Posted on 09/28/2017 12:06:33 PM PDT by 2banana
Delanie Walker is a tight end for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans and has opened his yap about fans who are upset over players choosing to disrespect our nation’s flag and anthem by sitting it out at the start of games. He probably should’ve just clammed up.
Walker, who is currently on a two-year contract that’s paying him $13,375,000 (that’s THIRTEEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS) that includes a “signing bonus,” a “roster bonus,” a “workout bonus” plus other incentives, has come across as the ultimate entitled millionaire jock by telling fans he really doesn’t care if you show up.
NBC Sports:
“Some fans have threatened to boycott the NFL over players’ protests during the national anthem. Titans tight end Delanie Walker has a message for them: Bye.
“And the fans that don’t want to come to the game? I mean, OK. Bye. I mean, if you feel that’s something, we’re disrespecting you, don’t come to the game. You don’t have to. No one’s telling you to come to the game. It’s your freedom of choice to do that.”
The Titans were among three teams that skipped the national anthem Sunday after President Donald Trump’s tweets. The President has predicted a backlash against the NFL in the wake of the protests, which included dozens of NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem in Week 3.
So you’re telling us if we don’t want to come, don’t come, what do you care? Well Delanie there’s another old saying you may be getting familiar with real soon — “be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.”
The man is a rocket surgeon.
You forgot the Kansas City Queefs.
His agent/manager brought in a tax accountant to help the guy out, and poor kid was shocked out how much of his big contract was potentially going to go to taxes.
Yet, that type of athlete will still vote for the very same people that enact high taxes.
If it’s not about disrespecting the Flag and the United States then why are you doing it during the Anthem?
Why not hold a meeting or make commercials or something?
You’re doing during the Anthem because you know people will pay attention to you.
Why will they pay attention to you?
Because you’re being disrespectful to the Flag and the United States!
It doesn’t matter what message you’re trying to send, it only matters what message is being received. And the message most people are getting is: F America!
Salaries only get renegotiated one direction (up), until a player is at the end of their career and is desperate for one last payday...
That may be changing in another couple of years. I wonder what the freshman in college now will think we he signs his first contract (at what the rookie wage scale will be in 2020) and start his career making 30% of what rookies in 2017 were paid? “Yeah, kid — those were the days, full stadiums, fat TV Network deals, people buying our gear left and right... and now? We’re lucky if we get this place half full and 5 million TV’s on our channel on Sunday night.”
FIFY
That’s the ticket, Delanie!
Tell em they smell bad, too!
... and their mothers dress them funny!
And they UGLY!
That is a strong possibility.
My point is what happens when the owners can’t make their payroll. There must be some protections but the unnegotiated future???
I know very little about contract law, but I do know if I went around telling my employers clients we don’t need them I’d be looking for work elsewhere.
They’ll have to eat the contracts they’ve made but they’ll be able to pay less in the future to new people.
Here’s another economic illiterate who has absolutely no clue where the money comes from. It’s just a “stash” as far as he’s able to understand, like Obama supposedly had a “stash.” Well, Obama had the Fed and quantitative easing. The NFL does not.
Time for Mr. Walker to enter Remedial Econ 101, don’t you think, folks?
‘How many will try and refuse to renegotiate their salaries?’
That’s a good point. Economics isn’t their strong suit.
No kidding.
Not belittling your point at all. It’s just common sense.
What I can’t believe is the number of entities in the NFL and at ESPN that think this is a winning effort.
I like college football. If it turns out that the NFL goes caput and college football players have no football future aside from some a start-up or semi-pro league, I can live with that.
What is going to be your fall back position in light of the NCAA scandals roiling in the news? What a deal...
No problemo, amigo. I STOLE it first!
That would be uncharted territory. The current collective bargaining agreement sets a team salary cap (about $155 Million for each team) and team are required to spend 90% of the cap on their roster’s “top 51 paid” players every season. The cap is based on total league revenues.
Most of those revenues are derived from the TV deals with Fox, NBC, CBS, and ESPN. The TV deals are set through 2022 and pay out about $5 Billion a year, split between the 32 teams.
Less ticket sales and gear sales, not to mention drops in DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket package, will hit the owner’s profit margin, but most teams would still operate in the plus column with just the TV revenue. What will be interesting is:
A) How much ticket sales will get hit next year (season tickets have already been bought and paid for this year).
B) How much gear sales will decline from now through Christmas, and
C) If people that buy ads to run during football games start asking for lower rates, because the eyeballs seeing the ads is down God only knows how much %.
If the pain is long term, it will be profoundly felt around 2020 - 2021 when the renegotiating for the new TV contracts starts. Of course, even before then, you will individual players find that they are not making the money they expected to. This will be writ large when the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires in 2020 and the teams are feeling some financial pressure (if it happens).
If 30% of the NFL fan’s go away and stay away (65% people do not approve of the protest or form of protests), the decline of the NFL will be a case study of why you don’t mix business and politics in US Business schools for decades to come...
LOL!
There it is in a nut shell, they hate whites and think it is their NFL. Wonder what his salary would be if only blacks were involved in the NFL, top to bottom; including sponsors and including fans? Since blacks are about 13% of the population and not all of them are football fans, I am thinking they would not have a lot of money to pay the players.
Blacks fought so hard for desegregation and now that is what many of them seem to want.
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