On the NFL protests

Football with a side of sanctimony  . . . "Starbucks tried something similar.  In 2015, the coffee company encouraged its baristas to engage customers in conversations about race.  This effort was terminated within a week, amid a firestorm of criticism, indignation, and jokes.  Their customers didn't want coffee served with self-righteousness back then, and football fans don't want to watch sanctimonious football players now.

"The NFL could stop this anytime it wants.  In July 2016, for example, the league prohibited Dallas players from wearing decals in support of five Dallas policemen who had been killed in an ambush. " . . .

 "This prompted the Ravens and the Jaguars to take their lack of respect for our flag overseas.  On September 24 in London, players for those teams kneeled for The Star-Spangled Banner, then stood up for God Save the Queen." . . .

Rick Moran: NFL desperately looking for compromise on anthem protests  
. . . "It also leaves the racial protesters out in the cold, preventing them from fulfilling Colin Kaepernick's promise: "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.' " . . .


ESPN is indeed becoming more leftist:

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Sharpton missed the boat this time:
Thomas Lifson: Al Sharpton, desperate for a popular cause, chases bandwagon that has already departed  . . . "There are lots of laws that impact “people of color” more than colorless people (as if Caucasians are transparent). Shall we throw out murder laws because blacks commit that crime more often?"
. . . Sharpton "sparked an actual pogrom, an antisemitic riot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 1991, and following his denunciation of “white interlopers” (A Jewish-owned store) in Harlem, Freddie’s Fashion Mart was firebombed with 7 deaths."


Kaepernick, the Smithsonian, and the Lessons of History  . . . " Fifty years later, the left has a death grip on the NFL.  There is a complete lack of leadership by the NFL owners and the commissioner to hold players accountable for their on-field political actions." . . .

Wall Street vets are threatening to pull the plug on the NFL  . . . "On Thursday, Allan Jones, founder of Check Into Cash, said that he is pulling all commercials for his lending companies during NFL games for the rest of the season.
"In other fallout, DirecTV said it will refund subscribers of its NFL Sunday Ticket package if they are opposed to the protests". . . 

How Trump beat the NFL   "The biggest story of the weekend is from Canton, Ohio, where suddenly -- spontaneously -- for no apparent reason but plain patriotism, the Pro Football Hall of Fame sprouted 800 American flags." . . .

Blame the NFL, Not Trump  . . . Trump is not adept at governing, but he is a master culture warrior. He is president because he knows his Middle American, working-class supporters, what angers and energizes them. He also seems to get, in a way his Beltway betters do not, the chasms between elite opinion and grassroots sensibility. His antennae detect when the former is woefully out of touch." . . .

The regret I have is not being able to undo the wrong done to black athletes of the past, such as Satchel Paige and so many others who could not participate in mainstream sports. They were not even allowed to eat in the same restaurants nor stay in the same hotels as whites. They are the ones I wish to have gone back in time and make everything right for, not these wealthy, left-wing anti-American malcontents. TD