NFL rejects "Please Stand" ad from Veterans group

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https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/01/23/nfl-please-stand-ad-rejected-veterans-group

"The NFL has rejected a one-page advertisement for the Super Bowl program from the American Veterans (AMVETS) organization that included the message "Please Stand," according to USA Today's Erik Brady.

The ad featured an American flag with an accompanying message of #PleaseStand. AMVETS national commander Marion Polk called the move by the NFL as "corporate censorship" and that it denies veterans the right to freedom of speech. The ad takes a stand against the players who have protested during the national anthem by kneeling or sitting before NFL games throughout the season.

In a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, AMVETS noted that the NHL has allowed for the ad to run in their respective programs."

Holy fuckall, now these guys are victims and oppressed. Everyone in this country really is a god damn snowflake

You are a victim! And you are a victim! Everyone is a victim!!!!

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[Falsedawn]

One day people will understand the first amendment.

Today is not that day.

 

[Farmer Br0wn]

The NFL should tread lightly here. They've already alienated and offended so many of their viewers.

Many people now only watch the NFL's boring three-and-a-half-hour games (with only 11 minutes of actual action) out of a sense of tradition.

The NFL is constantly giving people less and less reasons to watch their games.

 

[KILL KILL]

Go Eagles!!!!

 

[Rational Poster]

The NFL should tread lightly here. They've already alienated and offended so many of their viewers.

Many people now only watch the NFL's boring three-and-a-half-hour games (with only 11 minutes of actual action) out of a sense of tradition.

The NFL is constantly giving people less and less reasons to watch their games.

You'll probably be eligible before the estate tax before football viewership dips significantly enough for the NFL to infringe on player's freedom of expression.

 

[ultramanhyata]

Here's the one new thing the anthem protests and their backlash taught me: There are a large number of Americans who consider the National Anthem a song performed to specifically honor the US military.

As opposed to a song meant to honor the ideals and principles that underlie our democracy.

 

[Farmer Br0wn]

You'll probably be eligible before the estate tax before football viewership dips significantly enough for the NFL to infringe on player's freedom of expression.

The ratings are already dropping.

 

[livingdeadmoose]

One day people will understand the first amendment.

Today is not that day.

As a private business, the NFL does have thecright to tell it’s employees to stand during the anthem. Flag protesting does not fall under any protected classes or equal oppurtunity laws.

 

[ultramanhyata]

The NFL should tread lightly here. They've already alienated and offended so many of their viewers.

Many people now only watch the NFL's boring three-and-a-half-hour games (with only 11 minutes of actual action) out of a sense of tradition.

The NFL is constantly giving people less and less reasons to watch their games.

I bet the NFL could massively boost their ratings, at least among a certain demographic, if at the start of every game there was a special, televised song and dance performance honoring Dear Leader.

 

[zebby23]

The ratings are already dropping.

That's like saying ZOMG Jeff Bezos lost 10 billion today. lol

 

[KILL KILL]

The ratings are already dropping.

How millions of people do you think will watch the superbowl (yourself included)?

 

[Joe]

holy shit people are still whining about this? My god.

 

[Rational Poster]

The ratings are already dropping.

I said significantly enough for them to actually do something to infringe on player's rights.

NFL rating were down before any of this started.

It was contingent on a specific condition.

I wasn't wrong, you can't read.

 

[jk7707]

The ratings are already dropping.

Yep looks like the league's gonna go belly up any day now...


https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ating-tv-program-since-super-bowl/1054611001/

Patriots-Jaguars on CBS was highest-rating TV program since Super Bowl

 

[Michaelangelo]

AMVETS should use that money on actually helping vets instead of a stupid ad

 

[zebby23]

I said significantly enough for them to actually do something to infringe on player's rights.

NFL rating were down before any of this started.

It was contingent on a specific condition.

I wasn't wrong, you can't read.

Ratings are down partly because the product isn't what it used to be. Hardly any good QB's and some of the biggest market teams. Giants, Jets, Bears, Raiders, Cowboys are shit teams.

 

[zebby23]

@Farmer Br0wn getting BTFO in this thread lol

 

[HomerThompson]

Who gives a shit?

Great thread @sniper. Really helps support your constant assertions that everyone needs to quit playing politics, and demonizing the other side. You're such a hypocritical moron.


I'm glad they're aren't going to publish the advertisement. It would've been divisive and stupid to publish it. Total non-story.

 

[Gunny]

I can imagine that this is less to do with maintaining the victim narrative and more to do with minimizing the controversy

 

[Trotsky]

What a bunch of cunts.

You joined the military. So have about a third of humans to ever live. But, unlike them, you guys have access to information that lets you know how silly nationalism is, and you get career benefits from your enlistment that greatly outweigh your professional qualifications.

Don't expect us to needlessly worship you just because you made a smart career decision that may or may not have been supplemented by delusions of personal virtue.

The US, with its culture of military worship, is really the only place where a veterans advocacy group could choose to spend big bucks on this type of frivolous shit when they could instead be focusing on veteran health benefits, veteran homelessness, or lobbying the government to stop getting them killed for private profit.