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The NFL is still getting tackled in the ratings and this week is no exception, as Monday Night Football seems to have once again taken a knee with numbers approaching a season low.

As part of its commitment to its protesting players, the NFL has announced funding social justice training for college football players and other students, reports say.

In the wake of the report that Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson will sell the team due to a workplace misconduct investigation, ESPN “First Take” co-host Stephen A. Smith said Monday that “it would be nice” if the NFL allowed a

The football world got quite the jolt on Sunday evening, when the Carolina Panthers announced that their owner, Jerry Richardson, would sell the team. The football world got another jolt only a few hours later when rapper and Hip-Hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, announced that he would like to buy the Panthers.

Despite the NFL’s promise to spend nearly $90 million to promote “social justice” campaigns, players are still kneeling in protest against the country during the playing of the national anthems, and along with the protests, the league’s TV ratings are still cratering.

A new law was proposed in Tennessee on Monday, which would require municipalities to hold a non-binding referendum election before property tax or sales tax revenue could be used to service debt on a professional sports team’s stadium. non-binding referendum.

And then there were three….three NFL protesters to be exact.

With the NFL undergoing a nearly unprecedented decline in ratings, in-game attendance, and overall popularity; a bold and adventurous businessman with lots of resources, could consider launching a rival football league to compete with the NFL.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Panthers are investigating workplace misconduct allegations against founder and owner Jerry Richardson.

The NFL has struggled mightily this year to get people to watch their primetime games, as the ratings from the Week 15 edition of Thursday Night Football continue to come in, it’s clear that those struggles will continue until the end of the year.

The NFL anthem protests have sought to destroy much of what Americans hold dear: pride in what our country truly stands for, and reverence for those who fought to preserve it.

America today is a happier place than it was a year ago. President Donald Trump will not receive credit for that, but it is largely his doing.

NFL Media Vice President and Executive Editor David Eaton first cleaned, then outright deleted, his Twitter account which was full of interaction with porn stars and prostitutes.

The NFL Network has recently been rocked by sexual misconduct allegations lodged against several prominent members of their on-air staff.

Colin Kaepernick has made very few public appearances since walking out on his contract in San Francisco nearly a year ago.

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills, an anthem-kneeler for the last two seasons, was named as one of the 32 nominees for the 2017 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award.

An elaborate hoax has fooled thousands of sports fans into thinking that the Washington Redskins finally dumped its much-derided team name to re-brand itself as the “Washington Redhawks.”

A New Orleans Saints fan and season-ticket holder has sued the franchise for reimbursement of his ticket prices and attorney fees, in response to Saints players kneeling before the anthem at home games and sitting during the anthem in a Week 3 road game.

Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to Twitter on Tuesday night to offer congratulations and her explanation, for why Doug Jones won the Alabama Senate election.

GREEN BAY, Wis. – (AP) — Aaron Rodgers has been “medically cleared to return” to action after missing seven games with a broken right collarbone, the Green Bay Packers quarterback announced on Instagram Tuesday night.

On Monday, Verizon announced a massive deal that will allow the media giant to “distribute live games and content” for the NFL.

For the better part of two years, the NFL has struggled to regain its one-time top spot among America’s favorite pastimes, but a survey from the last three months proves that the effort has miserably failed as pro football has become “America’s most hated sport.”

SportsBusiness Journal has chosen President Trump as its most influential person in sports for 2016. However, the publication was not necessarily happy with the outcome, saying that the award sparked a long and heated debate.

The sexual misconduct and harassment allegations that have rocked so much of the world of entertainment and politics, have now rocked the NFL.

The Week 14 edition of Sunday Night Football represented one of the NFL’s last chances to right the ship, and prevent a large amount of coal from being delivered into their stocking just before Christmas.

Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell shot down the notion that free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the victim of a blackballing by owners around the NFL due to his polarizing National Anthem protests. Goodell said that Kaepernick “is

Fox Sports 1 “First Things First” co-host Cris Carter weighed in Monday on Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Quinton Jefferson almost climbing into the stands Sunday to fight with Jacksonville Jaguars fans throwing beverages at him following his ejection for unnecessary

Budget cuts are looming for Fox Sports as a result of the millions in lost advertising revenue for the NFL over the last two seasons, a report says.

Last week, New York Giants quarterback Geno Smith called former head coach Rex Ryan a “coward” in response to the now-ESPN analyst’s criticism of the Giants benching Eli Manning for Smith. Ryan responded Sunday on ESPN’s “NFL Countdown” with a

If it seems like Seahawk defender Michael Bennett has a habit of finding himself in situations which do not become a Walter Payton Man of the Year Award winner, that’s because he does.

There are some football teams that handle defeat well, then there’s the Seattle Seahawks. Trouble started brewing when Jacksonville went into victory formation, prior to the conclusion of their 30-24 win over Seattle.

The Seattle Seahawks fell to the Jacksonville Jaguars 30-24 Sunday, but the Seahawks did not go down without a fight. As the Jaguars went to take a knee to melt the clock at the end of the game, outspoken Seahawks defensive end Michael

The plague of empty seats which has befallen the National Football League reached biblical proportions this week, as teams continued to find it hard to fill stadiums.

The NFL is having such a tough time filling seats that in some cases tickets are selling for the unheard of price of ten dollars to even three dollars a seat on the secondary market, several reports say.

During Friday’s “Undisputed” on Fox Sports 1, co-host Shannon Sharpe argued that no black NFL players could get away with the same antics as New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, who was suspended one game for a late hit

In what has to be the public relations equivalent of passing on the 1-yard line in the Super Bowl, the Seattle Seahawks have made the decision to nominate Michael Bennett for the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award.