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Originally Posted by biosurfer1

Except they haven't gone broke. All the kneeling stuff, the name changes, Trump getting involved, etc hasn't even made a blip in the NFL's overall revenue. Perhaps the age old lesson of no publicity is bad publicity?

The NFL quietly shut down the kneeling thing back in 2016 when their TV viewership numbers started to slip. That’s why it quickly went from a bunch of players kneeling to a small handful. They probably reminded the players that declining revenue would impact them as well, and that was that. You can see the opposite in the NBA right now, all of the social justice warrior players who won’t say boo about the human rights atrocities in China and HK because it would hit them in the wallet. Ultimately these are a bunch of rich athletes who primarily care about getting paid above all else.