I hope the nfl goes bankrupt.
They have made their bed.
Next step will be CBS, Fox, NBC and ABC/ESPN will stop talking about anything to do with the anthem and pretend there is no controversy. They might not even show the anthem anymore at all.
All anti-Trump broadcasters. And with a couple of tweets for free, Trump probably just added another $100 million to their losses. If President Trump is anything he is devastatingly economical.
If I want to be entertained and listen to Somebody’s social messaging I can go to a U2 concert...
I wonder what side most Americans are going to be on!
Many great alternate activities, golf, family golf, parks, family cycling, sightseeing, pets, cookouts,....vs.
“Hut, hut, holding, hut hut, off side, hut hut, interference, hut hut, delay of game, hut hut, false start, hut hut encroachment, hut hut personal foul, hut hut aligned in the neutral zone, hut hut time out, hut hut unnecessary roughness, hut hut defense extra man on the field, hut hut pass out of bounds, hut hut NO THANKS.
Many great alternate activities, golf, family golf, parks, family cycling, sightseeing, pets, cookouts,....vs.
“Hut, hut, holding, hut hut, off side, hut hut, interference, hut hut, delay of game, hut hut, false start, hut hut encroachment, hut hut personal foul, hut hut aligned in the neutral zone, hut hut time out, hut hut unnecessary roughness, hut hut defense extra man on the field, hut hut pass out of bounds, hut hut NO THANKS.
Maybe they can hire some egg head from Harvard to connect the dots.
Its a good start
This is all before the thing blew up on them. Give it a week. Maybe even two so they get to see some trending. This is going to be fun to watch.
There players are no more than entertainers — actors.
Now if I am putting on a play and an actor insists on talking about social justice instead of reading the lines I give him, I am going to find a new actor for that part.
If I am putting on MacBeth and he wants to say the lines from Othello, it is bye-bye time for him.
Same with the players here. If the league grew a pair and told them that a patriotic display at the beginning of the game was part of the overall show they would act respectful or give up their huge salaries. I might start to turn on the games again. Our house has not watched a single game this year.
Just wait until sales of Budweiser and pickup trucks tank. The value of the NFL is dropping like a rock.
I hope everyone connected to the NFL winds up flat broke and living in cardboard boxes.
Football will be soon dead anyway because of the brain injury business... good riddance. Take up something gentle and safe, like hockey :-)
NFL has adopted a new business plan that morphs the premier sports organization in the nation into a political advocacy operation. Its consumer base will change and will produce declining revenue. Employees will have to be laid off and salaries reduced. Perhaps most of the current employees will have to be replaced by new staff whose talents are more in line with the new focus of the business. Strong bodies and physical agility are less valuable for political demonstration and advocacy. A percentage of existing employees can be repurposed as bodyguards for the activists and planners.
When they prevented Rush from owing a team was the first sigh something was wrong. I predict the hit baseball took from it’s striking players will be minor in comparison.
As protests rise and tv ratings fail.
It will be tough for them to continue to try to separate these two facts from each other
BTW, while everyone was talking about knees Trump quietly expanded and made permanent the travel ban. Another example of his ability to distract his opponents with bright, shiny objects.
Any corporation involved in virtue signaling must be made to feel the pain.
Trump has done a BRILLIANT job turning over the rocks in this country...