Trump called for teams to fire players who kneel during the playing of the national anthem and the players and owners (so far) told him to shove it.
The act of attending or watching an NFL game is now an anti-Trump statement.
**BREAKING: ONE MILLION ATTEND ANTI-TRUMP RALLIES IN NFL STADIUMS SUNDAY. SIMILAR RALLIES SCHEDULED WEEKLY THROUGH FEBRUARY.
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More of a rant than anything else.
Moving from Elections to the Pit.
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Aye, and I guarantee that more people like football waaaaaaay more than the number of people who’ll stand firm with Trump on this want to stand firm on this.
Trump picked a fight that he can’t win.
I mean, wait until it get’s characterized as “Trump is trying to destroy the NFL and football”; how do you think that will play in flyover country?
Even Bob Kraft (who notoriously wrote a personal letter to Trump voicing support during the campaign) has slammed Trump’s remarks.
Lol.
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I found this in a side blurb while looking at football scores (my Bucs lost), so I’m not sure how to link to it, but I’ll try:
No guarantee it’ll show up, tho so here it is:
From Mike Rodak, ESPN Staff Writer:
So yeah, at this point, it’s about protesting the POTUS.
Dang. Finally an initiative I could support him on. Makes me feel dirty.
The other factor, I just mentioned in another thread is the billions of dollars Fox pays to get the rights to show the NFL. The sponsors who pay them for commercial time aren’t going to like Fox News dumping on the league and supporting the boycotters very much. I wonder if the is the straw that breaks the back, you know because rights to protest is so critical 
About a dozen players of Kraft’s team, the Patriots, took a knee during the national anthem today, while the rest of the team linked arms. I believe I heard quite a lot of booing immediately following the anthem, but it didn’t appear that any fans stormed out in counter-protest.
I would have liked to see the Pats carry their protest further by finally losing to the Texans, but whatever. 
And right now, CNN is the “All NFL protests, all the time” channel even though (among other things), 3 1/2 million American citizens are without utilities in Puerto Rico, some nut walked into a church in the Nashville area and shot 7 people, and, well, North Korea. :o
HELLO THERE! :smack:
Clearly the NFL needs a team composed entirely of [del]good conservative[/del] terrorized Trumpists, who will never ever protest something unless the potato-in-chief does. And who, having been selected for their cravenness, not their gridiron skills, will also never ever win.
Well, at least MSNBC has their priorities straight— they are concentrating all their airtime on the revelation that Jared Kushner set up an email account on a private server and used that account to conduct official business — or something. :smack::smack:
So if one million are protesting Trump by attending does that mean that the other 320+ million Americans are siding with Trump because they do not attend an NFL game? :dubious:
To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a football game is just a football game.
Perhaps the refs decided to protest by forgetting there were two teams to call penalties against 
Basic math.
People who wanted to watch football no matter what will watch it. SOME people who were watching will be put off by this shit and quit watching. There might also be another group that did not watch football but NOW will because “yeah, fuck Trump/whatever”.
IMO that second group WAY outnumbers the third one.
Now, whether those numbers make any sigificant difference is a whole nother issue.
Jerry Jones has sided with Trump. I will be watching tomorrow night’s pre game and game closely. Most likely it will be my last game as a Cowboys fan.
Nonsense: A statement completely devoid of logic and/or divorced from reality.
Don’t blame CNN for reporting the news. President Trump looked over all the problems in this country and the rest of the world and decided this was the perfect opportunity to complain that he doesn’t like what some professional athletes are doing and make that his issue of the week.
Lock him up!
Okay, that’s funny 