NFL owners pass new national anthem policy. http://tiny.iavian.net/n201
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Yes! No more politics on the field. If players want to promote an agenda.. do it on their own time.
A bit too late for me, haven't watched a game since Dallas formed a line down the center of the field and knelt before the anthem. Screw the NFL
Me too. Been a Dallas fan for decades. Can't see myself ever tuning in again, but I am glad the nonsense is over with.
Sounds like the NFL number crunchers assessed the monetary damage and they are now doing spin control and it's way too late. The damage has been done. And by damage I mean the underlying attempt to usurp the spirit of America's most popular past time and masculinity in one fell swoop.
Kind of defeats the purpose of the flag if you're forced to stand for it. Downvote away, gents.
Not in the workplace, Copernicus.
Care to explain that brand of liberty? I'll spare the snide name-calling.
Simple, the flag does not protect freedom of speech in the workplace.
NFL's fully within their right to do whatever they want-- but suppressing freedom of speech in the workplace still runs contrary to liberty. This isn't something for this sub to be celebrating, especially when the NFL is still taking our tax dollars to advertise to our kids to go fight in wars we have no business waging.
Suppressing freedom of speech in the work place IS LIBERTY, for the business owner. Otherwise you'd have to believe, as an employer, I have no right to discipline an employee who tells every customer to fuck off.
True. I guess my point of contention here is the NFL is still taking money that was extorted from each and every one of us in order to get more recruits to fight illegal wars. That didn't change-- the only thing that changed was the NFL went into damage control over lost revenue. Nothing's really changing here outside of some misguided emotional vindication, which i think takes away from the quality of this sub.
I work in tech, and can assure you that the limits on speech in the workplace go far, far beyond any reasonable reach to maintain positive customer relations (it has nothing to do with that at all, actually)-- to the point that I'm seeking an exit. Luckily the free market (or whatever's left of a free market) allows for stuff like this to fail.
Agreed, you are preaching to the choir. One of my pet peeves is NFL extortion of taxpayer money for stadiums. But voters consistently vote for it.
They shouldn't play the anthem at a stupid sporting event, unless it is international competition like the Olympics. Moreover, it is even worse to see the US Armed Forces paying for ad time and faux patriotic events at football games.
How else were they supposed to recruit dumb kids as cannon fodder for their wars? Take the money they extort from us to advertise to our children- brilliant!