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Many Republicans think the NFL does too much for Black players and are losing interest...!
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:14 pm
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The nation's relentless culture wars appear to have taken a toll even on the NFL, with a large number of Republicans saying they have soured on the league and expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve the treatment of Black players, a new Los Angeles Times/SurveyMonkey poll shows.
Professional football remains extremely popular. The poll found just more than half of American adults say they regard themselves as fans and an additional 15% say they're not fans but plan to watch the Super Bowl, which will be played Sunday at Inglewood's SoFi Stadium between the Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals.
But the league's popularity has eroded somewhat in recent years, the poll found.
About one-third of those surveyed nationwide said they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago, compared with about 1 in 8 who said they are bigger fans now.
The poll can't conclusively say why that decline has occurred, but two questions about the NFL's handling of issues involving race provide some strong hints:
People who say they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago are more than twice as likely as everyone else to say the NFL is doing “too much to show respect for its Black players."
They’re also significantly less likely to approve of the league's Rooney rule, which for the last two decades has required NFL teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching positions and certain other high-level jobs.
By contrast, another controversy involving the NFL — its response to the risk of long-term brain injuries among players — shows no such pattern. Overall, 62% of Americans say the league has not done enough to respond to that risk, compared with 27% who say it has done enough and 5% who say it has done too much. Those numbers don't vary significantly between those who say they are lesser fans now and those who do not.
The group who say they are now lesser fans is disproportionately Republican, the poll found. Nearly half of those who identified themselves as Republicans or independents who lean to the GOP said their interest as fans had declined over the last five years. By comparison, only one-quarter of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic said that.
Republicans were also significantly more likely to express disapproval of the league's efforts to show respect to Black players and to promote Black and other minority candidates for coaching jobs.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:22 pm to Seldom Seen
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expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve the treatment of Black players
This is a lie
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:27 pm to Seldom Seen
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saying they have soured on the league and expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve the treatment of Black players
This is such a fricking bullshite quote
frick whoever wrote this shite.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:30 pm to Seldom Seen
Just because a few folks are griping and complaining doesn't mean they're gonna stop watching and going to games. In NCO school they taught us the time to worry is when the troops are NOT griping and complaining.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:30 pm to Jack Carter
This.
Problem is not “treatment of the black player”, it is “turning the whole goddamn game into a political pawn for the left between giving money to BLM and disrespecting the flag and anthem.”
Problem is not “treatment of the black player”, it is “turning the whole goddamn game into a political pawn for the left between giving money to BLM and disrespecting the flag and anthem.”
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:32 pm to Seldom Seen
Completely biased survey with questions tailored to get the type of answers they are looking for so they can shed a bad light toward anyone considered halfway conservative. This is today’s mainstream media.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:35 pm to Seldom Seen
I dgaf what the NFL does for blacks.
I just don’t like them gaslighting that whites are to blame for the black community’s problems.
I just don’t like them gaslighting that whites are to blame for the black community’s problems.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:37 pm to Jack Carter
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This is a lie
It's a standard Yahoo article
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:49 pm to Seldom Seen
Yawn... another all Republicans are racist take.
Everytime the narrative backfires this happens.
The only people who are sick of "Racist Everything" are white Republicans. The rest feel they are guilty and must pay the consequences because they were (through no fault of their own) born white.
The right are the only ones who don't feel guilty, so... Racists!
Everytime the narrative backfires this happens.
The only people who are sick of "Racist Everything" are white Republicans. The rest feel they are guilty and must pay the consequences because they were (through no fault of their own) born white.
The right are the only ones who don't feel guilty, so... Racists!
Posted on 2/11/22 at 12:52 pm to Seldom Seen
It's their business what each team does for each of their players. I don't give a rat's arse. I had quit NFL way before all of racial crap started but if I watch a sporting event, I want to be entertained. I don't need to sit there and be told I am a racist every chance they get.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:09 pm to Seldom Seen
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People who say they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago are more than twice as likely as everyone else to say the NFL is doing “too much to show respect for its Black players."
this is how you can tell its a liberal speaking for what he thinks republicans think
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:10 pm to Jack Carter
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quote:
expressing disapproval of its efforts to improve the treatment of Black players
This is a lie
I don't even understand what that's supposed to mean or suggest.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:11 pm to Seldom Seen
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People who say they are less of a fan now than they were five years ago are more than twice as likely as everyone else to say the NFL is doing “too much to show respect for its Black players."
Oh for frick's sake that's an absurd "quote".
quote:Imagine that. The group of people the players AND the announcers are OPENLY PREACHING HATRED towards aren't as big a fans.
The group who say they are now lesser fans is disproportionately Republican, the poll found.
Man, who coulda predicted that!
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:13 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Typical leftist manipulation of wording
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:13 pm to keakar
quote:Yup. It's basically a Cathy Newman "so you're saying" silliness.
this is how you can tell its a liberal speaking for what he thinks republicans think
Fan - "I'm just tired of seeing them kiss the arse of these pampered players bitching that rapists are being treated poorly by the cops"
Reporter - "Fan says he has a problem with how much the NFL is doing to respect it's black players".
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:14 pm to Seldom Seen
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Republicans were also significantly more likely to express disapproval of the league's efforts to show respect to Black players and to promote Black and other minority candidates for coaching jobs.
Every word of this sentence is a lie.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:21 pm to Seldom Seen
The same people that complain about 'what the NFL has become' are still watching the games.
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Those big numbers are a continuation of strong season-long NFL viewership for CBS, which saw its most-watched regular season in six years and its best postseason start in a decade with an average of 35.883 million viewers for its playoff games this season, up 27% versus last year’s postseason viewership through the divisional round.
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Sunday’s two games are the most watched programs of the 2021-22 TV season so far (and will likely only be surpassed by the Feb. 13 Super Bowl). The league also had 33 telecasts top 20 million viewers this season. Only one entertainment program, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, has managed that feat.
No primetime entertainment series telecast has topped 10 million same-day viewers this season. Even with a week of delayed viewing, only four entertainment shows (CBS’ NCIS and FBI, NBC’s Chicago Fire and Paramount Network’s Yellowstone) break the 10 million mark. By comparison, of the 130 NFL telecasts to have aired this season, only eight came in under 10 million viewers — seven of them were exclusive to NFL Network, and the eighth was an early morning broadcast on CBS of one of the league’s two London-based games.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:22 pm to Seldom Seen
It's silly to think the NFL does too much for black players. Some black players have said that they are slaves.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:24 pm to Eli Goldfinger
quote:I was told LBJ( White man) is to blame
I just don’t like them gaslighting that whites are to blame for the black community’s problems.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 1:29 pm to Seldom Seen
Joe Burrow, Ja'marr Chase, Tyler Shelvin, Odell Beckham and Andrew Whitworth are all playing for a ring this weekend. I don't really care what causes snowflakes to experience daily outrage. I'm watching.
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