Liberals RUIN Everythi ng they touch!
Tell them to ask Target what it feels like to bleed money.
Amen!
Got that, NFL? Either deal either with these attention whores or a continued fan exodus. Your call.
Also... telling an employee to stand while in uniform for the National Anthem is NOT a violation of his First Amendment rights. What he does off-duty is his prerogative, but in uniform, he represents the NFL in general and his team in particular.
Kapernick = the most expensive player in NFL history.
In truth, it is the commissioner who is to blame, for not sanctioning that disloyal twerp.
Time for a new commissioner, before he wastes all of the owner’s investments.
The NFL is experiencing the Trump Effect.
This guy (and others) are right about the declining quality of the game, but they miss the major point - that factor *buttresses* the flight from viewership, it doesn’t much cause it. When I quit watching football this year, I was surprised how little I missed it - of course we’re talking the Bears of 2016, not the Bears of the late 80’s (they’d be tough to give up on).
But that’s the whole point - I’ve been a sports fan all my life; the sports go through ups and downs, as do one’s favorite teams. You stick with ‘em partly out of habit, partly out of loyalty; when the habit’s broken (thank you very much, Kaepernick) and there’s not much to hold your loyalty - poof, there goes TV viewership and there goes ad revenue. The longer it takes Goodell to figure that out, the worse it gets. And I don’t expect much of the leftist sports media, with its head up its collected behind, to ever see it.
The NFL is in a bind, because if they do ANY sort of restriction - even by way of offering the entirely reasonable “let’s keep politics out of sports, we’re here to play football” - the black players will just go on strike, en masse. Season over.
And everyone knows it, so nobody at the NFL offices does anything, holding their breath that it doesn’t get any worse.
This has the potential to ruin the NFL in a way concussions never did.
Another positive would be the reduction of concussions.
Ban American style football.
As a Miami Dolphins fan, I'm very disappointed to report that the Dolphins began the season as the single worst offender in the entire league, with 4 players kneeling for the anthem in Week 1: Arian Foster, Jelani Jenkins, Kenny Stills and Michael Thomas. Subsequently, they have retained that distinction, with at least 2 players kneeling each of the last 3 weeks (due to some injuries to "ringleaders" such as running back Arian Foster).
For someone like Arian Foster to come to a new team, with a first-year head coach, and immediately start instigating such distracting turmoil, to me is unconscionable.
And for the team ownership (Stephen Ross) and the new Head Coach (Adam Gase) to not merely tolerate, but embrace such behavior is absolutely shameful, and is an alarming sign of weak leadership.
I'm positive that I'd ever see such despicable antics occur on any Don Shula-coached or Joe Robbie-owned Dolphins team, in any era. Shula would sit such players right on the bench, or send them off the field altogether.
This is why it's no surprise to me that the Dolphins have begun the season 1-3, what with such disunity being sown on the team and among fans.
No employee has a right to cost their employer clients and revenue, or damage the company'a brand. Political protests should be done on personal time to avoid such damaging pitfalls.
So I hope that the #BoycottNFL movement becomes stronger and stronger, until the league has no choice but to institute some policies which strongly discourage such disrespect for the nation and its anthem and flag.
Leagues like the NBA apparently already have such policies in place.
NFL fans are some of the most patriotic people in the country, and the players are doing more damage to the league brand with each passing week.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump!
Goodell can split the loss in revenue between the kneelers and send them a bill.
Cover up wife beating, rapists, do nothing about drugs or othe felony behaviors... But have some ignoramous sit during the national anthem and that gets the fans finally tune out?
The NFL deserves to die, for a lot of reasons... But I find it amusing that this is what finally was too much for its fans.
Two quastions I’d like answered:
1. Why is it that semi- and pretend blacks are more outraged than real blacks?
2) Why are blacks so attracted to Mohammedanism when Mohammedans were responsible for black enslavement?
Just curious.
BTW, all I need to know about the NFL are the scores. And I can get them for free on the internet.
This is great Goodell is an A-hole.
I’m not watching NFL games until the spoiled little rich kids stop insulting my country; how about you?
I love football. But I have not watched an NFL game at all this season, and I won’t watch one for the rest of the season. Pro football has become intolerable. College football, though; now, that is something special, and I watch that with great passion and enjoyment.
The target needs to be the sponsors as well as the NFL. Email, call whatever, express your anger at them subsidizing gangster thug millionaires who hate our nation. Let them know exactly why you will not buy their product and do everything you can to hurt them financially.
BOYCOTT.
Agreed!
What happens when even the circus fails to distract? The natives are restless.