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Thread: Is Woke Good Business...

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    Is Woke Good Business...

    ...for the NFL.

    First, I should mention I'd never attended a football game. I've never watched one on television. Or basketball or tennis or hockey. Certainly not golf or bowling. I do watch women's beach volleyball but that's a different story.

    "NFL end zones will be inscribed this season with two slogans: “It Takes All Of Us” on one end line, “End Racism” on the other.
    "As part of its social justice awareness initiatives, the NFL also will allow similar visuals on helmets and caps.

    "Previously announced were decals on the back of helmets, or patches on team caps, displaying names or phrases to honor victims of racism and/or police brutality."
    https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-nf...justice-plans/

    Since I am no more familiar with sports fans than Democrats were with Americans, I'll ask the sports fans here.

    Will the social justice slogans and symbols of wokeness help or harm attendance and television audiences for sports events?

    Just curious since sports fans are a foreign culture.

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    All future sporting events will be held in the Snake Pliskin Arena
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    The messages aren't offensive to me so it makes no difference to me...
    I find your lack of faith...disturbing...

    -Darth Vader

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    I have been weaned from pro football since about 2005, the year the too many hot dogs first made me throw up. I will not miss it when it dissolves.

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    I know for a fact it reduces attendance because I will not be attending any NFL games while they are kneeling for the national anthem, or making politics part of their presentation. Whereas otherwise I would almost surely be going to some games.

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    I used to watch a lot of lawn bowls on tv. I used to play it as well. There is a lot of strategy involved. Well maybe not a lot but there is some. Lawn bowls is an underrated sport.

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    I actually use the time that I once watched the games to prepare for next week I have my fantasy team scores in the corner of my computer. I care more about that than any real team.... Though it looks like they once again have a coaching problem....

    I am more interested in that than the game. Watched Sports and a relief from Reality I get sick of being told that I am a Racist pig by a spoiled athlete

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    I don't even know what "woke" means. Just a term for some kind of fad.

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    Obviously a substantial number of fans are objecting to the game being politicized. This appears to be a poor business / marketing decision by the NFL.

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    Its silly for any person or business to cater to only 13% of the population. There wasnt a problem to begin with until they created one
    I'm yo.
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