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Title: NFL Backlash: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Hit With Season-Low Ratings
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/sports/201 ... otball-hit-season-low-ratings/
Published: Sep 25, 2017
Author: John Nolte
Post Date: 2017-09-26 03:08:35 by nolu chan
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Views: 1331
Comments: 12
NFL Backlash: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Hit With Season-Low Ratings by John Nolte After President Trump finally spoke up for tens of millions of voiceless Americans disgusted over spoiled NFL crybabies disrespecting the American flag and anthem, the controversy finally erupted over the weekend. You would think that this firestorm would have resulted in record ratings for Sunday Night Football, or at least a ratings boost. Unfortunately for the anti-American NFL, the exact opposite proved true with an 8 percent drop in viewership, compared to last week. This is a new season low. Compared to this time last year, the ratings decline was in the double-digits, a full 10 percent. This should come as no surprise. Fans are disgusted with the NFL, not only for politicizing the game they love but that league policies reveal a left-wing anti-American streak. For years, fans have watched the NFL use the threat of fines and suspensions to shut down every form of self-expression. Players were not allowed to raise awareness for domestic violence or breast cancer; they were threatened if they dared suggest honoring slain police officers or even victims of the September 11 terror attacks. However, the single exception the NFL offered was to allow these spoiled millionaires to go ahead and spit on the American flag and the anthem. Even Americans who might not support Trump are baffled over the NFL’s hostility towards America, and are sick and tired of the politicization of absolutely everything. The NFL used to be a place where all Americans could go, a shared cultural experience. Now professional football is just another leftwing institution, another place where bubbled rich people tell us how to think, another Hollywood, another once-beloved institution hostile to us normal people.
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#1. To: nolu chan (#0)
The thing will turn into a full assault on the anthem itself, especially that third verse (which no one ever sings but it is officially in the anthem). When you mention the four verses of the Banner, people just kind of stare at you. Most people seem to have no idea there is more than the first verse (which we sing very very slowly).
I agree. Hirelings are extremely upset by that. "Most people seem to have no idea there is more than the first verse" Most people don't know the words to the first verse much less the third.
If they do what I think, they'll start replacing the first verse with the third one. The black NFL players will kneel or turn their backs on the flag. You can't stop them from singing the third verse. Legally, it's just as much the anthem as the first verse is. And which NFL owner is going to arrest a black singer on TV and drag them away for trying to sing the third verse instead of the first? I think they'll do the anti-cop antics first then they'll shift gears for the full assault on the anthem itself and its use in any public event. I think the playas union will demand (and get) their sanctioned Month Of Protest in November, in part by blackmailing the owners over the anthem's third verse and a full boycott of the anthem which will use the NFL to destroy the anthem. You can see how the strategy will unfold. And how it will likely play out on ESPN, on Twitter/YouTube/Facebook, etc. The only thing holding them back now is the risk of killing the golden goose, the NFL itself.
No need. They're doing that with the first verse. And what's wrong with disparaging those who fought with the British? By the way, "hirelings" were the mercenaries (German Hessians) -- not British regulars.
In the War of 1812, most militias weren't paid. They fought for their land, property, and liberty. Our own modern military is paid (not well-paid) and would thus fall into that "hireling" category by the standards of our Founders who considered themselves patriots fighting for liberty in their own homeland. Which underlines another problem with the Banner as anthem. That is exactly what is meant by hireling here. You no doubt recall the bitter hatred of Hessian mercs in the Revolutionary War. The Hessians comprised about 25% of the British forces trying to hold the colonies in their bondage to Britain. The memory of those German mercenaries in the Revolutionary War were still fresh during the War of 1812. You might recall how Cromwell executed Charles I, the king of England, in part for conspiring with the pope to bring Irish peasant armies into Britain to subdue the British rebels who were insisting that the king honor his agreement to allow Parliament to rule the country.
NFL ratings have been going down every year for awhile now.
The Hessians fought during the Revolutionary War, not the War of 1812 when the Battle of Fort McHenry was fought and which the anthem was written about. Hessian POWs helped work the colonial fields due to labor shortage, much as German POWs worked on farms during WW II. We seem to like enslaving Germans here in America. Some of those German POWs and mercs did settle in America and Canada and never returned to Prussia after the war. I think I read about 5,000 stayed in America, somewhat fewer in Canada. Fresh from having defeated Napoleon and exiling him, the British used their own forces in the War of 1812. They made some use of runaway slaves and also harassed the colonials with Indians they recruited. Neither the Indians nor the runaway slaves were especially effective as I understand it. But they were certainly hated.
It will not be an issue. It was never part of the anthem and any argument based on that will go nowhere. It would be a waste of time trying to explain that argument. The PR war has already been won by Trump. But...
Francis Scott Key's poem was entitled, "Defence of Fort M'Henry" I have never heard any but the first verse sung. I doubt there are many in America who are even aware that the poem contains additional verses. It does not change the acceptable standard of behavior which the NFL should require. Protests conducted in the manner of the players and owners can only lead to a PR loss, big time. Yuge. Kneeling or locking arms, is not going to get the PR job done. Having the team hide in the locker room will not do it either. Eliminating the flag or the playing of the anthem will not do it. It is a PR problem and grinning for the camera like a babboon won't help either. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/36/301 (a) Designation.— The composition consisting of the words and music known as the Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem. (b) Conduct During Playing.—During a rendition of the national anthem— (1) when the flag is displayed— (A) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until the last note; (B) members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military salute in the manner provided for individuals in uniform; and (C) all other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart, and men not in uniform, if applicable, should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and (2) when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed. (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1263; Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title V, § 595, Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4475.) The National Anthem was adopted by law, 46 Stat. 1508, H.R. 14, Public Law 823 of 3 March 1931.
The downward curve was steeper last year, and is much steeper this year. Empty seats are also being seen. When demand exceeded seat supply, the loss of an attendance fan only meant a different fan in the seat. They have passed the tipping point, and the loss of attendance fans are showing up as empty seats. There is no good way to spin empty seats.
Its self inflected wounds. The owners need to be the parent to the players and tell them no and why. Now the owners are going to start feeling the crunch of the dollar when seats are not filled. There is a much smaller tv audience which means advertisers will want to pay less(well in a sane world). Trump/GOP need to tell everyone what the real facts are because the MSM will not. The fact that white people a killed more by police than anyone. That blacks are the least likely of all races to be killed by another race than other races(blacks kill their own race at the highest of all races). Nothing that "progressive's" claim is true.
It has always had 4 verses. I believe that it was adopted to include all four. You no doubt realize that the first verse that we do sing ends on a question, leaving it in doubt as to whether we did endure the naval assault on Fort McHenry and whether the flag was still flying the next morning. The other verses do at least inform us that we won the battle by not succumbing to the naval attack. I notice President Wilson's daughter released a recording that is offered on the Wiki page. She and her backup singers (using the term loosely) performed the first and last verses. The last verse does contain the line "And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'" as it cruises to a conclusion which answers the question in the first verse about whether the flag is still waving over the fort, namely, that the flag will wave forever over the land of the free and the home of the brave. You gotta say one thing for Trump: he's probably made people think more about the anthem this week than they have in the last 86 years. LOL
#2. To: Tooconservative (#1)
especially that third verse
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
Most people don't know the words to the first verse much less the third.
#4. To: Tooconservative (#3)
If they do what I think, they'll start replacing the first verse with the third one. The black NFL players will kneel or turn their backs on the flag.
#5. To: misterwhite (#2)
I agree. Hirelings are extremely upset by that.
#6. To: nolu chan (#0)
#7. To: misterwhite (#4)
And what's wrong with disparaging those who fought with the British? By the way, "hirelings" were the mercenaries (German Hessians) -- not British regulars.
#8. To: Tooconservative (#1)
The thing will turn into a full assault on the anthem itself, especially that third verse (which no one ever sings but it is officially in the anthem).
#9. To: Tooconservative (#1)
When you mention the four verses of the Banner, people just kind of stare at you. Most people seem to have no idea there is more than the first verse (which we sing very very slowly).
36 U.S. Code § 301 - National anthem
#10. To: Justified (#6)
NFL ratings have been going down every year for awhile now.
#11. To: nolu chan (#10)
#12. To: nolu chan (#9)
(Edited)
I have never heard any but the first verse sung. I doubt there are many in America who are even aware that the poem contains additional verses.
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