They did this in London.

These same players who knelt during the national anthem stood for the British anthem ‘God Save the Queen’. Unreal.

Even more disrespectful, Buffalo Bills player LeSean McCoy stretched during the national anthem on Sunday.

Does the NFL support this too?

James Woods unleashed on America hating liberals and spoiled NFL players in a viral tweetstorm.

Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, who also co-founded Home Depot (HD), had a slightly different take, telling Casone players should still have the right to demonstrate their beliefs.

“I think we have to celebrate their right to express themselves, as every American does,” Blank told Casone at the event.

Sunday’s protests have been the largest so far this season, still in its infancy, and come in the wake of President Trump’s tweets and comments regarding the matter. Trump went as far as to suggest team owners fire players who kneel during the national anthem.

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say ‘get that son of a b —- off the field right now? Out! He’s fired! He’s fired!'” Trump said on Friday. He continued to hammer the issue throughout the weekend.

“If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!” he tweeted.The protests began last season when former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem to protest injustices against the African-American community. Kaepernick remains without a team so far this season after opting out of his contract with the team.

Kimmel, who thrust himself into the health care debate by broadcasting his son’s medical issues in May, has established himself as an influential voice in the fight against the Obamacare repeal effort.

No doubt, Kimmel will continue to be a tiny thorn in Trump’s side, but he’s lost all credibility as a genuine voice of protest.

He’s just cashing in on liberal hate, nothing more.

In a single post that he published roughly a week ago, he completely and utterly DESTROYED CNN and their anti-Trump, anti-American, globalist agenda. The senior airman, Brian Kolfage, held nothing back—yet despite his no-holds-barred attack on CNN, he’s actually an incredibly generous and patriotic person.

Freedom Daily praised Brian for his noble sacrifice to protect our country:

“Brian Kolfage Jr. didn’t just fight and sacrifice for our country, he lost three limbs in war and now lives with the daily reminder of the price paid for our freedom.”
“This includes defending the right of the First Amendment that each one of us enjoys, which those at CNN use and abuse to disrespect our president and divide our nation.”
“Kolfage has good reason to take personal offence to this given his great sacrifice and since they won’t stop, he’s provided them with a new way of getting to their website, which sends a clear message of what’s really real.”

Brian stated that “[CNN is] the enemy of all Americans, because they put their agenda first, instead of the American people.” Many Americans, both conservatives and moderate liberals alike, are starting to feel the same way. It seems that CNN has been doubling down on their anti-Trump rhetoric, however, and it’s likely only going to make things worse.

The post was shared dozens of times, and has since been picked up by numerous conservative news outlets—it’s taken Twitter and Facebook by storm over the past 48 hours, and there’s a good chance that the folks over at #FakeNewsCNN have seen it more than once.

Freedom Daily skewered CNN in their piece on Brian Kolfage, claiming that they’ve been collaborating with ISIS and Al-Qaeda propaganda creators, something which has recently been confirmed.

Since President Trump’s inauguration, not a week has gone by without CNN being caught in some sort of scandal, lie, or hoax. And despite their constant protesting, it’s only a matter of time before they go bankrupt, and alternative conservative news outlets become the new mainstream media.

Thank you and God bless our veterans!

Gingrich continued:

He said that it is their right to take “all their after-tax income and give it to some left-wing nutcase group,” but that the anthem is sacred.

“Don’t impose on me your sense of somehow, you feel oppressed,” Gingrich said. “If you’re a multimillionaire who feels oppressed, you need a therapist [and] not a publicity stunt.”

“The NFL specifically, and football in general has always unified our communities and families,” Texans owner Bob McNair said. “The comments made by the President were divisive and counterproductive to what our country needs right now. I hope the reaction from our players results in positive action for our league, our communities and our country as a whole to make a positive difference in our society.”

#KHOU11 All #Texans players stood during National Anthem….several #Patriots players knelt on one knee pic.twitter.com/5tnyXX9n35

— Matt Musil (@KHOUSportsMatt) September 24, 2017

“Texans players are caring, intelligent men who do so much good, as was shown in the past month when our city was devastated by Hurricane Harvey,” McNair added. “I have never been more proud of our players and our team than during this time. It was a display of what is truly possible when we all work together. We will continue to support our players to work together to promote the values of respect and unity.”

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Minus politics, Monday’s premiere was a blend of personal stories from Kelly, an audience Q&A, celebrity interviews and an “inspirational” field piece to close out the hour.

The combination is tricky, and the first episode was a bit awkward. Like any new series, Megyn has some growing pains, and that was apparent in missed cues, clumsy seating arrangements and some stiffness from Kelly, who, whether because of nervousness or her attempts to develop a new tone, speaks with a strange cadence.

And even an hour of the Today show cannot divorce itself from politics entirely. Her first guests were the cast and creators of NBC’s returning Will & Grace, which, as Kelly repeatedly explained, was a groundbreaking show for LGBTQ representation on television. Kelly focused on the impact the series had on that community, except she only mentioned “gays and lesbians,” and, in an ill-timed joke that didn’t land, asked a superfan in the audience, “Is it true you became a lawyer and gay because of Will & Grace“?

Kelly also devoted a segment to an elderly nun working against gun violence on the south side of Chicago, an area that Kelly called “like a war zone.” Chicago’s gun violence is another issue that’s been politicized, particularly by President Trump, but her focus is on the feel-good aspect of the nun’s “Peace Garden,” and her efforts to bring the mothers of violence victims and perpetrators together. While that serves its own purpose, it doesn’t make the issue entirely apolitical.

That, perhaps, is the biggest hurdle. She can say that she’s done with politics, but the subject is (by her own admission) everywhere, and side-stepping it won’t make it go away. The show will get better at staging and timing as it goes on, but a purpose is something harder to refine.

There’s a difference between choosing to focus on lifestyle and entertainment over political news, and ignoring the fact that politics exist in everyday issues. Megyn Kelly Today would do well to strike a better balance.

Then out of nowhere, Rowe hit the crowd with a brilliant breakdown of what’s REALLYgoing on.

“Right now,” Rowe said, “The NFL, the players who choose to kneel, the networks who choose to broadcast their protest, the advertisers who sponsor the games are all eager for our attention. And they are all using football to get it. That’s all well and good, right up to the point where it isn’t. In my view, this controversy really isn’t about patriotism, social justice, racial inequality, or free speech. It’s not even about the flag or the national anthem. It’s really only about one thing – what we will tolerate, and what we won’t.”

Next in line was NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL Player’s Association.

“I felt a similar bemusement when the Commissioner issued his response, followed by the President of the Player’s Union. Their comments – along with the comments of many of the players themselves – were perfectly reasonable, perfectly understandable, and perfectly in keeping with their first amendment rights. But they were also perfectly arrogant. Because they too, presuppose that millions of fans will continue to watch them play a game – no matter what,” Rowe wrote.

Players and teams shouldn’t be bringing their personal politics into something meant to be neutral. It’s a game, it’s supposed to fun and unifying, not unpatriotic and disrespectful.

“The players have agents and unions, the owners have money and power, and the fans are always caught in the middle. The resulting strikes and the constant uprooting of teams from broken-hearted towns proves beyond all question the overall lack of regard for fans in general.”

But Rowe finished with a rallying statement that ALL members of the NFL should listen to, pointing out that fans ultimately have the power.

“But here’s the thing, Rob,” Rowe concludes. “The fans of professional football are not powerless – we’re just not yet offended enough to turn the channel. Should that ever change in a meaningful way – if for instance, a percentage of football fans relative to those players who chose to kneel during today’s games, chose to watch something else next Sunday – I can assure you…the matter would be resolved by Monday.”

Rowe is right that money is dictating most of these players’ “politics.” According to Rowe and most Americans, these protests have been purposely sick and controversial to gain as much attention as possible. You can speak your mind without stepping on this nation’s history and values, something President Trump proves possible on the daily.

The major football networks all took a major hit last month in NFL ad revenue—the money they bring in from advertisers that pay for air time during football games.

In the month of November, NBC’s NFL ad revenue sunk 17% compared to last year, according to new data from the Standard Media Index. CBS saw a decline of 26% (earlier this month, AdWeek points out, CBS chairman Les Moonves boasted at a UBS event that “there have been no makegoods” on any of the network’s NFL broadcasts this season). Fox saw a 34% decline in its NFL ad revenue.

To be sure, some of these networks have less football to show this year, and thus less ad space to sell. CBS is showing one less NFL game this season than last season, and Fox is showing three fewer games.

But NBC is showing the same number of games as last season, and NBC saw the biggest decline of the three. It was because of makegoods.

The makegoods that networks must hand to advertisers come in the form of free airtime—they repay their obligation by giving the advertisers ad space in a different slot. SMI, which tracks more than 70 percent of all national TV ad spending, found that NBC and CBS gave away 20% of inventory as ADUs in November 2016, compared to just 5.2% and 11%, respectively, a year earlier.

There is no public consensus over exactly why football has steadily lost viewers this season. The league’s official stance early on was that the election cycle was distracting from football, but six weeks after the election, ratings have continued to fall.

Industry experts (and President-elect Donald Trump) have pinned the decline on everything from poor matchups on the field, to the availability of highlights on social media, to the crackdown on player touchdown celebrations, to outrage over the national anthem protests by Colin Kaepernick and other players.

But now the struggles of America’s national pastime have begun to affect the bottom line for networks, eating into what would have otherwise been a 5.3% increase for a TV industry that is combatting its own demons in the shape of other streaming platforms. In November 2016, the overall TV market was down -2.4% year over year.

“November was a fascinating one for the sector with a lot of moving parts. The final days of election coverage, a challenging football season, and a revitalized retail sector all contributed to the market delivering a modest gain,” said James Fennessy, CEO of Standard Media Index, in a statement. “Poor football ratings earlier in the season, combined with fewer games this month, finally caught up with the major broadcasters.”

Though the major networks have all taken an NFL ratings hit, Fox has been able to mitigate some of the damage with a small handful of big games, most often featuring the Dallas Cowboys, the No. 1 team in the NFC. The Thanksgiving game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins was the most-watched regular season NFL game in FOX Sports history, according to the network.

A 30-second ad on the three major networks still commands big money, averaging about $590,060 per unit, according to SMI.

The NFL is well aware of its ratings issue. Last week, the league announced it will experiment with the frequency of ad breaks during its Week 16 games, and with the number of ads that show during those breaks. The hope is that viewers will return.

To be sure, football isn’t going anywhere, and some experts downplay the current crisis. CBS chief research officer David Poltrack told investors at a conference this month that although the fumble in ratings was “quite a shock,” there is still “no reason to conclude a seminal change” has taken place in the appeal of TV’s most popular sport.