Posted on 10/17/2017 6:51:12 AM PDT by Jagermonster
UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER Sometimes sports become a venue for overcoming racial tensions. Amid anthem protests, pro football has a high-profile opportunity.
Minutes before kickoff for the first round of Sundays football games, the National Football League website carried two unusual features.
Below the usual fare of game-day predictions and fantasy matchups were slideshows of Baltimore players visiting schools with Baltimore police and of Miami Dolphins and the league commissioner doing the same with police in their city.
It was a jarring bit of social activism for a sports league site on game day. The slideshows are the NFLs tentative steps to try to solve its anthem problem. Team owners want black players to stop kneeling during the playing of the national anthem, which has drawn the ire of the president, angered many fans, and threatens to turn off sponsors and advertisers. Theyre also leery of alienating activist players, who have been protesting police treatment of African-Americans.
Its a tough challenge, say both industry analysts and sports-and-society experts. Still, if the league and players can work together to find the right message, it would offer a unique moment when sports could help bridge Americas racial divide.
On Tuesday, NFL owners gathering in New York for their two-day annual meeting will consider what to do.
There will be genuine, interesting, positive possibilities, says Paul Haagen, co-director of the Center for Sports Law and Policy at Duke University. If [the players] have that credibility and the league will work with them, then you greatly increase the chances that there is a way out of this.
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They were so silent when Obama was President. Why NOW? (we all know the anmswer). Pure BS.
I don't know... the Hollywood crowd manages to remain extremely wealthy despite the fact that half the country despises them. Perhaps the NFL figures they can go the same route.
Like the Hollywood crowd has learned to do, the NFL folks can buy politicians, get favors in return and gin up more support with the liberal half of the country by "embracing" liberal causes.
“I think this is bigger than just the NFL. Sports broadcasting is a major reason why people keep paying their cable TV bill.
Once they drive a new demographic group into the cord cutter camp the major media companies will have a hard time getting them back.”
My husband is in upper management at a large cable company. They fear exactly what you have stated above.
What owner wants a locker room drama queen distracting his team?
Nobody bothered to tell them that the race card expired on 1/20/09 and is non-renewable!
I suspect so. With the issue of concussions and other injuries, a lot of folks were already wondering if their boys should play football. Now that the thugs are writing the rules, it's another reason to stay away. What parent wants to participate and/or watch law-abiding, decent, patriotic people bullied by thugs?
“I predict the NFL is going to become more gay and effeminate than it already was.”
Maybe the players will wear swimwear like the WFL. Think 300 pound guys in speedos will sell?
Like when everyone used to stand at attention together for the National Anthem?
You can say the same thing about Hollywood but they survive.
Big difference between Hollywood and the NFL. Hollywood can still make a lot of money overseas, and despite their attempts to try to spread the game globally, the NFL is failing at it.
Like when you didn’t have to hear about NFL players being arrested every day.
Me thinks some racist players are purposely injuring quarterbacks in hope of getting Colin a job.
It seems to work OK for Hollywood. Admittedly Hollywood is not the real world, but it still works for them and they literally detest their customers as knuckle dragging fools.
Neither are doing as well as they have previously.
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