MICHAEL SALADEN

The Broadcasters are certainly between a rock and a hard place, but by omitting the National Anthem before the game by the Broadcasters is tantamount to endorsing the players, by not showing the playing before each game of the National Anthem, which is synonymous with the start of each game and part of our culture...

Perhaps the broadcasters could show solidarity with the country by playing the National Anthem using a different forum? A forum which embraces the respect our Anthem and Flag has earned with the blood of men and women in uniform who served and protected us over the past two centuries?

Broadcasters have inadvertently endorsed the protesters by not demonstrating the imagination to provide the viewers with the playing of the Anthem in a tasteful format...while, live at the game players continue to disrespect all of America and Americans by their hollow protests...

Their protests are hollow because they choose to do nothing but take a knee...when I played football as a child we took a knee for a brief rest to assist with avoiding possible fatigue...

All I can say is a vast majority of America grows weary of the hollow protests by the overpaid grown children not willing to take responsibility for the cause they protest, as an adult. They chose to disrespect instead by showing defiance to our nation, our people, and the men and women in uniform who have fought so that they could maintain the right to speak their mind...

So far, for two seasons now, while I have boycotted, all I see is insincere silence on the part of the NFL, the NFL Players Association and the Players who have chosen to take a knee...and in protest of which cause? Do they even know any longer?

Two weeks ago I read an article which included the staggering number of arrests of NFL Players which included two murders along with a host of DUI and Domestic Violence charges...

If these numbers are true, they have altered my perception of the NFL forever, not to mention eliminated from my mindset individuals I would wish my children to look up to as role models, as they selfishly and silently protest without meaning or a sincere course of action to affect change in a positive manner regarding what they protest about...

Their protest, for two seasons now, is remaining hollow, empty, a mere grandstanding...

I no longer support the NFL, NFL Players Assoc. or NFL Players in general and could care less about what they throw a childish insincere tantrum about... I live downtown in my city of 2 million people. Many of us who struggle daily to make ends meet...

I personally laid out the basis for change which the NFL players could pick up the ball and run with that would affect change in a positive manner for all concerned...and yet nothing has been done... (Article published on "One Political Plaza" titled "NFL and Players could stop protest with S.T.H.L.E. (Style)...

The only professional sports stars that I even have any amount of respect remaining, is for Mr. Charles Barkley and Mr. Shaquille O'Neil, who has stated publically that the players need to either get up off their knees and do something in the communities they insist they protest on behalf of or shut the f__k up... I couldn't agree with these two great Americans more!!

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

Screw um Mike . It's to late .

PulletSurprise Loc: Columbus, GA

Since 2000, records indicate approximately 900 arrests of NFL players.
You must swim in the sewers to worship them as heroes. I guess, it depends on your values.
Don't ever tell me, I would do anything for my children while watching the games.
Is it any wonder, they protest the police? Why not, an outright protest for anarchy and lawlessness?

Prominent names of past years and their arrest summaries:

RAY LEWIS: The Ravens’ star linebacker and two companions were indicted in 2000 on murder and aggravated assault charges following the stabbing deaths of two people after a Super Bowl party in Atlanta. The linebacker’s lawyers negotiated a plea bargain in which the murder charge was dropped in exchange for his testimony against the two others charged in the case. Lewis was sentenced to one year of probation. His two companions were acquitted in June 2000. Lewis was fined $250,000 by the NFL.
The next season, he was voted Super Bowl MVP when the Ravens beat the Giants in the league’s championship game.

RAE CARRUTH: A wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers from 1997-1999, was accused in the 1999 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend. Two men pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for their testimony that Carruth paid one of them $6,000 to kill Cherica Adams while she sat in her car, with Carruth blocking its path using his vehicle. Carruth was acquitted of first-degree murder but was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, discharging a firearm into occupied property and using an instrument with intent to destroy an unborn child. The baby survived. Carruth is serving an 18- to 24-year prison sentence.

ART SCHLICHTER: The Colts’ quarterback was suspended indefinitely in 1983 by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle for gambling on NFL games a year earlier. The quarterback was reinstated for the `84 season, but later admitted gambling while under suspension. He was released five games into the `85 season. In 1987, he pleaded guilty to illegal gambling and Rozelle did not reinstate him after Schlichter applied for permission to re-sign. Last year, he was sentenced to 10 years, seven months in prison for his involvement in a million-dollar ticket scam.

O.J. SIMPSON: One of the NFL’s top running backs in 1970s with the Buffalo Bills, Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman, after one of the most publicized criminal trials in history. In 1997, a civil court awarded a judgment against him for their wrongful deaths, but little of the $33.5 million penalty has been paid. In 2008, Simpson was found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping, and must serve the first nine years of a 33-year sentence without a chance of parole.

Carol Kelly

Football has gone to the dogs. Let's forget the NFL. They're hardly worth noticing. A bunch of malcontents. Blame the organization for allowing this to happen. Watch baseball!

MICHAEL SALADEN

I am in my second full season of boycotting the NFL, and their sponsors...I have discovered that I am able to enjoy my time not watching football with a greater sense of accomplishment as well...The amount of money I no longer spend supporting the NFL games and players was significant and is much welcome saving... It is too late for me, as far as going back to the grind of the football season as the players have totally ruined any chance that I may return to watching these overpaid thugs play a single down let alone devote an entire Sunday to watching games...It just is not the same anymore...with the globalists trying to take our country away from us I have devoted a great amount of time writing and getting the word out to the uninformed...I feel a greater sense of contribution to my fellow Americans both in uniform and out by not wasting a single second to the NFL not to mention a single penny... In addition, I have been able to influence decisions of friends and acquaintances which have resulted in their boycotting as well and spreading to their friends and acquaintances...

MICHAEL SALADEN

I hardly worship any sports figure as a hero...on the contrary I find that most have developed a self-centered importance tempered with arrogance...the talent that they think they possess is only marketable as long as they have an interested fan base...My children are all grown and thankfully are well educated and able to see through the players bulls__t and they too do not look at the players with the Titan Hero statues once enjoyed by players and fans alike from an era of football long since forgotten, when real men played and sometimes sacrificed for the better of all...Real stars of the game, not crybaby showoffs who's only connection to the fans is the money that they are over abundantly compensated with...If I were asked a question back in the 60's and 70
s about any team from the NFL or AFL or the NFC and the AFC I could quickly name the starters and their current stats...Today I doubt I could even name all the teams anymore...Lack of interest and bad attitudes with the dwindling games interest have left me detached from the sport I swore was our national past time... No longer my friend as I agree with your description of the sewer swamp that has seemingly polluted sports as well as media and politics...thank you for the stats regarding the criminal activity, it is helpful to a have information when discussing boycotting with new fans that I meet..

Carol Kelly

I hope to do the same, boycotting. Most of my friends aren't football fans except for their universities, but they're getting in the act ,too. And they hate the NFL, so they'll do their part.

Carol Kelly

I read somewhere it's been going on for three or four years, just not brought to our
attention.

MICHAEL SALADEN

It quickly came to my attention last season because San Fransico 49ers used to be my NFC favorite and the Oakland Raiders my AFC favorite...Last Season it was Colling Kaepernick who began kneeling solo in the league, I felt he did it mainly to draw attention to himself t give himself a sense of importance because he had been benched due to his diminishing skills as a quarterback...The defenses just figured him out and he was unable to adjust to keep them from reading him better that he could read the defenses... This season it was an Oakland Raider who was actually a Seahawk retired...He came back to torment me by disrespecting the National Anthem or flag, our culture our Nation and our People...His name is Marshawn Lynch...perhaps a potential Hall of Famer at least he used to be...I relocated to Las Vegas in July of 1973 and hopes of a National Football League pro team has been the dream of Vegans since I moved here...It sad to think that my favorite Raiders are set to move here in 2020 and now I could care less...