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Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2017.
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One Bar Dumped the NFL on Veterans Day and The Community Responded in a BIG Way
Reported
It is well established that bars and restaurants rake in much of their cash on NFL game days and many fear a boycott of the NFL will hurt their bottom line. But this year on Veterans Day, as millions of Americans decided to boycott the NFL over its constant anti-American protests mounted during the playing of the national anthem, one bar in New Jersey decided to risk its bottom line to support America. And the community turned out in droves.
Bars are especially loathe to turn off the NFL, but the owners of Woody’s Roadside Tavern in Farmingdale, New Jersey, decided that patriotism and America meant more to them than money. So, Chris Maltese, one of the owners of Woody’s, decided to turn off the NFL especially on Veterans Day, according to APP.com.
If Maltese and his employees felt any trepidation over turning off the NFL last weekend, it turned out that they needn’t have worried. After their fellow citizens learned of the Veterans Day plans, they turned out by the dozens to fill the place with patriotism and revelry despite the absence of the anti-American protesters of the National Football League.
Woody’s announced that they were going to turn off the TVs on Veterans Day and were instead going to raise money for the Special Forces Association Chapter 19 and military families. And once word got out what the bar was planning, the town went wild.
Far from losing cash because they turned off the NFL, Woody’s found itself filled to capacity and even running out of glasses and cutlery for the customers.
“We’re not trying to be political here, we’re just trying to support our veterans,” Maltese said. “I think people are looking to have some kind of voice in the whole NFL thing… and this is their voice.”
Patrons of Woody’s were pleased with the bar’s decision to turn off football.
Bar patron Andy Barcellona is one who loved the bar’s decision. Barcellona, who is a former staff sergeant in the Army’s 3rd Infantry, entered Woody’s wearing a T-Shirt saying, “I stand for our flag,” said he was “kind of shocked” when he learned of the bar’s plans for Veterans Day. But he said he was all in because he is offended by the NFL’s constant anti-American protests.
“I was a diehard Giants fan… No more Giants. No more football,” Barcellona said. “The flag is more important than football.”
Other customers agreed:
“I haven’t watched a game since they started (the protest),” said Randy Lynd, 55, of Manasquan, a former Special Forces Green Beret who served 27 years in the Army.
Lynd, who said he served five tours in Afghanistan, expressed little sympathy for professional athletes who he said made millions of dollars each year while soldiers continued to fight and die for the flag.
“I think people doing the right thing should be supported,” he said outside of Woody’s as he gestured toward the restaurant. “This is the right thing.”
In the end, the bar sponsored a mass Pledge of Allegiance and celebrated the U.S.A. instead of wasting their time with football. And the bar came away with more money than it ever made in a single day and raised money for our veterans at the same time.
Meanwhile, the NFL has proved that it still doesn’t get it.
The league even sponsored a disgusting Veterans Day commercial filled with some of the worst, anti-American protesters in the league peddling the lie that they love America and our veterans.
But that isn’t what the inventor of the national anthem protest said of his brainchild. In his own words, former San Francisco 49ers second-string quarterback Colin Kaepernick said that his protests were specifically meant as a protest against the United States of America and all it stands for.
This is what Kaepernick said in August of 2016, the year he started his protests:
I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder
There you have it. In his own words, Kaepernick told us he couldn’t stand up for the flag or the country.
This is the same Colin Kaepernick who said the U.S. “has never been great.” He called our police “pigs” by wearing socks with cartoon police pigs on them. He outraged America’s Cuban immigrants by complimenting murderous communist dictator Fidel Castro and also wore a T-Shirt lionizing the murderous dictator.
So, don’t fall for the NFL’s lies. These protests continue to occur during the song that pays homage to this great nation, and the inventor of the protest was counting on just that to serve as a platform for his stand against the United States of America.
BOOM! Papa Johns Just BLASTED The NFL And It’s Delicious
Published by ClashDaily.com | on November 2, 2017
If this doesn’t get you supporting Papa John’s, we’re not sure what will. Besides the cheesy goodness and delectable toppings, this company is sick of the NFL protests. Just one more reason to love them.
Papa John’s founder, John Schnatter, said that the anthem controversy is hurting his business.
Papa John’s International Inc. founder John Schnatter is going after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, saying weak handling of the league’s national-anthem controversy has hammered sales of his pizza.
“The NFL has hurt us by not resolving the current debacle to the players’ and owners’ satisfaction,” Schnatter, who serves as the pizza chain’s chairman and chief executive officer, said on a conference call. “NFL leadership has hurt Papa John’s shareholders.”
Papa Johns has been the official pizza sponsor of the NFL since 2010. Schnatter says that the decline in sales is due to the close relationship that the restaurant has with the NFL, and cites ‘negative customer sentiment’ to that relationship. He is, therefore, laying blame for the loss in Papa Johns revenue right at the top of the NFL — Roger Goodell.
“Leadership starts at the top, and this is an example of poor leadership,” Schnatter said.
It’s hard to quantify the connection between the NFL and pizza sales, but Papa John’s did post disappointing results in the latest quarter. Its shares fell as much as 13 percent on Wednesday — the most in two years — after same-store sales missed analysts’ estimates. The Louisville, Kentucky-based company also trimmed its revenue and profit forecasts for the year.
Schnatter has appeared frequently in advertisements during NFL games, including alongside star quarterback Peyton Manning, a franchisee of the chain’s restaurants in Colorado. Back in 2014, when Papa John’s posted a nearly 10 percent gain in North American same-store sales, the company credited its close relationship with the NFL and Manning for driving its business in the U.S.
Schnatter says that once the issue is resolved, he’s hopeful for the future.
“This should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago,” Schnatter said on the call. “Like many sponsors, we’re in touch with the NFL. Once the issue is resolved, we’re optimistic the NFL’s best years are ahead.”
Souce: Boomberg
FYI, Schnatter also donated to Donald Trump’s campaign for President, and he has railed against government regulations.
Is the boycott hitting the NFL sponsors, too?
Should he be blaming the NFL for his revenue loss, or is there some other reason?
Or do you love it that he’s sticking it to Goodell’s poor leadership?
Today’s Politically INCORRECT Cartoon by A.F. Branco
Flag Waiver
NFL PLAYER PROTEST
“It’s their First Amendment rights to protest.”
“There are no rules saying they have to stand.”
“Who is not going to stand for the National Anthem today?”
The sports world is more focused on NFL players during the playing of the National Anthem, than with their actual play. Camera people crowd around them, as well as the television crews with their broadcast of those kneeling, more than the audience, or on field display. 
I hear the talk about viewership declining and all the idiotic rhetoric about the reason, yet I do not hear anyone speaking to the AUDIENCE that’s going away, or the fans at the stadiums who are forced to stand there and take it, or spend more money at the concession stands (maybe that’s the real motivation for tolerating this intolerable display of hate for country).
I am also weary with the lame explanations of the NFL team owners who seem to be afraid to disciple their players, while other owners are displaying their genuine patriotism by their stern guidelines for their players to STAND and honor America and all the greatness of our country which that FLAG represents.
Here are some thoughts I have for consideration;
· Every employer has conduct guidelines for their employees. For example, conversations about religion and/or politics that cause other employees to not do the work they are hired to do, is forbidden.
NFL Teams also have conduct guidelines that restrict certain activities, especially those that reference how the team is represented. Expressing political protest is indeed a free speech right belonging to all of us. However, you do not have that right WHILE YOU’RE ON THE CLOCK REPRESENTING THE TEAM PAYING YOUR INCOME.
You want to protest, do so on your own time, away from the team and stadium.
· If that is unacceptable, then have those players who insist on protesting stay in the locker room, or the tunnel leading to the field out of the sight of everyone.
· TURN THOSE CAMERAS OFF! Maybe, just maybe, the lack of attention will make this whole mess go away.
Like ignoring a child who throws a tantrum every time they don’t get their way stops the tantrums, perhaps giving them zero air time, or pictures, or any form of recognition might give them no incentive to be so disrespectful.
It’s past time for the NFL owners who are so tolerant to realize they are feeding the problem, not solving it. This won’t just go away. I’m so fed up that I won’t turn the game on until I know the game has started, and I very reluctant to spend my money on any product advertised (and I know I’m not the only one).
I love college football. I am one more demonstration away from never turning on an NFL game again. These players and their owners need to realize that we all have the power to turn them off which effects who will advertise their broadcast.
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