Protests the NFL, unconvincingly:
Several NFL stadiums are nearly empty post kick-off as the National Anthem controversy rolls into week 7.
- Plenty of empty seats visible at the Hard Rock Stadium in Florida as the New York Jets play the Miami Dolphins.
- The Cleveland Browns are playing at home against the Tennessee Titans. Plenty of empty seats to go around.
- More empty seats in Chicago as the Bears play the Carolina Panthers.
- Lucas Oil Stadium has “tons,” of empty seats during the Indiana Colts vs Jacksonville Jaguars.
It’s really rather remarkable how SJWs just keep doubling down and keep lying, literally unable to admit the obvious even when it is right in front of their eyes. Keep this in mind whenever you are dealing with an SJW yourself and thinking “he can’t POSSIBLY be lying about something that stupidly obvious, can he?”
Yes, yes, he really can.
And if you doubt that Roger Goodell is willing to crash the league over this, read about his role model and then think again.
TIME’s profile also details Goodell’s road to the commissioner’s office. His father, Charles Goodell, was a congressman from New York, appointed to the Senate after RFK was assassinated. As a Republican who opposed the Vietnam war, Charles Goodell fell out of favor with the party, and lost his seat in the 1970 election. This principled stand guides all of Roger Goodell’s decisions, especially the ones that fans, players, or even owners don’t embrace. “He loved being a United States Senator,” Goodell says of his father. “My personal view is, he never got over that. And that’s sad to me on a lot of levels. But he did what was right. He knew the consequences. He knew it was going to end his career. You can’t buy a lesson like that.”
He knows the consequences. He knows it could end the league. But he doesn’t care, because he believes allowing the players to protest America is the right thing to do.