NFL News: Anthem protests led poll of reasons viewers tuned out (salaries, Mexican)
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Yet they are shooting themselves in the foot in the long term. For financial reasons, a product like sports should be as politically neutral as possible. The relatively wealthy conservatives (and their children) make up a huge portion of the NFL/NBA fan base.
So should Hollywood be politically neutral but that is not the way it is and they still turn a profit. They both would have a problem if conservatives boycotted both but that is not going to happen.
Watch the next thing to happen Kaepernick will get picked up by an NFL team just as a swipe at Trump.
Maybe if the reality TV president stuck to politics instead of attacking athletes in stump speeches and on Twitter, they wouldn't feel the need to fight back. Not to mention as a whole they are much better liked than Trump and his merry band of social rejects. He's started yet another war he can't win.
Currently the most significant problem regarding racism in America is people making false accusations of racism in order to inflame, and ultimately to divide Americans according to race.
What are you, Russian? Even wealthy conservatives enjoy football. How many of them do you think would trade their NFL season tickets in exchange for holding tiki torches at one of Trump's rallies?
The rest of America is no different:
Mom - "So, Johnny, wanna go to the boy scout rally and hear another nutty speech?"
Johnny - "Mo-om! I wanna go see the Patriots game! You promised!
He said there were "good people on both sides" when speaking of the tragedy at Charlottesville. How does killing someone during a peaceful protest make you a "good person"?
Guess what, snowflakes? Winter is coming and Trump keeps doing the crowd seeding to produce more snow - one "flake" at a time. That's how avalanches are made.
Why is there only two choices - wealthy season ticket holder or torch bearer at a rally? What about all the middle ground which could be people going to one less game, not renewing their NFL network subscription or buying less merchandise? They may not be Trump fans in the least.
Trump has always had a problem with black men. He built his political career questioning the personal background of our first and only black president.
They should have been speaking out especially when the Donald Sterling situation happened and when that NFL player got killed by a non-cop who wasn't even charged. If it took Trump to light the fire under them, good. I'm glad they're finally finding their voices and getting out of the sunken place.
So should Hollywood be politically neutral but that is not the way it is and they still turn a profit. They both would have a problem if conservatives boycotted both but that is not going to happen.
Watch the next thing to happen Kaepernick will get picked up by an NFL team just as a swipe at Trump.
IMO that's a win for both Trump gets Kapernick a job and can take credit for reducing minority unemployment one person, one job at and time thus keeping his promise to black America. BTW Kapernick should thank Trump if that does happen.
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