(11-03-2017 06:20 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (11-03-2017 02:42 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote: (11-02-2017 08:36 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote: (11-02-2017 08:10 AM)stever20 Wrote: Saw game 6 had a huge audience- down only 5% from last year with 22.2 million viewers. Better audience then all but 4 NFL games so far this year. More viewers than any other non NFL event this calendar year than all but 3 things- Clemson/Alabama, Game 5 of the NBA finals, and Gonzaga/North Carolina.
If baseball continues this renascence will we start seeing more and more guys like Aaron Judge going to baseball instead of football?
I think you'll see it anyway.
Football has several real problems right now. One is Kaper-dick and the PR nightmare that situation has created. Many people (including myself) have gotten so sick of the BS we don't watch the NFL anymore. Packer football used to be must see TV. I stopped watching after game 1 this year and have no intention of going back until they straighten this out. I know others who feel the same way.
The NFL also is dealing with it's concussion/CTE issue. That's not going away anytime soon either.
If you're a premier athlete and have the choice to make more money playing a safer sport or playing in the NFL with non-guaranteed contracts and the chance you'll be drooling into a cup at 40, which way are you going to go?
OR maybe you hicks shouldn't be offended by some high profile black athletes bringing attention to a real issue they feel needs to be talked about more. You are offended by the protest but not the militarization of the police forces in this country?
Well that was uncalled for.
I'm anything but a hick - I have a PhD and I'm a college professor in California. But protesting the US flag doesn't sit well with me.
I don't care why they're doing it - their method of bringing attention to it is so disgraceful that it gives their Cause a bad name. How many people are talking about police militarization now? No one, because thanks to Colin Kaepernick anyone who does is accused of being anti-American.
I must be "anti-American", then.
I support the players' protests and I dislike the very idea of police militarization.
The police are not the military and the people that they are "gearing up" for and "militarizing" against are fellow American citizens, not enemy combatants.
The flag protest doesn't bother me one bit. Not one little, tiny bit.
In fact, the right to protest, to me, is the very epitome of being an American, not "un-American" or anti-American at all. The opposite, in fact.
My nephew did three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He won two Bronze Stars and was wounded twice.
He tells me that one of the things he fought for was to protect the rights of American citizens, including the right of these players to protest.
He doesn't like the protests, but supports the right of the players to do so.
He is about as much a "pro-American" and conservative as you can find, too.