What's the near-term impact on the league of Goodell's surprisingly clear and forceful statement?
Do you believe certain owners (e.g. Jones, Snyder) will push back? Any indication owners were consulted?
Will Bienemy and other minorities get fast tracked now? Will players use their newfound leverage to demand this and other change? Any threat of an impasse with owners refusing to concede changes in hiring policy, allowing protest, the league funding initiatives?
Will unity among players increase or will there be a clear divide among them? Are the Chiefs with their player and executive leadership better positioned to manage this?
Any significant impact on the NFL’s global brand and revenues? Discuss. [Reply]
Originally Posted by MahomesMagic:
Goodell speaks for the owners and they must have calculated that there is more risk to their $$$ by not changing. A few years ago the calculation was different.
When Kaepernick threatened their bottom line they sided with their customers that were older. Now they probably expect there will be some of those people who leave but they would prefer to replace them with a younger fan. With the TV contracts and gambling coming they also can't risk angering the players.
This is the cynical way to look at it. It’s also more than likely correct. [Reply]
What he should do and what he will do are 2 different things. What he should have done a few years ago was discourage players from kneeling, then giving his players a platform to advocate in other ways. It's why players in a predominantly black NBA don't kneel.
Instead Goodell waited for it to blow up at its worst THEN decided to act. Even that gesture was generous but seemed more like just throwing money at the problem.
If he's smart he'll get ahead of this. Don't tell them not to kneel. Give them incentive not to. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
What he should do and what he will do are 2 different things. What he should have done a few years ago was discourage players from kneeling, then giving his players a platform to advocate in other ways. It's why players in a predominantly black NBA don't kneel.
Instead Goodell waited for it to blow up at its worst THEN decided to act. Even that gesture was generous but seemed more like just throwing money at the problem.
If he's smart he'll get ahead of this. Don't tell them not to kneel. Give them incentive not to.
I think the worm has turned on the idea that someone else's observance of the anthem ought to set somebody off.
If the NFL teams are not going to eject fans in the stands that do not properly observe the anthem, the NFL does not need to punish players for some minor demonstration that most people that actually served in the military tolerate easily.
The fragile psyched people will stick around if they really like football or they can find something else to do. Fug'em. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc:
Well, I imagine the anthem controversy is over now. No one will breathlessly cover what’s allowed and even encouraged by the league.
Oh yes it will be covered by the MEDIA. They will stoke the flames. There are Millions of fans, casual or not, that disagree with the kneeling. [Reply]
Originally Posted by SAGA45:
It won"t "blow over" any time soon so I sincerely doubt that was Goodell's thinking.
The rioting will slow down/stop (as it has always done), something else of significance will happen and the media will start covering that instead. By September, we'll be on to something else.
Originally Posted by :
Admitting the league was wrong in it's previous stance on player protest during the anthem is signficant because they will likely continue this season as well as players being more outspoken on the subject.
Not to mention he's speaking for all 32 clubs which includes owners who, no matter what the societal climate is, will likely never individually and publicly concede they were wrong on how the league handled this issue before.
So I think Goodell's statement goes beyond a mere PR move for the sole purpose of short-term pacification. I think it was instead a huge and historical step in the right direction.
It was a media dump he put out on a Friday night to give it as little impact as possible. Things won't change, not in any seriously or meaningful way.
Sure, they won't be able to get away with their asinine position on player protest again but that was only largely Trump manufactured outrage among a bunch of morons anyway. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc:
Well, I imagine the anthem controversy is over now. No one will breathlessly cover what’s allowed and even encouraged by the league.
Nope. We have a president in the White House who will try to use this for leverage on his campaign.
The NFL season starts about the same time the elections will start entering the final stretch. Guarantee when players start kneeling this fall he will make it a huge deal and his followers will fall in line with the faux rage. [Reply]
Originally Posted by baitism:
This will be the last year I get season tickets if the Chiefs go full SJW, too.
If it comes to this, be sure to go all the way in and stop watching at home. Most importantly, be sure you stop posting on a Kansas City Chiefs message board as well. Thanks in advance. [Reply]
Originally Posted by raidersnumber1:
total cvck move for bending over to liberal left and sjw scum.
and that shit will be all over your face the moment you tune in to watch a game this fall. You better get the wet naps ready to clean that drizzle off your face. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ntexascardfan:
and that shit will be all over your face the moment you tune in to watch a game this fall. You better get the wet naps ready to clean that drizzle off your face.
I’m pretty sure his team sucking hind teat to Mahomes for the next 15 years is going to overshadow anything happening during the national anthem. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pablo:
Raiders fans don't get to call anyone scum. Nobody has ever met a Raiders fan that wasn't a complete piece of trash on all fronts.
you enjoy sucking that ashy bbc don;t you :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by ntexascardfan:
Nope. We have a president in the White House who will try to use this for leverage on his campaign.
The NFL season starts about the same time the elections will start entering the final stretch. Guarantee when players start kneeling this fall he will make it a huge deal and his followers will fall in line with the faux rage.
Ok, are you saying white Dems aren't using this for political leverage? That's what politicians do. [Reply]
Play the National Anthem while all the players are in he locker room after their final warm ups and just before they take the field for the start of the game.
