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WarPlanner did an excellent post yesterday on the state of the NFL, but I couldn’t resist throwing in my own two cents about the situation. First, a little scene setting:

There are presumably a lot of discussions happening around the National Football League about President Donald Trump’s comments regarding players sitting for the national anthem, and the Buffalo Bills will be talking about them at a team meeting Saturday night. … One would assume the issue will come up in many of the normal Saturday night team meetings before Sunday’s games. Even NFL commissioner Roger Goodell put out a statement, saying “Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL.” That was a little surprising considering many of the NFL owners who employ Goodell supported and contributed to Trump. It was impossible for the league office to not react, however. Not surprisingly, many NFL players immediately reacted on social media to the comments. We’ll see what happens next. There are Republicans and Democrats in NFL locker rooms. It’s at least worth wondering if Trump’s comments could be divisive in football locker rooms that rely heavily on chemistry. The comments are impossible to ignore now. For what it’s worth, Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said on Saturday he doesn’t expect a team-wide protest on Monday night, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Trump threw out a piece of juicy, red meat to the idiot SJWs in the NFL, and the idiot SJWs are reacting exactly as expected. Most of them are going to demonstrate their butthurt and ratchet up their protests even more. I expect even more teams to stop standing for the national anthem. Indeed, some idiots might go even further and do things like burn flags and put up videos of it on Youtube.

The media is trying very hard to protect the players by classifying the protests as “anti-police” but in fact the protests have nothing to do with the police. The players who won’t stand for the anthem are doing so because they hate the country that has given them millions and they also hate their fans and people who watch football. We’ve seen this hatred for normal people develop in other areas SJWs have infiltrated, such as video games and comic books.

This infiltration led directly to Gamergate, and it led to the comic book sales collapse that comics fans have been chronicling. It’s also causing a meltdown in NFL ratings, as we’ve seen in poll after poll after poll. The NFL, the sports media, and the left tried mightily to be pretend it was because of other factors, such as Trump election coverage, but the media is now finally, grudgingly admitting that the protests are killing viewership.

The common thread in Gamergate, “Comicsgate,” and the situation with the NFL is that the fans just want these overpaid, pompous SJWs to shut up about politics and do their jobs. But the SJWs don’t want to; they’d rather sit on Twitter all day and scream about Trump, or do stupid things on TV, because it’s more interesting than actually doing their jobs. They also have a very exalted sense of their own status and importance and believe themselves to be above their “petty” fans, and don’t like it when the fans have the temerity to puncture these bubbles by taking their dollars elsewhere.

I was somewhat surprised to see that Goodell was allowing this nonsense to continue when the 2017 season started, but I guess he is also an SJW given how he missed a great opportunity to shut up after Trump’s comments. It probably should be obvious given that Goodell has no problem regulating player behavior when it comes to supporting the police. Goodell is yet another SJW who has no problem torpedoing his own business to advance the cause of “social justice.”

With the anti-US protests almost certain to spread, expect more and more fans to just turn off the TV in disgust.

UPDATE by NWC: Steelers followed through!

The entire Steelers team told the world that they would stay behind until after the National Anthem played. The national league representatives told the media that these players are required to be on the sidelines and that anyone who doesn’t show up may be disciplined. Roger Goodell supports the players doing what they did, so anything more than a minor slap on the wrist will be shocking.

MarkMaske on Twitter Failure to be on the field may result in discipline by the league, under NFL rules.

One player did stand up for the National Anthem, Alejandro Villanueva of the Steelers (a former army ranger) came out to stand for it:

UPDATE by Doomberg: Baltimore Ravens, Jacksonville Jaguars Took the Knee

The Baltimore Ravens and the Jacksonville Jaguars also “took the knee” for the anthem… in England. Not only did these SJW fanatics rush out onto the field to show their hatred of their own country, they did so on foreign soil.

Before Sunday’s game in England, which kicked off at 9:30 a.m. ET, dozens of players from both the Ravens and Jaguars protested the national anthem by kneeling. Players who weren’t on their knee showed their unity by locking arms with teammates. It appeared that every player from both teams was either kneeling or standing with locked arms. On the Ravens’ sideline, nearly a dozen players kneeled, including Lardarius Webb, Anthony Levine, Willie Henry and Za’Darius Smith. After Trump called for owners to fire any player who protests, Jaguars owner Shad Khan responded by taking part in the protest himself. Khan locked arms with Telvin Smith and Marcedes Lewis while the national anthem was being played.

PolAgnostic makes a prediction:

PolAgnostic on Twitter Before the half way point in the season, the networks will not show teams on the sidelines during the national anthem Won’t work #BoycottNFL

UPDATE by NWC: Yet Another Spoiled, Anti-American Player Caught on Video

The National Anthem plays in the background while Lesean McCoy stretches on the field.

LESEAN McCoy Continues Stretching Through The National anthem On Sunday, practically every NFL player’s actions during the national anthem were watched and analyzed. Some sat. Some kneeled. Others locked arms. The Pittsburgh Steelers mostly stayed in the locker room. Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy had perhaps the most unusual reaction to the anthem. He stretched like nothing was going on.