Posted on 06/15/2018 10:21:22 AM PDT by iowamark
Rush was just talking about this essay on the NFL.
The NFL should not be afraid of who is President. They should be afraid of losing paying customers (aka fans). Without the Fans the NFL can not exist...
Yup. Just heard it.
I've already quit the NFL for life...anyway.
If anything, this national anthem charade demonstrates just how dumb those players are. They'll make a huge deal over something as inconsequential in their lives as "Black Lives Matter" and standing for the national anthem before a football game ... while at the same time their union leadership negotiates collective bargaining agreements with the owners that have long been the worst in pro sports.
The NFL owners are just biding their time for now. When the CBA expires in 2020, a very clear provision is going to be written into the new agreement that explicitly lays out the rules for player conduct during the national anthem.
NFL = No F*****g Loyalty
Yes, I agree! They can all protest themselves to the poor house!
This is the type of leftism that works so well for Trump. Yeah, black NFL players are the victims here, right. Cue the tiny violins . . .
Just not that into it anymore.
One thing is certain, the NFL believes Convenience Store Clerks lives DO NOT MATTER!
They had best fear their customers, the fans, from whence their money comes................
I think what the owners fear now is that they bought a franchise for X-amount, and there’s no way that the price paid five years ago or even 20 years ago....would work in today’s environment.
Lipsyte is the absolute worst. He is Eugene Robinson, Mo Dowd, Mike Lupica and Nancy Pelosi constantly trashing the very subject he is ostensibly paid to write about. He is the epitome of NY conceit and disdain for anything west of Manhattan.
When the CBA expires in 2020, a very clear provision is going to be written into the new
agreement that explicitly lays out the rules for player conduct during the national anthem.
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All they have to do is copy the NBA rule. It is very specific as to the
National Anthem and how the players/coaches/etc are to respond.
It’s all about their upcoming CBA. They fear the NFLPA more than their fans.
All articles about Trump and the NFL are dumb.
It is the fans vs the NFL owners.
If the NFL owners don’t figure it out their billions will turn into dust.
And if most of these players weren’t on that field every Sunday what would they be doing? Coaching highschool football? Yeah, I’m sure that pays the millions they need to buy their mansions and parties. Without the NFL it would be welcome to the real world for most of them so they’d be just working stiffs like the rest of us. They can kneel during the national anthems in their work cubes...
College ball starts in a little more than two months.
“And if most of these players weren’t on that field every Sunday what would they be doing?”
Time.
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