There’s an old saying which states: If you can’t beat them, join them. However, if Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones had his way, that old adage would read: If you can’t beat them, disband them.
The clock is ticking and Jerry Jones is running out of options, but the Cowboys owner has one more card to play in his quest to delay/derail Roger Goodell’s contract extension.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter knows the NFL, and if his sources are correct, Roger Goodell’s contract extension could get signed right in the backyard of the man who is trying to stop it.
Herschel Walker had a legendary college and pro football career, in which he absorbed and delivered some of the most memorable hits in the history of the game. Now, in his fifties, Walker is still delivering hits.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wage war on each other, and the league’s media camp followers pick sides.
As the ongoing feud between outspoken Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell continues, Sunday Night Football’s Al Michaels believes Jones has some private support from other owners. Michaels guaranteed Thursday on Mike Francesa’s WFAN radio show that
Both cable sports network ESPN and the National Football League have been losing fans and revenue hand over fist, but despite the cascading failures both entities have offered their chief executives huge contract renewals.
Only two weeks after publicly criticizing NFL leadership and saying that the anthem protests should have been “nipped the in the bud a year and a half ago,” Papa John’s has apologized on Tuesday for being, “divisive.”
Thursday on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” co-host Skip Bayless reacted to the report Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is attempting to block NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell from getting a contract extension. According to Bayless, debacles such as the National Anthem protests
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seeks to stop the National Football League from extending the contract of Commissioner Roger Goodell.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell tacitly acknowledged the damage done by the politicization of football in remarks delivered on Wednesday.
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.
Papa John’s and the NFL, have probably enjoyed the closest business relationship of any sponsor and sports league, in recent sports history. However, the NFL’s handling of the recent spate of anthem protests, might sever that tie for good.
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.
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.
President Donald Trump criticized the NFL as athletes continued to protest during the national anthem.
It was once thought that Deflategate would be the signature, defining moment of Roger Goodell’s tenure as commissioner of the NFL. However, that theory prevailed in the comparatively innocent days before the advent of anthem protests. Now that it’s clear that those protests, and not mysterious psi levels, will come to signify Goodell’s tenure. Perhaps it’s poetically just that the controversy surrounding those protests, is what’s delaying Goodell’s new contract.
When the first half of the 21st century is way back enough for a history to written unencumbered by agenda, President Barack Obama will be remembered as the worst thing that ever happened to the Democrat Party. And to the NFL.
President Trump has decided he will do the work that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, will not do for himself. Except this time, President Trump won’t call out the anthem protesters from a podium at a rally. This time, he will do it from the White House website.
Now that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has signaled surrender to the anthem protesters, by saying that the league won’t force players to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner. The next logical step is for the anthem protesters to demand that the founder of their movement get a job in the league. Well, that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday.
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett compared Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s decision to sit players who do not stand for the national anthem to the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The National Football League seeks to double down on politics despite the bad hand of anthem kneelers resulting in fans becoming boo-birds.
A new report reveals that an anonymous Twitter account seen faithfully supporting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was secretly created and operated by his own wife.
The San Francisco 49ers won’t be forcing their players to stand during the national anthem, safety Eric Reid said Wednesday.
President Donald Trump celebrated the news that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is trying to end the national anthem protests.
There aren’t enough ironic illustrations, to adequately express what has happened to ESPN this week. The network that has become a bastion of left-wing media activism, was protested by two different groups of leftists, angry at ESPN for suspending an activist journalist that they should have fired a month ago.
The NFL had a night with no major political developments, no disasters of a natural or unnatural nature, and the halftime playing of a trailer for the next Star Wars movie, and yet, their ratings tanked again.
In what is surely a sign of the times in which we currently live, the topic of how to players will conduct themselves during the playing of the national anthem, will be “front and center” part of the agenda when NFL owners meet next week.
Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones had had it with anthem protests. Just how tired of it is he? Tired enough that Jones has now publicly said that if his team doesn’t respect the flag, they’re not going to play.
It took 5 weeks, but one NFL team has reportedly been told what all teams should have been told before the season even started: stand for the anthem, or stay in the locker room.
A report says that the NFL owners clashed in private over how to respond as players across the league continue to test the limits of their powers to use the national anthem to push their anti-American protests.
Marshawn Lynch, an NFL player who has never stood accused of being immune to the powers of irony, showed up to the stadium on Sunday wearing a shirt that read: “Everybody vs Trump.”
In news that will shock only those who have spent the last week living in caves, the NFL’s favorability has taken a massive nosedive.
The NFL has a hot mess on its hands. Players knelt during the National Anthem in record numbers last weekend, an act of defiance towards President Donald J. Trump, who on September 22, called on kneeling players to be fired. The practice of NFL player anthem kneeling was started last year by former San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick because he feels the United States “oppresses black people.”
As hundreds of NFL players puff themselves up as political activists, many fans are responding, but not how the “social justice” activists had hoped. Fans were already abandoning the NFL in droves, but now they are responding in anger in a myriad of ways.
