The NFL needs all the people they can get. That's what a business depends upon.
The stupidity behind all this is that when entertainment takes a political position, they get approval from half their supporters and piss off the other half. Taking no political stance at all means the approval of all their audience.
They will learn this eventually when it costs the league, the team, or the players millions of dollars.
Then again people want entertainment, and where else do these people go for football? Nowhere.
Hollywood has political films, yes, they might less money, the Marvel Comic nonsense makes loads of money because it can come out in China. The question is, do you want a film industry that's afraid to try and just pumps out the same tired old marvel comic book story? Or do you want something that is alive?
If you stop watching football just because some players protest, then maybe you don't actually like football in the first place. If you hate protest so much, then which other rights do you hate?
Correct, I am not much of a sports fan. However if my home team is doing well, I do turn on the games because I am a fair weather fan.
I watched the Cavs in the playoffs because they were doing well. I am now watching the Cleveland Indians because they are going to the playoffs and much like last year, probably to the world series. But I will not turn on the Browns no matter what they do, and there are tens of thousands like me.
The die hard fans? Nothing will stop them from viewing or attending games. But die hard fans will do so regardless of the teams success. It's the extra revenue from people like me that they target. Without us, all they have is dedicated sports fans which again, will watch or attend games no matter what.
And the question is this: Do they depersonalize the sport to such an extent that people like you are happy with it?
For example in Soccer they want to stop player celebrating goals. When you have very few goals, like 3 or less on average per game, why would you want to depersonalize it?
Is this going to make the sport better? Or do they just accept that people like you might just watch anyway, or might get turned off anyway? They might target you for revenue, but they could also potentially destroy the sport as a viewing spectacle if they do.
If players are celebrating a goal, nobody is (or should be) offended by that. And like I said, when an entertainer takes a political stance, they automatically piss off half of the people that watch them. It's pure stupidity.
Keeping politics and religion out of entertainment is the smartest thing industry or entertainers could do. When I go to a concert, I do so to hear music, not how much the musicians hate George Bush. If I go to a play, I go to see acting, not hear how great Obama is. If I go to see a comedian, I don't want to hear his political bias one way or another. If they have politics in their act, then let them make jokes about both sides, then nobody can be offended.
The problem seems to be people's desire to be pissed off if people don't agree with them.
Rather than have people who understand an argument, can see things from other people's points of view, in the US and other places people simply say "I have money so I have do what the **** I like" and they don't need to follow any morals, they don't need to think about fundamentals, they don't need to give a shit about the constitution. They can just be as selfish as they wish and screw everything and everyone else.
How many people have I heard say that Facebook annoys them because people have, god forbid, OPINIONS. They don't want to see the real world. They've set up all these cushions to protect them from reality, they have their religion, their alcohol or drugs, they have their trashy TV, they have a million things that protect them from seeing what the politicians are up to, seeing the problems of the world. They just DON'T GIVE A SHIT.
And this is when countries fall. History repeats itself. Countries stop being about what is right, and they start thinking of themselves.
So, just sit back Ray and watch your country fall apart. Maybe you'll be lucky and die before it gets real bad, maybe not. But it's going downhill. China's on the way up. The people have hope, they have goals, they don't have any principles to protect. They're coming for you and they're going to make it ugly for you.
But, you'll use your cushions to pretend it's not happening, doesn't matter, there isn't anything you can do about it anyway. The rot has set in.
