The NFL hasn’t exactly been too strict with players disrespecting the national anthem that represents the freedom our veterans have worked so hard to preserve.
This Veterans Day weekend, a group of Facebookers plans to give the NFL a “present” to show just how they feel about this disrespect — and, given how things have been going for the league, NFL executives are not going to like it one bit.
Saturday is the true Veterans Day, Nov. 11, but according to Fox News, a group of over 200,000 Facebook users have joined Boycott the NFL and have vowed to boycott the league on Sunday thanks to the ongoing national anthem protests.
“Until millionaire football players stop protesting the National Anthem of the United States, we’ll be here,” the group’s Facebook “About” page reads.
“We love football, but we love our flag more.”
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Over 222,000 people were members as of Saturday morning, and each of them were pledging to boycott the NFL’s games this weekend as a Veterans Day protest.
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The protests were set off last year by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. A second round of protests were started this year when, during a speech in Alabama, President Trump said that the “sons of b******” who disrespected the anthem should be fired.
Needless to say, veterans were ticked — and they’re letting it show on the Boycott the NFL Facebook page.
“Thirty year veteran and still serving,” wrote one member of the group.
“Even though I’ve been a die-hard fan my whole life I stopped cold turkey last season after the NFL refused to step in and deal with the kneeling during the National Anthem. As long as you kneel I will not support the NFL in any way – and in actuality not so sure I will ever return since the leagues arrogance seems to have no bounds.”
“My husband and I live in Las Vegas and ‘we were’ huge football fans and not only are we not watching any NFL football games we also are not betting on them,” another fan wrote.
“Politics of any kind do not belong on the football field and to protest during our National Anthem is absolutely shameful.”
That’s not a good thing for the NFL, which has been seeing a ratings slide as of late.
Just this past Monday, the “Monday Night Football” game between the Greenbay Packers and the Detroit Lions was the lowest-rated Week Nine Monday night game in a decade, and ratings this year have continued the rather dismal trend they took last year, as well.
And now there’s more bad news. The NFL won’t be enjoying this weekend at all.
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