The first shoe has just dropped following the National Football League’s hideously botched reaction to comments by President Trump over national anthem protesters.
The league’s premier television partner DirecTV which provides the popular “Sunday Ticket” package of out-of-market games has announced that it would be providing refunds to customers who may have been offended by the anti-Trump protests that ruined last weekend’s slate of games for millions of fans.
This is a really big deal because it marks the first time that a corporate NFL partner has been made to acknowledge the extent to which the league has offended patriotic Americans. If DirectTV is offering refunds, then there had to have been a huge negative response after Sunday’s fiasco.
The key to getting a refund is linked to specifically mentioning the protests as the reason for the complaint.
DirecTV is offering refunds for fans who want to cancel their NFL Sunday Ticket package due to anthem protests. https://t.co/p5mszwdW06
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 26, 2017
As reported by ESPN “DirecTV allows some NFL refunds after anthem controversy”:
DirecTV is offering unprecedented refunds for fans who want to cancel their NFL Sunday Ticket package, if they inform the company that they are doing so due to the recent protests during the national anthem, a source confirmed.
Once the season starts, fans usually cannot cancel their subscriptions, but AT&T, which owns DirecTV, decided to change the policy due to the sensitivity of the issue. The price of the package, which allows fans to get out-of-market games, is about $280.
An AT&T spokesperson declined to confirm the cancellation policy and said the company would have no numbers to share.
The exemption was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
The company is unwilling to confirm this lest it trigger a run on cancellations but the word is now out thanks to the Wall Street Journal report.
This is proof that NFL sponsor boycotts can be an effective tool to bring an end to the anti-Americanism and the infusion of radical leftist and racial politics into games that not that long ago, offered a brief sanctuary from the woes of the world.
Boycotts aren’t limited to the left who have used their pressure tactics to wage a part of their campaign of cultural cleansing through economic pressure and public shaming of corporations who are typically run by gutless wonders who will quickly knuckle-under at the first sign of adversity.
The NFL’s self-inflicted damage, however, will likely be long-lasting and nothing short of the firing of Commissioner Roger Goodell should be the short-term objective of any such boycotts. It is under his “leadership” that this situation exploded and as the old Greek proverb goes – a fish rots from the head down.
DirecTV wisely chose to honor the wishes of its customers and shareholders can direct their ire at the NFL and Goodell for busting a cap into the goose that laid the golden egg.
Could lawsuits from fans be far behind?
via Downtrend.com
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