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11-08-2017, 12:49 PM
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"The NFL prominence came into being in 1960 by Pete Rozelle who hired filmmaker Ed Sabol. Sabol's work made football more of a patriotic sport than baseball.
Rozelle and Sabol's work was so remarkable that they both were inducted into the Football Hall of Fame.
Enter Roger Goodell, son of Republican Senator Charles Goodell a 1960's antiwar liberal.
About a year ago Roger Goodell hired Joe Lockkhart ,a Democratic political strategist and master at aggressive media manipulation, as VP communication.
Lockhardt is best remembered as President Cinton's press secretary and worked for Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis Walter Mondale and John Kerry.
The NY Times credits Lockhardt with crafting the NFL's message on the anti-anthem controversy, explaining that Lockhardt told NFL owners that talking about police brutality, is what real locker room talk is
So what does the NFL get for paying Roger Goodell $44 million a year? Under his leadership we have
-Concern over head injuries have eroded football's public support
-Goodell's mishandling of Ray Rice's domestic violence case
-Mishandling of the Patriot's Deflategate scandal damaged the NFL brand
-Now unending national anti- anthem protest
By Jason Whitlock co-host of Speak for Yourself Fox Sports 1.
Jason Whitlock asks "Is Roger Goodell deliberately pushing the NFL Leftward" Whitlock also explains NFL owners are patiently waiting for his contract to expire
I ask why has sports suddenly become political. People watch sports to get away from politics and to unite
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I t has become political because our President, irate at the NFL personally for so many years has made it such........hate the protests but it was a very small thing destined to die before Trump.
"On three N.F.L. teams, nearly all the football players skipped the national anthem altogether. Dozens of others, from London to Los Angeles, knelt or locked arms on the sidelines, joined by several team owners in a league normally friendly to President Trump. Some of the sport’s biggest stars joined the kind of demonstration they have steadfastly avoided.
It was an unusual, sweeping wave of protest and defiance on the sidelines of the country’s most popular game, generated by Mr. Trump’s stream of calls to fire players who have declined to stand for the national anthem in order to raise awareness of police brutality and racial injustice.
What had been a modest round of anthem demonstrations this season led by a handful of African-American players mushroomed and morphed into a nationwide, diverse rebuke to Mr. Trump, with even some of his staunchest supporters in the N.F.L., including several owners, joining in or condemning Mr. Trump for divisiveness.
Julius Thomas, a Miami Dolphins tight end who had previously stood for the anthem, knelt for it on Sunday with several players.
“To have the president trying to intimidate people — I wanted to send a message that I don’t condone that,” Thomas said, echoing the opinion of most N.F.L. players. “I’m not O.K. with somebody trying to prevent someone from standing up for what they think is important.”
Fueled by Trump’s Tweets, Anthem Protests Grow to a Nationwide Rebuke - The New York Times
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