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Flags are blowing in the direction of social change, so the money-driven NFL appears to be following
Yahoo ^ | June 6, 2020 | Dan Wetzel

Posted on 06/06/2020 3:52:37 PM PDT by C19fan

The NFL rarely does a damn thing unless it can profit off of it. This is a league, after all, that once charged the Department of Defense $5 million to stage patriotic tributes to soldiers during timeouts. And while no one is questioning that it was opposed to breast cancer when it made the players add pink to their uniforms, the benefits of marketing the sport to women was lost on no one. You have to appreciate the hustle. These team owners didn’t get that rich by accident. So on Friday afternoon, when Roger Goodell, commissioner of a league that is unapologetically about cutthroats and bottom lines, actually released an apology video for not supporting the players, including during past protests that adversely affected revenue, it was no normal corporate statement.

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Not one cent from me.
1 posted on 06/06/2020 3:52:37 PM PDT by C19fan
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The NFL is going to be wiped out by chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and it’s only a matter of time. They can spend the rest of their days virtue signaling and it won’t change the endpoint.


2 posted on 06/06/2020 3:55:27 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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Nor I.

Last season I was starting to ease up on the NFL Snowflakes, but as of now, all bets are off. I have had it with all of these Virtue Signaling A$$holes and their cheap shiite. They can take a knee and kiss my Marine Corps A$$.


3 posted on 06/06/2020 3:56:26 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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Been dead to me since Jim Brown retired ...


4 posted on 06/06/2020 3:56:46 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Steely Tom

My new word for the day! YIPPEE!!!


5 posted on 06/06/2020 3:59:38 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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A man and a real running back.
6 posted on 06/06/2020 4:00:02 PM PDT by Fungi
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The NFL is dead it just doesnt k ow it yet.


7 posted on 06/06/2020 4:00:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Fungi

A fallen world. Right and wrong gone out the window for moral relativism.


8 posted on 06/06/2020 4:00:51 PM PDT by wolfman
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I’ve moved on from the NFL a few years ago.

Who whats to give the stage to a bunch of low IQed clowns that hate the USA and whitey?

We need to tell all our friends to make sure they’re not feeding these POS. If large numbers tune out, they will lose money. That will trickle down to the thugs. I hope they go broke.


9 posted on 06/06/2020 4:01:18 PM PDT by boycott
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I guess they don’t mind the fact that that I have only watched 3 NFL games since the whole kneeling fiasco. I hope the Redskins continue to suck so I won’t be tempted.


10 posted on 06/06/2020 4:01:22 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Fungi

Jim Brown used to park in front of an easrside high school and lure girls into his car.

But his only arrest, iirc, was for beating up a prostitute.


11 posted on 06/06/2020 4:02:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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The winds of social change are blowing, but they are blowing in a direction the author won’t like.


12 posted on 06/06/2020 4:04:58 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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People are going to be kneeling everywhere.
You won’t get in the stadium unless you are on your knees.


13 posted on 06/06/2020 4:07:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Riiiiight...because pissing off your fan base has always worked so well in the past.
Remember all the empty seats?


14 posted on 06/06/2020 4:12:05 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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Did not renew 2020 tix due to Chi-Com Virus. Now, with the NFL submitting to Antifa, it will be a coons age before renewal.

BTW: “Coons Age” is not racist!


15 posted on 06/06/2020 4:12:52 PM PDT by MCEscherHammer
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They’ve chosen poorly.


16 posted on 06/06/2020 4:13:07 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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Yahooo sucks. I cancelled my NFL package because of Kapernickmuslimfraud


17 posted on 06/06/2020 4:16:12 PM PDT by bewildered
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Same here. NO. Colin Kaepernick was not redeemed by this. He was not peacefully demonstrating. The bastard was in my living room. If he and others want to do that and the league is now fine with it, great. It just doesn’t happen in my living room.


18 posted on 06/06/2020 4:21:06 PM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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If you are still going to watch the kneeling felons league after this, you are an idiot. (stronger language redacted)


19 posted on 06/06/2020 4:24:47 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: marktwain

My favorite shot of the last Super Bowl. They Lost. Take a close look. No more NFL for me. Keep the military out of it too.

20 posted on 06/06/2020 4:30:29 PM PDT by Loud Mime ("Now, go and do your duty before darkness covers the earth." Michael Uhlmann (1939 - 2019))
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