To: Chief Executives/ Club Presidents
From: Commissioner Goodell
Date: October 10, 2017
Re: Fall Meeting/National Anthem
Date: October 10, 2017
Re: Fall Meeting/National Anthem
We live in a country that can feel very divided. Sports, and especially the NFL, brings people together and lets them set aside those divisions, at least for a few hours. The current dispute over the National Anthem is threatening to erode the unifying power of our game, and is now dividing us, and our players, from many fans across the country.
<snip>
Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem. It is an important moment in our game. We want to honor our flag and our country, and our fans expect that of us. We also care deeply about our players and respect their opinions and concerns about critical social issues. The controversy over the Anthem is a barrier to having honest conversations and making real progress on the underlying issues. We need to move past this controversy, and we want to do that together with our players.
<snip>
I expect and look forward to a full and open discussion of these issues when we meet next week in New York. Everyone involved in the game needs to come together on a path forward to continue to be a force for good within our communities, protect the game, and preserve our relationship with fans throughout the country. The NFL is at its best when we ourselves are unified. In that spirit, let’s resolve that next week we will meet this challenge in a unified and positive way.
_______
Yeah, it was just a matter of time before Management would step up and tell their spoiled rich brats to grow up and behave themselves. While the players may feel "unified", Goodell is exactly right to see that the players and fans are anything but.
Between Jerry Jones laying down the law that players who do not stand and respect the anthem will not play (perfectly legal btw...) and now Goodell tossing this statement out to the teams... it looks like some of the adults are taking charge again.
Problem is... it might be too little and too late. Once you get used to not watching NFL football it's pretty easy to not miss it, and not come back. Especially when you realize that you are putting your emotional state of mind into the hands of idiots.
65 comments:
Goodell will be lucky to last the year, everyone associated with NFL has lost...
He's just trying to stop the bleeding.
Goodell has been a disaster as commissioner.
If he slapped down Peckerneck and slapped him down hard from the get-go this would have never been an issue.
He is attempting to save his own ass.
I want for the Dallas team in mass to kneel during the National Anthem.
Let's see if they have the balls .
October 8th report on NFL Ticket sales are down 20 percent, tv viewer ship dropped and less eye on commercials less sales by those companies, lower ad rates for tv channels.
Goodall is exactly right to see that the players and fans are anything but.
Like everything else in this little slice of heaven, topics like this are becoming the norm rather than the exception...I for one could give 2 shits whether they kneel or lie on the ground during the anthem....No one is disrespecting the troops or anyone else. It is a fabricated POS led by the idiot in chief who lies like a rug.....Sad it is taking so much time and resolve so little...Why not start something about the EPA IDIOTIC repeal of obama era regulations. Coal is dead....POTUS and KD are lost in the 19th century.
Trump wins again.
Wanna try a source other than beck's POS blaze KD??
http://www.wltx.com/sports/national-anthem-protests-dont-appear-to-be-hurting-nfl-ticket-sales/481792472
What the hell is a blaze other then your fat ass?
According to your link sales are down 17 %.
Opie is particularly in a bitter mood today. Trump won and his hero Harvey is facing rape accusations.
He's just not having a good day.
I would have thought he would have read his link.
"Ticket sales are down 20 percent"
Awe, what a shame.
"According to your link sales are down 17 %."
LOL
DirecTV, under pressure by unhappy fans have forced that company to allow the subscriber to drop the NFL and, yep AND get a refund.
Maybe he is in diabetic shock.
"Opie is particularly in a bitter mood today. Trump won and his hero Harvey is facing rape accusations."
He doesn't like CH'S topics, his fellow stooge has a different topic on the trash blog.....
According to your link sales are down 17 %.
Suggest you read the article again, idiot Seems they say it is too early to tell what the impact truly is, only idiots like premature ejaculator KD posts like trump, before it is verified...Nice try, jag off
Then over the weekend, they got a 9.6% increase in sales from the week before.
This week, they've seen a 21.8% decrease in sales compared to before Week 4, but that was pretty much in line from the kind of decrease they've seen in recent seasons, which have been more than 30% lower in two of the past three years.
In a statement to USA TODAY Sports, the company said it expects the way the "NFL, the owners, the teams and the players handled last week’s games will reduce the volatility that we have seen in ticket sales."
I really don't know who the bigger asshole is since kansas is a big state with enough room for multiple idiots.
Seems the lie about viewers is also broken for our dear stump broke asshole KD....Just another alternate fact that exists in his demented sick mind. Sad how little his life means when you resort to making up lies to support BS..
Fox’s NFL coverage for Week 4 drew a 12.6 rating and 26 share, a 14% increase over its Week 4 coverage a year ago. The network broadcast one game nationally on Sunday and the ratings were about 20% better than in the same slot covered by CBS in Week 4 of 2016.
NBC’s Sunday Night Football rating was unchanged from last year’s Week 4 game. The Seattle Seahawks’ blowout victory over the Indianapolis Colts resulted in a 11.0 rating and 19 share.
These people (and you) are kidding themselves Opie.
Looks like the owners no longer are.
Blogger Commonsense and Loretta posted...
Opie is particularly in a bitter mood today.
Yep, trump won and the only harvey I know is wallbanger and for womanizers , trump's good buddy is just as big a dirty leg as he is....Amazing all those women who came forward about donnie were discounted as liars by the same group posting here. Sad how dumb you all really are.....
Blogger Commonsense said...
These people (and you) are kidding themselves Opie.
Earth to McPhee....WTF are you talking about.....LOLOL incoherent is your forte, dumbass
Really, well I will get a canteen of water for the trip thru that mental waste land.
WTF are you talking about.....LOLOL
You're the only one in the world who didn't know what I was talking about. Are you in the middle of a stroke?
SF,,, Wins 0. Losses 5.
Amazing all those women who came forward about donnie were discounted as liars by the same group posting here.
Maybe because they didn't have facts or corroborating evidence on their side. In fact many of their claims were debunked by witnesses who were there or the absence of Trump being in the time and place his accusers said he was.
And then all the accusations disappeared at 2am Nov 9th 2016.
Contrast that with Weinstein whose escapades were an open secret and the people around him covered it up.
California NFL teams\wins
Raiders. 2
Rams. 3
49's. 0
Chargers 1
Total wins. 6
KC chiefs. 5
You're the only one in the world who didn't know what I was talking about
When in doubt, just make it up....LOL....I guess our little misogynist cultist feels it is okay for his POTUS to grab pussy whenever he wanted....you are a joke....there was plenty of evidence in spite of you saying thee wasn't....stories were very consistent, but they in your eyes were liars, just like you and donnie....
Yep, CS, you were clear. ODOPIE sugar comma .
Opie, home work for ya, post the name of the woman trump grabbed.
You painted your she in to the dunce corner.
I really home for the sake of The National Football Leauge. A sport, not a political movement. I might watch a few games this weekend to see IF the players behave.
Home. = hope
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/full-list-women-accusing-trump-229736
Liars, all of them. Just like you stump broke.....BTW... what happened to suing all of them after the election??? More BS by donnie....shocking...
Hillary 2020
What would the NFL Protest look like with the support/blessing of the first woman President.
Liars, all of them. Just like you stump broke.....BTW... what happened to suing all of them after the election??? More BS by donnie....shocking.
And here it is 11 months later and crickets from politico and the rest of the liberal media.
And it is not that they like Trump and would cover up for him like old Harvey.
There no there, there. If there was they would be on it like stink on shit.
ESPOLITICALNEWS,, NFL OWNERS ARE SLAVE OWNERS.
Calling all those millionaires free to leave the sport at anytime "slaves" is why they have lost market share.
The racist fucktard of naacp, says NFL Violating the Civil Right of the Playets. Yes, please Lord let the Racist of the militants of the naacp have the Mic.
. If there was they would be on it like stink on shit.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! There no there , there.....great english numbnutz.....While trump tweets lies and calls news he doesn't like fake....you just plough along like the good little minion you are buying faux and hot air as real while swallowing his BS with wild abandon!!! Just like his tax returns still waiting for them and all is well in your world...What a joke....LOL
LA Charges unable to draw flies, close of section of the sadism and tarp those seats. The name of the stadium. "STUBHUB". oh brother.
If it really is not about the anthem for the players, let them show it some other time besides the exact moment the anthem is playing. They can't choose to take disrespectful action at that moment and claim it isn't about that moment.
Your President went crazy again. But it's ok, because he cannot do anything wrong here.
Myballs seeing America become great again said...
If it really is not about the anthem for the players, let them show it some other time ...
Exactly, and the fact that they don't show it at other times means that they don't care enough - it IS about the flag and Anthem. Again, were it not about disrespect, they could as easily protest, even during the anthem, by some action that was NOT disrespectful. Something like what the Cowboys did. Whom I didn't watch losing btw, precisely because of these antics. And like CH said, I don't really care to any more.
Your Buffalo Bills are playing well.
Be afraid, very
1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation's highest ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room.
Trump's comments, the officials said, came in response to a briefing slide he was shown that charted the steady reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons since the late 1960s. Trump indicated he wanted a bigger stockpile, not the bottom position on that downward-sloping curve.
According to the officials present, Trump's advisers, among them the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, were surprised. Officials briefly explained the legal and practical impediments to a nuclear buildup and how the current military posture is stronger than it was at the height of the build-up. In interviews, they told NBC News that no such expansion is planned.
The July 20 meeting was described as a lengthy and sometimes tense review of worldwide U.S. forces and operations. It was soon after the meeting broke up that officials who remained behind heard Tillerson say that Trump is a "moron."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-wanted-dramatic-increase-nuclear-arsenal-meeting-military-leaders-n809701?cid=public-rss_20171011
This man has the nuclear button 24 /7. Enough said.
Spam by the drunkard.
Loretta said...
Spam by the drunkard.
Coal is dead except R's are too stupid to know it......technology will pass them by, just like the horseless carriage....From NYT's
It repeated the same false narrative that congressional Republicans have been peddling for years and that Mr. Trump’s minions are peddling now — that environmental regulations are job killers, that restraining greenhouse gas emissions will damage the economy, that the way forward lies in digging more coal and punching more holes in the ground in the search for oil.
It reaffirmed the administration’s blind loyalty to dirtier energy sources, ignoring the pleas of corporate leaders who know that economic momentum and new investment lie with cleaner sources of energy, and fear that without innovation their costs will rise and their competitive edge over foreign countries will be lost.
Just like the ACA killed jobs until trump lost 33k last month....there was 90 straight months of growth in spite of cali's false prediction.....
Myballs seeing America become great again said...
If it really is not about the anthem for the players, let them show it some other time besides the exact moment the anthem is playing. They can't choose to take disrespectful action at that moment and claim it isn't about that moment." Balls
And WP agreed.
So do I , IF it was not about blackliesmatter, the US Flag and the Anthem, then why did so many of the Players say it was about supporting Kepperneck and his ass hatter ?
Notice, it was not until he lost his starting job with the 49's did he all of a sudden protest cops , wealth inequality ( not his, no no no) and other social justice warrior issues.
I Love JJ Watts, he took to the streets during and after the Hurricans, hoping to have his go fund me account raise $200 K, it Raised $35 Million, that is helping the people in a real bread and butter way.
Liberals OPM and big punitive government is their way of caring.
The breath of what you do not know is startling for a man of your advanced years.
"This man has the nuclear button 24 /7. Enough said. "
Actually, he does not have a nuclear button, he has the "football" with codes , they have to be given to him, he does not carrying them, failsafe of every President. He can issue the codes, but, as has been proven under every President, some how actually have the "button" to launch, have failed to launch, when given the order to do so.
Everyday, I find your mistakes, correct them and hope you can learn.
Please talk about the US Economy, so we can shred you like cheap cheese.
* Call to Worship
L: As we gather here this morning, we are once again confronted by the dreams of Israel’s ancient prophets, dreams of a world in which nations will beat their swords into plowshares and nations will never again learn war.
P: We remember too the ancient promise that one day God will spread for all peoples a feast of richness, and at that feast tears will be wiped from every face, and there will be no more death or sorrow or shame or sin in all the world.
L: How we wish our world could be like that, with peace on earth, good will toward all.
P: Meanwhile, we gather here to celebrate yet again a feast that is with us even now, remembering the fellowship of Jesus and his twelve on the night when he was betrayed, the night when he lovingly blessed bread and wine and gave them to us as himself for our forgiveness. Thanks be to God!
* Opening prayer and Lord’s prayer
Our heavenly Father, this morning we remember how you invite us to a wonderful table fellowship with you. All too often we allow ourselves to become distracted by the cares and responsibilities of our lives, and fail to receive the rich blessings that you would have us receive. Help us to know that we only fail ourselves when we do that, and inspire us to realize what blessedness we can now receive when we draw near in family closeness to one another and to you, confessing our inadequacies and relying on your great love and power to give us meaning and joy in the living of our lives. This we pray in the name of him who taught us to pray, “Our Father…”
The True Conservators of the Lands, actually own land. A funny gal that I know that is a realtor told me this joke that is also true.
When selling land in a city it is measured in feet.
When selling land in the country it is measured in Acres.
Got Green?
I hope I can get little broken Opie's help. First how many acres do you own and 2ndly which groups that you support , like greenpeace, sierra club and Wildlife Federation, just how many acres do they own?
James , took you long enough to learn to create a BLOG id, welcome back.
No one reads my spam.
Rev James Boswell pedophile
Normal, Illinois
"Rev"
He doesn't deserve respect.
Take a careful look at the inconsistencies in the comments on nuclear weapons by the President. As usual, his stance can change from day to day. Some of you think that he's a genius and is playing games. But a realistic view is that he's got very little understanding of the nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, negotiated between Reagan and Gorbachev.
This is from the earlier story my NBC.
Officials present said that Trump’s comments on a significantly increased arsenal came in response to a briefing slide that outlined America’s nuclear stockpile over the past 70 years. The president referenced the highest number on the chart — about 32,000 in the late 1960s — and told his team he wanted the U.S. to have that many now, officials said.
The U.S. currently has around 4,000 nuclear warheads in its military stockpile, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
The Pentagon is currently undergoing the long-planned posture review. Modernizing the arsenal is a step presidents continuously take that doesn’t put the U.S. in violation of treaty obligations, Cirincione said.
“You don’t get in trouble for modernizing. You do get in trouble if you do one of two things: if you increase the numbers. The strategic weapons are treaty limited. Two, if you build a new type of weapon that is prohibited by a treaty,” he said.
It’s unclear which portion of the Pentagon briefing prompted Tillerson to call the president a “moron” after the meeting broke up and some advisers were gathered around. Officials who attended the two-hour session said it included a number of tense exchanges.
At one point, Trump responded to a presentation on the U.S. military presence in South Korea by asking why South Koreans aren’t more appreciative and welcoming of American defense aid. The comment prompted intervention from a senior military official in the room to explain the overall relationship and why such help is ultimately beneficial to U.S. national security interests.
Trump has been inconsistent with regards to his stance on nuclear weapons.
At one of the earliest Republican debates, in December of 2015, then-candidate Trump seemed to stumble through a question about the nuclear triad, the land, air, and sea-based systems present in a traditional nuclear arsenal.
Asked three months later about U.S. policy on nonproliferation, Trump said on CNN: "Maybe it’s going to have to be time to change, because so many people, you have Pakistan has it, you have China has it.”
When pressed, he allowed, "I don’t want more nuclear weapons.”
But his suggestion that the world could see an increase in nuclear weapons after decades of post-Cold War reductions rattled America’s allies and drew criticism from foreign policy experts and U.S. officials at the time.
-------
Bottom line? He doesn't have any kind of understanding of the nuclear weapons treaties or the American policy of not initiating any nuclear attacks.
It's definitely dangerous. As to K'putz comments, he's just an ignorant old man without a life.
Spam by the drunkard
Got pills?, lol "feeling good" on codine?
Most Want Tougher Gun Laws
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll shows that a majority of voters support stricter gun control laws in the wake of last week’s mass murder of 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas, 64% to 29%.
1. The order for the deportation of the petitioner -- issued under the Act of June 28, 1940, providing for the deportation of any alien who was at the time of his entry into the United States, or has been at any time thereafter, a member of or affiliated with an organization that believes in, advises, advocates, or teaches the overthrow of this Government by force or violence -- rests upon a misconstruction of the term "affiliation" as used in the Act, and upon an unfair hearing on the question of his membership in the Communist Party, wherefore
Page 326 U. S. 136
his detention under the warrant of deportation is unlawful. Pp. 326 U. S. 140, 326 U. S. 156.
2. The act or acts tending to prove "affiliation" within the meaning of the deportation statute must be of that quality which indicates an adherence to or a furtherance of the purposes or objectives of the proscribed organization, as distinguished from mere cooperation with it in lawful activities. The act or acts must evidence a working alliance to bring the program to fruition. P. 326 U. S. 143.
3. Freedom of speech and of the press is accorded aliens residing in this country. P. 326 U. S. 148.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/135/case.html
It doesn't apply to non citizens who are attempting to enter the United States, dumbbell.
Spam by the pedo.
Trump Wanted Tenfold Increase In Nuclear Weapons
President Trump “said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest ranking national security leaders,” NBC News reports.
“Trump’s comments, the officials said, came in response to a briefing slide he was shown that charted the steady reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons since the late 1960s. Trump indicated he wanted a bigger stockpile, not the bottom position on that downward-sloping curve.
“According to the officials present, Trump’s advisers, among them the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, WERE SURPRISED. Officials briefly explained the legal and practical impediments to a nuclear buildup and how the current military posture is STRONGER than it was at the height of the build-up. In interviews, they told NBC News that no such expansion is planned.
“The July 20 meeting was described as a lengthy and sometimes TENSE review of worldwide U.S. forces and operations. It was SOON AFTER THE MEETING BROKE UP that officials who remained behind heard Tillerson say that Trump is a ‘moron.'”
____________
And a dunce.
Trump Aides Discuss Keeping Nuclear Codes Away
A senior Republican source told Gabriel Sherman that White House chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis talked about what they would do if President Trump “lunged for the nuclear football.”
________________
Good! Some adult supervision for the White House Day Care center.
Spam by the pedo pastor.
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
Following
More
Fake @NBCNews made up a story that I wanted a "tenfold" increase in our U.S. nuclear arsenal. Pure fiction, made up to demean. NBC = CNN!
So NBC better start naming those "officials present" if they expect to be believed.
Post a Comment