The NFL rejected a Super Bowl ad from a veteran’s group urging people to stand for the national anthem.
The National Football League has rejected a Super Bowl advertisement from American Veterans urging people to stand for the national anthem.
The nation’s largest veterans service organization had been invited by the NFL to place an ad in the Super Bowl LII program. AMVET’s advertisement included a two-word message – “#PleaseStand.”
“It’s a simple, polite request that represents the sentiment of our membership, particularly those whose missing or paralyzed limbs preclude standing,” wrote National Commander Marion Polk in a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
American Veterans accused the NFL of outright censorship by rejecting the advertisement.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy defended the league’s decision to ban the American Veterans’ advertisement noting that the game day program “is designed for fans to commemorate and celebrate the game, players, teams and the Super Bowl.”
“It’s never been a place for advertising that could be considered by some as a political statement,” McCarthy told Army Times.
But it’s fine for the players to make political statements. Fuck you! Pete Rozelle would have had you and the rest of the NFL front office roasted over spits. Do you even understand why the NFL went from the number one sport in the country to the least liked sport this year? You guys really are tone deaf.
And check out the video about Colon Kraperdick. Just another reason I gave up on Sports Illustrated years ago.
Follow the demographics, then follow the money.
The NFL has been attempting to expand its market by trying to increase its appeal to females for decades with limited success. The WWII and Boomer generations are dying off which means their traditional white-male audience is disappearing. The millennial pajama-boy hipsters certainly aren’t going to pick up the slack, and the Hispanics are into soccer and baseball, so the only solution as the NFL sees it is to go international.
None of this is by accident. The NFL is using black grievances to squeeze the last drops out of the domestic black market and as a means to eventually eliminate flag ceremonies and any such demonstrations of patriotism altogether in order to go global and expand its market overseas, a process that has already been in progress for many years with select games being played in foreign countries. The current drop in profits in the short term doesn’t concern them in the least.
I doubt if it will work. In 20 years this will be taught in marketing classes along with New Coke. If they blow the domestic market no one will pay for their big shiny new stadiums.
Denny- I was gonna say that you shouldn’t warn ’em, but then I realized that they ain’t listenin’ to us anyway. Look at what the fools in Oakland have subjected themselves to with the Raiders. Al Davis left town to make big money in L.A., then flirted with his old Bay Area fan base enough that they pressured the politicians for fuck up a nice ballpark to lure Davis back. Now the son, Mark, is runnin’ off to the money and bright lights of Vegas. Guess the ghetto of Oakland has been bled dry of all the welfare money the Davis family could get.
St. Louis built a stadium to get the Rams. Then the Rams returned to LA and are playing in a half empty stadium. Same with the Chargers who moved to LA as well. LA can’t support one football team, which is why the Rams left for St. Louis, let alone two. The football fans watch USC and UCLA. All that’s left are Mexicans and they don’t watch football. I’m really enjoying the implosion of the NFL. As Insty sez, “Get woke, go broke.” SJWs ruin everything they touch.
Yeah, St. Looie got the Cardinals from Chicago and couldn’t hold ’em, then tried with the Rams and we see how that worked. It’s a great baseball town but football, eh, not so much. Another fiasco is their silly Rozelle Rule. Make minorities travel to an interview for a job that’s already been decided on in most cases.
The reason the Cardinals left was because St. Louis would not build them a new stadium. They couldn’t sell out Busch Stadium because they were a shitty team. What St. Louis said was give us a good team and we’ll give you a good stadium. Cardinals’ management ran Dan Coryell, their best coach ever, out of town. He wanted a defensive lineman in the draft and the Cardinals drafted Steve Pisarkiewicz from Mizzou with their first draft choice, a stupid pick since he was no more than a 3rd round pick at best. During the Coryell years they consistently sold out Busch Stadium. They moved to Phoenix and still sucked. As long as Bill Bidwill ran the team they were crap. It wasn’t until he turned control over to his son that they started getting good.
The Rams won a Super Bowl in St. Louis. Then they sucked. St. Louis will support a good team or even an average team but not a crappy team. I just hope the city doesn’t try to lure another team. I’m hoping the NFL continues to play in half empty stadiums and TV ratings continue to decline.
I served during nam,not going to beg
anyone to do the right thing.
also not watching anything nfl.
I was done when the felons owners took a knee.
I’m with you. Haven’t watched NFL/BLM for five years. NFL is only interested in Black America. If I want to hear sermons, I’ll go to church.
If it weren’t for the colors, everybody would be watching fucking SOCCER instead. Fuck the NFL and especially the KNEEHAWKS.
Soccer? Please. We need to be watching “real sports” not these metrosexual European/South American sports.
Soccer is for girly men.
Ron in Ohio Sez:
W-T-F! Super Bowl! – Who cares? I haven’t watched a minute of the KNEE-GRO’S shit in the past 2 seasons and I now realize that I not only have never missed a damned thing but wonder why I’ve even cared for over 50 years.
I have always loved football. This season was like getting a gut punch. This article is the last straw. Guess I’ll have to switch to college football or something. Goodell has really screwed the pooch on this whole thing.
Won’t be watching the game. I’ve watched snippets of a couple games this year, only because I was in a bar and a game was on. No one I cared about, well, actually, I guess I no longer care about any of them. Anyone want to buy a share of Packers stock?
I’ll support our vets way before I’ll support these disrespectful, overpaid, arrogant athletes.
What does this “new” NFL need to do to convince their dead ender dopy fan base that they’ve become radically political. They’re telling you loud and clear “we the NFL organization have a blatant distain for all things Cop, America and White”
Right after the 2012 presidential election every black person I saw I viewed as an Obama voter. Today every die hard NFL fan fawning all over ultra racist black millionaire so called college educated football players I put in the category with Hollywood celebrities and space cadet college sniffers. There’s some serious and orchestrated “man decay” afoot.
I boycotted MLB after the strike back in the 90’s. I guess I’m going to have to start looking at them again for some type of sport to watch. I wish we had a professional Women’s wrestling team in this area of Georgia. That would be a good replacement for all these rich whining professional “athletes” we currently have to endure.
There’s always the LFL. Lingerie Football League.
Yes indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUML2OLtC1I
I emailed this to a dozen friends. Hope they think on it.
“It’s never been a place for advertising that could be considered by some as a political statement,” McCarthy told Army Times.
Unless 84 Lumber and Busch want to make statements on immigration. Then we go ahead an approve it.
Hey Denny;
I was a hardcore Atlanta Falcons fan until the crap for the past 2 years about overpaid entitled athletes that live better than 99% of all Americans complain and whine about police brutality when they don’t even mention that the biggest threat to young blacks ain’t the popo, it is other young blacks, but you can’t have facts disturb a narrative. I haven’t watched a single game in 2 years except for the post season last year when the Falcons got pretty close then choked. My Sundays have a lot less stress and I get stuff done around the house.
NFL: Please stand???
Roger Goodell: Hold my beer
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/01/24/sports/goodell-social-justice-campaign-between-nfl-players-just-the-beginning/
I have lost about 98% of my interest in Professional sports due to th egreed of Players, owners & the disregard for what the fans want. Do I miss the good old days , yeah I do but they will never return.
The last ounce of respect I had for the NFL vanished this past season with the deplorable actions of the players disrespecting our pledge of allegiance & our flag.
Every last one of these protestors without exception should have been suspended from the NFL without compensation. It is preposterous to me that Tom Brady could be suspended for alleged use a soft football without any proof it was tampered with, that the softness just as likely could have been due to extreme low temperatures or that Tom was in anyway responsible for any wrong doing. Today though protestors are allowed to continue their disgraceful actions, repugnant to patriotic Americans as it actually is.
As far as Pro Football goes ….I will follow Tom Brady`s career to its end……that will also be the end of my interest in anything to do with Pro Football.
Lived and worked in the DFW area for over thirty years – once Jonesy got his hands on the Dallas Cryboys, never ever cared to watch pro football again. Frankly I cannot understand the utterly stupid fascination of people with professional athletes or actors. Especially when it seems that for the Cryboys a recruiting requirement is a criminal record.
I haven’t watched the NFL for 2 seasons. Fuck ’em!
Asshole commissioner, dumbass millionaire players, arrogant billionaire owners, and us suckers subsidizing their stadiums. The rejection of the veteran’s ad was the final nail in their coffin.