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HomokHarcos on 24 September 2017
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Ka-pi96 said:
Harkins1721 said:

To each their own. You were brought up differently from others. As was I. However im not the professional sports player making millions every year and doing nothing but kneeling.

"A sup par/mediocre quarterback started a trend of kneeling during an anthem. This led to other millionaire players doing the same thing, which in turn got everybody and their momma talking about it.
So ratings decline because an ineffective form of protest by millionaires makes the people that line their pockets, not want to watch the sport.
Meanwhile, the actual thing they're protesting remains unchanged because kneeling does absolutely nothing towards working towards fixing the issue... it just gets everybody bickering at each other; notice, most people aren't event talking about what they're supposedly protesting. Likely when election time comes around, the millionaire kneelers will buck dance for some politician who will pay lip service to the "reform."

Because passing new laws and using the word "accountability" a thousand times will somehow make government agents follow rules, even though they don't follow the ones that exist now."

Those professional sports players aren't exactly doing nothing but kneeling, they're still doing profession sports after all

And while something as small as that seems like a silly reason not to watch a sport you enjoy, I gotta ask are ratings actually decreasing by any significant amount? I wouldn't really know where to look for ratings for NFL, although I did find super bowl ratings on wikipedia and that doesn't really show any decline (and even if it did I'd have to wonder if that may have been due to the teams involved rather than because of kneeling during the anthem).

I can agree that it won't really do anything towards fixing the issue. Especially since those with the power to actually do anything about it don't seem interested in even trying. But regardless, at least they are showing they recognise the issue and support a solution rather than just ignoring it.

NFL ratings made a huge decline last year (like a 10% viewership decline). I don't get why Trump is trying to make it seem like it's all about the anthem and flag when ratings have been in decline for a year.