NFL Protest

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(10-02-2017, 05:10 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Ehh, I can agree and disagree with you here.  Owners might just be supportive of their players because they actually spend time interacting with people from diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds OR they might just want to keep their million dollar investments happy.

We've seen time and time again good players being retained after doing heinous things while players who are easily replaced get cut for the same thing or lesser offenses.  If this were handled like that I would amused to see an owner say if you are kneeling and you aren't a starter you can pack your bags and get out.  But that just leads to the idea that players who are good are allowed to spit in the face of veterans, or whatever narrative people want to project onto this situation.

I get that an organization can and should limit what representatives of the brand say.  I worked for a professional sports team and I signed all the paperwork saying that I could be fired if I misrepresented the brand or made derogatory comments, and so on.  I was under no illusion that I had the same amount of leeway as someone who worked for the same company that was getting millions of dollars per year, though.  That's the rub.  The people who are doing the offending here are essential to the brand and essential to the bottom-line of their organizations and they're quite organized in their protests.  I just don't see how a team can handle this in a way to appease the angry fans that wouldn't derail their team significantly.

I suppose the team that stinks the most could fire them all and then invite all the flag-loving fans to watch them, but I don't see that really being much of a financial benefit, either.  I think the owners are doing the smart thing by supporting their players (ie, their investments) and waiting for it to all blow over like every other thing people have been mad about for years on end.

You misunderstood, I'm talking about the league office.  The owners have a relationship with the players.  Ike Taylor considered Dan Rooney to be a father figure.   The league office can be dispassionate and clinical.  With a real leader in charge of the league it would be easy to accomplish.