Posted on 08/17/2018 1:54:46 PM PDT by Red Badger
ESPN has found a way to keep from being in the middle of any national anthem controversies on their air this year by not putting it on their air.
According to Sara Fischer of Axios.com, ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro said their intention was to not show players doing whatever they may or may not be doing during the song during their Monday Night Football presentations.
We generally have not broadcasted the anthem and I dont think that will change this year. Our plan going into this year is to not broadcast the anthem, Pitaro said. Again that could change. Its unpredictable what could happen in the world but as of now, were not. We have communicated that back to the NFL. They have not asked but as courtesy and good partners we have let them know what our plans are.
Thats one way to avoid the attention, at least until the President decides to start tweeting at ESPN about how unpatriotic they are because he knows it riles up the people he wants riled.
Of course, its also reasonable to wonder whether Pitaro came up with this idea all on his own, or whether it stemmed from conversations with his good partner who very much wants this to go away.
I predicted this about a week after the whole fiasco began, because it is the xhickens#it way out.
attention whores....
Boycotts end. Don’t boycott. Find a new way to waste your time. Let them kneel in empty stadiums because people who can afford tickets are doing something that matters. If you can’t live without football, there is college and high school.
It would seem that the NFL could take this a step further and simply not play the anthem in the stadium as well.
Do what they want, I will not be watching it or any NFL again this year.
It’s the same as putting a piece of duct tape over your check engine light.
Worked for me..............
ESPN siding with the National Felons League?
Sure seems like it.
Not for me. In order to win me back as a fan the NFL will have to make a policy change that says players must stand respectfully for the national anthem.
Bye Bye ESPN.
Won’t be watching anyway so who cares? Mostly spoiled rotten brats chasing a ball calling themselves warriors? heroes?
BSPN? Does anyone watch Monday Night Football since that crappy network took it over? Worship black athlete night football?
Wont be watching ESPN
Wont be watching MNF
Wont be watching cable NFL
Wont be watching NFL
Last year I switched to hockey.
Bought season tickets even.
Overpaid behemoth thugs who would otherwise be pimping out or in prison but now are copping attitude on TV.
Not going to waste my time on that. Hope NFL goes bankrupt and the players have to hock their gold chains.
No NFL Football for me. Hopefully the majority of their viewers follow suit.
I see this two ways a) we will never know who is/is not kneeling and b) it is going to deprive the kneelers of a national audience. Only those in attendance will (maybe) see them kneeling.
ESPN throws black players into the BACK of the bus....refuses to air their grievances
They started doing this last year, for this reason. Guess its just official now
And when you get home from the hockey game, go to hockeyfights.com for a nightcap.
;^)
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