Friday, 25 May 2018
quote [ When the NFL first announced its controversial new anthem policy, commissioner Roger Goodell claimed in a press conference that it was "unanimously adopted" by the NFL team owners.
However, ESPN reported that the league never took a formal vote on the new policy, and that, "Not taking an official tally is atypical for a major resolution." ] This is mildly entertaining, as this has been making the rounds as a "unanimous vote by the owners" and it turns out that the NFL is in the midst of some serious backtracking and pulling of their collective feet out of their mouths.
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damnit said[1] @ 10:43pm GMT on 25th May
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gma said @ 12:49pm GMT on 26th May
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The short average career is one of the reasons the players get the shaft on things like guaranteed contracts. These guys have worked their whole lives to get there, and many see that they are never going to be star players, and that their careers could end any day. how do you convince them to strike? They could be giving up a full season's pay, possibly 1/3 of their career earnings, in exchange for what would likely be an incremental benefit from a strike.
In a sport like baseball, players have longer careers, and that gives their union teeth. They can and will strike if they feel they're not being treated fairly. So they have guaranteed contracts, unrestricted free agency, etc. |
damnit said @ 5:13pm GMT on 26th May
Or, rather, how to convince them not to strike by showing who owns them, literally.
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hellboy said @ 11:37pm GMT on 25th May
That is a must-read and dead-on accurate.
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1111 said[2] @ 1:19am GMT on 26th May
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Taxman said @ 3:56am GMT on 26th May
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4321 said[1] @ 1:31pm GMT on 26th May
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Taxman said @ 3:49pm GMT on 26th May
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Ankylosaur said @ 3:50pm GMT on 25th May
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Businesses punishing their employees for not engaging in political speech in the correct manner as proscribed by the monoculture. I'm sure we'll hear from the usual folks decrying this as something something run amok, yes?
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C18H27NO3 said @ 10:36pm GMT on 26th May
The argument is that the NFL is a private business, and 'political' protests are not protected. However, the US military spends $6M a year selling militarism and jingoism on flyovers and nation worship. AND the EEOC protects discrimination based on race or creed, and #blacklivesmatter can be considered a creed.
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Ankylosaur said @ 11:22pm GMT on 26th May
I was sarcastically referring to the sort of rightwingers who support punishing players who also expressed outrage over Google's "politically correct monoculture" and cause célèbring of James Damore's firing. The only difference between this and that is Kaepernick wasn't kneeling in support of harassing and demeaning his fellow coworkers.
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HoZay said @ 6:52pm GMT on 25th May
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I hope the players association tells them to go fuck themselves.
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knumbknutz said @ 6:59pm GMT on 25th May
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If all the Black NFL players took a knee on opening day and got suspended at once, there wouldn't even be enough players left to field an opening kickoff.
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Hugh E. said @ 10:13pm GMT on 25th May
If all the players who opposed racist policing took a knee, it would be even worse. (I'd like to think so.)
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hellboy said @ 11:38pm GMT on 25th May
It had fucking better be.
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Hugh E. said @ 2:29am GMT on 26th May
I don't know, with almost 63 million votes for the guy who says, "When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. You just see them thrown in, rough. I said, 'Please don't be too nice,'" You have to wonder how many jackboot lickers are out there.
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hellboy said @ 2:49am GMT on 26th May
Sad but true. The inability of people to see beyond their own immediate narrow self-interest is really depressing at times.
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ComposerNate said @ 8:36pm GMT on 25th May
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NFL war promotion
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HoZay said @ 9:24pm GMT on 25th May
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Distraction from brain damage.
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gma said @ 12:14pm GMT on 26th May
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This may all be by design. Roger Goodell's term as commissioner has shown very clearly that his job is to shield the owners from bad PR and take the public drubbing himself.
The owners probably came to the conclusion that they needed to do something, but whatever they did would piss off some people. So they pass a half-assed rule, then leak that the rule isn't their fault. Now if a particularly liberal fanbase gets upset about the rule being draconian, or a particularly conservative fanbase gets upset about it being too soft, the owner can just say "I agree, and I fought this rule from the start," absolving him of any responsibility. |
the circus said @ 11:30pm GMT on 25th May
What's the appropriate way to protest this decision?
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hellboy said @ 11:40pm GMT on 25th May
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"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
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