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Thread: NFL & National Anthem
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03-05-2018, 04:16 PM #181
Houston Texans refuse to sign any players who protested the National Anthem.
http://dailysnark.com/report-houston...tional-anthem/
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03-05-2018 04:16 PM # ADS
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03-06-2018, 02:47 PM #182
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05-23-2018, 10:16 AM #183
This will be interesting...
NFL adopts policy to fine teams if players and personnel don't stand for national anthem
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/0...al-anthem.html
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05-23-2018, 12:45 PM #184
Why would they do this? Just last year the NFL assured us that disrespecting the flag was not harming the sport.
The NFL somehow managed to screw the unscrewable pooch. Many of the fans they lost are not coming back. I've seen this many times in other sports.
Combined with the concussion problem and the fact many people will no longer allow their kids to participate in tackle football the sport will slowly die. You have witnessed the high water mark of football. It's all just a long downhill slide from here. Enjoy...
/Bookmarked
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05-23-2018, 04:01 PM #185
I agree with the high water mark comment, but I doubt it has anything to do with the protest. Also I am interested in the "I've seen this many times in other sports". Even sports like baseball and hockey that basically cancelled an entire season came back eventually.
Football, may never be quite as popular as it once was but it will be just fine for the next decade as more and more states start allowing legal betting. Gambling and fantasy football is really what skyrocketed the NFL over the past 15 years, and now that is about to expand all over the place (though never Utah).
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05-23-2018, 05:53 PM #186
Football's decline will be slow and steady, but you have seen it reach it's zenith.
Baseball, basketball and hockey never did fully recover from their strikes. Baseball is a hollow shell of what it once was. It took nearly a century for it's fall from America's past time but it fell.
This also reminds me a lot of Indy Car racing. At one time Indy was the world's largest single day sporting event, but internal conflicts destroy the sport in only a couple of years.
All major sports are dying, there is just too much competition from fringe sports that can now be followed through the internet. The NFL has been immune to this decline but the National Anthem screw up was the straw that finally broke the camels back and started the downhill slide.
Which is why the NFL is now desperately trying to put the National Anthem genie back in the bottle.
YMMV
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05-23-2018, 06:00 PM #187
I’m not convinced.
What will take over as the sports Goliath?
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05-23-2018, 06:47 PM #188
Football will still be the big dog for the next 30 or 40 years but the concussion syndrome is football's cancer and it will claim it's victim soon enough. It's already begun, registration for youth football is at historic lows, partcipation in high school football is slumping.
You don't have to believe it, just remember while rocking in your chair at the old folks home when football is the new baseball that I told you so.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...904-story.html
https://syndication.bleacherreport.c...ayers.amp.html
https://www.athleticbusiness.com/hig...astically.html
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05-23-2018, 09:13 PM #189
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05-24-2018, 09:35 AM #190
You can also add boxing to the list of once huge sports that have fallen from grace. Boxing suffered the same fate as the Indy 500.
And why do we need a goliath sport?
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05-24-2018, 10:32 AM #191
Remind me again why they were kneeling? How often does this happen and get swept under the rug, when the guy isn't famous?
https://deadspin.com/milwaukee-polic...own-1826275081
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05-24-2018, 05:14 PM #192
Not saying we need a Goliath sport, just that the NFL holds that title until another takes it from them.
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05-24-2018, 05:15 PM #193
According to @SethWickersham there was no official vote on the national anthem policy at the NFL spring meetings.
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05-27-2018, 05:06 PM #194
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05-28-2018, 10:08 AM #195
A soldier who never knew and never will know me died for me so I can be free. The least I can do is stand for the National Anthem.
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05-29-2018, 03:03 PM #196
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05-29-2018, 05:19 PM #197
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05-29-2018, 06:54 PM #198
Pesky 13th Amendment
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05-29-2018, 08:01 PM #199
..,
I'm not Spartacus
It'll come back.
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05-30-2018, 07:16 AM #200
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