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Title: National Survey: Americans Agree with Trump on National Anthem and NFL Protests
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/sports/201 ... -national-anthem-nfl-protests/
Published: Sep 26, 2017
Author: Dylan Gwinn
Post Date: 2017-09-26 12:13:32 by nolu chan
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Views: 3039
Comments: 19
National Survey: Americans Agree with Trump on National Anthem and NFL Protests by Dylan Gwinn The Remington Research Group has just conducted a public poll, which shows two things very clearly. First, the American people agree with Donald Trump when it comes to NFL anthem protests. Second, if the NFL doesn’t cease allowing their league to become a fashion show for narcissistic SJW-wannabe’s, college football will be the most popular sport in America within five years. While this is only one survey this is a survey conducted after President Trump declared war on NFL protesters in Alabama last Friday night, and if this poll is any indication, that war is already over. The survey addresses the Trump factor directly: Yes: 64% Q8: On Sunday, a number of NFL players knelt during the national anthem in protest of Donald Trump’s statements, including players from your favorite team. Does this make you more likely or less likely to watch your favorite team’s games in the future? More likely: 30% That two-question sequence is devastating for the NFL. Within the space of those questions, the poll establishes that a significant majority of the American people agree with what Trump said in Alabama on Friday night. Moreover, it also shows that the NFL’s response to President Trump was a complete failure. Not only that, the poll shows that President Trump is more popular than NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell personally: Favorable: 46% Q2: What is your opinion of Roger Goodell? Favorable: 12% This crystallizes, as Daniel Flynn noted on the sports page a few days ago, just how well Donald Trump has chosen his enemies. In picking a fight with the NFL, headed-up by Roger Goodell, Trump pits himself against people that the public essentially loathes. Making it next to impossible for him to come out the loser in any kind of PR conflict. While President Trump may have his difficulties from time-to-time, he is infinitely more popular than the people he’s criticizing. As for the popularity of the player protests themselves? That doesn’t look good for the NFL either: More football: 19% [GO TO Q6] Q5: Why would you say you are watching less football this year? Players using the NFL as a stage for their political views: 69% Q6: Do you think NFL players should stand and be respectful during the national anthem? Yes: 64% This shows a public backlash against the substance and style of the protests. Not only has all the activism driven fans away from watching the games. The fans also substantively disagree with the players using the anthem as a tool for protest. A point buttressed by these follow-up questions: Support: 31% Q10: In the future, would you prefer to see more politics, less politics, or the same amount of politics during sporting events? More politics: 7% The partisan breakdown of the poll is disastrous for the league as well: Republicans and Non-Partisans have been cutting back on watching football at a higher rate than Democrats, as 66% of Republicans say they have watched less football this year compared to 33% of Democrats. Among Non-Partisans, 55% reported they have watched less football this year compared to the past.
Breitbart
26 Sep 2017 Q7: Last week, Donald Trump said NFL players should stand and be respectful during the national anthem. Do you think NFL players should stand and be respectful during the national anthem?
No: 25%
Unsure: 11%
Less likely: 50%
No difference: 20% Q1: What is your opinion of Donald Trump?
Unfavorable: 47%
No opinion: 7%
Unfavorable: 36%
No opinion: 52% Q4: Now, just thinking about this year, have you watched more football or less football compared to previous years?
Less football: 51% [GO TO Q5]
About the same: 30% [GO TO Q6]
New rules that reduce physical contact: 5%
There are too many games during the week: 6%
Games last too long: 2%
Pace of play is too slow: 2%
Something else: 12%
Unsure: 4%
No: 24%
Unsure: 12% Q9: Do you support protesting during the national anthem at the beginning of NFL games, or is there a more appropriate place for players to protest?
There is a more appropriate place to protest: 60%
Unsure: 9%
Less politics: 80%
Same amount: 13% Most Americans, 51%, say they have watched less football this year compared to the past. Of respondents who said they have watched less football this year, 69% cite their reason as players using the NFL as a stage for their political views.
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#11. To: nolu chan, Pinguinite, redleghunter, misterwhite, A K A Stone, Stoner, Justified (#0)
Woh. WSJ: DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy Sunday Ticket’s regular policy doesn’t allow refunds once the season is under way. But the representatives said they are making exceptions this season—which began in September—in response to the protests, in which players kneel or link arms during the national anthem. . . . It isn’t just the political stakes that are high. Football draws the biggest TV audiences of American sports and is a vital income source for a host of major media companies. Sunday Ticket is a major customer draw for DirecTV and one of the NFL’s premier franchises, earning it $1.5 billion a year in licensing revenue. A substantial number of cancellations risks further damage as the league tries to rebound in ratings. Viewership fell last year and continues to do so this year. Network executives and league officials attributed last year’s declines in part to viewing competition from the presidential election, consumer distaste with the pace and quality of games, and the anthem protests. . . . Marc Hoffman, a longtime subscriber to Sunday Ticket, which gives sports fans the ability to watch every Sunday game, said in an interview he was able to cancel his subscription and receive a refund on Monday. The package costs around $280 per season. “I honestly didn’t think I’d get a refund,” Mr. Hoffman said. “I know their guidelines, I just wanted to make a point.” Chris Baker, who lives in Indiana, reluctantly canceled his Sunday Ticket subscription, but not precisely as a response to the protests. “I explained to them I was tired of politics in sports, and it’s not how I want to spend my Sunday, watching all that transpire,” he said he told a DirecTV representative. He said the representative “insinuated there was a high volume of calls calling into cancel.” . . . It is definitely starting to hit the fan. That is a huge contract for both Directv and the NFL. It is a major cog in the NFL money machine.
Obviously Directv recognizes the situation is so dire they prefer to take a simple financial hit to avoid being dragged into the controversy. Gotta laugh. Professional sports is really all a facade.
Directv is big and so is Sunday Ticket. And the NFL certainly is an 800 lb. gorilla. But AT&T is Godzilla. The NFL is totally screwed.
#17. To: Tooconservative (#16)
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Yeah, they have shit in their mess kit. I wonder how proud they are of Kapperdick now ?
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestDirecTV is letting at least some customers cancel subscriptions to its Sunday Ticket package of NFL games and obtain refunds if they cite players’ national anthem protests as the reason, customer service representatives said Tuesday.
#13. To: Tooconservative (#11)
#16. To: Pinguinite (#13)
Obviously Directv recognizes the situation is so dire they prefer to take a simple financial hit to avoid being dragged into the controversy.
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