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  • NFL water cooler talk isn’t cool today

    NFL water cooler talk isn’t cool today

    The numbers are in..

    In metered market numbers, the primetime match-up between the 27-10 winning Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders snared an 11.6/20.

    The worst SNF has performed this season so far, that’s an 8% dip from the early numbers of last week’s Atlanta Falcon’s 34-23 win over the Green Bay Packers. Gaining cheers and boos from fans at FedEx Field in Maryland last night, the third week of SNF for the 2017-2018 season declined 10% from early numbers of the comparable game of last year on September 25, 2016.

    The outcome to the weekend is what I expected. Facebook and Twitter are filled with memes and jersey burnings, controversy and “I stand” logos overtop of people’s profile photos… I have literally witnessed “virtual” online friendships ending this morning due to the kneeling controversy …

    Someone I know wrote a long post about how she will stay off of Facebook due to the debate. Perhaps I will do the same, only lurking from a safe distance.

    This whole debacle about kneeling during the National Anthem has reminded me a little of the ‘freedom fries’ battle of the early 2000s. Back then France decided it would not support the United States war in Iraq. The Capitol cafeteria renamed French fries ‘freedom fries’ in a strange Orwellian protest. Some others in the nation followed with the same name…  

    It was quite the hot topic then.

    Cue now: 3 million without power in Puerto Rico, Houston still devasted, fires along the West Coast, Florida with many locations recovering, and a new hurricane looming in the Atlantic.. that coupled with some of the weirdest and most bizarre weather in a long time. North Korea threatening to shoot down a US plane.  Terrorist threats being made against soft targets… Crises abound.

    And we? In America? We are busy. People are kneeling during a song.

    We will get to those issues later…..

  • Sunday night knees

    Sunday night knees

    Suddenly America’s past time has divided the nation–or the President talking about it..

    This past week, Donald Trump loudly stated that players who take needs during national anthems should be FIIIIIIRRREEEDDDD!…..

    And this weekend? Many NFL players locked arms or kneeled in solidarity against the President, causing a new national fervor about the biggest game in the United States..

    I wrote before that I suspected some odd conspiracy–ratings were down and now … most likely up.

    This is how the AFP reports it:

    A wave of protests swept across the National Football League on Sunday as President Donald Trump escalated his feud with players who kneel during the US national anthem to draw attention to racial injustice.
    Trump ignited a firestorm of criticism after comments on Friday in which he described NFL players who chose to take a knee through renditions of “The Star-Spangled Banner” as “sons of bitches” who should be fired.
    The US leader doubled down on those remarks early Sunday, urging fans to boycott the NFL as long as the protests continued.
    “If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
    Yet players throughout America’s most popular sport took a defiant stance on Sunday, in the largest such demonstration since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the protests in 2016.

    Trump was forced back into the issue tonight (and he LOVED every minute of it) …

    Trump, speaking to reporters on a New Jersey tarmac before boarding Air Force One, was asked for a reaction to the statement by New England Patriots owner (and Trump supporter) Robert Kraft about being “disappointed” by Trump’s recent comments.

    “I like Bob very much, we’re friends — he gave me a Super Bowl ring a month ago, right? — so he’s a good friend of mine, and I want him to do what he wants to do, but we have a great country, we have great people representing our country, especially our soldiers, our first responders, and they should be treated with respect, and when you get on your knee and you don’t respect the American flag or the anthem, that’s not being treated with respect.”

    Asked a reporter: “Are you inflaming racial tensions, sir?”

    “This has nothing to do with race,” Trump said. “I never said anything about race. This has nothing to do with race or anything else. This has to do with respect for our country and respect for our flag.”

    The new ‘freedom fries’ of Monday water cooler chat will center around Donald Trump and the new national sensation.
    Meanwhile? …. lots of tiny players and older ones too have brains rattling around their heads and futures filled with head injuries. 
    But ratings were down.
    So to Twitter we went.
  • Taking a knee: Trump comments will undoubtedly increase NFL ratings

    Taking a knee: Trump comments will undoubtedly increase NFL ratings

    I am beginning to wonder if the new world order is just a fake fraud and cover up of the REAL conspiracy among us: TV executives working with Trump to get better ratings!

    Think of it! Since the realDonald become the real president, ratings have gone up.. networks who despise the president are constantly capitalizing on their hate and the viewers dislike as well. And CNN!? It’s all Trump.. all the time. Morning, noon and night.

    Cue the newest:
    Donald Trump said the other night that NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem should be fired and thrown off the field. The NFL immediately didn’t like it.. Football players united in their dislike.. Some Democrats said ALL players should kneel.. And the President stands firm. 

    Over the past several weeks, there have been video and pictures to prove just how unpopular the NFL has gotten. Stands not even half full on the latest Thursday night game? Ratings slumping? Interest in pee-wee sports down because of traumatic brain injuries, and NFL executives have been in a constant state of denial over retired players mental problems due to head injuries that took place during their short careers.

    With Trump forcing the issue, riling up both sides with his rhetoric, and now, most likely, equaling and increase in ratings for the NFL.

    WHO WILL STAND! WHO WILL KNEEL! WILL THE CAMERAS PAN BACK AND SHOW THE TEAM!? WILL WE JUST SEE THE FLAG!? WILL TRUMP TWEET!? WILL ‘ROCKET MAN’ EXPLODE!?

    All the ratings are set to increase..

    Yes indeed.
    This television scheme is sure feeling suspicious lately.