It's hard to believe that the NFL has managed to do more damage to its brand than a confederacy of neo-feudal NCAA plantation overlords has done in decades.
Amid the continuing NFL controversy over "standing for the national anthem", the NFL is rapidly losing large swaths of its key demographics. In particular, men 34-54 are tuning out, which is quite possibly the NFL's most important demographic. Overall favorability numbers and ratings are tanking:
The NFL is really in a tough spot here, as personally I think they would be seeing similar issues if they had come down hard on this phenomenon right from the start. They either look like oppressors (who will probably get accusations of racism), or they look weak and powerless while attempting to "respect the opinions of their players."
Personally, I wish my day jobs had actually pretended to care about that...usually, if your opinions are a problem for your employers, you are simply out the door.
A lot of discussion has happened about the players, in particular, Colin Kaepernick. I don't find him too interesting - in fact, the most interesting thing about him to me is how he needs to virtue-signal that "he's really black" by employing the most ridiculous Afro available - because, let's be honest, in his short hair pictures that dude looks white.
Rest assured Colin has done much to ensure that all thinking people are well aware he is full of it. He appears to be moving down some sort of "Hitler-esque" bucket list, wherein he converts to each vile racist group and ideology committed to causing violence that he is able to find. If he's not careful, "they're" going to want to move the TSA to the 49'ers tunnel to give him an appropriately named "Rapiscan" before he enters the field.
Sources I've made up also note that Colin is in early negotiations with zombie Malcolm X to recreate a "Biracial Panthers", for those days when his hair is just too flat.
An amazing aspect of this story is that the NFL has actually managed to become LESS popular than the NCAA, or the "Plantation Football/Basketball" League, where not only are players not paid and used as literal slaves, they are violently witch-hunted if their school or coach gives them so much as bus fare or a carton of milk.
"The NCAA is firmly committed to the neoplantation belief that the enormous proceeds from games belong to the overseers (the administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation workers performing in the arena may receive only those benefits authorized by the overseers.”"
-Walter Byers, Memoirs, First Director of the NCAA
PS - Boycott the NCAA, or be known as plantation apologists. March Madness is boring anyway.
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I don't watch Southpark but that clip was hilarious.
This comes back to the fans. If they want to boo players and boycott the game then that is the way to express dissent. If players are unpopular and franchises are losing money....then maybe they will wake up to themselves and take action to keep politics out of sport.
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You are missing out....South Park is the finest satire of our times.
Mark Twain would be proud.
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Any shareholder of a business, after seeing what leftist pollution of the NFL and Marvel has done to those brands and their profitability, should be conducting witch-hunts of leftists in their corporations at every level from the top down to the janitor.
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It's tough to argue with your point. Anything that hurts bottom line profitability is difficult to justify, let alone trying to push politics or cultural Marxism with your products.
What do you think the NFL should have done?
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fired Goodell and his entire staff
fired the Chicago? coach that browbeat the veteran who had stood up for actual free speech
fired sean peyton
fired every player that knelt
while I know the league doesn't fire people on the teams, all this could have been done via the will of the owners.
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I am guessing that many of the people you listed as "should be fired" have contracts. There's a good chance they have not violated them.
"while I know the league doesn't fire people on the teams,"
Also an issue. I'm sure you saw what a pain it was to remove Donald Sterling.
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a WAG here (Wild Ass Guess)
the owners can fire at will; it becomes a question of which costs them more, retaining personnel that cost them over the long term versus legal costs of termination
a quandry they would not have to deal with had they nipped this shit in the bud
Sterling was an owner, but he realized he would just cost himself more to keep his stakes. Serves him right, though. you don't badmouth the people making you money
something the NFL owners should consider
rolled the NFL discussion into the last #informationwar post
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I agree that some people need fired for bringing politics into the NFL, but I don't see Roger Goodell getting fired.
While fans hate Goodell, he won't ever get fired. He works for the owners and has made them incredible amounts of money. This anthem thing is not necessarily his doing. But the popularity of the NFL since he has taken over has skyrocketed. He's added a huge revenue stream with NFL Network, NFL.com, TV deals, Amazon streaming, TNF, SNF and games played in the UK. People forget that it isn't his job to be popular or to get fans to like him.
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goodell has lent implicit support to these blm lies, and to the act of insulting fans with the kneeling. He has done this through his refual to enforece NFL rules against this...although he DID use those same rules to prevent the Cowboys for memorializing policemen killed by blm assassins, as well as preventing 9/11 memorials.
those actions have COST the league big time in revenue and viewership.
his sanctimonous words about domestic abuse dont match up when considering players on the teams whose owners are his friends
moving past that, his constant rules changes favoring high scoring passing games, and penalizing defensive play, have made the game boring
this is the short list, btw; I don't have the time to go into all of goodell's specific sins...the kneeling just cemented my view that he is a disaster for the league and the owners
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"although he DID use those same rules to prevent the Cowboys for memorializing policemen killed by blm assassins, as well as preventing 9/11 memorials."
Aha, so it really is leftists at the NFL, not just the apolitical.
"those actions have COST the league big time in revenue and viewership."
If we can demonstrate this publicly, one would presume he could be removed.
Great points, thanks for the education.
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Robert Conquest studied the Soviet genocide of the Ukrainians
His second law of politics
http://www.isegoria.net/2008/07/robert-conquests-three-laws-of-politics/
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