Well, you don't. Add academics, utilities, and "too big to fail" industries to that list as well. They are all on the same government teat.
Many have been fired from academics for voicing there opinions when it doesn't follow the institutions agenda. Utilities, who cares if they take a knee? As long as it's not the one out of the six that is doing the work. Sports on the other hand depends on fans to pay the bills, and if I am the fan I take it as spitting in my face if they are taking a knee while I stand. I can live without the NFL, I'll just use pictures of those ungrateful players as targets and shoot instead.
They do make a lot of money from the fans, but that isn't their only source of income. If they actually had to pay for their stadiums, and paid taxes, and didn't get all the other local and federal subsidies, then the fan's dollars would matter more.
Except the NFL is ok with it.
For right now they are...
) He should have let them do as they do, and it would have faded away, but no; now it's an epidemic that is here to stay for a while. Why not? The NFL is highly political. It enjoys exemption from anti-trust laws and takes plenty of taxpayer money.
For right now they are...
My thoughts are this: Should Trump have said anything? NO! He had no business bringing the office of the presidency into the NFL in the first place. There was nothing to gain. Did he really think the teams would simply "fire" star players just because he said so? (Don't answer that
Get back to Football, you dumb players. The Raiders were so preoccupied what they were going to do in the pre-game yesterday that they forgot that they were suiting up for in the first place. They had a monster/fired up Redskin team ready for them in the next 20 minutes. They got their faces smashed in, and they deserved it.
I look at my "rights" this way:
I have a 2nd amendment right to carry a firearm just like all of you, but where I work company policy states that I cannot carry in my office. If I want to stay an employee of the engineering firm I work with, I better leave the firearm in the car. I make a choice to not carry, because I need this job. If I want to WORK HERE, then I have to abide by the rules.
Same thing goes for my first amendment right... I cannot simply walk down the hallway of my office building cursing at everyone and everything I see. Do I have that right? I sure do, but I WILL GET FIRED.. Where do these jackoffs get off thinking their first amendment right is all inclusive at their place of work (the field)? Just play the game you Chooch. The NFL, NBA & MLB is first and foremost is a business, and player/coaches actions will cost them BIG in the long run if they don't get smart.
I too am out.. Hopefully things change, thus maybe next year.
What's to gain?
Should he have said it? Why not? It was growing, it wasn't really going away. Plus, what he said was at a rally and at a rally you say things to fire up the people you are rallying for. So yes, what he said was appropriate for the crowd he was saying it to.
He should focus on the duties of his office. But again this is a distraction to cover for the failure of the Obamacare Reformation, coming two hours after McCain said no.
Whatever he says, and where ever he says it (unless it is bedroom talk with Melia) will be picked apart and reported by the press. Sometimes, a lot of times really, I wish he would just keep his mouth and twitter fingers shut!
