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Actually, it’s both.
Bullshit! It's disrespect! Period!
And, Jared Mack, on Fox Business this morning, asked why people even "care" that these players kneel! He just wants it to go away. Idiot!
BOYCOTT THE NFL!!!...FOREVER!!!
I’m really not a sports fan but I’d have to say, at least as far as the Redskins are concerned, it’s a poor product. As far as players not respecting our National Anthem, I’d have to say disrespect.
We used to watch because some of these guys were REAL athletes, and our heros. Now it’s just a bunch of mean black guys doing silly dances in the endzone and talkin’ jive. The “culture” has changed, it doesn’t represent a culture I want to be associated with so professional football no longer interests me. (Doesn’t have anything to do with the flag thing for me).
It’s both.
I am willing to bet that tonight’s ratings will be the best of the year.
Everyone in New England will be watching. Everyone else will watch to see if the Pats lose.
As a former life long Saints fan, I have put up with, stomached and otherwise endured a piss poor product for a long damn time, and was still prepared to do so until my death.
However, I will not tolerate disrespect to my country and my flag AT ALL.
Thus I have said goodbye to the detestable New Orleans Taints and the NFL, and there’s no going back.
If the league has become too quarterback-centric, then a) give the defensive backs more leeway and cut back on the pass interference calls; and b) go back to traditional blocking that is very different from today’s holding (which is basically allowed as long as the blocker’s arms do not get around the outside of the defensive man’s shoulders). I don’t know when the rules for blocking (or was it just the enforcement?) got loosened up (in the seventies?) but I think it has had a big impact. But the league wants high scores which you can only get if the quarterbacks have enough time.
Let’s see them disrespect openly and stop lying about this being about black being killed by police
The NFL’s problem is over-saturation and over-pricing.
They are confused (or lying). Former NFL fans now watch college football, and betting has shifted with their viewing; the shocking rudeness of protesting our anthem is a major reason why they have shifted to college, not just a coincidence.
On those rare occasions I do watch sports on TV, I am not looking to watch some smug Leftwing political crap. Nor would I even want to watch political statements of any kind, even one’s I agree with...at those times I just want to watch sports and forget about that kind of thing for a while. Thus, none of the rare occasions will I ever be watching the NFL or even ESPN....unless at some future time they stop mixing that kind of crap into their product.
The product is getting lamer, it’s true, but to act like the disrespect isn’t having an impact is ludicrous.
In essence that disrespects me, my brothers in arms and all those great Americans that served before me.
I can't believe a guy they pay millions of dollars to be their commissioner has zero clue who his paying fan base is.
1. The loss of exciting, popular players due to season-ending injuries. Deshaun Watson, Carson Wentz, and several others excited fans when they were playing. And there are doubts that the Packers will allow Aaron Rodgers to play again this season, too.
2. A number of historically good teams doing badly this season, especially the Giants and Broncos.
3. Who wants to watch the game at the stadium when the TV product is so much better?
Please telling yourself that nonsense and keep saying it as the first team files for bankruptcy then the next then the next and so on.
A ripple effect from the leftist commie Globe that the author cites, an article designed to water down the elephant in the room, and that elephant’s name is disrespect.
NFL no more.
I can get some football from College games, instead.
All about disrespect.
Wrong. Im a 48 yr old lifelong fanatic. I intentionally stayed away the past 2 years. My dad, brother and 2 sons have done the same.
The problem with the NFL are players that are childish, narcissistic, thin skinned and ungrateful.