It’s too bad for season ticket holders who don’t like the protests but for the rest of the fans who are against the protests and the protesters they can simply tune out. They don’t have to watch the Eagles.
They can go to a movie or have a great meal at a restaurant. They can play touch football with other fans who refuse to watch protests instead of football. They can visit the relatives. They don’t have to watch football and they won’t watch football as long as the players protest.
Sports used to be the place where America put aside its differences to enjoy the spirit of competition and community, but even the massively popular NFL is threatened by these extraordinarily divisive times — and there’s no easy escape for a league in which the majority of players are black and the audience is mostly white.
The NFL has become political.
The NFL, was most popular sport in the country, but it has become the site political tensions playing out.
Football is another microcosm of what we want our nation to be like, groups of guys from all walks of life coming together and working for a shared goal,” That’s gone.
Because playing football is different than protesting. Players can protest on their own time, not on the fans time. Players cannot have it both ways and put the fans in the middle of their social justice ideas. Unless the Eagles can field a team of non-protesters they can count on fewer fans. That’s justice too. Commercial Justice. You don’t have to pay to watch what you don’t like.. You don’t have to watch either. Tune out!
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