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Ten NFL football players mounted some form of protest during the league’s Week One games, as the 2018 season kicked off Thursday and Sunday.

Ratings fell once again for the Week 1 broadcast of NBC’s Sunday Night Football, according to several reports.

While millions of commuters arrived at work stricken with a “case of the Mondays,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the network executives who broadcast his league were undoubtedly celebrating something that has not been the case for them on many Mondays in recent history, a positive ratings day.

Veteran actor James Woods tweeted footage over the weekend of cops saving lives, as a gesture to honor “the mean and women Nike chooses to degrade.”

The College of the Ozarks announced earlier this week week, that they had decided to “choose country over company,” and do away with all athletic uniforms which display the Nike logo.

The mayor of a Louisiana city issued a memorandum on Wednesday demanding that the city’s recreation department ban purchases or deliveries of Nike products.

National anthem protest inventor Colin Kaepernick took to Twitter, Sunday, to thank the two Dolphins players who took a knee on Sunday.

Actor Jim Carrey chose to show off his new pair of Nike trainers on Friday’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, describing the purchase as a “salute” to the apparel company’s embrace of the anti-American NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning, to lament the massive ratings loss the league suffered in their season opener on Thursday night.

A new report claims that the NFL will not implement a new anthem policy during the 2018 season.

NEW YORK (AFP) – Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell did not report to the NFL club on Saturday, forfeiting an $855,000 game check for Sunday’s season opener at Cleveland to extend his contract holdout.

Liberty University may be in the market for a new uniform sponsor, after Nike decided to feature Colin Kaepernick as the face of their new ad campaign.

A Maine Republican is calling for people to switch from Nike products to New Balance after Nike featured national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick in its 30th anniversary “Just Do It” ad.

The NFL and CNN both suffered further ratings declines following Colin Kaepernick’s return to the spotlight and CNN’s ongoing fake news scandals.

A Massachusetts jewelry store is under attack for a billboard mocking the NFL anthem protests.

The NFL season opener between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Atlanta Falcons did not impress either on the field, or in the television ratings.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A question about the propriety of NFL players kneeling in protest during the National Anthem helped select one of Thursday’s preliminary winners in the Miss America competition.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As Colin Kaepernick watched from the apparel giant’s headquarters in Oregon, Nike aired its highly anticipated ad featuring the quarterback known for his social protests during the NFL season opener Thursday night.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on the Atlanta Falcons playing the Philadelphia Eagles in the opening game of the NFL season.

Amid a backdrop of protests and boycotts, a black police union has come to the defense of controversial Nike pitchman and original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick.

Actor Jim Carrey took to Twitter with another of his primitive art drawings this time to celebrate Nike’s latest “Just Do It” ad featuring Colin Kaepernick.

NHL player David Booth took issue with the slogan accompanying Nike’s new Colin Kaepernick ad, citing the fact that Islamist terrorists on 9/11 certainly “believed” in their cause.

Former New York Giant Osi Umenyiora says that Nike is “on the right side of history,” and that Colin Kaepernick will be remembered like “Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks.”

The Huffington Post has accused “unruly” white people of flying into a “destructive rage,” in response to Nike’s latest “Just Do It” ad featuring Colin Kaepernick.

Wednesday, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to react to shoe giant Nike’s ad campaign with activist free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Portnoy explained Nike’s controversial decision as a move to “stay edgy,” which

A sporting goods store in Colorado has vowed to stop selling Nike products after the sportswear giant’s choice of Colin Kaepernick as the face of the 30th Anniversary of its “Just Do It” ad campaign.

A poll from Morning Consult shows devastating results for Nike’s brand favorability, in the days after making Colin Kaepernick the face of their new ad campaign.

Thousands of on social media have had fun creating memes, and altering the images and wording of Nike’s new campaign ad featuring Colin Kaepernick.

Despite having a long, documented history of allegedly employing workers at slave wages, the multinational Nike corporation has become the face of the social justice wing of the political left with its newest ad featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Taya Kyle, widow of SEAL Chris Kyle, had a message for Nike on its latest ad campaign with Kaepernick: “You exhaust my spirit on this one.”

A college in Missouri has decided to “choose its country over company,” and do away with all athletic uniforms which display the Nike logo.

According to a new report, Nike fully understood the beehive it would stir by making Colin Kaepernick the face of its “Just Do It” campaign, but decided to do it anyway because the company’s fan base is “significantly urban.”

The National Fraternal Order of Police issued a statement on Wednesday, declining to boycott, but nonetheless making their opposition to Nike clear after the sports apparel giant made Colin Kaepernick the face of their “Just Do It” ad campaign.

Wednesday on “The Ellen Show,” Beto O’Rourke, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, discussed his remarks at a town hall last month about the National Anthem protests in the NFL. O’Rourke said at the town hall that he “can think of

President Donald Trump pointed to the devastating effect on Nike after the sports brand endorsed Colin Kaepernick’s protests against law enforcement.

The National Association of Police Organizations is calling for a boycott of sportswear giant Nike, incensed by its latest “Just Do It” ad campaign featuring former NFL player and police protester Colin Kaepernick.