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On Wednesday the owner and founder of the Papa John’s pizza chain and major NFL advertiser held a press conference where he excoriated the league saying that its national anthem protests had cost him $70 million in business. Now, several members of the sports media have theorized that the owner of the Dallas Cowboys was behind the pizza chain’s complaints.

Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell made news last month, becoming Major League Baseball’s first anthem protester. This month he made news for a disputed charge that a waiter refused to serve him over political differences, and for brandishing a gun in the face of a pizza delivery worker.

A new survey of some of the nation’s most polarizing brand names, finds the NFL ranking in higher on the polarization scale than several news networks: ABC CBS, Fox Business, the Huffington Post, and even Breitbart News.

As ratings for the NFL continue to fall across nearly every network currently broadcasting games, one analyst is noting that it would make good business sense for cable sports network ESPN to simply give up its $15.2 billion commitment to broadcast NFL games.

A father and son who were set to officiate during a high school football game in New Jersey, walked off the field when the students took a knee during the playing of the national anthem.

A liberal east coast sports reporter recently left his comfortable liberal bubble in New York City, traveled to the interior of the country, and was shocked when he discovered that NFL fans in fly over country really do hate the NFL’s constant anti-American national anthem protests.

Scottsdale, Arizona, police arrested Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell early Saturday evening for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as a result of allegedly pointing a gun at a female food-delivery driver. The cops also charged him for disorderly conduct.

A new Fox poll finds that 52 percent of respondents still disapprove of the NFL’s protests against the country during the national anthem. The league has also seen a massive fall from grace.

Houston Texans Owner Bob McNair raised eyebrows at an NFL meeting earlier this month, with an analogy he made slam about anthem-protesting players, saying that we “can’t have the inmates running the prison.” McNair has since apologized for the remark.

Rocky Bleier won four Super Bowls for the Pittsburgh Steelers after earning a Purple Heart and rushed for nearly 4,000 yards in the NFL after getting shot in the leg in Vietnam.

Fox CEO James Murdoch is worried about the collapsing ratings for pro football but thinks the drop is due to “over saturation” and not because of the league’s constant protests during the national anthem.

A waiter from an Alabama restaurant has come forward to dispute the claim of Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell who made national news on Wednesday saying the waiter refused to serve him because he took a knee during the national anthem.

The widow of Major League Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, says she doubts whether her famed husband would have protested during the playing of the national anthem, but she can’t say for sure.

No stand, no service. That would best describe the account being told by Oakland A’s catcher and anthem protester, Bruce Maxwell. Who claims that a waiter in an Alabama restaurant refused to serve him after the server recognized him as baseball’s sole anthem protester.

It’s turning into quite the week for former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. First, he lands a $1 million book deal with a high-profile publisher. Now, the league he filed a grievance against only two weeks ago, has invited him to attend the next meeting between the players and the owners.

Despite the NFL’s struggles on Sunday’s and Thursday’s, the Week 7 edition of Monday Night Football between the Eagles and the Redskins, saw a ratings bump.

A Florida woman who pitched a sign supporting President Trump on her property for more than a year said the county ordered her to remove her sign after she added a phrase stating that she supports the national anthem.

Stevie Wonder knelt over the weekend while performing the National Anthem at Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, TX, following in the footsteps of NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick and other players. As Wonder performed the “Star-Spangled Banner” on

A new poll finds that many African Americans think former San Francisco 49ers second-string quarterback and inventor of the NFL national anthem protest Colin Kaepernick should give up football and become a full-time leader of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Did you get the joke God (or perhaps Mother Nature or some other supernatural being with a sense of humor) played on the NFL Sunday night? The league’s 32 owners certainly did not.

As the National Football League’s 2017 Week 7 wound down, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was once again speaking out about the now pervasive protests against the country staged by players during the playing of the national anthem with Jones insisting that the league is suffering “negative” consequences over the continuing protests.

Leave aside the Nielsen ratings and the empty seats for now. The fact that the statistic fans flock to involves what occurred immediately before the game, and not Tom Brady going 21-for-29 or Ezekiel Elliott rushing for 147 yards, demonstrates the trouble in which the NFL finds itself.

This season Tampa Bay Lightning player J.T. Brown became the first pro hockey player to join Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the country during the playing of the national anthem. But now he is ending his protest with an act that might make far more sense than protesting during the anthem.

Just in case you were thinking that the NFL’s speedy descent ratings oblivion would soon bottom-out and come to an end, don’t worry yourself, it’s not.

In a sit-down interview with “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt, Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, expressed his disappointment in the National Anthem protests around the NFL, saying players should “stand for the flag.” “There’s many injustices in this

Colonel Kriste Etue posted a popular meme on her personal Facebook page in late September that called NFL national anthem kneelers “anti-American degenerates.” In response, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, who called the post “innapropriate,” docked her five days’ pay.

Four members of a city council in Michigan emulated Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protests by taking a knee during the pledge of allegiance at a recent meeting.

TNT host and former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal is not a big fan of staging social justice protests during the playing of the national anthem. O’Neal told a group of reporters that he would try and do something “much bigger.”

The owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars is once again attacking President Donald Trump, this time saying Trump is only criticizing the NFL because he is “jealous” of the league.

A photo of three Maine roofers, who stopped what they were doing to stand while the national anthem played at a nearby high school football game, is gaining a lot of traction on the Internet.

Don Meredith helped make Monday Night Football famous, by singing ‘Turn out the lights, the party’s over” at the end of games. It might be time to sing that same song again for Monday Night Football, though, for an entirely different reason.

As the NFL’s 2017 season began, all the league’s broadcast partners were deeply interested in showing the national anthem in order to highlight the protests by millionaire players. But, as Week 6 hit and ratings had slipped to record lows, those same broadcasters began to end their attention on the protests to avoid angering millions of NFL fans.

The National Football League seeks to double down on politics despite the bad hand of anthem kneelers resulting in fans becoming boo-birds.

A Georgia doctor claims that a flight attendant barred her and other passengers from singing the national anthem during a Delta flight carrying home the remains of a fallen soldier.

The Jacksonville Jaguars have not been very good at football. Consequently, their fans have spoken out against them in a variety of ways. Though on Sunday, a group of fans took things to an entirely new level.

“That’s why she lost the election, honestly,” Trump said, referring to Clinton’s comments. “I think that her statement in itself is very disrespectful to our country.”