National Anthem Protests - Page 26

With the NFL on the verge of giving anthem-protesting players $100 million dollars to disperse to the leftist, radical organization of their choice. Signs that Colin Kaepernick has prevailed over the league with his protests abound.

President Donald Trump is renewing his complaints about NFL players who kneel during the national anthem.

Just when some industry observers were beginning to think that it couldn’t get any worse for the NFL’s primetime ratings this year, it gets much, much worse.

The NFL has already received their fair share of bad news this holiday season. First, the league finds out that all three Thanksgiving games saw double-digit drops in viewership from the previous year.

The NFL’s most unemployable man is apparently not so unemployable, in Hollywood. According to a report from TMZ, a prominent Hollywood casting director has decided it’s time for Colin Kaepernick to get started on his acting career.

Super Bowl Champion Burgess Owens is not a fan of the NFL’s now weekly anti-American protests staged during the paying of the national anthem. He believes players need to show respect for the country that has made so many of them millionaires.

The protest count for the NFL’s early games is going in the wrong direction. Last week, five NFL players protested during the playing of the national anthem during the league’s early slate of action.

You didn’t think we’d get through Thanksgiving with no anthem protests did you? If you did, you quite possibly haven’t been watching a lot of football this year.

Not everyone has been a fan of President Trump taking such a large interest in the NFL’s ongoing controversy surrounding the national anthem protests. However, Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones says, he “appreciates the interest.”

Ratings for the National Football League have gotten worse as Week 11 passes to the rear view with the league losing another one million viewers over the numbers from 2016 even as protests during the national anthem continue.

Wednesday on ESPN’s “First Take,” host Stephen A. Smith weighed in on President Donald Trump’s criticisms of the NFL’s National Anthem protests, saying his attempt at “retribution” stems from failing to become an owner in the NFL. “The man is being petty [and]

The Oakland Raiders have much bigger problems than President Donald J. Trump criticizing their anthem-kneeling running back Marshawn Lynch.

The NFL is considering a new solution to the anthem protest problem, if players continue to protest through the rest of the season. According to the Washington Post, the NFL will debate a rule change that will keep teams in the locker room during the anthem.

Monday on “Fox & Friends,” former star NFL running back weighed in Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch choosing to stand for Mexico’s National Anthem while sitting for his own country’s, saying he is “insulted” because he thinks Lynch is

Monday, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host Tucker Carlson reacted to Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch standing for the Mexican National Anthem while the team was in the country to play the New England Patriots, only to sit for his own

If it seems like President Trump has spent a lot of time in Twitter fights with the parents of famous athletes, that’s because he has.

Per Star-Telegram, a group of around 300 protesters took a knee Sunday outside AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, to protest racial injustice in the United States. A group called the Coalition for Justice, led by pastor Dr. Frederick Douglass

Normally, when basketball season happens NBA players talk about basketball. However, the times in which we live could be called anything but normal, which is how we end up with LeBron James talking about Colin Kaepernick during basketball season.

During his Sunday “Gotcha” segment on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” Al Sharpton ripped Papa John’s owner John Schnatter for blaming the NFL’s National Anthem protests for a decrease in sales. “That Schnatter would echo President Trump’s condemnation of player protests is not

The Raiders and the Patriots traveled to play a game in Mexico City during Week 11 of the NFL season. And it appears, at least in one case, that some brought their politics with them.

The number of NFL players protesting the national anthem continued to dwindle during Week 11. According to the Associated Press, only five players protested during the playing of the anthem.

The NFL recently let Jerry Jones know that they view his conduct regarding Roger Goodell’s contract extension as, “detrimental to the league.” On Thursday, Jerry Jones let the NFL know that he’d like to give everyone a piece of his mind.

Sunday Night Football’s Al Michaels did not hold back when asked how President Trump affected the anthem protests controversy in the NFL. Nor did he think twice in blaming those same anthem protests, for hurting the league’s ratings.

A Muslim student has been removed from a college basketball team in Kansas for shooting baskets during the playing of the national anthem. The student insisted he had a “religious objection” to the anthem.

Nate Burleson, an analyst on Showtime’s “Inside the NFL,” feels the NFL should sit down with Colin Kaepernick to discuss the quarterback’s initiatives off the field.

Only two weeks after publicly criticizing NFL leadership and saying that the anthem protests should have been “nipped the in the bud a year and a half ago,” Papa John’s has apologized on Tuesday for being, “divisive.”

Men’s magazine GQ, awarded former San Francisco 49ers quarterback and national anthem protest inventor Colin Kaepernick its “Citizen of the Year” award on Monday. However, the choice did not sit well with former ESPN host Britt McHenry who had a much better candidate in mind for the honor than Kaepernick.

If it wasn’t for moral ratings victories, the NFL would have very few ratings victories at all. Week 10’s edition of Sunday Night Football was no exception.

Who said unemployment wouldn’t have its perks? Despite being out of a job and achieving pariah status in the hearts and minds of most American sports fans, Colin Kaepernick is winning and scoring points somewhere.

Photos of empty seats continue to make their appearance on Twitter as the NFL’s Week 10 games debut on Veterans Day, this weekend. Even as some players decided to protest the country on this day dedicated to our soldiers, fans stayed away in droves.

Three players took a knee during the national anthem before the New York Giants game at the San Francisco 49ers, while the rest of the league stood during Veterans Day weekend.

With a result so unsurprising that one wonders why the question was asked in the first place, a new poll reveals that most Californians disagree with how President Trump handled the NFL protests.

A Facebook page urging fans to boycott the NFL over the Veterans Day weekend has earned over 200,000 followers.

On a weekend where we stand in recognition of those who have served, organizations which represent those who have stood served aren’t taking the NFL’s disrespect for the national anthem, lying down. Though, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion aren’t calling for an outright boycott of the NFL over the weekend.

In simpler, less insane times, a story about a football player standing for the national anthem would never have to be written. Yet, we clearly no longer live in such simple times.

Thursday on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” co-host Skip Bayless reacted to the report Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is attempting to block NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell from getting a contract extension. According to Bayless, debacles such as the National Anthem protests