ESPN will not broadcast national anthem before 'Monday Night Football' games

Bourbon said:
ESPN will not broadcast national anthem before 'Monday Night Football' games this season





ESPN will not broadcast the national anthem before Monday night NFL games this season, network President Jimmy Pitaro announced Friday.

“We generally have not broadcasted the anthem and I don’t think that will change this year. Our plan going into this year is to not broadcast the anthem,” Pitaro said, according to an Axios reporter.

“Again that could change. It's unpredictable what could happen in the world but as of now, we’re not,” Piatro continued. “We have communicated that back to the [NFL]. They have not asked but as a courtesy and good partners, we have let them know what our plans are.”

The Los Angeles Times noted Friday that the “Monday Night Football” production team decided last year that it would no longer broadcast the anthem, with officials saying it would allow for more discussion time.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/4...nal-anthem-before-monday-night-football-games


More Winning ... :laugh:
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Hardly, if fans hear their team shit on the flag at a game, there will be hell to pay.

Winning, all right. We are.
 
Stargazer said:
Hardly, if fans hear their team shit on the flag at a game, there will be hell to pay.

Winning, all right. We are.
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Nobody shit on the flag. that has not happened. The players have a right to take a knee. It is an expression of free speech. The rightys are shitting on free speech and the right to assemble. The protests have nothing to do with the military or the flag. That was all Trumped up by Daffy. The country is the loser if the right takes away the players rights. Losing, we all are.
 
Nordberg said:
Nobody shit on the flag. that has not happened. The players have a right to take a knee. It is an expression of free speech. The rightys are shitting on free speech and the right to assemble. The protests have nothing to do with the military or the flag. That was all Trumped up by Daffy. The country is the loser if the right takes away the players rights. Losing, we all are.
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The NFL is a private business and the players are there to do a job. First Amendment doesn't apply to a private business.

Your dime, your time. Don't shit on my flag when you're getting paid to chase the little football.
 
Stargazer said:
The NFL is a private business and the players are there to do a job. First Amendment doesn't apply to a private business.

Your dime, your time. Don't shit on my flag when you're getting paid to chase the little football.
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What a crock of shit.

Who actually believes this lie?

You racist fucks just make up shit on a whim.
 
TTQ64 said:
What a crock of shit.

Who actually believes this lie?

You racist fucks just make up shit on a whim.
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Look it up. Only applies to public and government entities.

If I go to my job and cause a scene protesting something, they can send me home. Duh.
 
Stargazer said:
The NFL is a private business and the players are there to do a job. First Amendment doesn't apply to a private business.

Your dime, your time. Don't shit on my flag when you're getting paid to chase the little football.
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That followed for you? I guess you assume the owners agree with Trump. That is incorrect. They would love to have it go away. Just stop the anthem and kickoff. Trumpy's BS premise is causing them a lot of of grief.
 
Kacper said:
ESPN is the subject and how to boycott them very much is about cord cutting. Not watching doesn't mean shit when they are still getting $5+ per month per viewer from television providers whether they watch or not. They are the single most expensive channel on standard line ups.
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I cut the cord two years ago. Before I had Dish, and ESPN wasn't in my package. I have zero interest in professional sports.
 
Kacper said:
ESPN is the subject and how to boycott them very much is about cord cutting. Not watching doesn't mean shit when they are still getting $5+ per month per viewer from television providers whether they watch or not. They are the single most expensive channel on standard line ups.
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???....you guys pay that?....
 
Bourbon said:
[h=1]ESPN will not broadcast national anthem before 'Monday Night Football' games this season[/h]



ESPN will not broadcast the national anthem before Monday night NFL games this season, network President Jimmy Pitaro announced Friday.

“We generally have not broadcasted the anthem and I don’t think that will change this year. Our plan going into this year is to not broadcast the anthem,” Pitaro said, according to an Axios reporter.

“Again that could change. It's unpredictable what could happen in the world but as of now, we’re not,” Piatro continued. “We have communicated that back to the [NFL]. They have not asked but as a courtesy and good partners, we have let them know what our plans are.”

The Los Angeles Times noted Friday that the “Monday Night Football” production team decided last year that it would no longer broadcast the anthem, with officials saying it would allow for more discussion time.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/4...nal-anthem-before-monday-night-football-games


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Too bad. The only reason I watch MNF is for the playing of the nat'l. anthem. Guess I'll have to find a good book to read.
 
Stargazer said:
The NFL is a private business and the players are there to do a job. First Amendment doesn't apply to a private business.

Your dime, your time. Don't shit on my flag when you're getting paid to chase the little football.
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It's a song not a flag,and a shity song at that,nobody can sing it worth a shit
 
Stargazer said:
The NFL is a private business and the players are there to do a job. First Amendment doesn't apply to a private business.

Your dime, your time. Don't shit on my flag when you're getting paid to chase the little football.
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Can you point out where taking a knee before the game starts, is not doing their job? You are offended, so are slashing out, but wrong. You do not decide when another person can protest. The owners are not stopping it. It is about police brutality to unarmed blacks. Your anger is personal and not responding to what the quiet, nearly invisible protests are about. A guy taking a knee does not offend the country. It actually is an exercise of American constitutional rights. I am sure you will back them when you think about it.
 
Kacper said:
Matters not. As I look around at the streaming bundles for when I cut the cord this fall, I am looking at ones the minimize my exposure to ESPN's highway robbery of providers.
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Yeah, it never did anyway. Everyone should give up television, and sitting for these publicly funded indoctrination homages to the power of the empire.
 
Nordberg said:
Can you point out where taking a knee before the game starts, is not doing their job? You are offended, so are slashing out, but wrong. You do not decide when another person can protest. The owners are not stopping it. It is about police brutality to unarmed blacks. Your anger is personal and not responding to what the quiet, nearly invisible protests are about. A guy taking a knee does not offend the country. It actually is an exercise of American constitutional rights. I am sure you will back them when you think about it.
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It's worse that that:

Pentagon [meaning we the people] paid sports teams millions for patriotic events [to promote the endless war economy]
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...riotic-events-sens-flake-mccain-say/75141688/

Pentagon Paid Sports Teams Millions For 'Paid Patriotism' Events
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...rts-teams-millions-for-paid-patriotism-events

The military paid pro sports teams $10.4 million for patriotic displays, troop tributes
The McCain/Flake report finds $53 million in Department of Defense spending for patriotic displays at sporting events.
https://www.sbnation.com/2015/11/4/9670302/nfl-paid-patriotism-troops-mcain-flake-report-million

America is just another authoritarian banana republic with a global occupational empire to maintain and a public to control at home.
 
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