The 'with a laugh' makes me wonder if Murphy was being sarcastic. What do you think?



Update:

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If you're interested, it looks like the NFL is moving towards what the NBA has already in regards to the anthem.

http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/news/nfls-new-national-anthem-policy-similar-to-nba/13qp2bgkibtfw11jyjrjldz6d8 

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Trump losing the ability to tweet would be a true blessing to this world.

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I’m sorry, but that is pure B.S.!!!
The NFL doesn’t give a DAMN what Trump thinks.
They are just looking for someone to BLAME!
They are a bunch of spineless wimps.
“Hey! We are gonna do this, because this is what we WANT to do, then put the blame on the President so we look like we are blameless!”
They want the best of 2 worlds. Do what they want, then say “we HAD to do it ! Or big bad Trump would be MEAN to us!”
What a load of CRAP!!!!

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NFL has hated Trump going back to 1983.

This has to do with mass amounts of people turning away from the sport.

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Follow the Money...The NFL and their owners worship the Almighty Buck. Revenue is down so let's cover the cat crap in the Sandbox and try to get back on the Gravy Train.

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Where are the numbers that support this?

I haven't found anything that shows attendance dropped with mass amounts.

And this combines Home/Away so you can safely cut this in half.
[list]

2014 17,606,643

2015 17,509,479

2016 17,788,671

2017 17,253,425 [/list]

With the Raiders moving, and Chargers having a stadium with something like 26,000, it's not really a surprise to see those attendance numbers drop.

As for viewership, that's dropping all across the board with every sport, and the NFL is still dominating big a large margin.

Where are the numbers?

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I don't get what the big deal is. In any other job, you are not allowed to give your political views or "protest" on company time. So why should the NFL allow it? It would probably snow ball into more people finding "reasons" to protest.
If they want to do it on their OWN time, I'm fine with it. Allowing the players that don't want to stand to stay off the field until the anthem is over is compromise in my view.

Besides......where is the outrage about black people killing other black people, which literally happens every day all across the nation? Do black lives ONLY matter if a white cop is involved with the death?
And what I have seen in the vast majority of these instances, the black person that ends up killed by a cop almost always is because of some action by the guy that ends up dead. Fight the cops, or take them on a high speed chase and resist arrest, what do you THINK might end up happening? The cop fears for his life, is doing a thankless job, and he's supposed to wait for the punk to kill him before he reacts?
Just last week in Milwaukee, some punks were causing a disturbance at a mall. The mall people called the cops, and the kids scattered. The police caught one, the kid tried to fight the cop and the cop punched the kid in the face and took him down.
Then the kid's mom is ALL upset, and is trying to sue the cop.
Like it's the cop's fault that HER kid caused trouble and resisted being taken into custody.
This is the kind of "family" that will cause some kid to get killed in the future. Don't teach your kids to act like civilized beings. And then when they CAUSE trouble, blame everyone else but yourself for not teaching them respect for others and authority.
Just a load of crap. "My POOR baby! He got PUNCHED!" WHY???? BEACUSE HE ACTED LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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This comment was pretty damn funny! 😂

You're bitching about Trump being unfairly blamed, when Trump himself is taking a victory lap and taking all the credit/blame... so you're trying to defend Trump by saying this isn't his fault, while Trump is saying the complete opposite, that this was completely because of him.

Clearly you're saying Trump does NOT deserve any blame... But are you also saying, Trump does NOT deserve any credit for this change? Or are you trying to have it both ways, where Trump gets no blame but all the credit?

Trump and the NFL seem to agree, Trump deserves some credit/blame in this... I'll take them at their word since they're in agreement. But it's funny, how people are defending Trump from the "blame", when Trump is basically telling everyone he's at fault and deserves all the credit, which is him happily saying blame this one me.

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Sorry Beast, but you are wrong.
Trump can give his opinion to the NFL, or any other business, but unless it’s something against the law, he has NO power over them to change ANY of their rules.
He can try to take credit, or the NFL can try to blame him, but both are not true.
And if you read the last post I made, do you disagree with what I said?
What is this “protest” REALLY about? Black lives MATTER? Or ONLY black lives matter if a cop is involved?
It seems it’s “pick and choose” as far as that goes. Some “protest”, hey?

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