A polling company named The Winston Group is reporting that the favorability ratings for the NFL have dropped from 57 percent to 44 percent in just a one month period.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4958858/Shock-study-finds-NFL-drops-baseball.html
Basically:
- The favorable ratings for the NFL have dropped from 57% to 44% in one month.
- The unfavorable rating for the league is the highest it's ever been at 40 %
- The National Anthem protest along with criticism from Trump has caused core fans (men aged 34-54), to turn away from the NFL
- President Trump predicted that the NFL will 'go to hell' if they don't listen to his demand for a ban on protests.
My Take:
- This has been a long time coming. Players using their fame to call attention to a cause is one thing, acting disrespectfully toward the National Anthem is quite another. One does not draw sympathy toward a cause by angering half the population.
- The NFL could have stopped this last year by fining Colin Kaepernick. Sure he has the right to free speech, but his employer also has the right to dictate codes of conduct for their employees (the players). In other words, he has every right to protest on his own time.
- Many accuse President Trump of starting a war with the NFL, when in fact the war was started long ago. President Trump basically said out loud what a MAJORITY of Americans were already thinking. (If you watch the speech where he first made those remarks....he was greeted with thunderous applause).
Prediction:
- The NFL will double-down and refuse to heed the calls from Americans to stop the protests.
- Their product will be further damaged.
- Roger Goodell will be fired in the off-season.
Source: Internet
