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Makes sense. But if 80 percent of your players is taking the other position... Legolas Send a noteboard - 28/09/2017 06:43:23 PM

View original postAnd in the end the fans are the ones paying the bills. Turn to me off trying to keep the liberals at ESPN happy and you could run into problems. I already know a lot of fans who have decided they would rather just watch college football. The NFL has been running scared from the left wings attacks of places like ESPN for so long they have forgotten that they don't really represent the views of their audience. Any significant dip in rating will have a real impact on this rich old white dudes bottom line.

you're going to take hits one way or the other and you can only search for the least bad solution. Antagonizing most of your players isn't something you want to do as an owner, I would imagine - you'll still get bad press, though of a different nature, and your results are likely to suffer. It's not like it was with Kaepernick last year.

Interesting that you mention college football as an alternative. Do you think that that will remain free from such political controversies, even though these teams represent those famously liberal universities?

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