fox also not broadcasting national anthem? wtf!!

That may be the most sane post you've ever produced. I agree with most if it.

But in a country of 330 million, these shootings are so rare that they are statistically insignificant. Mistakes will always be made. It's just not the widespread problem that BLM and others claim it is. These truly are isolated incidents.

 

So are terrorist attacks, but I still see security being beefed up everywhere after every incident.

 

This is good news. I'm an NFL fan, but for the last few years I avoid watching the beginning of any game just so I don't have to watch all the flag waving and soldiers. The militarization of the NFL game has been disgusting to watch because it is really just a recruiting tool and propaganda effort to support the GWOT.

 

Airing the anthem on certain games isn’t a new thing. I’ve watched a ton of football games and the anthem was live broadcast only during Thanksgiving Day games and prime time games, that’s it. If you actually want to see the anthem played on a normal Sunday game then go to the game.

 

There not a lot we can do about human error by law enforcement. Maybe a few more sensitivity classes. But we can’t get rid of the police.

We must be proactive against radical Islamic terror.

 

But not proactive against everything else I see.....

 

both he and Nike are making more $ as a consequence of the right wing hate that has been spewed against them

 

it has been conclusively proven that we have had more far right wing terrorism in the USA than anything else - naturally the right wing remains silent over that

 

The sweet irony of this being that had people chosen to ignore Kap in the first place and pretended he wasn't there, he'd be nowhere near as popular as he is now.

 

Have to say, I gave pro football up a long time ago. Too many coincidental sports book intersections. I watch things like the super bowl. Because, well, it's entertaining, and there are other distractions. They do a bang up rendition of the anthem, usually. But for me, the season is too long, the games are too disjointed because of the television agenda, commercials, etc. Somewhere football became more about the broadcast, and less about the actual game.

If some folks want to protest, do it on your own time, outside of the game. Leave your wannabe aspirations of racial divisiveness at the door, and play the game. And for dang sure, be respectful of all of the folks in the crowd who are paying good money to allow those on the field to live the grand lifestyles they do. No one wants to be lectured to when the purpose of the game is to be entertained by it. If players want to do something important, by all means. The dude from Houston who donated not just his money, but time, and organization to help folks out after the hurricane. We don't need folks who can only be heard because they created controversy.

 

Opening day
Playoff games
Superbowl

That is how it has been since I can remember.

NA is provided by the stadium for the guests.

NA cuts into TV commercial ad time.

 

I've been a NFL fan going back to the 1950's and a military color guard was SOP at NFL games if there was a military installation close by.

Military flyovers at Super Bowl games has been SOP going back to the 1970's.

But your correct, the militarization of NFL games is a recruiting tool and it works.

After 9/11 just about every NFL game has a military honor guard.

Where does the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps get most of their wannabe fighter jocks from ? From young kids who attend an air show and see the Navy Blue Angels or the Air Force Thunderbirds perform.

That's what happened to my son when I took him to his first air show at MCAS El Toro back in 1990, from that day on all he wanted to do was become a fighter jock and has been flying FA-18's for over ten years and is transitioning over to the F-35B today.

U.S. Army recruiting tool.

 

i happen to enjoy the tradition. and i think it's sad that these overpaid babies have to ruin it. they have every right to protest, but what they are protesting is the problem i have with it. they are protesting a country that allows them to earn millions of dollars for playing a game! and now this benchwarming clown kaepernick is some kind of hero? these guys are squandering an opportunity to tell young black men to stop killing each other, but they don't. and that's the real tragedy. instead they perpetuate the victim mentality that keeps most blacks in poverty and killing each other. it's actually very very sad.

Overpaid babies...where's the data for this?
What they are protesting is the problem...protesting is a right.
Allows them to earn millions...so what?
Playing a game...is a game not worthy of high pay?
Benchwarming clown...obviously a personal opinion...no facts that he is a clown.
Some kind of hero...it appears he is a hero to many.
That's the real tragedy...the tragedy is people killing people...not football players?
The victim mentality...again your personal opinion...no facts.
Most blacks in poverty...provide some metrics for this?
Killing each other...do you know blacks and whites are killed at about the same rate?

There is NO POSSIBLE way to relate or connect the actions of athletes to who gets killed in Chicago...you're just making this up...

 

NFL: Too late to sell?

USA TODAY, Touchdown Wire, Dallas local TV ratings should make the rest of the NFL nervous, By: Michael Colangelo, September 13, 2018 1:00 pm ET.
https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2018/09/13/dallas-low-tv-ratings-local-tv-ratings-nfl-tv-ratings/

 

That's not true at all. The anthem was always shown prior to games. In fact, my little brother always stood up and saluted during it. He was only 10 but he loved to do it. That was just a few years ago.

If your argument is that "it was hardly ever shown", then it's bullshit.

 

The NFL has chosen to identify itself with the political enemies of at least half of the American adult population, and thus render itself repulsive to that audience.

The NFL is toast.

 

I say so what...it's just a silly sports game...but...NFL revenue increases every year...

 

Another year or two of this kid of successful marketing and you will be able to trade your Ford Raptor for an NFL franchise.

 

No place for politics in the workplace.

Anytime something is politicized it divides society.

When the left politicized the weather (climate change) it divided society.

When the left politicized guns it divided society and 1/2 of society went out and bought more guns.

The first hurricane that was politicized was Hurricane Katrina and now every hurricane is politicized.

The left politicized the NFL.

It's gotten so bad that when a 17 year old boy tries to get to 1st base with a girl at a kegger party it has become politicized by the left.

The left politicized CNN and CNN went into collusion with the DNC and politicised every news story that society became divided and CNN ratings went into the crapper.

Cultural-marxism and Alinskyism 101:
Everything has to be politicized to divide society to further a Marxist political agenda.

 

the average nfl salary is $2.1m. that is 35x the median household income of $59,000. if you still have the nerve to whine given those statistics, you are a baby. that's what babies do. they cry.

i never claimed it wasn't. but what they are protesting is the exact problem.

what the hell are they protesting? this is the greatest country on earth. they earn on average $2.1m for playing a game. how is a country that allows them to do that worthy of protest?

i never said it wasn't. but when you compare say the teaching profession and its contribution to society vs. the contribution to society of athletes who play a silly game, protesting the country that allows them to make "**** you money" is the height of absurdity.

so you don't dispute that he's a benchwarmer.

they are wrong. a hero does something heroic.

and the protests of the kaepernick cabal validate that behavior and lead to more of it. and n ow they put his clown face on the side of a bus...

the entire someblacklivesmatter (and clownboy colin's protest) is based on the phony notion that blacks are victims in 2018.

most blacks who live in poverty are there because of the victim mentality.

that's just simply false. the black homicide rate is quadruple the white homicide rate.

sure there is. clownboy colin and his band of rich ghetto rats say to poor ghetto rats "yeah, you go and step to the man... give the pigs all the attitude you got, boy!"[/QUOTE]

 

We must be looking at different games because previously it’s only been aired during prime time, Thanksgiving and on the 9/11 anniversary. I’ve hardly ever seen it aired during the normal day games.

 

NFL isn’t going anywhere for a long time, the market for football will always exist.

 

Football is a dying sport.

 

But because the liberals politicized the NFL, NFL football is no longer Americas #1 past time.

It's starting to look like professional baseball will reclaim that position. There was a time when professional baseball was America's #1 past time before the 1960's.

Basketball, the the NBA...without the mob and illegal gambling and legal gambling, the NBA would be as popular as a Klansman at a BLM rally/riot.

The NHL (ice hockey) is quickly moving up in popularity in America.

One thing about NHL fans, they all stand for the American National Anthem even Canucks in Canada.


Toronto Maple Leafs fans finish singing US anthem after technical difficulties

 

Sure it is....