I completely agree. And it's always made me mad that the NFL stole that spotlight from the smaller college leagues. Wasn't it MACtion that used to be so big on Thursdays?Originally Posted by Forever Fredi
I completely agree. And it's always made me mad that the NFL stole that spotlight from the smaller college leagues. Wasn't it MACtion that used to be so big on Thursdays?
jpx7 (10-14-2017)
"I already stand when I pump my gas..... So I paid homage for what the troops fought for."
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
Runnin (10-14-2017)
Seems pretty clear that they condone one but not the other.
the type of people we are dealing with on this issue:
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/16/cbs-...tml?yptr=yahoo
"We expect third-quarter network advertising to decline 3 percent (previously +1 percent), driven by soft ratings for both the summer schedule and for the start of the NFL season," wrote Credit Suisse analyst Omar Sheikh. "With only one of the three content licensing deals we expected for the second half announced in third quarter, we also expect content licensing revenue growth to be skewed to the fourth quarter."
Sheikh maintained his outperform rating and price target on CBS shares, which remains at $75, or 32 percent upside from Friday's close. He cut his third-quarter EPS estimate to $1.08, below Street consensus estimate of $1.12 from FactSet.
The analyst said CBS' Sunday NFL ratings are down 17 percent year over year during the first several weeks of the football season, according to the report. Sheikh released a similar report last week on Twenty-First Century Fox's earnings, which he also expects to disappoint thanks to weaker ratings by the NFL.
I find this whole thing so funny. If you are black what is there to be proud or thankful for. The years of slavery? The years of being second class citizens after slavery? There are more black people in prison now than there were slaves pre civil war. Are they supposed to be proud that cops literally go hunting for young black males?
Yeah there are people who fought for blacks freedom. And these flag people are the ones who fought against their freedom.
I am sorry your entertainment was ruined by people fighting for freedom. They really should keep their protests to places and times that are easier for you to ignore.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
goldfly (10-17-2017)
The ascent of a race that went from being treated as livestock 150 years ago to comprising some of the most successful people in the world?
Dr. Charles Drew, George Washington Carver, Dr. Martin Luther King, Condoleeza Rice, Barack Obama, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick Douglass, Blanche Bruce, Robert Smalls, Rosa Parks...
Black Americans have plenty to be proud and thankful for.
http://deadline.com/2017/10/titans-b...pn-1202189784/
Last night’s primetime broadcast of the NFL game stumbled to a season low with a 6.1 in metered market results.
In a season stained by overall ratings declines and political controversy, that NFL Week 6 rating is down 13 % from the early numbers of the much tighter October 9th match-up between the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears.
That MNF season low of last year went on to deliver a 3.7 rating among adults 18-49 and a total viewership of 10.3 million. It’s worth noting that the peek of last week’s MNF came in the halftime on the Disney-owned cabler when the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer was debuted.
Kaepernick's decision to take a knee came from a veteran's suggestion. He told him that taking a knee would be more respectful than sitting on the bench.
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So who wants to talk about the third verse in the national anthem?
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
Wow. I'm surprised that verse is still performed at major functions. You would think that society would have banished it and just condensed the anthem down to the first verse or two in recognition of the faults of the third verse.
Wow! They should teach the whole song in school.
http://www.theroot.com/star-spangled...the-1790855893
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
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Agreed. Teach the whole thing, teach why part of it was horrible, teach that we've banished that part and moved on.
Or just make America, The Beautiful the anthem and move on. The symbol of the anthem is of far greater impact than the anthem itself, and it should not be a symbol that causes division.
Most any symbol will cause some division when the ideals it stands for doesn't apply to everyone. Better to not run from the ugly truths about our history. Honest discussion can lead to healing, but we all have to get on the same page first. I hope for a more open and honest discussion.
America is still young and behaves like a child. It deserves Trump.
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cajunrevenge (10-19-2017)
The matter of fact is, no symbol applies to every single person. Someone will always have an issue and you can't please everyone. On non-critical issues such as this, I think it's best to just be universally accepted and move on.
You do realize that the causes of the anthem protests, not to mention the very fact of the anthem protests and their attendant reception, exhibits that we have yet to fully "banish that part and move on"?
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Julio3000 (10-19-2017)
Ummm, you do realize that I was talking about song lyrics, right? Song lyrics that the majority of Americans have literally never heard, even though "they are part of the national anthem".
It's quite obvious that you're talking about the lyrics; it's also quite obvious that there are implications and complications to saying we've "banished and moved on from" that verse.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
I don't know if it's really that complicated. We have 'banished' the overt trappings of systemic, institutional racism that prominently existed during the era in which the national anthem was penned.
I don't think the implication was that we exist in a post-racial society.
(But there is a chartable progression - no?)
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