Derek Hunter at Townhall has thoughts:
The NFL is a private business and
they’re free to commit economic suicide any time and any way they so choose, I
couldn’t care less from that standpoint. But the idea that any organization
that wants my support, and more to the point my money and time, would embrace
the idea that there is such a thing as a “black national anthem” and expect me
to be cool with it, shows I’ve probably waited too long to walk away.
. . .
Now the league that prided itself
on integrating years before baseball is embracing the segregation it rejected
in the past. They’ll now play the national anthem and the “black national
anthem” before each game, as well as badger fans with left-wing political
messages of victimhood and division. I don’t think there’s a big audience for
pampered athletes lecturing their audience about how awful the country, and by
extension they are, while those athletes make more for 3 hours of work on a
Sunday than the people watching on TV do in a year. Maybe I’m wrong, but last
year’s ratings collapse suggests otherwise.
The NFL doesn’t care all that much
because a large percentage of their revenue is through corporate
sponsorship.
The full article is here.
We all know die-hard football fans; heck, some conservatives are
die-hard football fans. But if you are passionate about the sport, how do you reconcile that with a passion for the
American National Anthem?
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