NFL Money loss

It would be interesting to know just how much Kapernik has cost the N F L. And, will the powers that be, continue to, look the other way while the protests continue .

I’m talking the whole cabbage not just the gate. What about lost revenue from food sales at the games, shirts, banners, advertising revenue, everything .

I have searched but can find nothing that even attempts to look into that.
It is only my opinion but, I think it is a bigger problem than the NFL is willing to admit.

I personally have not watched a game since last year when the protests first started. It dose not seam as if I have missed much.

I think they are just hoping he'll go away. I don't know how many people don't go or won't buy NFL merchandise now, I've never been to a game and have never bought anything branded. I have watched some games though. The game last night between New England and Kansas City was absolutely fantasist, one of the better games of all time. One whiny little rich boy is not going to keep me from watching football or doing anything. He want's to work for these guys and get paid millions of dollars and then he wants to tell them what he's going to do. If somebody works for me they do what I need them to do, if they can't do that then bye bye, see ya later, don't let the door hit you in the ass. I'm pretty sure that him wanting to use the NFL to bring attention to his cause isn't even remotely kosher.

I want to know why they don't act like any other business and dictate to their employees what can and cannot be done on company time?

From today's WSJ:

This wasn’t an anomaly. I’ve been quick to trash the NFL for uninspired games, but it’s been pretty good this year! It feels like every weekend features at least two to three games that creep up to Must-See status. Even Thursday Night Football has been pretty zesty! I used to not let the cat watch Thursday Night Football.

Not this year. I’m in! The cat’s in! And we’re not alone. Last week the Journal’s Joe Flint and Andrew Beaton reported that ratings through the NFL season’s first five weeks were up 3%—not a giant number, but a nifty uptick at a moment where the numbers are plunging for basically everything on television. The Patriots/Chiefs contest was the highest-rated Sunday night game in more than a year, and tied for the highest-rated Week 6 game in Sunday Night Football history.

Flint and Beaton also reported that a curious amount of ratings growth is coming from audience members over 50 years of age—that is, the segment of the audience said to be most alienated by the league and its pregame anthem controversy.

In other words: the crowd that made a big point of saying it isn’t watching football is now watching more football. It’s like finding a vegetarian in the kitchen at 3 a.m., going to town on a Philly cheesesteak.

We have short memories and they don’t show players kneeling anymore, hence to minimal viewer recovery. Besides, where else ya gonna see huge people running into each other at ramming speed with snot-slinging collisions on purpose?

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Originally Posted by Mike

I want to know why they don't act like any other business and dictate to their employees what can and cannot be done on company time?

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Totally Agree!

Don't forget---these guys have their own union. Companies are forced to negotiate not dictate when a union is involved.

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Originally Posted by Dave Grubb

Don't forget---these guys have their own union. Companies are forced to negotiate not dictate when a union is involved.

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That's right, completely forgot about that! I wonder what the union's stance was on it, I don't remember hearing anything. I'll have to google it.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/62771...-anthem-policy

Pretty much what I thought, they fixed it, broke it, fixed it, and are now in talks. And Colin Kaepernick wants a job! I wouldn't hire him, look at the trouble he's already created.
When I'm watching a game on TV and I see a guy kneeling in protest.....OF WHAT!! How am I to know what it's about? Maybe we need to give every played five or so minutes before every game so they can tell us if their feelings have been hurt this week. Wrong place and time to be whining. We've got about 2000 NFL players how many different "causes" do we have?