NFL Protest

[Benton]

(10-02-2017, 03:45 PM)Nately120 Wrote: 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.

To the bold, pretty much. 

There have been bigger bumps. At least this way you've still got games going on, which beats the idea of telling players they have to stand and risking a strike.

The NFL doesn't have to make any statement they don't want to. A politician made opinionated, derisive comments about a football player and First Amendment rights. Fellow players responded. But the NFL — or owners — don't have to do much if they don't want to, outside of saying it's between employees and a guy with a microphone who needs to vilify someone. This week, it's the NFL (check that one off the old grudge list). 

It's like the poem written about this specific period in time:

Quote:First they came for the Immigrants, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not an Immigrant.

Then they came for the Journalists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Journalist.
Then they came for the Football Players, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Football Player.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.