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2017-08-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

Tucker: NFL Players Going ‘Out Of Their Way' To Show ‘How Much They Hate' America [VIDEO]

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-28 07:09|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 It appears a very high percentage of NFL donated brains are found to have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) injuries. Contributing 'hate-rage' link or unrelated factor ?

Due to the cross-gender (non-NFL) occurrence, something tells me CTE is unrelated and stand-alone. Let the donations continue. Much more could be learned and shared, if sensitivities permit.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-28 07:22|| 2017-08-28 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 This is exactly how we ended up with soetoro. People who just don't know any better slavishly supporting the NFL. I gave up on it entirely when it became the No Firearms League, but lots of "good 'ol boys (and gals)" just gotta support their team, no matter how noxious the organization or its employees become.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-08-28 07:24|| 2017-08-28 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 ...tribes. Now coming to understand why so many non-slave holders fought for their state? They were betrayed by 'management' as well.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-28 08:13|| 2017-08-28 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 ...tribes. Now coming to understand why so many non-slave holders fought for their state?

Prescient outcomes ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-28 08:17|| 2017-08-28 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 America will hate them back and the NFL will go down with them and they'll have to get regular jobs that pay far, far, far less. Good luck with that.

Do they really need adults to explain this sort of thing?

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-28 08:29|| 2017-08-28 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 From February of this year, hard numbers on the television ratings drop, and why it won't really matter to the team owners for a while. Key bits:

NFL ratings were down all season, and there’s no reason to think they’ll get better next year

[Recode] Football was down 9 percent during the regular season and 6 percent during the playoffs.

Sure, this could be a temporary blip and NFL ratings could come back next year. But there’s really no reason to think that.

It’s much more logical to assume that NFL ratings, like all other TV ratings, are under pressure because audiences have many more choices -- Snapchat, Facebook, Clash of Clans, etc. — and they are using those choices.

The argument that live events or live sports or the NFL are immune to that pressure seems like wishful thinking from industries that have bet many billions on that theory being true.

But! That doesn’t mean NFL games aren’t incredibly valuable to TV networks — in part because of the pressure on overall ratings. Even a weakened NFL dominates TV ratings, so if you want to reach a truly mass audience, NFL games are still the go-to choice for advertisers.

And when the next big NFL TV contracts start rolling over in 2021 and 2022, you will certainly see bidding from big digital players like Amazon and Google/Alphabet, who will want a piece of that audience themselves.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-28 09:38|| 2017-08-28 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 I was at the Denver/Green Bay game this Saturday and surprisingly no one sat or kneeled. Was surprised after all the news hype. We'll see as the season goes on, but if starts becoming a team thing, as much as I love the game I'll turn it off.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-28 12:09|| 2017-08-28 12:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Been watching sports for years now with the sound off, with the exception of the LA Angels broadcast, which is rather down home and informative (no virtue-signalling, finger-wagging, etc.) The wife got one of them Alexa thingies a spell ago, and we listened to R. Carlos Nakai throughout the NFL preseason games yesterday. Very Zen.

I avoid ESPN like the fuqing plague. Still yell at the TB whenever they show some diqhed like that feller on Seattle of the one on SF. But that's just a brief fit of pique.

Posted by JHH 2017-08-28 12:44|| 2017-08-28 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Keep yer wallet away from them. Starve the beast.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-08-28 12:50|| 2017-08-28 12:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Quite frankly, I think playing any national anthem before a pro sports event is ridiculous. Yes, it may be "tradition", but, especially in baseball with so many foreign players (not to mention in basketball and ice hockey), the days are over where teams consisted of virtually 100% Americans.

Yes, play the anthem at international events. But at pro events? C'mon. Show me another country besides Canada where that is done.

(Having said that, I think many of these athletes are scummy ingrates.)

Posted by Clem 2017-08-28 14:58|| 2017-08-28 14:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Totally agree, Alaska Paul.

Posted by Clem 2017-08-28 16:13|| 2017-08-28 16:13|| Front Page Top

#12 The US has been strong through unity and that unity is reinforced by the national antgem being played at many events. Nations that do not do so are splintered politically and are week as a nation and are a nation in name only.

The disrespect displayed by overpayed brats is an indication of the loss of that wisdom and if enough non-Americans continue to flood in this nation will splinter into a mosaic of third world hell holes.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-08-28 17:35|| 2017-08-28 17:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Y'know, we really could use a national antigen.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-08-28 18:51|| 2017-08-28 18:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Jim Brown had a talk with these players. They will be standing for the National Anthem.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-08-28 19:27|| 2017-08-28 19:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Regarding US unity we need to start pushing for assimilation among new immigrants, but how when they feed into Blue states who promote the opposite.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-28 19:43|| 2017-08-28 19:43|| Front Page Top

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