Make no mistake the current “political activism” by these Millionaire players supported and permitted by Billionaire team owners will negatively affect their financial well being and your ratings.
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About a half dozen other players followed suit over the course of the 2016 and 2017 football seasons, but the protests almost reached league-wide levels last weekend after President Donald Trump, speaking at an Alabama political rally, used profanity to disparage protesting players, saying they should be fired.
And most recently, after decades of protest, the rights of Americans to marry whom they choose regardless of gender paved the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage across the land. Expect viewership to decrease more and financial losses to increase after the latest wave of protests.
“It takes a person who’s been traumatized by the things we as black people go through on a daily basis to understand why they are protesting”, she said. After the Steelers embarrassing loss to the Chicago Bears, Tomlin stated that he wished that the team was unified before the game, saying “I was looking for 100 percent participation, we were gonna be respectful of our football team”. “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder”.
The polls further show that Americans don’t like players kneeling for the anthem.
Several players have made similar gestures in what they said is a call for social justice, not a slight against the country or its flag.
Trump has beaten back questions about whether his focus on the National Football League protests took his attention away from a host of crises, including hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico and tensions with North Korea.
Then last Friday before the weekend’s NFL games kicked off, Trump came out of left field calling players who kneel during the national anthem, “sons of bitches”.
This is what gets the commissioner of the largest sports league to comment?
Yet the president spent three days tweeting about professional sports players. This language is risky and shameful, and must be roundly condemned by National Football League owners. Is that the worst that he’s ever said? He’s fired. He’s fired!'” He got the desired response, cheers of “USA! “When it comes to the respect of our nation, when it comes to the respect of our anthem and our flag-they have no choice”, he said.
The President is right about the broad issue. It wasn’t like he issued an executive order, telling anyone what to do with their employees. But too few of them want to do that, so why not just take a knee. literally.
“Our President gets into the “we” and “them” kind of conversations and, you know, sometimes you wonder, who’s “we” and who’s “them”?” Think of him as a guy who wanted to live every bit as much as you do.
The players have the owners by the testicles.
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It’s not a political platform. Curry, coach Steve Kerr, and other Warriors players have been outspoken in their criticism of Trump, and Kerr wrote on SI.com that the team probably would not have gone regardless.
