Not really, you took it as disrespect though, it seems most of them didn't take it as such. Maybe listen to some of the things said post game? Yep, Trump insults POW and vets, but that's just fine.
I'd like to see a chart that shows NFL ratings in comparison to amount of 2 yard bubble screens thrown in a game. I personally stopped watching because outside of Green Bay and a few other teams the games were boring as ****. Finally Watson gives me a reason to turn the Texans on again.
did donald trump "disrespect our flag, our anthem and our country" when he said POW"s are not heroic because they were captured, insulted a gold star family or compared the united states to the murderous russian regime with his "you think we are so innocent" comment? just admit that you only care about this as a partisan issue. we all already know it anyway.
Deflection request denied. I am not an apologist for Donald Trump. He has certainly made his share of mistakes. Nevertheless, now the Democrat left is encouraging a broad social movement to disrespect our nation, our flag and our national anthem. Honestly, it is hard to imagine anything in the political realm that is more vile and disgusting than that.
haha - talk about deflection! look at what youre doing. sad. actually, its pretty easy to imagine something more vile and disgusting and that is donald trump insulting POW's, gold star families and comparing our country to the murderous russian regime...and even more vile and disgusting are people like you who defend him. you dont care about any of this stuff and we all know it.
That's such a sad and incorrect thing to say. There is a broad social movement to FIX the issues facing our country. Doing nothing is not the answer. Simply sitting back and waiting for the twit-in-chief to change is not going to happen and is not an option.
I never really agreed with Kaepernick taking a knee during the anthem for various reasons but watching the entire league unite together to stand up for their right to peacefully protest against a bullying, childish president makes me even more proud to live in this country. The reaction from the far right, Trump-worshipping crowd isn't surprising, they'll wrap themselves in the flag and scream about how patriotic they are while openly attacking their fellow Americans' right to peacefully protest. Given how much they cry about violent protests, one would think that they would at least respect peaceful protesting even if they disagreed with it but nope, instead it's just labeled as anti-American, hateful action. On top of all this, picking a public fight with the most popular professional sports league in this country is an unbelievably dumb political move, even by Trump standards. It won't end well for him.
The same people that voted Trump into office, will be the same folks that will smack the hell out of the NFL, NBA, and any other social justice warrior professional sport organizations. The NFL had an audience, and chose to give the finger to them. I personally did NOT purchase the NFL packages this year... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...s-week-3-oprahs-60-minutes-debut-pops-1042613
Yeah, you have proof the ratings dipped because of "SJWs"? I didn't watch the game, it was the Raiders and Redskins, I watched Star Trek instead, by the time I was done I realized I made the right decision.
We all have the right to protest, and athletes have the right to do and say whatever they want...But targeting the flag and the anthem is just new levels of stupidity. The NFL will find out just like any other major business...dont piss off your consumer.
Heh, the Irony. The SJWs are the NFL players who decided to spend about 3% of an NFL game protesting... The SJWs are not the whiny fans that claim they won't watch the NFL anymore because some players decided to have an opinion about something. Whose really the SJW here? I remember reading somewhere someone calling them TVW, I like that better, Traditional Values Warriors.
since the 1970s, the NFL's popularity has leapfrog baseball, often referred to as the national past time, precisely because it knows its brand and consumer base that is why the commissioner/union head, as well as 30 out of 32 owners have promptly slamed Drumph, protecting the brand
No rational person who isn't already in love with Trump is going to side with the childish, idiot president over the NFL, it's a losing fight and Trump gave far more credence to the cause when he got on stage and on Twitter and started crying about it. These billionaire owners are much smarter than Trump and even they know that taking the side of their players is a better business decision than cracking down on these actions. You're on the wrong side of history, enjoy.
You watched Star Trek reruns instead of football. Perhaps its the waning interest in the game, but its more than coincidence that fan interest has been in a steady decline in the past 3 years...and its gonna accelerate as the NFL took a political position it really shouldn't have. The popularity of the game was that there were often MANY games that people would watch on any given sunday. Fantasy, fanduel etc...all kepts even the casual fan engaged. The NFL lost that and then some yesterday. No organization or business is TOO big to fail...
au contrare, the NFL defended its brand, and won the support from NASCAR royalty NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. said Monday he supported the NFL players and owners who protested on Sunday in response to POTUS's criticism of players who kneel during the national anthem. Earnhardt wrote on Twitter that all Americans are granted the rights to "peaceful protests" before quoting former President John F. Kennedy. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable," http://abcnews.go.com/US/dale-earnhardt-jr-tweets-support-nfl-protests-national/story?id=50074434 that includes the Drumph WH ..
Not Star Trek reruns. I don't need fantasy football to watch or enjoy games, it's completely irrelevant to me, Fantasy football isn't going to make a game between the Browns and Dolphins a must watch. If fan interest has been on a decline then that has little to do with Kaepernick, the NFL took no political position, they simply stood behind their players who Trump attacked.
I wouldn't be so sure about that if I were you. As much as you are right to call Trump childish....he was calling out childish idiot millionaires who choose to publicly disrespect the country for no valid reason. Massachusetts is one of the least "Trump friendly" places in the country and is a place that REALLY loves their football team and the players on it and yet the douchebag Pats players who kneeled got soundly boo'd by the home crowd just the same. What you misunderstand here is that it's not really "siding with Trump" when people are against the BS the players are pulling, it's just being against what they are doing. Now sure, the main reason the idiot players chose to publicly disrespect the country yesterday is due to Trump calling out those who did it previously and that caused more stupid people do it, but that's not going to make the fans any less pissed off at them for doing it.....well at least those who aren't political hacks who would support literally anything that is against Trump. Trying to bring politics into football is a losing proposition, intentionally making a public display of disrespect towards the country is a losing proposition. Trump really doesn't factor in to this at all other than pushing stupid people to do the wrong thing.
