Raiders at Redskins 9/24/17
According to Deadline.com, “There are three weeks left until the National Football League starts its regular season, and no resolution is in sight to the ongoing dispute over how players should conduct themselves during the playing of the national anthem.” Negotiations are ongoing, but it doesn’t look like Roger Goodall, the current NFL commissioner, has the stomach to staunch the protests which continue to cause a public relations problem.
It’s too early to see what impact the ongoing “protests” will have on ratings, but the NFL is on the verge of becoming a sports-themed propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. This might make the liberals players and Democrats happy, but the question is, does playing only to the less than 30% of the population who support the radical leftwing agenda behind these protests help their bottom line? In losing fans who may be conservative who just don’t want political agendas served with their sports, regardless of their own politics, will the NFL pick up more new fans as replacements?
Comment below, what do you think of these protests and has it made you more likely or less likely to watch the NFL this season?
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So sad to watch anything die a slow death, but when it’s self-inflicted you want to hurry the process along.
I am perfectly content to live the rest of my life without watching another NFL game. And I’m tired of the worn out line about the player’s right to protest. Really? If I repeatedly show up for work and stage a protest in front of the building and, in the process, bring negative publicity to my employer, I would probably get fired. Why should pro football players be any different? They have a hundred and one ways to stage a protest in support of their particular cause. When it comes to staging a protest, they don’t have a clue because most people don’t even understand what it is they are protesting. What they don’t seem to understand is that there are many proper times and places to stage a protest. To do it during the playing of our National Anthem is just plain stupid. Not only does it do nothing to further their cause, it alienates the majority of the very people they are trying to persuade.
No way will I boycott them down the road. I started that when the first ones started kneeling!!! Though I have watched many members of my favorite college team go on to become NFLers, I write them off when they graduate and do not watch them in the NFL. To me the NFL is dead. I hope it goes bankrupt and goes the way of the USFL and others before it.
Enough is enough,this phony equal justice thing is last straw.
NO race of people have been given more than the black race. Made these ungreatful game players millionaires. Ungrateful bastards.
I fought a war so freedom and liberty remain paramount in the USA and now this phony injustice
Thing takes football from those who served in military. Cry cry cry the blacks way to get what they want. Screw them.
NFL is finished, caused by their own lack of moral character! Each of these over-paid boys should be required to serve in a branch of military readiness for the required length of service at military pay!