The NFL Anthem Protests Begin To Run Out of Steam and Relevancy.

TOWSON, Maryland, Tuesday, October 10, 2017 - It is still a bit unclear exactly how the protests by the NFL Players during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner, will end.  But things have turned decidedly against the players and the Ultra Leftists that are standing with these protesters. 

On the field, the number of players protesting has leveled off and begun to drop.  The number of teams still openly supporting the protests has completely leveled off and now begun to shrink.

The push back by those opposed to the protesting during the National Anthem has intensified.  

And by far the most important development, the growing financial impact on the NFL caused by fans not purchasing souvenirs, not watching game telecasts and not attending games, shows no signs of leveling off.  In short, the growing impact on the games' financial picture has all but dashed hopes that the protest movement will morph into a nationwide platform for reformers.

In fact, those opposed to the platform chosen by the protesters is being called into question by many Americans who have sympathy for some of the stated reasons for the protests, but diametrically oppose those protests being made during the brief minute devoted to national honor before the NFL football games.  Many Americans oppose social injustice in all of its forms, but cannot abide the use of the Anthem as a forum for addressing the problems.  These people - including this writer - see the Anthem has a call to America's most noble values and most noble goals.  They see it as a time to honor the tens of thousands of souls who tread into harms' way to protect Americans.  Sullying such a noble moment with what is no more than erstwhile protests seems counter to what protesters pretend to stand for.

Some of the antics taken up by the players borders on the ridiculous.  Colin Kaepernick, the player who started the protests and who held himself out as a lonely voice for change, has never even registered to vote.  Furthermore, he has walked away from at least two contract offers by NFL teams, even though his play on the field has been bordering on atrocious at times.

Lardarius Webb of the Baltimore Ravens, upon hearing fans booing a demonstration on the field, told a reporter that if the fans are upset they should stop coming.

Do all the players and protesters subscribe to Webbs' absurd statement?

On Sunday, USA Vice President Mike Pence and his wife walked out of a game between the Colts and 49'ers after players knelt during the playing of the Anthem.  Interviewed later, one 49'er said Pence's action was a "publicity stunt."

But it was far different from what the players are doing?  No.  It was exactly the same, except that the Vice President and President put a lot of thought into what Pence did.

From the very start of the Anthem stuff by the players, it has been clear that virtually no thought went into what the protests were about.  What were the protesters protesting?  At first, it was said to be police brutality.  But numbers showing up in careful statistical research show that incidents of real brutality are so few in number that they don't even show up in statistical studies.  Meanwhile, black on black murders are totally out of control and get no attention from the ultra left mainstream media.