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Week 13 doesn’t appear to be the National Football League’s lucky number as photos of stadiums across the league still show an awful lot of empty seats. Meanwhile, the sad in-person attendance mirrors the continually plummeting TV ratings.

More than a dozen NFL players went back to protesting against the country in the first NFL action since the Thanksgiving holiday. Not surprisingly, while the protests continued, fans continued to leave thousands of empty seats in stadiums across the league.

Super Bowl Champion Burgess Owens is not a fan of the NFL’s now weekly anti-American protests staged during the paying of the national anthem. He believes players need to show respect for the country that has made so many of them millionaires.

President Donald Trump continued his criticism of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, pointing out another player who refused to stand during the national anthem.

“The NFL is now thinking about a new idea – keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “That’s almost as bad as kneeling!”

It has gotten increasingly hard for average Americans to afford to take their families out to sporting events, because the costs are so high. But as the NFL continues to lose fans, TV ratings, and moral authority, ticket prices have also crashed to unheard of lows.

President Donald Trump continued to criticize the NFL for failing to suspend players who refused to stand for the national anthem.

The California chapter of the NAACP is advising Congress to abolish the national anthem, calling the song a “racist” relic of the past.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seeks to stop the National Football League from extending the contract of Commissioner Roger Goodell.

As it’s 2017 season wound down, Major League Baseball found that its sponsors spent eight percent more this year over last season. On the other hand, with ratings crashing and advertisers expressing serious doubts, the NFL is suffering like never before.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell tacitly acknowledged the damage done by the politicization of football in remarks delivered on Wednesday.

The California chapter of the NAACP is trying to persuade state lawmakers to support its campaign to remove “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the U.S. national anthem.

A lawyer for national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick says that the NFL canceled a special one-on-one meeting it had offered the player with Commissioner Roger Goodell, but the league disputes the lawyer’s claim.

The NFL has reportedly invited national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick to a private, one-on-one meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson tore his ACL last week, and now team leadership is admitting that they briefly considered bringing original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick to Texas as a replacement.

With ratings for the NFL’s Week 9 games rolling in, some results show a slowing of the tumbling ratings over last year’s numbers. But the numbers still show NFL ratings down double digits over the league’s 2015 season.

With the National Football League losing ratings and fans by the millions, and no end in sight to Commissioner Roger Goodell’s coddling of the players’ protests. A group of players are now demanding that the mediation process be employed to solve the issue.

With the troubles facing the NFL’s cratering TV ratings, it is also important to note that fans are staying away from the stadiums, too.

On Wednesday the owner and founder of the Papa John’s pizza chain and major NFL advertiser held a press conference where he excoriated the league saying that its national anthem protests had cost him $70 million in business. Now, several members of the sports media have theorized that the owner of the Dallas Cowboys was behind the pizza chain’s complaints.

Complicating the issue of the NFL’s cratering TV ratings, a new report by The Wall Street Journal claims that ratings for the league are worse in blue states than they are in red states leading some to wonder if the national anthem protests are having less of an impact than conventional wisdom maintains.

Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell made news last month, becoming Major League Baseball’s first anthem protester. This month he made news for a disputed charge that a waiter refused to serve him over political differences, and for brandishing a gun in the face of a pizza delivery worker.

A new survey of some of the nation’s most polarizing brand names, finds the NFL ranking in higher on the polarization scale than several news networks: ABC CBS, Fox Business, the Huffington Post, and even Breitbart News.

As ratings for the NFL continue to fall across nearly every network currently broadcasting games, one analyst is noting that it would make good business sense for cable sports network ESPN to simply give up its $15.2 billion commitment to broadcast NFL games.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, one of the few team owners to openly criticize the NFL’s ever-present national anthem protests, has a new target in his sights. According to reports, Jones is working to get rid of Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner who is plainly facilitating the players’ protests.

A father and son who were set to officiate during a high school football game in New Jersey, walked off the field when the students took a knee during the playing of the national anthem.

A liberal east coast sports reporter recently left his comfortable liberal bubble in New York City, traveled to the interior of the country, and was shocked when he discovered that NFL fans in fly over country really do hate the NFL’s constant anti-American national anthem protests.

Scottsdale, Arizona, police arrested Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell early Saturday evening for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as a result of allegedly pointing a gun at a female food-delivery driver. The cops also charged him for disorderly conduct.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher slammed “fetish patriotism” and argued those who “wrap themselves in the flag are always the ones most clueless about what it represents.” Maher began by saying, “Someone must tell me

A new Fox poll finds that 52 percent of respondents still disapprove of the NFL’s protests against the country during the national anthem. The league has also seen a massive fall from grace.

Houston Texans Owner Bob McNair raised eyebrows at an NFL meeting earlier this month, with an analogy he made slam about anthem-protesting players, saying that we “can’t have the inmates running the prison.” McNair has since apologized for the remark.

Rocky Bleier won four Super Bowls for the Pittsburgh Steelers after earning a Purple Heart and rushed for nearly 4,000 yards in the NFL after getting shot in the leg in Vietnam.

Fox CEO James Murdoch is worried about the collapsing ratings for pro football but thinks the drop is due to “over saturation” and not because of the league’s constant protests during the national anthem.

A waiter from an Alabama restaurant has come forward to dispute the claim of Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell who made national news on Wednesday saying the waiter refused to serve him because he took a knee during the national anthem.

The widow of Major League Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, says she doubts whether her famed husband would have protested during the playing of the national anthem, but she can’t say for sure.

No stand, no service. That would best describe the account being told by Oakland A’s catcher and anthem protester, Bruce Maxwell. Who claims that a waiter in an Alabama restaurant refused to serve him after the server recognized him as baseball’s sole anthem protester.

It’s turning into quite the week for former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. First, he lands a $1 million book deal with a high-profile publisher. Now, the league he filed a grievance against only two weeks ago, has invited him to attend the next meeting between the players and the owners.