To paraphrase the immortal Senator John McCain, the first shoe has dropped from the centipede as a big NFL sponsor has publicly ripped the league for declining sales due to the ongoing racial strife.
Now that whatever progress was made by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s appeasement of the national anthem protesting ingrates was erased when the all but a few white players on the Houston Texans took a knee on Sunday, it could be that those businesses that rely on television ratings for their sales are getting ready to launch their own counter-revolt.
This is at least the case with Papa John’s as the popular corporate pizza chain’s CEO pointed a finger directly at the league’s executives for a massive failure to resolve the increasingly contentious and likely irreconcilable differences between owners and militant ignoramuses who will never be satisfied.
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— NFL News Daily (@NFL_NDaily) November 1, 2017
According to ESPN (which is one of the biggest sticks stirring the shit) “Papa John’s says anthem protests are hurting deal with NFL”:
Executives from Papa John’s, the official pizza company of the NFL, expressed disappointment on a conference call Wednesday about the league’s ongoing player protests during the national anthem.
“The NFL has hurt us,” company founder and CEO John Schnatter said. “We are disappointed the NFL and its leadership did not resolve this.”
Executives said the company has pulled much of its NFL television advertising and that the NFL has responded by giving the company additional future spots.
“Leadership starts at the top and this is an example of poor leadership,” Schnatter said, noting he thought the issue had been “nipped in the bud” a year and a half ago.
In revising sales estimates for the next quarter, Papa John’s president and chief operating officer Steve Ritchie said on the call that the NFL deal was the primary suspect behind the decline and that “we expect it to persist unless a solution is put in place.”
Ritchie said that research has found that Papa John’s has been the most recognized sponsor associated with the NFL for two years running, which he said means the company’s performance can track with that of the league.
Papa John’s has a deal with not only the NFL, but also with 23 individual teams.
Company executives declined to disclose exactly how much money in projected sales Papa John’s lost from its association with the NFL and declining ratings, which mean fewer people are ordering their product for game days, they said.
It definitely makes sense that fewer viewers equal fewer Papa John’s orders being placed during game times.
In fact, it makes too much sense for the chuckleheads who by protesting are only cutting into their future earnings by alienating millions of fans by continuing to bemoan how they are being treated like slaves on their racist owner’s plantations.
The average NFL career is between 3-6 years and these morons are losing leverage with each passing week but when your ideological inspiration is a clown like Colin Kaepernick, it’s not like these are the sharpest tools in the shed.
Now that Papa John’s has said enough it is only a matter of who is next.
There is a lot less beer being sold to wash down those pizzas, sodas too and those really big-ticket items, they want a return on their investment on the costly ads that they have been duped into buying by the snake oil salesmen who work for Goodell.
This could really end up being an ongoing problem, especially if it ends up playing out until the Super Bowl and the NFL refuses to run a deep discount on ad spots because, at this point, millions of fans aren’t coming back anytime soon – if ever.
It may have taken awhile but it looks like #BoycottNFLSponsors and #PunchThemInTheWallet are finally having the desired effect.
Still not much out there about the long-rumored Veteran’s Day weekend boycott, that would be a crushing blow that may send Goodell to the canvas if it becomes reality.
via Downtrend.com
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