Given that the average NFL fan is much closer to Trump’s demo than Hillary’s, what the players, owners and League are doing is a really dumb strategy.
Their calculation is that media and black employee backlash would be worse than that from some customers, so they sided with the employees - for now. Then you have craven idiots like JJ last night who tried to split the baby and look like even bigger fools.
They don’t care about the fans or money.
They care about, what Tom Wolfe called, status-spheres. People live in their own sphere and they gain or lose status within that sphere. To the New York CEOs and their top execs, the Trump voters are a mystery. They have no idea how Hillary lost (neither does she).
They know about getting awards for their latest PC culture adventure. They know - as all elites do - that we have an open borders, no borders, global economy and the only threat they face is ‘global warming’ and fear their various maids and nannies might get deported by Trump.
They DON’T CARE about the public or their customers.
If it were just about making a buck, why aren’t there multiple conservative news channels on the air?
The actual strategy is this:
Hillary lost. Why? NATIONALISM.
Nationalism - love of the US of A cannot be allowed. We need Americans to hate their country so they’ll give in to open borders and one world government.
How to do that? Attack the history and the heroes. Take down Washington and Jefferson. Apologize for our winning various wars. We are evil white invaders and who are we to have borders or have any pride in our country?
The NFL protests are just part of dividing and conquering the country and attempting to rob us of our most cherished symbols.
Look at a good portion of the country now backing the bashing of our flag and anthem. They’re ready to be invaded by illegals or ‘refugees’ or anyone else because they’ve been lied to about the founding of our country and what we stand for in the world.
/rant