not be happening past Kaeappernicke


59 posted on 11/13/2017 12:03:57 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: TigerClaws

why do we need the NFL. why not form a new league. at one time there was more then one football league.


60 posted on 11/13/2017 12:27:47 AM PST by PCPOET7
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