Posted on 08/20/2020 4:40:39 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A backlash against the National Football League’s embrace of “wokeball” is beginning to develop, with over 80 percent of season ticket holders for one team opting out for the upcoming season.
Green Bay Packers team president Mark Murphy made the announcement of the fan exodus over the weekend. He blamed the COVID-19 pandemic for the formerly hardcore fans rejecting the NFL product.
“The fact that that high a percentage of our fans were not comfortable coming to games was a factor that weighed into my thinking,” Murphy said in an interview published Saturday by Packers.com.
Green Bay is typically the NFL’s most rabid fan-base, with a massive annual waiting list for season tickets. This is no longer the case, as football rejects the patriotism that helped build its brand over the years.
“Obviously here in Green Bay, we know how much our home games mean to the local economy and to the local community,” Murphy said. “But at the end of the day the most important thing was protecting the health and safety of our community and our fans.”
Murphy believes that the NFL will be able to hold games with fans in attendance this year. Right now, the National Basketball Association (NBA) is hosting their games in a bubble with virtually no audience due to fears regarding the spread of COVID-19.
“Daily (COVID-19) testing gives us something compared to a bubble,” Murphy said.
Since the death of serial felon drug addict George Floyd spurred an orgy of racialized violence nationwide, the NFL has capitulated to the mob and embraced the anti-white, anti-American ideology of Black Lives Matter.
Big League Politics has reported on the NFL’s plans to play the so-called “Black National Anthem” before games this season:
The National Football League is planning to play what some call the “Black National Anthem” before every Week One game during the 2020 season, a nod to dissatisfaction with the American National Anthem within the league’s player base and the broader liberal social justice movement in the United States.
The league will feature the song ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing,’ playing it in a manner similar to how the Star Spangled Banner is traditionally played at games. Sources indicate that the former will be played before the latter.
NFL players will also be permitted the option of memorializing individuals who are allegedly the victims of police violence, wearing a sticker on their helmets with the names of individuals such as George Floyd.
There’s clearly a considerable demand among the player base and the mainstream media to wholly replace the American national anthem with an alternative suitably focused on racial identity politics, and it’s possible that the Star Spangled Banner could be replaced on a permanent basis with the new addition to NFL games.
As the NFL tunes away from traditionally unifying cultural practices such as the American national anthem in favor of a new racial identitarian approach, the league runs the risk of alienating much of its traditional viewer and fan base, who tire of the growing all-encompassing inclusion of social justice propaganda in every facet of American entertainment and society. However, the league’s leadership appears unconcerned, moving forward with a leftist cultural transformation of the once broadly culturally appealing football league.
The NFL may go on to become the most prominent example of the “get woke, go broke” phenomenon.
That's easier said than done. Affluent society enjoys entertainment, including sports. There is a lot of gambling money at sake.
As long as the society remain affluent, sports will remain popular and athletes well paid.
The wokeness of the NBA and NFL might result in a shift by many to other sports or venues of entertainment. It's unlikely, though, you're going to see athletes in either playing for pocket change unless there is an economic depression.
They NFL can’t breathe! ;)
I went with one of my brothers who was a commercial pilot and one of his friends-an Oneida Indian we called Chief Oshkosh who flew P47s during WW2.
Anyway, we walked around looking at all the WW2 aircraft. Chief got himself half a snoot full-beer, and started talking about getting into one of the P47s and taking off.
We got him to hell out of there. He was actually that nuts and would have tried it.
That was the late 60s or early 70s..
NFL + BLM = DOA
They’ll play it, but no fans will be in the stands to hear it, and it won’t be played on TV. That time is too valuable for commercials.
Thats how cynical and hypocritical Roger Goodell is.
It’s going to be a lot harder to blame the low television ratings on Covid...
Who is paying the NFL to give the finger to its fan base?
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The NFL Players Assoc., which is dominated by black players and leaders.
It’s like schools making decisions about curriculum subject matters based on what is demanded by teachers’ unions.
Hey, if they want to become the WNBA, who are we to stop them?
They are now known as the Washington Engines.
get woke go broke.
Hey N.F.L., M.L.B., N.B.A., Goodyear, ETC.
Get woke, f-you, go broke.
Packers are the only NFL team that is owned by stockholders ...not just one or two persons.. Always has been.
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