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Shock poll: NFL now least liked sport, core fans down 31%
Washington Examiner ^ | October 7, 2017 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/07/2017 7:40:57 AM PDT by Zakeet

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To: apocalypto
...the favorable ratings for the NFL have dropped from 57 percent to 44 percent, and it has the highest unfavorable rating -- 40 percent...

Players are getting the blame but WITHOUT WHITE LIBERAL ELITE OWNERS THIS PROTEST - THIS "GIVING THE FINGER TO THE COUNTRY, FLAG AND NATIONAL ANTHEM" WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.

The NFL Establishment is taking the knee...

61 posted on 10/07/2017 8:43:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black men are 6% of the population - - they murder 42% of all cops killed in the line of duty.)
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To: MrEdd

I’m not talking about the violence in the game, I’m talking about the stupid showboating after every tackle or offensive play over 3 yards. That crap didn’t fly in the seventies, which lead to post-play scuffles.

The whole “I just gotta be me” and “I have to keep it ‘real’” was fostered at the U, and has infested the league. Of course, ESPN aided this by highlighting it.


62 posted on 10/07/2017 8:43:59 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Rebelbase

“The good news is today is college game day”.

I haven’t watched NFL football for about five years except a few playoff games and a couple of Super Bowls.

College ball is much better and hasn’t been spoiled....yet.

Go Sooners!


63 posted on 10/07/2017 8:44:34 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: All

If just one owner would do what Trump suggested and fire every kneeler, that team would become truly America’s team. They could lose every game and sell out every Sunday. And after every game say “We played hard. We lost. But we still love our country.” Then the team runs around the stadium behind what Dale Jr called “That big ol’ flag”.

Just like Texas A&M. They can be 0-9 but the 10th game will be sold out not an empty motel room within 50 miles.


64 posted on 10/07/2017 8:45:59 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Zakeet
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Or the Dallas Cowgirl Pussies!


65 posted on 10/07/2017 8:47:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now, that Trump is kicking their asses, they, e, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
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To: Zakeet

[[Shock poll: NFL now least liked sport, core fans down 31%]]

But do dig your heels in and support your disrespectful black panther/black power anti-American players demonstrating o n the field when they tackle and/or hurt white players NFL- and when they kneel in DISRESPECT for the American flag and our police forces across the nation- it’s such a winning profitable strategy for you- Do keep at it!


66 posted on 10/07/2017 8:47:49 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Alberta's Child
Skip the NFL entirely for two weekends in a row and you’ll look back and wonder why you ever wasted so many hours of your life on useless bullish!t.

True that. Life's too short. I was an NFL fan from 1969 until this season. I shudder to think all I could have accomplished if I had not wasted all those hours watching or otherwise obsessing over the NFL.

67 posted on 10/07/2017 8:50:33 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Zakeet

Surprise,surprise my 4 wheeler runs just fine on Sundays!!


68 posted on 10/07/2017 8:52:44 AM PDT by heshtesh ((New Yorker for Cruz))
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To: MrEdd

You bring back some memories. John Matuszak taking on the Orange Crush comes to mind.


69 posted on 10/07/2017 8:52:45 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

“That’s the craziest thing. A good deal of the personal wealth of each of these owners is tied up in the value of their team. Whatever would have convinced them to universally trash the good will of their loyal customers so?”

They don’t understand why their team has value. They view the sum total of their assets.....team franchise, contracts with players, concession sales, broadcast rights....as the value of their team. They have it completely wrong.

The value of the team is its fans willingness to spend money....a lot of money....on an ongoing basis enjoying watching the team play.

Without this basic understanding, they removed the enjoyment. And so removed any potential growth in revenue. These owners stood with their team in protest. They put the present and future value of their franchises in question.

They should have stood with their fans.

The only true value of a franchise...the fans...have been chased off. They won’t all come back even if they do all the right things from here on.

Dumbasses.


70 posted on 10/07/2017 8:52:51 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: SamAdams76

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hx7Hpyfdbg

Hope this works. GIVE ME BACK SUNDAY by Haley Orrantia


71 posted on 10/07/2017 8:53:31 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Fido969

I’ll never forget the NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart - Clinton’s former press secretary - saying that Trump was the guy out of touch.

NFL spokesman: Trump should know ‘this is what real locker room talk is’

Joe Lockhart, speaking against Trump, called Sunday ‘an important day in the NFL’
Ryan Wilson
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Sep 25, 2017 • 1 min read

NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart said Monday that NFL players who link arms and speak out on social issues represent the best of this country, a direct rebuke of President Trump’s remarks that led to 28 teams protesting in one form or another during Sunday’s slate of games.

“Everyone should know, including the president, that this is what real locker room talk is,” said Lockhart, referencing the Access Hollywood tape that came to light last October in which Trump talked of grabbing women by their genitals and later defending it as “locker room talk.”

It all started when Trump said this at a rally on Friday night: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out. He’s fired. He’s fired!”

Lockhart, a former press secretary for President Clinton, called Sunday’s protests, “an important day in the NFL and we think a good one.”

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-spokesman-trump-should-know-this-is-what-real-locker-room-talk-is/


The never Trumpsters in the media, congress or on Free Republic are never right. They are as wrong as bozo Lockhart was and still is.

Last but not least, they continue to underestimate Trump’s deplorables re backing our our President and smashing his enemies using our $’s as boycotts.


72 posted on 10/07/2017 8:53:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now, that Trump is kicking their asses, they, ___________, want to quit. (Fill in the blank!))
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To: MrEdd

And as for the violence, the NFL did change the rules in 1978, and teams adapted. You don’t see nearly the violence in the league by 1980 that you were seeing in the early to mid 70’s.


73 posted on 10/07/2017 8:54:42 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Zakeet
Correction... we LOVE football, we hate snowflake pampered rich players entertainers insulting our sensibilities on the field, while we pay for it.

Shut up and play football.

Say whatever you want OFF THE FIELD.

74 posted on 10/07/2017 8:55:19 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: apocalypto

And listed. Once on the internet it’s there forever.


75 posted on 10/07/2017 8:59:24 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: Zakeet

The NFL will blame Trump, whites (for being racist for not watching black millionaire felons working for fifteen minutes), conservatives, Rush Limbaugh, the NRA and global warming/climate change for their stupidity.


76 posted on 10/07/2017 9:02:21 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: SamAdams76; All

The only day we can’t have Chick filet A.

Daddy’s cussin’ out the football game.

Momma’s in church just singin’ away.

We sing Amazing Grace.

Just don’t understand why this song isn’t a monster hit. If all of you would pass it around it could become the anti kneelers anthem.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hx7Hpyfdbg


77 posted on 10/07/2017 9:02:35 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Zakeet
Shock poll: NFL now least liked sport, core fans down 31%

The NFL has continuously declined into a league of thugs and miscreants under Goodell.

The owners had better get a commissioner that will clean things up, including banning players who run afoul of the law, and placing players that have past criminal records on "probationary status". Strict adherence to NFL policy, such as respectfully standing for the anthem should be enforced, or the player is immediately disqualified for the game - WITHOUT PAY. Owners in their thirst for championships have turned a blind eye for far too long.

78 posted on 10/07/2017 9:05:41 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Las Vegas Shooter slaughters 58 - Still NOT up to the Clinton Body Count !)
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To: Zakeet

Excellent. The NFL is now unwatchable.


79 posted on 10/07/2017 9:06:42 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

I’m getting my College fix and Roger’s boys can keep on kneeling. IDIOTS


80 posted on 10/07/2017 9:13:57 AM PDT by blackberry1
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