Some said this day would never come, but it appears as though the Democrats have found an expenditure of public funds that they don’t like. Unsurprisingly, that expenditure of funds has to do with President Trump and Vice President Pence.
The owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars is once again attacking President Donald Trump, this time saying Trump is only criticizing the NFL because he is “jealous” of the league.
You know the story about the NFL’s national television audience, and how the league is quickly losing the favored-nation status they once held amongst cable and network broadcasters. Less known, though no less disastrous to the league, is that the NFL has lost local support as well.
The man who accused the Las Vegas Police Department of racism without evidence and still has yet to be challenged on that fact by any member of the mainstream sports media, has more things to say. Mainly, that he has no plans to stop his protests and that attempts to force players to respect the anthem, are akin to slavery.
Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long is being hailed as a hero after fans learned he is donating his entire 2017 NFL salary to charity.
The Green Bay Packers lost starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers to a broken collarbone last Sunday. So some sports reporters and fans are wondering why they don’t sign free agent quarterback/political activist Colin Kaepernick.
FLORHAM PARK, NJ – New York Jets linebacker DeMario Davis was one of the players who met with Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL owners Tuesday in NYC to help resolve the NFL’s anthem crisis.
Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones was confronted by a protester as he made his way into the NFL meetings in New York on Wednesday. The protester accused Jones of treating his players like “$40 million slaves.”
Writing in this space on Tuesday, I way too graciously headlined a piece by saying: “In Case You Missed It, the NFL Might Have just Caved On a Lot More than Just the Anthem Protests.” I must apologize for using the word “might” in this headline. Because there’s no might about it, the NFL has completely caved on the anthem protests.
We’ve heard arguments that NFL protesters shouldn’t kneel for the anthem, we’ve heard people say that they’re not right to protest the anthem, we’ve even heard that someone should “get those SOB’s off the field!” What we haven’t heard much of, is that those players are breaking the law by protesting the anthem. That is, until now.
The news for the National Football League’s TV ratings continues to taint the 2017 season with a new report finding that the first six games of the year have fallen 7.5 percent over last year’s total viewership.
President Trump congratulated the NFL for finally coming to their senses on the anthem controversy last week, after Roger Goodell wrote a meme declaring that it was time to “move past the anthem controversy.” On Wednesday morning, had another message for the NFL, one not nearly as congratulatory.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker suggested that the NFL should spend less time protesting the national anthem and spend more time speaking out about domestic violence.
Colin Kaepernick either was invited to attend the league meetings with the players on Tuesday, or he wasn’t. Unless he wasn’t, which means he totally could have. All those scenarios seem to be in play in this insane story.
It’s safe to say, that when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote a memo to the league informing them it was time to “move past the anthem controversy.” Most people thought he meant moving past it by ending the protests, and, as a result, ending the controversy. However, a disturbing nugget of information from today’s meeting suggests that Goodell might have meant something else entirely.
Many have wondered how the NFL might make amends with fans and veterans, for the weekly disrespect that players have shown by kneeling for the national anthem. Well, what the Jacksonville Jaguars did earlier this month would be a good start.
Don Meredith helped make Monday Night Football famous, by singing ‘Turn out the lights, the party’s over” at the end of games. It might be time to sing that same song again for Monday Night Football, though, for an entirely different reason.
The NFL and the NFL Players Association, met on Tuesday to discuss the anthem protests that have dominated so much coverage of the league. The two sides produced a compromise that allowed both sides to feel like they took something away from the table.
At any other point in American sports history, a headline proclaiming that the commissioner of the NFL and an activist player wrote a joint letter on sentencing reform, might seem odd. Then again, it’s 2017, when odd became the new normal.
As the NFL’s 2017 season began, all the league’s broadcast partners were deeply interested in showing the national anthem in order to highlight the protests by millionaire players. But, as Week 6 hit and ratings had slipped to record lows, those same broadcasters began to end their attention on the protests to avoid angering millions of NFL fans.
Everyone is really tired of talking about Colin Kaepernick. Except for Packers Coach Mike McCarthy, he’s really, really tired of talking about Colin Kaepernick.
The NFL is scheduled to have a meeting on Tuesday to discuss, as Commissioner Goodell puts, moving “past the anthem controversy.” For CBS, the NFL couldn’t move past the anthem controversy fast enough.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have not been very good at football. Consequently, their fans have spoken out against them in a variety of ways. Though on Sunday, a group of fans took things to an entirely new level.
“That’s why she lost the election, honestly,” Trump said, referring to Clinton’s comments. “I think that her statement in itself is very disrespectful to our country.”
Colin Kaepernick’s lawyer went on the attack against President Donald Trump, after filing a grievance against the owners of the NFL for refusing to hire his client.
The NFL likely hoped for a return to normalcy for Week 6, especially after Commissioner Goodell’s call to “move past the anthem controversy,” and address the issue in detail at league meetings on Tuesday. Instead, what the NFL got was a return to what has become the “new normal” in the age of anthem protests: empty seats.
Former American Idol singer Jessica Sanchez took a knee while singing the final line of the national anthem prior to the Chargers-Raiders game on Sunday.
A Baltimore pastor known for a flashy lifestyle and marital controversies organized a protest of several dozen people outside the Ravens game in support of Colin Kaepernick on Sunday, according to a report.
Colin Kaepernick has filed a grievance against the NFL, alleging that the 32 owners in the league conspired and colluded to keep him out of the league. Kaepernick remains a free agent since walking away from the 49ers at the end of last season.
With all of the the subtleties and sensitivities of a pack of under-fed hyena’s, the sports media wasted no time lobbying the Green Bay Packers to sign Colin Kaepernick after Aaron Rodgers went down with a broken collarbone.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers could miss the remainder of the season with a broken collarbone.
Despite three straight years of regression on the football field, in addition to an entire season of protesting supposed oppression on the sidelines. Colin Kaepernick thinks he should have a job. Apparently, he thinks it so much that he’s willing to file a grievance against NFL owners for collusion.
A substantially smaller number of 49ers knelt during the anthem, for their game against the Washington Redskins. Last week, more than 20 49ers knelt, and this week, league Commissioner Roger Goodell also issued a memo, saying it was time to “put the anthem controversy behind us.”
The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, has festooned its lawn with over 300 small American flags in an attempt to foster “unity.”
The NFL’s loss of viewers and popularity, in large part due to anthem protests, has provoked a wide-range of reaction across the political world. For the RNC Chairwoman, the latest reports of plummeting NFL ratings provoked a tweet of sarcastic shock.
A lot of intriguing match-ups on the sixth Sunday of NFL action. Here is a preview of the games:
What do Germany and Pittsburgh have in common? Other than being able to find excellent Bratwurst in either place, both Pittsburgh and Germany were the scene of NFL-style anthem protests on Saturday.
BERLIN (AP) — Hertha Berlin nodded to social struggles in the United States by kneeling before its Bundesliga game at home on Saturday.
During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Donald Trump discussed the 236th anniversary of the defeat of the British at the Battle of Yorktown and the American flag and said, “Before watching a football game, you want to see those players be
President Trump told an audience on Friday, that people want to see their players “respect the country.”
