There is a ton of disgust (a lot more than people think) with multi-millionaire athletes disrespecting the sacrifices that millions of dead soldiers made so they can play football instead of wearing a dirty pair of striped pajamas, hoping those "arbeit macht frei" signs really mean what they say. It's disrespectful plain and simple, and people don't dig that. If you want to protest, find another way, this isn't working, and you'll be lumped into the same bucket of scum as antifa in most peoples' minds.
Prediction: owners will start wising up, and the first ones to do it will be rewarded with new fans, or fans that switch loyalty from teams that continue to tolerate this rebellion. Slamming the agenda of the out of orbit left will pay dividends. The election of Trump clearly demonstrates that.
pointing out how much money they make is just total bullshit.
how dare members of a historically oppressed minority utilize one of the few industries they actually have institutional power to give a voice to those who don't that power. How dare they. Kaepernick may have sacrificed his own career for it, selfish prick.
you can honor the troops and their sacrifices in a number of different ways. just because you've decided that's how they should do it doesn't mean it's the only one.
You know, maybe some middle ground could be found where the NFL starts donating seriously to PTSD causes (obvious tie in to brain health and they could use the good pub), or traumatic brain injuries from the battlefield (also obvious tie in)...something where the league and the players could demonstrate that hey, our flag shit has absolutely nothing to do with vets and we are going to go overboard to support them.
I would still disagree with their stance on this, but I get it, I am not the "normal" American anymore in the sense that I did go to war, and so I have a different viewpoint than many perhaps. It fucking bothers me when people don't respect the national anthem and the flag. I used to land in Qatar occasionally and see the flag draped coffins getting unloaded from C-130's to be prepped for the flight back home for burial. Very hard to support millionaire athletes protesting after seeing those who have paid the ultimate price being sent home with that flag.
Anyway, I don't know shit, but I do know most of middle america is not down with this protest, and they are the customers. The NFL has already aggressively sided with the players, so perhaps some major demonstration of support for the troops would help the optics on this with a large segment of their customers.
