Washington in its current state reminds me of when I was in a body that actually worked and I wanted to join the baseball game but I couldn't because the kid who owned the ball wouldn't let me. Washington = the kid.

LOL Just don't take a knee, and you won't get in trouble.

I'll be more specific, Fans who go to the games where players take a knee.
Hm! That would still be an awful lot.
Bad idea. Never mind.
And so the allosaur wandered on through the jungle, trying to come up with a new way of getting into trouble.

From what I can gather, the addresses would be in the millions. People are fed up.

Wish I knew the email addresses of the fans.

The left is obsessed with sensationalism that purposely creates hate and division in American society. Propaganda rags like the NYT and Washington Post print anything that paints the U.S. as an evil empire, seething with racial and religious hate, while at the same time they boil over with racist hatred of whites and Christians (of any race).

There is no real difference today between the Democrat party and the Communist Party of the USA. Both seek the destruction of individual freedom and our capitalist economy.

The Republicans are the gang who can't shoot straight, blundering about like Keystone Cops, or maybe it's all shadow play to help the Democrats succeed in their goals. In any event, between the GOP purists who insist the elephant must be eaten in one gulp or not at all, and the RINOs who whine about bipartisanship in the face of an implacable enemy, we are being poorly served and will be handed over to the will of the left, even though they are a minority.

Maybe the NFL will shoot themselves in the foot. These useful idiots don't appreciate their good fortune, and deserve to lose it. They're destroying themselves serving a left that sees them as a tool to bludgeon American pride, self respect, and patriotism, and nothing else.

If I had the resources I'd put money into arena football as an alternative. I haven't watched an NFL game in 30 years, preferring college football as much more interesting.

+++1 IndianaGuy! Your last paragraph plucked some of the thoughts right out of my head and put them to words! I've likened the USA to a big flywheel of wealth those before us and many of us added energy to and now the collectivists are just sucking that energy out and it's spinning back down. It will stop and in the far future Ayn Rand's "Anthem" may play out as non-fiction.

Be sure to take and share the photo here when you do it.

They will stop when the flag being waved is the hammer and sickle.

LOL...

Imagine the results if the same Americans that are pissed at and boycotting the nfl would turn their sights on the media companies that are now, and have been, attacking America using the profits from theme parks, sports channels, etc. to do it.

I wonder when watching sports and many other activities, just what the pretend patriotism means? I do not consider anything other than loving the USA and its founding documents along with the willingness of defending that as patriotic. Forcing children to take an oath every day, which means they are considered to have lied the day before so the oath must be taken again, does nothing for producing patriots. All countries have patriots, even North Korea. I see the USA slowly trying to change real patriots into just those who religiously go along. As for the flag, its over use has made it into a watered down symbol which is desecrated everywhere with little meaningless flags thrown in the trash after events. Must one see flags everywhere in order to have the concept 'The Flag' have some patriotic meaning? Must every event have an anthem played to have 'The Anthem' have a patriotic meaning? The concept of 'Patriotism' is cheapened with such events. Patriots need no symbols to love and defend the great USA.
Looking forward to the knee jerk responses to this post. I will defend the USA but not as a slave in a draft, but as an underground resistance fighter on my terms. I am unable to take orders. I guess that makes me unpatriotic by contemporary standards.

They are entertainers.The same as actors, and singers, and comedians.You're right, they are stress relief. Add stress to entertainment and the entertainment is no longer doing its job.

Look at Puerto Rico. It's not the devastating wind and rain. People can survive that. It is the lack of food and water that will kill them.

$5 beers? I'd rather drink out of a koi pond.

Sorry but you should see my THUMB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBAB...

Over the last 30 years or so I have been an occasional fan of the NFL and of MLB, although I'm not really into team sports. I definitely prefer individual sports such as tennis and golf.

I find the recent brouhaha of the anthem and flag more than mildly nauseating, because of the disrespect it shows to those of us who defend the country, locally, like police, and globally, like the military.

Of course, the goal is not dialog or discussion or debate; it is the destruction of the country as it was created. Flawed, though it is, it is still the best thing to happen to the world. A place where capitalism thrives (or did) and people can deal with each other as equals through trade, not as adversaries with violence. BLM, Antifa, the KKK, and other collectivist groups, like the New York Times and the MSM are different sides of the same coin. They feed off one another and leave nothing but destruction in their path. At 74, I'm not likely to see the end of the road we're traveling, but it doesn't look good. We are turning into the Peoples States of America, just another failed experiment in socialism. Because of what we have created in the past, it will take a long time for the other collectivist states of the world to pick our bones, but when the light goes out here, it will be the last light to go out in the world. Atlas Shrugged is a mere glimpse of the dystopian world we are likely headed for. I do hope that there are Galts out there to rebuild after the fall. If not, the new Dark Ages will make the last one look like a night in jail.

I hope that you are right. But I think the left is doing this just to create mayhem and to keep pitting Americans against each other. In the meantime, they have ruined and politicized yet another American institution. Can football recover? I don't think so unless the owners get some guts.

+++++++++++s

This shirt is fantastic. Would love to see fans wearing them while linking arms and standing for the anthem.

If attendance drops and the money evaporates, then, we might see patriotic half-times.

Herb, If you remember oleo then you must be older than I am. ;-}

I quit watching sports (except tennis) years ago when all my favorites got old and decrepit like me.

I like it. I REALLY like it.

Watch as they start demanding changes to revered words in the Anthem, the Declaration, the Constitution. Eventually it will devolve into the same old 1984 type slogans of the past and the USA becomes a footnote in history.