The NFL really isn't listening to itself, are they? - Granite Grok

The NFL really isn’t listening to itself, are they?

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SHOTSan Francisco 49ers Pledge $500,000 to Push Suppressor Ban, Other Gun Control Measures

The San Francisco 49ers pledged $500,000 Thursday to secure a suppressor ban and other gun controls. The push comes in the weeks after the Las Vegas attack. Suppressors were not used in that attack, but the 49ers are dedicated to banning the devices anyway. According to ESPN, the 49ers presented the gun control pledge as part of creating a “more understanding and safer America.” The $500,000 will also be used to push a ban on bump stocks and armor-piercing bullets. The ban on armor-piercing bullets is somewhat ambiguous, but appears similar to a ban which was unsuccessfully pushed by the Obama administration in 2015. The Obama-era actually targeted bullets that would have to be re-categorized as armor piercing in order to be banned.

CHASER: NFL Ratings Continue to Crater As New Numbers Reveal Massive Two-Year Decline

According to Nielsen data obtained by the Sporting News, “League games averaged 15.1 million viewers through Week 7. That’s down 5.1 percent from 15.87 million viewers during the same period last season and off 18.7 percent from 18.35 million viewers during the same period in 2015.” As the Sporting News notes, “Ratings are lagging for a variety of reasons, not least the ongoing protests during the national anthem that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began in 2016. Fans are still angry about Kaepernick’s continued unemployment as well as what’s seen as the growing politicization of the NFL.

…It’s pretty clear that the current fan backlash, captured best in several recent polls and surveys, has an awful lot to do with the protests begun by Colin Kaepernick. While, ensuring that all players respect the anthem wouldn’t solve all of the NFL’s problems. It would solve a pretty big one, and it might restore some faith that league leadership was at listening to their fan base.

And right on queue, they decide to outrage yet another sector of their fandom – forgive the metaphor but the 49ers have just shot themselves in the head with this move.  Full metal SJWdom for the 49ers – how many more teams are going to further Leftist causes and basically tell their fans that are center-right “screw you”.  And that is exactly what they are doing when going after the Second Amendment rights and doing it under pretenses that most gun owners know (e.g., suppressors, “armor” ammo) have no impact on crime.

How many other Leftist causes will the NFL teams pick up? I haven’t posted them but there’s starting to be a mountain of stadium pictures that are showing that fans just aren’t showing up for the games. Wouldn’t say that they are only half full but it is clear that the nosebleed levels are getting pretty bare. Also, NO ONE is ignore that the networks aren’t showing the intro ceremonies anymore where there still are players kneeling during the anthem. Let me also add that many are also still kneeling BEFORE the national anthem and then stand up for it – do they REALLY think anyone is falling for this stupidity they are calling “Unity”?

Now they’re acting like Progressives that so ruined their label they had to start calling themselves “Liberals” (yeah, sure thing you were).  Then they turned around, not learning from their mistake, and ruined “Liberal” and went back to “Progressive”.  And have they learned that it doesn’t matter what they call themselves – it is THEY that are the problem?

And the NFL is now following their lead.

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