What can save the National Football League?

Guava Cheese Puff | November 6, 2017 | Guava Cheese Puff

[rolling_stone]

nothing they jumped the shark

[SaveFerris]

Yeah, I don’t care to save it either. No offense to OP.

[bkopto]

What can save the NFL? To be frank, more white players. Many more.

[Pollster1]

It used to be that some people watched the NFL mostly because it was "must see TV". You had to watch "the game" to be a part of the week's conversations at work. Those viewers are gone forever. With them will go the viewers who like football for itself but not quite enough to put that many hours into it without the social aspect. The domino effect means some real, diehard football fans will also leave the NFL, to move to something they like less but that keeps them in the social conversations that happen away from the game.

College football is likely to completely replace the NFL as America's spectator sport in the fall and winter, at least for now. With or without the protests creeping into the college game, that will die too. If the money isn't there for pro football, the top athletes will go elsewhere. Soccer? Baseball? I don't know. What I do know is that the NFL has passed the tipping point. It is no longer an entertainment escape from the problems of the week. Death is a slow process for something so large - slow but now inevitable.

[80skid]

Pop Warner

[SuperLuminal]

Perplexity might be cosidered a condition due to being an outright moron.

[JohnG45]

You don’t have a problem with multimillionaire SJWs politicizing the NFL, and disrespecting our nation?

Why are you here?

Hear! Hear!

[JohnG45]

Tony Dungy would be good. A good coach. A good man.

Wasn't he seriously promoting the hiring of Kaepernick by the Houston Texans just this past Sunday on NBC's Sunday Night Football?

Apparently he is part of the problem as well.

[Rockingham]

Hiring Kaepernick for a season — and letting him publicly embarass himself — may now be part of the price for labor peace. Or, to put it another way, putting him on a roster for a year would no doubt be cheaper than continuing the controversy.

[CalTexan]

Screw the NFL!

I can’t wait for all of those players to get a real job like the rest of us.

They are absolutely not entertaining anymore...

[grania]

Even if they get past this, the NFL still has to deal with concussions and other injuries. I could imagine that a lot of retired NFL players will worry about their financial future and start filing lawsuits because of their permanent physical injuries and concussions.

[databoss]

There is a thread here on Freerepublic about the kid debating his “teacher”. That idiot woman has the same ingrained groupthink that the rest of the generation of infantile Obama educated automatons has. They have been fed racist drivel and told they are “smart” when in fact they are brain washed idiots. They are in the NFL and watching the NFL. Dummies all.

[Joe Boucher]

” I don’t have a problem with it, “?
Well I do.
My family is pro military and many in my family have proudly served.
The Wrobloweski’s lost their son, my nephew in Iraq protecting the rights of these vermin who use their positions to denounce the country that has allowed them to pursue their professions in lavish style.
I have been a NFL fan since birth, 64 years ago.
Like Vin Scully, I will NOT watch ANY nfl game again.
To hell with em.
It is my right to not support vermin who disrespect my country.

[ReaganGeneration2]

Step 1 - State the League’s purpose in playing the Anthem.
Step 2 - Suspend, then fire, the kneelers.

Unless NFL does this, it’s done.

Other factors like head injuries and commercials contribute to a decline, but the NFL has, until now, had leadership that adapted to the times. Anecdotal evidence stated on this thread, but facts are facts - people still love it generally.

[nonliberal]

Every time a racist black NFL thug kneels; every time a leftist sports writer promotes signing a failed racist quarterback; every time an owner doesn’t stand up to his players...........is more votes for Trump’s re-election.

[mewzilla]

Nothing can save the NFL.

Pro fans need a new league.

[righttackle44]

Hey, da guy said if we don’t like it, don’t come. We didn’t like it. We don’t come.

[ealgeone]

What's wrong with the NFL?

For starters:

Rule, and the ratio of qualified talent versus positions given our specialized workforce. This line is often blurred because of the natural tendency to view hiring from the lens of optics while assuming that skill, talent, ability, and trust and the other factors of hiring are equal. For example, the Rooney Rule doesn’t take into account that opportunities are limited because there are people in the front office, coaching, and ownership who are actually doing a great job and are very capable and deserving of consideration for openings.

The fact of the matter is that private entities, such as our 32 Clubs, cannot be shamed or forced into hiring someone.

The Rooney Rule provides a point of entry, but to solve the long-term conundrum of opportunities verses the number of teams that can provide those opportunities, development of highly qualified individuals is imperative. That’s why our partnership with Historic Black Colleges and Universities through the MEAC and SWAC is so very strategic.

HBCUs specifically, and the NCAA generally, represent fertile ground to develop a qualified and sustainable pipeline of diverse candidates for our specialized workforce. There are great opportunities among these ranks because there is actual leverage for fairness in hiring practice through the public domain of the NCAA, Equal Opportunity Employment, and Title IX protections.

It is through these partnerships, as exemplified with the HBCUs, that the NFL can offer internships, symposia, resources, fellowships, and other educational efforts to augment our long-term strategic development and expansion of a qualified and diverse workforce. Each year, the Occupational Mobility Report provides insight on our efforts to improve and assists us in evolving our go-forward strategies to develop and emphas ize the characteristics, talents and skills needed for a diverse workplace

https://operations.nfl.com/media/2620/2017-nfl-diversity-and-inclusion-report.pdf

[Maverick68]

well, it has to start with a no-strings admission of WRONGDOING and a straight, simple apology.....In other words, it will never happen.

[N. Theknow]

How did social activism creep into the NFL so aggressively?

When you have multi-millionaires with so much idle time on their hands, they look for something to do.

They cover themselves with tattoos, buy *bling* by the pound, buy cars and trucks and mansions, then sit in their home theaters watching replays of their games and listening to commentary from sports reporters on how talented and great they are. Then they catch fake news about "Hands up, don't shoot" and Saint Trayvon and other black miscreants and their Narcissism kicks in and they feel a kneed to do something against "the man" and white privilege and imagined slights. Then all that idle time allows their paranoia and lack of reasoning skills to take all that misinformation and let it decompose their skulls into full blown SJW's without a clue...but on a mission.