NFL Protest

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(10-02-2017, 03:29 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: If you're a fan of your team to the extent that you post on an internet forum related to your team then you're in the top 1% of hard core NFL fans.  Such fans are likely to stay fans.  What they could, and likely will, do is spend less money on peripheral NFL product, which is a not insubstantial amount of the NFL's income.  Bottom line, this will hurt the NFL's bottom line. (pun!)  IMO it's never a good idea to take a political stand as a business, as Jordan said, Republicans buy shoes too.

So how does the NFL not lose money on this one?  Remove the anthem?  Not televise it?  Not have the players on the field when its playing?  Force players to stand during it?  Fire those who don't?  I don't see what the NFL is doing or not doing as a political statement anymore than I'm making a political statement because my neighbors on both sides have the flag hanging off their porch and I don't.

What is the solution here?  Or the NFL could just take this lump and still rake in billions.  I just don't see the NFL making a political statement here because they won't adhere to the demands of a specific political party. All I'm saying is if you are DONE with the NFL, then be done with it. Or watch the games and write down all the sponsors you see and stop buying their products. If Miller Lite runs 10000 ads during NFL Sunday tell everyone that Miller Lite hates veterans because they subsidize hateful speech and expression towards this country and stop buying it.

That's how you boycott. Not by saying you are done with something and then talking about who we play next week. Then again, that's just my opinion. From what I've seen so far the people who are "done" with the NFL complain the most about how much money the players make. Complaining about how much money athletes make has been going on for decades, so this doesn't seem too terrible new to me.