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Twitter: Steelers Fan Since 1966 Burns His Fan Jacket and Hat
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Posted on 09/25/2017 5:55:23 AM PDT by TigerClaws

I have been a Steelers fan since 1966, but no more.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: nfl; seeya; steelers
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Lots of these popping up on Twitter. When we hit the NFL in the pocketbook, they'll listen to us.
1 posted on 09/25/2017 5:55:23 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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Steelers spent week working on protest dance, game plan not so much
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20810701/pittsburgh-steelers-surprised-alejandro-villanueva-move


2 posted on 09/25/2017 5:57:51 AM PDT by AngieTribeca
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To: TigerClaws

All together, the teams are worth 63 billion dollars and they just torched it.

I hope it was worth it.

but I doubt it.


3 posted on 09/25/2017 5:58:47 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: AngieTribeca

Art Rooney would not have it


4 posted on 09/25/2017 5:58:59 AM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: TigerClaws

The Saxons have woke


5 posted on 09/25/2017 5:59:47 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: TigerClaws

As I have always said, ‘You can lead liberals to reason, but you can’t make them think.’
Perhaps they will begin thinking after this sports gravy train falls apart but I doubt it.


6 posted on 09/25/2017 6:00:19 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: AngieTribeca

7 posted on 09/25/2017 6:00:32 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

NFL may actually be done. A lot of people leave and discover there is life after football.


8 posted on 09/25/2017 6:00:54 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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I think a lot of that happened during the baseball strike. People realized they could live without MLB and didn’t come back.


9 posted on 09/25/2017 6:03:06 AM PDT by chrisser
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To: TigerClaws

Have any numbers of overall attendance/viewers from yesterday been published? I suspect next weekend will be bad for the teams/owners after yesterday’s stunt.


10 posted on 09/25/2017 6:03:10 AM PDT by cweese
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To: TigerClaws

NFL revenues are mostly fan based.
Revenues from games on TV. Less viewers = less revenue.
Stadium ticket sales. Empty seats = less revenue
Empty seats also mean less concession sales
Merchandise sales. Less merchandise sold = less revenue

The only revenue that fans do not have immediate control over
are team corporate sponsorships.
And that could collapse if fans boycott these company products.


11 posted on 09/25/2017 6:07:19 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee)
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To: chrisser

I think a lot of that happened during the baseball strike. People realized they could live without MLB and didn’t come back.


WOW. You nailed it. I was just mentioning to someone this weekend that the baseball strike ended pro baseball to me. I never went back, as you said.


12 posted on 09/25/2017 6:14:29 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: TigerClaws

I’m 61 and I’ve been a Steelers fan since I could say Steelers, but no more. God Bless Ranger Villanueva, but screw the Steelers and the rest of the National Felon League. Even that scumbag Ben Toothlessberger stayed in the locker room during the anthem; “teammates” my OD green ass!

These pampered pussies who’ve been coddled and accommodated since at least high school and make more in a year than most Americans make in a lifetime think they have any standing to bitch about “inequality”? Who pays your bloated salaries when ticket sales, advertising revenue and paraphernalia sales go away?


13 posted on 09/25/2017 6:15:17 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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This guy worked at a NFL stadium for 30 years. He quit after yesterday’s display:

http://www.wcnc.com/mobile/article/news/man-quits-nfl-stadium-job-after-national-anthem-protests/275-478401573


14 posted on 09/25/2017 6:17:09 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: scooby321

I don’t know about that..................


15 posted on 09/25/2017 6:25:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: robroys woman

Several weeks ago, Limbaugh spoke about this. He has some minor experience in this, as an announcer for the Royals decades ago, and he recalled that one day he was required to go to a training session about fan loyalty. The trainer essentially said the fan/team relationship was unconditional, and the team never made demands or emotionally hurt the fan - much like a relationship with a pet.

Now that the NFL has broken that paradigm, fans might leave in droves.


16 posted on 09/25/2017 6:28:52 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: robroys woman

Same thing with my husband, he used to do fantasy leagues etc. but after that strike, he doesn’t even follow baseball at all.


17 posted on 09/25/2017 6:30:12 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: TigerClaws

Raven fan posted something too, burning his memorabilia.

Can’t find it yet, but radio hosts and guests were talking about it.

They should all be burned.


18 posted on 09/25/2017 6:38:14 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: AngieTribeca

Probably what the Ravens did, too. Much worse game than the Steelers!

Of course, the Jags ALSO bent the knee.


19 posted on 09/25/2017 6:39:07 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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This just made Drudge:

http://www.wafb.com/story/36440918/saints-fans-burn-memorabilia-boycott-team-after-10-players-protest-during-national-anthem


20 posted on 09/25/2017 6:39:57 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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