🐱 Will the NFL push back this time?

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As the NFL prepares to launch its 101st season, the 45th President, his supporters, and his family members will be coming after the league. So will the NFL defend itself, and its players, as the tweets begin on Thursday night, when Texans and Chiefs players (and Texans coach Bill O’Brien) kneel during the national anthem in peaceful protest of systemic racism and police brutality?

Maybe not.


Peter King recently asked Commissioner Roger Goodell about the looming intersection of presidential politics and pro football, saying to Goodell, “You know the president is going to hit you with a two-by-four.”

Said Goodell in response: “With all due respect, I don’t know those things. . . . I guess you know these things. You’re going into hypotheticals, you know, maybe it will, maybe it won’t. I think we said we’re going to support our players. This is a peaceful protest and we’re going to support them if they choose to do that.”

It’s not a hypothetical. It’s happened before, and it will continue to happen. Indeed, it flared up on Monday, when one of the president’s sons declared that “[f]ootball is officially dead — so much for ‘America’s sport.’ Goodbye NFL. . . . I’m gone.” That comment came merely in response to last week’s story that Cowboys players have received a “green light” to protest during the national anthem, without any protests actually happening.

What happens when the protests occur this weekend on a widespread basis? What happens when the President and those who support him see names like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake prominently displayed on rear helmet bumpers? What happens when they see the anti-racism messages printed at the back of each end zone?

What happens if/when the next video emerges of police brutality against an unarmed Black man or woman and NFL players launch an NBA-style wildcat strike?

Maybe the Commissioner is playing his cards close to the vest. Hopefully, he is. The NFL can’t simply wander into this crowded minefield without a plan for handling the inevitable explosions.

Frankly, the plan needs to be to fight back. Supporting the players means more than simply saying, “We support the players.” Supporting the players means standing up to anyone and everyone who will try to bully or attack them.

At a time when some owners are trying to thread the needle regarding support for player protests while also hoping that they choose to stand for the anthem, the more awkward needle to be threaded with a big, fat camel relates to the broader notion of having their players’ backs while simultaneously cramming money into the President’s front pockets. The latest Trump (son) tweet reconfirms that support for players and support for the President cannot be reconciled.

If the NFL once again stands silent in the fact of a torrent of tweets and other attacks, the disconnect will become even more glaring.
 
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Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans players are discussing a joint demonstration to make a statement on racial injustice and display unity before Thursday night's NFL season opener, sources told NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.

One possible idea involves both teams staying in their locker rooms during the national anthem.

The situation is still fluid and final plans remain unfinalized, Pelissero adds. Leaders from both clubs involved include Patrick Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, and Kenny Stills.


The NFL plans to implement more content addressing social and racial injustice to its Week 1 slate this season and is encouraging players to use their voices.

Several teams canceled training camp practices last month in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin on Aug. 23. Players have been vocal in demonstrations since the incident, and a few prominent Black players discussed sitting out a game to force action.

Some NFL players have chosen to stay off the field until after the national anthem in recent years. The league has never disciplined athletes for demonstrating during the anthem, an agreement that remains in place with the NFLPA.

://www.thescore.com/nfl/news/2018047/report-chiefs-texans-players-planning-demonstration-before-season-opener
 
Bumblino said:
I still don't get why they'd ruin their own business over wokeness. I just can't fathom throwing away my money for the sake of being "socially aware" or whatever the fuck.
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The average NFL career is under 3 years. They don't care about the long run.

Meat Target said:
It's a shame. Patrick Mahomes is (or at least, was) the opposite of Kapernick: talented, classy, and not an egotistical punk. You could tell from this year's Super Bowl, with all the military-worship and flag-waving, that the NFL knew the kneeling stunt didn't sell (we all know Kap started all the BLM drama because he sucked and needed a way to not get cut from the team).

When I saw a brief vid of Mahomes kowtowing to BLM, I was sorely disappointed. The Ubermuttsch was the only thing remotely likeable about the NFL. Figures he'd choose wealth and fame over principle, especially now that he's the face of the league.

Edit: NFL "pushing back" against those dastardly Deplorables? Lmao. I love how the Establishment is realizing that the Bad Orange Man is supported by roughly half the country, and that getting rid of him will not get rid of them.
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If you thought Mahomes was going to be anything other than 100% supportive of BLM you're nuts. We've seen what happens to regular black people who don't get 100% on board, I can't imagine how hard they would go after a half-black guy who married a white woman. Even if he privately thinks it's BS he's in no position to say it out loud.
 
General Disarray said:
Damn, and here I was hoping that their wokeness (and subsequent spectacular crash) would come in the form of tranny cheerleaders.
Maybe that's not a bad idea now, seeing as how they like to throw around the Black Transwymen Are Being Genocided! claptrap. We'll see how long they kneel then lol.
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I mean, they already introduced faggot cheerleaders a year or two back. I'd had enough by then, but a surprisingly large contingent of fans have stuck with it so far.
 
FaramirG said:
The average NFL career is under 3 years. They don't care about the long run.


If you thought Mahomes was going to be anything other than 100% supportive of BLM you're nuts. We've seen what happens to regular black people who don't get 100% on board, I can't imagine how hard they would go after a half-black guy who married a white woman. Even if he privately thinks it's BS he's in no position to say it out loud.
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I said I was disappointed, not surprised.
 
Even the ones with very lengthy careers that are immortal locks to make Canton wind up going bankrupt. The example that still surprised me was that not only did Warren Sapp declare bankruptcy, he was millions of dollars in the hole when he did.
The bankruptcy/in debt and about to declare bankruptcy rate for the NFL is the highest of the Big 4 sports. Within 2 years of a player leaving the league, 78 percent of former football players have already filed for bankruptcy or in debt with no money coming in, failing business ventures and about to declare bankruptcy within the next 3 years.
The NHL has the least amount of bankruptcy problems and I'll let you make some guesses as to why.
 
The ratings plunge in the first quarter hour of tonight's game as a large proportion of their diminished audience changes the channel after 5 seconds of viewing the Burn Loot Murder League extravaganza is gonna be amazing.
 
Before the game begins everyone is called to behold the new BLM Learning Screen to get their required indoctrination before they watch the people they paid to see get brain damaged.
 
K. V. Bones said:
Theyll make money off of boomers anyway.
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Will they? My Dad is a boomer, and he refuses to even allow the NFL on his television.

Granted he's been like that since the 80s, but fucking over your already dwindling fanbase is not good business.
 
AGreatDipAtAFairPrice said:
Even the ones with very lengthy careers that are immortal locks to make Canton wind up going bankrupt. The example that still surprised me was that not only did Warren Sapp declare bankruptcy, he was millions of dollars in the hole when he did.
The bankruptcy/in debt and about to declare bankruptcy rate for the NFL is the highest of the Big 4 sports. Within 2 years of a player leaving the league, 78 percent of former football players have already filed for bankruptcy or in debt with no money coming in, failing business ventures and about to declare bankruptcy within the next 3 years.
The NHL has the least amount of bankruptcy problems and I'll let you make some guesses as to why.
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The most amazing was Terrell Owens. That dude was going broke during the brief lockout. He was still in the middle of a $25 million dollar contract with the Cowboys. Many players during the lockout were taking out loans to cover expenses because so many had no idea how to save money. By far the worst NFL story was Trent Richardson. Dude lost his entire NFL fortune trying to keep everyone but himself afloat. Sad shit. Many of those young black men end up becoming a bank account for their friends and family and never get to be happy.
 
K. V. Bones said:
Theyll make money off of boomers anyway.
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Boomers and Gen Xers are the demographics they've been bleeding, and millenials and zoomers have not been an adequate replacement by far.

Gallup favorability rating of the professional sports industry as a whole went from +20 in August 2019 to -10 now. The favorability among non-whites went down by 35 points. Whites, favorability down 26 points. Republicans, -46. Independents, -36. Even among Democrats, -5. Lost favorability among every fucking demographic. It will be incredibly difficult to get a respectable amount of these people back. They are done with entitled rich fucks lecturing them because said fucks are good at playing with balls and this somehow makes their political opinions important.
 
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This is what you get when you spend millions of dollars and decades of time increasingly jacking yourself off to the military, the gay US anthem, and the flag. Nobody gives a fuck about the anthem or what you do during it, stop televising the national anthem, stop wasting taxpayer money on flyovers and stupid ROTC bullshit, stop grandstanding, play some fucking football for once, and everybody shut the fuck up. You're all simps and cucks. The only difference is the dick you wish you could pay enough to suck..
 
TowinKarz said:
Won't work, the league minimum is plenty to live on and statistics show that no matter how many free seminars and financial advisors are at the ready, 3/4ths of players piss away their money and are broke within 5 years of leaving the league.
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I know I cut a good amount and thank you for the serious answer, but I wasn't giving a serious answer. I know most pro athletes are bankrupt within the first 5 years of getting out, despite having access to top of the line support for whatever they may want and the money to pay for it. But if the NFL want to cry "poor little blacks" then take action; being a multi-million (if not billion) dollar company, they have the resources, far more than the people who do what they can to buy season tickets, play fantasy football, and everything else. But instead they want wag their finger at us and lecture us about how hard life is... while being paid millions of dollars a year to play games, some to only play bench warmer. They want black people to feel better, good, give each one an extra five-million for being black; hopefully they'll go bankrupt faster if they pledge themselves to full retardation.
 
Billionaire chimps who will be left to blow their money a little faster, trying to tell off the country that made them rich, in the stadiums built for them and on the fields prepared for them. Taking uppity to an entirely new dimension lol. Eat a dick.
 
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