Posted on 01/16/2018 11:11:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It looks as though NBC's plan to show NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem before the Super Bowl has been foiled. You can blame random chance, player morale, or cosmic justice, but the defilement of our National Anthem before the biggest TV audience of the year is unlikely to happen. Valerie Richardson reports in the Washington Times:
It appears that NFL players are no longer taking a knee during the [N]ational [A]nthem [–] namely[,] because none of the teams with still[] active protesters has qualified for the postseason.
By the end of the regular season, only five teams featured at least one player regularly sitting or kneeling on the sidelines for the anthem: the Seattle Seahawks, the San Francisco 49ers, the Miami Dolphins, the New York Giants[,] and the Oakland Raiders.
None of those franchises made the playoffs, even though four of the five did so in the previous season, leading to speculation about whether the take-a-knee protests wound up dragging down team performance along with TV ratings.
"By their actions, the kneelers brought controversy into the locker rooms, and this kind of distraction is always going to be detrimental to team cohesiveness," said Robert Kuykendall, a spokesman for the conservative corporate watchdog 2ndVote.
I have long struggled to understand why wealthy owners of NFL teams tolerated this affront to the taxpayers who lavishly subsidize their new stadiums, and to their fans who skew male and patriotic. The most plausible theories involve their fear of alienating black players and their desire for acceptance in politically correct high society. But more than anything else – even money, apparently – they want to be winners (that is, owners of winning teams).
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Karma.
Also players dream of the big super bowl play and subsequent marketing bonanza, kneeling during the anthem could cost them big.
Collective bargaining agreement won’t stop owners from declining to renew the troublemakers.
Not only will I NOT be watching this year’s (or any other year’s) Super Bowl, I will also NOT be watching any and all programming that has anything remotely associated with the FNFL or the Super Bowl.
Like NASCAR who decided to embrace not only Hollywood Celebtards and the Environmental dipsticks, the FNFL has lost my support, totally. They will NEVER get it back, either.
I’m ex-Canadian. I love hockey more than NFL and animals who take the knee for this great country.
This is really the big issue for most teams. There is a variety of types in the locker room and this issue probably ripped locker rooms apart. That's why they had to have shows of "unity". Not because they all supported the leftist caus but because the leftist cause was ripping teams apart.
That’s exactly right.
Live hockey is great, unfortunately it doesn’t do well on TV.
That'll be the only one worth watching. If it's anybody else . . . meh. Won't watch.
The only Super Bowl I haven't watched on TV (from 1967* on) was the one I attended.
ML/NJ
* 1966 season
“...any disciplinary action they took would constitute a breach of the collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the NFL Players Association.”
Even if that were true, they could have issued a statement to that effect, and saying that they held the kneelers to be moral lepers.
Won’t watch it anyway
Too little, too late. They’ve already shown their colors. No take backs. I won’t be forgetting so they can count this past viewer out.
If you are going to speak about another Freeper, it is good manners to ping them.
Hockey is great in HD on a big screen. It can be terrible on older smaller sets, though.
I watch games using a projector and a 100” DIY screen. Really great viewing for cheap.
why? did I say anything bad about Impy? What is this? Snitch central?
You called him and other Freepers hypocrites. Yes, I would say that was bad.
No, it is an open forum.
Are the networks still enhancing the movement of the puck by showing the zoom trail?
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