The NFL, Kneeling, Ratings, and the Flag

[Salt USMC]

Well...

Three-mile-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will fly past Earth

OhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhpleaseOhplease

 

[Kraut783]

Please release a zombie making spore!

 

[amlove21]

Great work there, Fox. Just great.

Fox News ripped for misleading photos of Philadelphia Eagles players kneeling

Are we done with this yet? No? Still talking about the anthem and camps barely started? Cool.

 

[Box]

All a professional sportsball athlete has to do is state that they will stand quietly with their hand on their heart in protest and 50% of the American populace will loose their minds...
...because standing in protest is unthinkable
...so is kneeling
...or sitting
...or staying in the locker room
...or joining arms
...or refusing to joining arms
...or because they are blindly paying homage to an oppressive regime
...or not

I am outraged at this outrage !!!

Most TV news these days is more entertainment than information. Infotainment - it's what America wants!
If it isn't one channel its the other. The alphabet media (ABC CBS NBS FOX CNN MSNBC TBS LMNOP ETC) will print-post-reprint-repost-report anything and everything if it will draw enough controversy to increase the ratings share.
Who cares about accuracy?
Why do we need fact-checking when we have Snopes?

All of these hacks and hackettes should be taken out to sea and thrown overboard with a cinder block tied to their foot.
Way to go FOX - good job

Now - would everyone please stand...
...or kneel
...or sit
...for the playing of the national anthem

 

[AWP]

If the news and President were to drop this matter, America's attention span would guarantee that... squirrel!

 

[Ooh-Rah]

it was a good run, coach.

 

[Kaldak]

Had this sent to me...this felt like the appropriate place.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694726263234248819

 

[AWP]

The NFL making fun of the NFL...playing into common criticisms of the NFL?

No regrets leaving them off my Sunday schedule. Zero. I miss football, but what a shit organization. Kill off Goodell and I might return. Clownshoes. Not NBA level, because that would take A LOT, but clownshoes all the same.

Honorable mention to Key and Peele or whoever that was for selling out. Isn't that right, A-A-ron?

 

[DA SWO]

The NFL making fun of the NFL...playing into common criticisms of the NFL?

No regrets leaving them off my Sunday schedule. Zero. I miss football, but what a shit organization. Kill off Goodell and I might return. Clownshoes. Not NBA level, because that would take A LOT, but clownshoes all the same.

Honorable mention to Key and Peele or whoever that was for selling out. Isn't that right, A-A-ron?

I take my nephew to a cigar bar for MNF, he's blind and that's the limit of his social life ( I give him a play by play of the game ).

The only games I really watch now are the playoffs and SB.

NASCAR and the NFL use to be a Sunday staple in our house. Both gone due to wokeness.

 

[TLDR20]

I fucking love the NFL. I cannot wait for the games to start.

 

[Devildoc]

We still

I fucking love the NFL. I cannot wait for the games to start.

I love college football, and I really enjoy NFL. Can't wait.

 

[Box]

Foosball - Pfft

I quit watching pretty much all of the millionaire sportsball entertainers over a decade ago. I'm just over listening to multimillionaires preach about how poor and oppressed they are and how privileged and unconnected the rest of us are for not recognizing their plight.

 

[Blizzard]

Foosball - Pfft

I quit watching pretty much all of the millionaire sportsball entertainers over a decade ago. I'm just over listening to multimillionaires preach about how poor and oppressed they are and how privileged and unconnected the rest of us are for not recognizing their plight.

What do you mean? They're warriors going to battle for 60 minutes every week for 16 weeks. What would you know about that?

 

[Topkick]

I watch college football. Used to watch NASCAR but the Drivers all seem cookie cutter. Not much personality in the sport now since they canceled all the good ole boys and went woke. The cars are stupid now too.

 

[Devildoc]

Foosball - Pfft

I quit watching pretty much all of the millionaire sportsball entertainers over a decade ago. I'm just over listening to multimillionaires preach about how poor and oppressed they are and how privileged and unconnected the rest of us are for not recognizing their plight.

Are you talking football, all pro sports, politicians, movie and TV actors... I mean, the list is quite long.

 

[Box]

Are you talking football, all pro sports, politicians, movie and TV actors... I mean, the list is quite long.

I quit watching sportsball years ago - being deployed for most of most seasons made it easy not to miss it

I do the very best to stay within my own sustainable limits of hypocrisy - Netflix is the devil - unless it’s something I want to watch - during that time slot, Netflix is ok.
Disney is also the devil - unless they are subsidizing something that brings me pleasure - otherwise - they’re just misfits and groomers
For now

Then again - I’m prone to cheering for the wicked witch of the west because she was the real victim in that movie so my perspective may be a little skewed

I can’t boycott everything but I’ll sure as hell talk a lot of shit about being wronged by things I don’t like because I’m currently identifying as a victim

 

[ThunderHorse]

The NFL making fun of the NFL...playing into common criticisms of the NFL?

No regrets leaving them off my Sunday schedule. Zero. I miss football, but what a shit organization. Kill off Goodell and I might return. Clownshoes. Not NBA level, because that would take A LOT, but clownshoes all the same.

Honorable mention to Key and Peele or whoever that was for selling out. Isn't that right, A-A-ron?

The US Women's National Soccer team entered the chat...

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

Since all the wars have been over and there's little chance I'll ever have excitement in my life again, I've been visiting the VA and taking pills trying to get back to my pre-GWOT self. I can't stare at the walls forever, and my son's HS/MS games only take up a few hours of my Saturday.

I wouldn't watch any game that begins with some clown kneeling during the anthem. The Bills are doing good for the first time in 20 years. For a miserable guy from WNY, that's about as good as life gets. Still can't stand seeing all the bogus slogans on helmets and in the end zone, it reminds me of They Live, except you don't need the glasses.

I don't remember ever seeing any MLB players kneeling, of course I only try to catch the occasional Yankees game. Half of em' are from the Dominican Republic anyhow.

 

[Devildoc]

Since all the wars have been over and there's little chance I'll ever have excitement in my life again, I've been visiting the VA and taking pills trying to get back to my pre-GWOT self. I can't stare at the walls forever, and my son's HS/MS games only take up a few hours of my Saturday.

I wouldn't watch any game that begins with some clown kneeling during the anthem. The Bills are doing good for the first time in 20 years. For a miserable guy from WNY, that's about as good as life gets. Still can't stand seeing all the bogus slogans on helmets and in the end zone, it reminds me of They Live, except you don't need the glasses.

I don't remember ever seeing any MLB players kneeling, of course I only try to catch the occasional Yankees game. Half of em' are from the Dominican Republic anyhow.

You know who almost always stands respectfully for the national anthem? Baseball players and hockey players. You know which sports have the fewest athletes from the US? Baseball and hockey.

 

[AWP]