🐱 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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It's Drumpf's fault we're not liked!"

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Iron Hamster said:
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
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I'm gonna tune in to check out how they defile our anthem, laugh, then go watch something else. Jacob Blake? Was that the one reaching inside his vehicle to grab his pistol, I honestly can't keep track there's so many of these cases.

a few prominent Black players discussed sitting out a game to force action
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Force action? Aren't they doing enough now? Oh wait, it's never enough. What else could they possibly do? Maybe the players should forego there wages and give them to poor "working" class black families (they won't).
 
Iron Hamster said:
a few prominent Black players discussed sitting out a game to force action.
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Because that worked so well for the NBA..... one day of games weren't played, and then they all went back to work, and nothing happened. Except looking like whiny foolish babies.

"Force action" ? You guys don't get it, you are in NO position to make demands, you don't control the political narrative or policy making of this country in any way, you'd think they'd learn that by now.
 
OnMoTi said:
Sadly, organized sports won't be dying off like they should.

And don't most of them go bankrupt within 2 years? It's a league of retarded chimps.
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You'll be surprised of stories of many players in the past that made millions of dollars every season only to go broke after they retire or in a financial situation on their career. Many times it's due wasteful spending on dumb shit or child support (ex. Antonio Cromartie).
 
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.



More money is not the solution, because the average NFL player is of a high-risk high-reward competitive mindset and has been failed by decades of coddling in high school and college before hitting a pro field that they were special, didn't have to follow rules, and someone else would clean up behind them.

And every attempt to institute some kind of rule and structure for the players is met with howls of "YOU JUS' WANNA BE OUR OWNERS! TELLIN' BLAK FOLK WHUT TO DO!!! SLAVEDRIVER!" or "They're grown up men, you can't treat them like kids" ignoring the fact that mentally, most of them are little better than 12 year olds, because the system already allows you to ascend to the pro level WITHOUT learning basic accountability.

We've all seen a trouble-prone kid in college spared any discipline "Because he's just a kid" and then, the instant he's drafted, shielded from any discipline because "you can't treat a grown man like a child" , ignoring the fact the common thread through all of it was no discipline.

Is it any wonder these guys think they can beat the shit out of their girlfriends or shoot guns off in a nightclub, or rob other people? They've never been accountable before in 30 years, why would THIS be different?

Pro player culture is very, very rotten in a way that just heaping more money on won't fix.

It's why an Aaron Hernandez can be a millionaire on paper, but still thugging it up every weekend, shooting people who "dissed' " him, that's the lifestyle he WANTED and was allowed to cultivate.

Sports dont' have a money problem, they have a lack of ethics problem, inherently because they valued talent over character for 50 years... and as long as the on-field product was entertaining, they got cut a break. But now, they are doing the dumbest thing they can and letting those same grown-up gangsters, thugs and brats LECTURE us on OUR supposed poor morals, and the average person now isn't willing to lean on the old "well, as long as they play the game, it's not my problem" crutch to excuse the fact their favorite player has a history of DUIs, sexual assaults or drugs or whatever....

The last rationalization keeping people from being offended is being foolishly removed..... the pot is now being allowed to call the kettle black.






Thanks to fears of concussion lawsuit, that will never happen. The NFL will never ever make a rule change that encourages more contact because they can envision a plaintiff's attorney one day saying in court "So, you felt it was okay to let my client get even MORE intentional blows to the head?"
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TowinKarz said:
Because that worked so well for the NBA..... one day of games weren't played, and then they all went back to work, and nothing happened. Except looking like whiny foolish babies.

"Force action" ? You guys don't get it, you are in NO position to make demands, you don't control the political narrative or policy making of this country in any way, you'd think they'd learn that by now.
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Took the words right out of my mouth.

Rollerball only worked because things were that much in the shitter that someone who was a paragon of virtue was able to make a stand to cause revolution by playing.

In this reality, things don't suck that much as everyone claims it is and with abstaining from obsessive and dumb shit by your freedoms in this country and hard work, smarts, wisdom, patience, and persistence, you can still get what you want. All of this shit though I doubt the ass end of sports players ever get in their lifetime to know. We don't however live in a dystopian tyranny where celebrities are the heroes; they are a tool of the villains for their influence or at the least are just working a job. I'll even say it again: Did OJ go to jail when he was convicted of premediated murder? Were the Spurs Posse rounded up for raping a bunch of underaged girls? The machine only cares for what money it pumps out while its excess is dumped out like livestock feces and toxic waste into a river thinking that "it's someone else's problem". The only heroes they wish to be is for their shit system to keep it that way.

Moreover, the last time I heard of a sports figure able to win major political influence was in old Aztec Civilization, and still, the authorities cut off his head. The other figure I have in my head is Brian Bosworth, who called out America's most decadent and corrupt frat houses out in Oklahoma and staked his college career for his statements.
 
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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Bobby Bonilla is the smartest/luckiest man in sports.

TL;DR - The Mets deferred $5.9M of Bonilla's contract in 1999 so that they could invest more in Madoff's Ponzi scheme, presumably getting a 10%+ or more return on investment, so they borrowed Bonilla's money at 8% interest to start being repaid in 2010, and now the Mets have to pay him $1.193M every year from 2010 to 2035. Compound Interest is a bitch.

 
I wish sports would go back to a non-political stance on the field. Sell me watery beer and japanese cars. Fine. Gotta pay the bills. I get it.

But I don't understand this push to sell me politics in this underhanded way. Who lines NFL pockets for that? Nobody. Make 'em take out an ad for their cause if they want airtime. The NFLPA needs to sit down, shut the fuck up, and know their place not run wild with politisperging on the field. If nothing else than because it's ruining their business model.
 
I can see College Football or even a other football league XFL if it ever starts up to take football viewership from NFL. Most of the Red states are more devoted to college teams and even Coronavirus can't shut some college football programs down. They might as well drop their academics and focus on the football programs.
 
Oh for fuck's sake.

As a sport, football is supposed to be a pleasant distraction from the bullshit in the rest of our lives. No one tunes in to hear the political opinion of some dipshit behind a microphone, they tune in to watch fucking football. They're not even expecting their favorite teams to be good, they just want the matches to be watchable and with somewhat less odious than your average WNBA match to sit through.
 
Bond Burger said:
Oh boy I almost forgot about the pandering Activision did which was next level.Every loading screen displaying this message including when you boot up the game or enter any match,The icing on top this shit sundae was that they delayed an entire seasonal update which had already been delayed previously and instead pushed out this garbage instantly for some free virtue,Really shows that these companies don't give a toss about their customers.
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Not only them,
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