Despite the plummeting TV ratings and continued anger of fans over a rising tide of anthem protests, National Football Commissioner Roger Goodell is promising that the league is ready to increase its attention to so-called “social justice” programs and campaigns.
AMVETS officials are saying that the National Football League censored their TV advertisement because it criticized the league’s widespread protests against the country during the playing of the national anthem.
On the Thursday broadcast of his Fox Sports Radio show “Outkick the Coverage,” Clay Travis called on the NFL to apologize to its fans for how it handled the National Anthem protests that have “substantially tarnished” the league’s ratings the last two
Yahoo! Finance Senior Writer Daniel Roberts took stock of the kind of year the NFL had in 2017, and found that it was none too kind to the league. However, even though the league appears to be on a downward trend, Roberts says the league isn’t dying; but it may have hit a “plateau.”
Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell shot down the notion that free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the victim of a blackballing by owners around the NFL due to his polarizing National Anthem protests. Goodell said that Kaepernick “is
Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones implied that Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract extension with the NFL would not get done prior to the NFL’s ownership meetings on December 13th.
Several reports emerged last week, suggesting that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract extension would be signed, sealed, and delivered, prior to the scheduled December 13th owners meetings in Dallas.
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.
New York WFAN radio host Mike Francesa went after “clown” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Monday over the league allowing touchdown celebrations, saying the NFL is allowing “garbage in the end zone.” “It annoys the heck out of me,” Francesa said
President Donald Trump continued his criticism of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, pointing out another player who refused to stand during the national anthem.
“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!”
There’s an old saying which states: If you can’t beat them, join them. However, if Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones had his way, that old adage would read: If you can’t beat them, disband them.
The clock is ticking and Jerry Jones is running out of options, but the Cowboys owner has one more card to play in his quest to delay/derail Roger Goodell’s contract extension.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter knows the NFL, and if his sources are correct, Roger Goodell’s contract extension could get signed right in the backyard of the man who is trying to stop it.
Herschel Walker had a legendary college and pro football career, in which he absorbed and delivered some of the most memorable hits in the history of the game. Now, in his fifties, Walker is still delivering hits.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wage war on each other, and the league’s media camp followers pick sides.
As the ongoing feud between outspoken Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell continues, Sunday Night Football’s Al Michaels believes Jones has some private support from other owners. Michaels guaranteed Thursday on Mike Francesa’s WFAN radio show that
Both cable sports network ESPN and the National Football League have been losing fans and revenue hand over fist, but despite the cascading failures both entities have offered their chief executives huge contract renewals.
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.”
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
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seeks to stop the National Football League from extending the contract of Commissioner Roger Goodell.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell tacitly acknowledged the damage done by the politicization of football in remarks delivered on Wednesday.
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.
Papa John’s and the NFL, have probably enjoyed the closest business relationship of any sponsor and sports league, in recent sports history. However, the NFL’s handling of the recent spate of anthem protests, might sever that tie for good.
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.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, one of the few team owners to openly criticize the NFL’s ever-present national anthem protests, has a new target in his sights. According to reports, Jones is working to get rid of Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner who is plainly facilitating the players’ protests.
President Donald Trump criticized the NFL as athletes continued to protest during the national anthem.
It was once thought that Deflategate would be the signature, defining moment of Roger Goodell’s tenure as commissioner of the NFL. However, that theory prevailed in the comparatively innocent days before the advent of anthem protests. Now that it’s clear that those protests, and not mysterious psi levels, will come to signify Goodell’s tenure. Perhaps it’s poetically just that the controversy surrounding those protests, is what’s delaying Goodell’s new contract.
When the first half of the 21st century is way back enough for a history to written unencumbered by agenda, President Barack Obama will be remembered as the worst thing that ever happened to the Democrat Party. And to the NFL.
President Trump has decided he will do the work that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, will not do for himself. Except this time, President Trump won’t call out the anthem protesters from a podium at a rally. This time, he will do it from the White House website.
Now that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has signaled surrender to the anthem protesters, by saying that the league won’t force players to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner. The next logical step is for the anthem protesters to demand that the founder of their movement get a job in the league. Well, that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday.
Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett compared Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s decision to sit players who do not stand for the national anthem to the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision.
Writing in this space on Tuesday, I way too graciously headlined a piece by saying: “In Case You Missed It, the NFL Might Have just Caved On a Lot More than Just the Anthem Protests.” I must apologize for using the word “might” in this headline. Because there’s no might about it, the NFL has completely caved on the anthem protests.
The news for the National Football League’s TV ratings continues to taint the 2017 season with a new report finding that the first six games of the year have fallen 7.5 percent over last year’s total viewership.
It’s safe to say, that when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote a memo to the league informing them it was time to “move past the anthem controversy.” Most people thought he meant moving past it by ending the protests, and, as a result, ending the controversy. However, a disturbing nugget of information from today’s meeting suggests that Goodell might have meant something else entirely.
The NFL and the NFL Players Association, met on Tuesday to discuss the anthem protests that have dominated so much coverage of the league. The two sides produced a compromise that allowed both sides to feel like they took something away from the table.
At any other point in American sports history, a headline proclaiming that the commissioner of the NFL and an activist player wrote a joint letter on sentencing reform, might seem odd. Then again, it’s 2017, when odd became the new normal.
The National Football League seeks to double down on politics despite the bad hand of anthem kneelers resulting in fans becoming boo-birds.
A new report reveals that an anonymous Twitter account seen faithfully supporting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was secretly created and operated by his own wife.
The San Francisco 49ers won’t be forcing their players to stand during the national anthem, safety Eric Reid said Wednesday.
