Mason Michaels
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Lame!
NFL player sits for US National Anthem but stands for Mexico's National Anthem.
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Lame!
Eagle_Eye
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Mason Michaels
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Still lame
Eagle_Eye
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ThatOwlWoman
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Hahahaha. I always sing that to my husband when he's having a pity-party-for-one day. ;~)
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Retired Teacher
Good morning!!!
NFL ratings hit a season low...Ravens and Texans...
Hmmm...the football field is obviously not the place to make political, societal, or cultural points, and certainly not the place to vent personal feeling against the President of the United States. Look at the issues and take the protests to the source of the problems. The communities and the families. Noting is going to change there because you are kneeling or sitting while the national Anthem plays and the flag is raised.
That's pretty clear...
NFL ratings hit a season low...Ravens and Texans...
Hmmm...the football field is obviously not the place to make political, societal, or cultural points, and certainly not the place to vent personal feeling against the President of the United States. Look at the issues and take the protests to the source of the problems. The communities and the families. Noting is going to change there because you are kneeling or sitting while the national Anthem plays and the flag is raised.
That's pretty clear...
Mason Michaels
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I usually don't do that but you do it all the time.
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Eagle_Eye
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When your life is a total disgrace like yours is that is all you know, why do you think I posted it?
Mason Michaels
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When your life is a total disgrace like yours is that is all you know, why do you think I posted it?
Frankly Scarlet I don't give a damn.
blackascoal
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Trump claims kneeling players hurt NFL attendance. Facts say otherwise.
November 28, 2017
President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the National Football League is "having a very hard time" filling stadiums because Americans are "fed up" with players protesting during the national anthem.
"At least 24 players kneeling this weekend at NFL stadiums that are now having a very hard time filling up," Trump tweeted. "The American public is fed up with the disrespect the NFL is paying to our Country, our Flag and our National Anthem. Weak and out of control!"
But are the protests really hurting the league, as Trump says? Let's tackle the facts.
Is NFL attendance down?
Trump claimed Tuesday that stadiums "are now having a very hard time filling up," building on a Nov. 20 tweet that attendance was “way down."
But that's not true, according to the NFL.
The league told NBC News that attendance is down just 1 percent from last year, which NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy noted was a “stellar” year and the third highest in NFL history.
McCarthy added that 98 percent of available tickets to all NFL games have been sold, with ticket sales down 2 percent over last year, in part owing to reduced seating capacity for the Los Angeles teams. Excluding those two teams, ticket sales are down 1 percent, he said.
Trump also says NFL ratings are falling
The president is on firmer footing when he claims that the league's TV ratings are down. The average NFL game in the first eleven weeks of the season saw 14.85 million viewers, down 7 percent from the same period last year, according to the most recently available Nielsen viewership data.
Still, dipping viewership is not a problem unique to the NFL. NASCAR ratings were down 10 percent February through June, recovering in the second half of the season, when its ratings were down 2 percent, according to Nielsen data. Another Sunday-night king that once boasted ratings rivaling "Sunday Night Football," AMC's "The Walking Dead," hit a six-year ratings low this year, according to Deadline.
How Americans feel about the protests
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” Trump asked an Alabama crowd in September.
According to polls, a majority of Americans wouldn’t love that. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released days after the Alabama rally found that 57 percent of Americans disagreed with Trump's view that players should be fired for protesting, while 68 percent of Americans felt that Trump’s comments were inappropriate, according to a survey by USA TODAY/Suffolk University.
There is some indication that the protests could tarnish the NFL's reputation in the eyes of some. Both polls indicated Americans are divided on whether or not the protests are appropriate, and in the Reuters poll, 37 percent of Americans said their view of the NFL was less favorable after the protests.
While the president is correct to note that football ratings are down, he's exaggerating those numbers, as well as the slight decline the NFL has seen in attendance. There's also little to no evidence to support his claim that the anthem protests are behind either of these declines.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...rt-nfl-attendance-facts-say-otherwise-n824646
Protests and knelling continue with the NFL owners refusing to follow the lead of THE worst president in American history with the lowest polling EVER.
Thus we have pages and pages of racist neanderthal whining that doesn't amount to shit.
Not a goddamn thing these ignorant racist fucks can do about what black players decide to do.
End of story.
November 28, 2017
President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the National Football League is "having a very hard time" filling stadiums because Americans are "fed up" with players protesting during the national anthem.
"At least 24 players kneeling this weekend at NFL stadiums that are now having a very hard time filling up," Trump tweeted. "The American public is fed up with the disrespect the NFL is paying to our Country, our Flag and our National Anthem. Weak and out of control!"
But are the protests really hurting the league, as Trump says? Let's tackle the facts.
Is NFL attendance down?
Trump claimed Tuesday that stadiums "are now having a very hard time filling up," building on a Nov. 20 tweet that attendance was “way down."
But that's not true, according to the NFL.
The league told NBC News that attendance is down just 1 percent from last year, which NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy noted was a “stellar” year and the third highest in NFL history.
McCarthy added that 98 percent of available tickets to all NFL games have been sold, with ticket sales down 2 percent over last year, in part owing to reduced seating capacity for the Los Angeles teams. Excluding those two teams, ticket sales are down 1 percent, he said.
Trump also says NFL ratings are falling
The president is on firmer footing when he claims that the league's TV ratings are down. The average NFL game in the first eleven weeks of the season saw 14.85 million viewers, down 7 percent from the same period last year, according to the most recently available Nielsen viewership data.
Still, dipping viewership is not a problem unique to the NFL. NASCAR ratings were down 10 percent February through June, recovering in the second half of the season, when its ratings were down 2 percent, according to Nielsen data. Another Sunday-night king that once boasted ratings rivaling "Sunday Night Football," AMC's "The Walking Dead," hit a six-year ratings low this year, according to Deadline.
How Americans feel about the protests
“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” Trump asked an Alabama crowd in September.
According to polls, a majority of Americans wouldn’t love that. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released days after the Alabama rally found that 57 percent of Americans disagreed with Trump's view that players should be fired for protesting, while 68 percent of Americans felt that Trump’s comments were inappropriate, according to a survey by USA TODAY/Suffolk University.
There is some indication that the protests could tarnish the NFL's reputation in the eyes of some. Both polls indicated Americans are divided on whether or not the protests are appropriate, and in the Reuters poll, 37 percent of Americans said their view of the NFL was less favorable after the protests.
While the president is correct to note that football ratings are down, he's exaggerating those numbers, as well as the slight decline the NFL has seen in attendance. There's also little to no evidence to support his claim that the anthem protests are behind either of these declines.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...rt-nfl-attendance-facts-say-otherwise-n824646
Protests and knelling continue with the NFL owners refusing to follow the lead of THE worst president in American history with the lowest polling EVER.
Thus we have pages and pages of racist neanderthal whining that doesn't amount to shit.
Not a goddamn thing these ignorant racist fucks can do about what black players decide to do.
End of story.
Eagle_Eye
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Eagle_Eye
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Nice try sport!
No wonder alarm bells are sounding in NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s office.
The league's average TV audience through Week 5 of the 2017 season dropped 7 percent*vs. the same period*of*the 2016 season, according to Nielsen data obtained by Sporting News. Worse for the league, the average game audiences are down 18 percent*compared to the first five weeks of the 2015 season.
The NFL's average TV audience (including Sunday afternoon, Sunday night, Monday night and Thursday night games) slid to 15.156 million viewers through Week 5 of the 2017 season. That’s down 7.42 percent*from an average of 16.371 million viewers through the same period of the 2016 season, and*18 percent down from the average of 18.438 million viewers through the first five weeks of the 2015 season.
JARED ODRICK: Why should pro athletes owe you their silence?
The "Colin Kaepernick Effect"*is one of several possible factors in dampening the NFL's TV numbers. Natural disasters such as Hurricane Irma, increased competition for eyeballs from cable news, the Oct. 1 massacre in Las Vegas and the changing TV habits of younger, cord-cutting viewers have likely taken a toll as well.
There's also*the spectacle of President Donald Trump urging football fans to boycott the country's biggest sports league as long as players kneel*during the national anthem in protest of racial injustice.
The NFL remains the*gold standard of TV, not just in sports, but all entertaining programming. But the NFL’s drop in audience could set off a chain reaction that won’t be good for the $14 billion league — or the TV partners who pay billions for TV rights.
Partner networks ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports and Fox Sports promise advertisers and sponsors certain audience numbers. If those numbers are not reached, the networks*have to cough up so-called "make-goods,"*or free ads, to advertisers who didn't get their money's worth. There's nothing TV networks hate more.
MORE: Jerry Jones worries about protests' effects on TV ratings
Now that*player protests appear to be*hitting*owners, TV networks and corporate sponsors in the pocketbook, it's*probably*no*coincidence Goodell wants all players to stand for the national anthem. The NFL*finds itself in a "very volatile and dangerous place," said ESPN Insider Adam Schefter on Thursday's "Mike & Mike" morning show.
"It is very sensitive. It*is chipping away at the popularity of the sport," Schefter added.*"There are people who are turned off to what’s happening. There are people canceling their DirecTV*subscriptions.
"The business of the game,*by the way, also affects the players. Because for every dollar that the league is collecting, 48 cents go to the players."
The numbers indicate some fans have discovered there’s more to life than watching the NFL on fall Sundays. The question now is: Can Goodell and the league get them back?
With more than one quarter of the 2017 season in the books, that’s an open question.
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/new...nal-anthem-protests/l2x7dhlkuubk1tbeftag9ttis
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/18/media/nfl-tv-ratings-week-6/index.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-attendance-down-2017-9
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
Nice try bitch.
All major sports numbers are down, some far more severely than NFL numbers, such as NASCAR that has had no such protests of even black drivers other than a handful.
Pretty sure that's way over a moron's head.
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Retired Teacher
Of course we can all do something about the players who choose to sit or take a knee. We have been for quite a while, and it's working.
The numbers taking part in the "protest" decrease every week. And as There's been no change when it comes to social injustice or inequality because of these "protests", our message to the players is pretty clear: Get into the neighborhoods if you want to make real change....
The numbers taking part in the "protest" decrease every week. And as There's been no change when it comes to social injustice or inequality because of these "protests", our message to the players is pretty clear: Get into the neighborhoods if you want to make real change....
blackascoal
The Force is With Me
:0) Stupid motherfuckers.
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Retired Teacher
the B word....lololololololol
Stupid MOFO...even funnier!!!!!
58 million lost over thanksgiving weekend... Virtually empty bleachers. Nelson and every rating agency worth quoting show the league is fading fast...No matter how anyone tries to spin it, dishonor and kneeling are costing the NFL...and doing nothing for the hood.
Stupid MOFO...even funnier!!!!!
58 million lost over thanksgiving weekend... Virtually empty bleachers. Nelson and every rating agency worth quoting show the league is fading fast...No matter how anyone tries to spin it, dishonor and kneeling are costing the NFL...and doing nothing for the hood.