Posted on 10/07/2017 7:40:57 AM PDT by Zakeet
The bad behavior started with the University of Miami in the ‘80’s, and this is the culmination of 30 years of the NFL not reining it in.
Viewership has been dropping around 8-10% per week. Ticket sales are being discounted for some stadiums. Some stadiums have an embarrassing number of seats during some games.
Watched the opening Dallas Stars-Vegas Golden Knights hockey game. During the anthem [had the laptop on mute], I did not see one kneeler.
Wonder how long the NFL is going to blame their problem on everything except were the blame belongs?
There is something called denial ... and it ain’t just a river in Egypt.
All of these people think they are doing something righteous ... protesting some unnamed, ill-defined perceived injustice by taking a knee or locking arms or staying inside during the national anthem.
When the packers asked the fans to join them in locking arms, it really brought it home how much the players, owners, and commissioner are out of touch with their former customers.
By the way, I think it is a real possibility that anheiser busch reduces or pulls their ads. The telephone poll they took (which I called in) sounded very serious and not just for show. They said they have 800 veterans working for them and it sounded like they were not happy.
Are they seriously considering Social Justice Month for November as some KneeGroes have demanded?
If they do, I predict that is the final nail in their coffin.
...Wonder how long the NFL is going to blame their problem on everything except were the blame belongs?...
Goodell will soon write the NFL’s “What happened??” Book.
It’s the fault of the Russians, the Macedonians, the internet, and people who voted for Trump.
I’ve never been a person to stare at a full NFL game, unless it was the Patriots playing at their full potential. Now, I don’t even turn it on as background noise.
Great FUBARs In Modern Marketing
1. Our base clientele is lower and middle class, straight working people ... let’s add faggotry to our print and TV ads. What could go wrong?
2. Let’s encourage male perverts to use our ladies restrooms. Run it up the flagpole: we’re socially conscious.
3. Not satisfied with lifestyles of the rich and famous, our minority (80% of the roster) players want to call our patriotic fans racists and thumb their noses at them before games. Sure, why not?
From what I have read, Soros is at the center of this.
No.
Not by a long shot.
The fans let more and more nasty crap go by until it seemed it didn’t matter any more.
And they shed fans every step of the way.
Football is entertainment.
Can a league be entertaining even if it banned identity politics? I think so.
Can a league be entertaining if it engages in identity politics? I think not.
“The names of everyone of those NFL players who took the knee or in some other showed disrespect for this country should be preserved.”
Then, each year, we gather as a group and pull it down.
Good times.
There is no reason for women to be defenseless.
Back inn the seventies both Oakland and Pittsburgh fielded teams that would knock other teams out of the game by intentionally causing injuries.
Late hits, unnecessary roughness, fights.
It was at a point for a while where the men involved should have been jailed. The fans should have demanded it. Their own teams should have demanded it.
The league should have asserted that this rose above the level of things mere league discipline could make right.
Today's crap didn't reach any new high point of disgusting behavior. Rather it just gradually crept up to a point where even people invested in the sport and willing to prostitute their ethics can no longer shoulder the load.
He has his job because he’s doing it as ordered. He is the spokesman for the owners, who run the show. Goodell isn’t in charge of this shit-show, he’s in charge of selling it as best he can. It’s not his fault it’s not selling.
Replace Monica Goodell with Hillary Clinton. Only way to save the NFL.
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I want to see it on national TV. Not just regional, but a nationwide broadcast like MNF. Maybe in a playoff game, but honestly I'd really really like for that to happen THIS weekend.
That's a real good idea, Bennett. Keep doing it.
Pour beer down the drain??? Why?!
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AFTER IT’S BEEN CONSUMED AND PURIFIED, THEN POUR.
I’ve never been a big NFL fan and I’m starting to lose interest in college football. That may be because I cancelled ESPN several years ago. That and it’s become too PC.
Good. It’s past time for the good ole’ US of A to stop idolizing and celebrating a bunch of ghetto illiterate trash by rewarding them for chasing a ball on a field. And, we need to stop wasting money w/similar sports programs in our educational institutions. They’re nearly as bad.
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