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A new poll finds that 33 percent of responding NFL fans said they boycotted the 2017 season by refusing to watch games on TV and former San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick was the leading reason.

Yahoo! Sports writer Jay Busbee took issue with a recent tweet from President Trump in which Trump both supported military veterans and families and took a shot at NFL anthem protesters.

A new Gallup poll finds that the game of football is still America’s most popular sport, but that its popularity has slipped six points since 2007.

Melvin Carter III, incoming mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, proclaimed the national anthem an “ode to slavery” during his inaugural address.

San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid says he is prepared to go into forced retirement if once he becomes a free agent, no team picks him up because of his two seasons of protesting against the country during the playing of the national anthem.

Greg Garrison with Indianapolis, Indiana’s WIBC radio, has a suggestion for the privileged, millionaire players in the NFL who want to protest against America during the playing of the national anthem: don’t so it.

Actress Debra Messing posted a message to social media this week praising her son’s decision to sit “in protest” during the singing of the National Anthem before the start of a New York Rangers game.

President Donald Trump has topped a second year-end sports list, this time making the top sports story of 2017 as voted by the Associated Press.

The NFL is still getting tackled in the ratings and this week is no exception, as Monday Night Football seems to have once again taken a knee with numbers approaching a season low.

As part of its commitment to its protesting players, the NFL has announced funding social justice training for college football players and other students, reports say.

Kennesaw State University president Sam Olens, has resigned his position after coming under fire for attempting to prevent university cheerleaders from taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem.

Despite the NFL’s promise to spend nearly $90 million to promote “social justice” campaigns, players are still kneeling in protest against the country during the playing of the national anthems, and along with the protests, the league’s TV ratings are still cratering.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is defending the new $90 million in funds the league is earmarking for so-called “social justice” causes in an agreement made to placate the dozens of players who have been protesting against the country during the playing of the national anthem.

Like many other NFL teams, the Baltimore Ravens are worried about the thousands of empty seats in their stadium.

Shoe designer Steve Madden says he was “particularly upset” by President Donald Trump’s recent criticism of football player Colin Kaepernick, who kicked off a highly publicized wave of protests last year by kneeling during the National Anthem before NFL games.

A pair of high school cheerleaders from California earned high praise from National Public Radio for kneeling during the national anthem at their high school games.

Week 13 doesn’t appear to be the National Football League’s lucky number as photos of stadiums across the league still show an awful lot of empty seats. Meanwhile, the sad in-person attendance mirrors the continually plummeting TV ratings.

Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins announced that he plans to stand for the national anthem without raising a clenched fist in protest this weekend against the Seattle Seahawks after consistently protesting the pregame patriotic ritual since early last season.

More than a dozen NFL players went back to protesting against the country in the first NFL action since the Thanksgiving holiday. Not surprisingly, while the protests continued, fans continued to leave thousands of empty seats in stadiums across the league.

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.

President Donald Trump continued his criticism of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, pointing out another player who refused to stand during the national anthem.

Breitbart News executive chairman and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daly that he wonders what the Pilgrims and American Revolution freedom fighters would think if they saw NFL players kneeling for the national anthem, but standing for Britain’s anthem God Save the Queen.

“The NFL is now thinking about a new idea – keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “That’s almost as bad as kneeling!”

It has gotten increasingly hard for average Americans to afford to take their families out to sporting events, because the costs are so high. But as the NFL continues to lose fans, TV ratings, and moral authority, ticket prices have also crashed to unheard of lows.

President Donald Trump continued to criticize the NFL for failing to suspend players who refused to stand for the national anthem.

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.

The California chapter of the NAACP is advising Congress to abolish the national anthem, calling the song a “racist” relic of the past.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seeks to stop the National Football League from extending the contract of Commissioner Roger Goodell.

As it’s 2017 season wound down, Major League Baseball found that its sponsors spent eight percent more this year over last season. On the other hand, with ratings crashing and advertisers expressing serious doubts, the NFL is suffering like never before.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell tacitly acknowledged the damage done by the politicization of football in remarks delivered on Wednesday.

The California chapter of the NAACP is trying to persuade state lawmakers to support its campaign to remove “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the U.S. national anthem.

A lawyer for national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick says that the NFL canceled a special one-on-one meeting it had offered the player with Commissioner Roger Goodell, but the league disputes the lawyer’s claim.

The NFL has reportedly invited national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick to a private, one-on-one meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson tore his ACL last week, and now team leadership is admitting that they briefly considered bringing original anthem protester Colin Kaepernick to Texas as a replacement.

With ratings for the NFL’s Week 9 games rolling in, some results show a slowing of the tumbling ratings over last year’s numbers. But the numbers still show NFL ratings down double digits over the league’s 2015 season.

With the National Football League losing ratings and fans by the millions, and no end in sight to Commissioner Roger Goodell’s coddling of the players’ protests. A group of players are now demanding that the mediation process be employed to solve the issue.