You just underscored the hypocrisy of the NFL. And if you do your research you'll realize that the wife beater in the NFL that is still there is white. See the Seahawks kicker. Ray Rice still doesn't have a job so what are you talking about?
When y'all say black athletes who make millions of dollars should be grateful, who should they be grateful to? It seems in this country when white people make a lot of money that they worked hard for it but when black people make a lot of money they should be grateful for it... Grateful to who?
I think the only white people who think millionaire white guys just worked hard are the out of touch millionaire white guys. 99 Percent of us think they got lucky or knew someone or cheated someone to get it. Or all of the above. I've said it before, if Trump were raised by a single mom in a single wide trailer in Alabama he wouldn't be President.
Trump, of course, is profoundly stupid. The anthem protests were fading out. Many players felt they had made their point and were ready to move on. But Trump figured it would be red meat for his base to scream obscenities and call for firing uppity black men. And since he is too stupid to foresee the results of his actions, and since he always responds to criticism of infantile behavior by being even more infantile, guess what happens? Taking a knee has now spread throughout the NFL, other sports, and other venues. Including the students and teachers at Georgetown who were barred from Jefferson Beauregaard Sessions III talk on "free speech" on campus because they only wanted a friendly audience.
Ray Rice is a bad example because he had fallen off greatly before the video of him beating his now wife was released. The NFL has shown that they dont' care what you did as long as you are still talented you can get a shot as long as you dont' come with a media nightmare that isn't worth your talent. There are tons of Women beaters still in the NFL, both white and black, and that isn't something that is going to change when you can assault someone on video and still get taken in the first or second round.
This is not the prevailing thought. It's why Drumpf is president in the first place. MFs actually believe he's good at business...
It's been a democratic state for years. Elected Russ Feingold over and over, even though he didn't raise money. And yet, the alleged marginalization of a fraction of the vote was enough to shift the election to Trump? I don't think so. If anything, Trump should have been thumped in that state, by 20 points. I recognize the failed leadership there making excuses for their incompetence. We all should and move on.
It's the best we have, for now. I would expect the networks and 24/7 news channels have also run polls, but don't want to publicize similar results. http://remingtonresearchgroup.com/surveys/NFL_9-25-17.pdf
From your favorite station. I'm not so ready to call CNN "fake news". Trump says NFL ratings are 'way down.' That's not completely true President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that they NFL ratings "are way down." The numbers for the league's most recent games say otherwise. The overall overnight ratings for the NFL's week 3 games were up 3% compared to the same week last year, according to Nielsen data. That increase includes a "Monday Night Football" game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Arizona Cardinals that nabbed a 9.3 overnight rating for ESPN, up a whopping 63% over last year's New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons game, which brought in a 5.7. (To come up with overnight ratings, Nielsen takes the percentage of households watching in 56 U.S. markets and comes up with an overnight average -- so a 9.3 means that 9.3% of households in those 56 markets tuned into the game on ESPN on Monday night.) Now, it should be noted that those numbers come with two major asterisks. The first is that the Cowboys are arguably the most popular and watched team in the league, and almost any game featuring them is likely to do better than almost any other. The second is that the overnight ratings for this week's Monday night game basically had to go up compared to last year's, which was competing with the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and as a result brought in the program's lowest viewership in at least the past 25 years. Trump has been at war with the NFL over the past few days beginning with a firestorm he started on Friday night when he went after the league and attacked players who have been kneeling or sitting during the national anthem to draw attention to social justice issues. On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted that "Ratings for NFL football are way down except before game starts, when people tune in to see whether or not our country will be disrespected!" If Trump was talking about NFL ratings generally, and not this week, he was at least partially right in two ways. The NFL's ratings have fallen over the past two years, though that has happened for a number of reasons not related to the anthem protests, and the overnight ratings for the pregame shows on Sunday were way up -- though that was likely more about people tuning in to see discussion about the issue than about watching the anthem ceremonies themselves.
