Many of these football players would be down and out if not for their game. Most have phony degrees endowed upon them because the school needed their ball handling talents. Very few move on to become rocket scientists.

Loved that "we get what we allow" article.
Me dino wishes I studied acting to appear on the sliver screen.
That way, I could be an expert on anything I cared to comment on.

CircuitGuy, you said: I don't weigh the politics of the actors.

Well, I don't either, but that's because I for darn sure do not want to know what their politics are. Or, if like most actors they are (huge generalization here) liberal, they need to keep that to themselves during the time they are performing.

In the end, just like with the NFL, they need to shut up and do what they are paid to do, during the time they are paid to do it, and then raise all sort of hell when they are off the job, if that is what they choose. (That would be great because I would never know about it....which is why they don't do it that way.) As an aside: never ever again will I watch anything Meryl Streep is on, around or about.

Yes. Who cares what a trained actor says about climate change, GMOs, vaccines or anything in the realm of science. But oddly our species thinks that someone acclaimed in one area should be listened to in all areas.

When an actor or actress makes it big because they are big, bad ass, pretty or just cool, what gives them the right to tell me anything over and above the entertainment I am watching them for? All of these individuals were simply just regular folks before they became famous maybe working as a waitress in the local diner. Fame and fortune from the big screen or the sports arena does not give any of these people license to preach or endow any of them with a degree of intelligence for anything other than their particular field. A doctor might be a very intelligent person but he probably won't have any clue how to repair the transmission in his car. All of these people should just STFU and concentrate on their chosen profession while keeping their politics and religious beliefs under wraps. I don't care what they do or how they feel in their private lives but just do your job, what ever it is when you are being paid by your customers.

Yeah...it's a bastardization, a warping that occurs for political reasons. Some may say that it doesn't change the experience. But, for me it seems to.

I actually boycotted the NFL for a year when they rehired Michael Vick. You know what...I never went back to watching it as I did before that, anyway. I'll catch a couple games a year now and that's about it. Just can't relate anymore...

" Klingon's "based on Trump supporters"
I watched it, and I didn't see get that out of it at all. I think people make make that up from whole cloth to draw attention to the show, or maybe some writer was inspired by modern politics. I see not even the slightest hint of anything about President Trump in the show.

William - is your middle name "Tiberius"? =D

I think the players have done what they have and it is over.
Last night I noted on the news versus turning on the game for the same reasons that the players on both teams stood during the anthem and then the news stated the Denver team would also not take a knee.
The blow back from the fans has been heard loud and clear so their actions are now history.
Long live the fan base!

I gave up professional sports long before this--probably after the 9/11 Incident. Somehow those pointless games hardly seemed worthy. And now this...!

Reading that the new Trek had designed their Klingon's "based on Trump supporters" was the last straw for me and I decided not to bother watching the one broadcast episode.

I'm getting tired of shows trying to pound their liberal philosophy into the viewers with a sledge hammer.

Oddly, my 9-y/o is a huge football fan. He plays football really well. He got in some minor trouble in 1st grade for refusing to stand to Pledge because he thinks it should saying something like "aspiring to liberty and justice for all." He also says when someone brags about how good they are, they usually aren't. We let him handle it, resisting the urge to get involved. He finally agreed to stand silently. He's a little kid, but he has strong ideas. He's the most conservative rule-oriented in our household. He follows politics the same way he follows sports, calling electoral votes "points". He considers himself a Republican, an extreme minority in our area, and is a fan of Kasich.

I asked him if his opposition to the pledge was related to the football players. He said it's for similar reasons, but he was doing it long before the players' protest became an issue. He doesn't seem to care about their politics, just figures on points, yards, etc.

I'm sure he'll change his mind on all these things many, many times in his life, although he's been anti-pledge for over a year now. I keep my mouth shut and let him figure it out. It's one thing he can talk about that I understand. He knows so many teams' players, what year they won bowl games, and so on. We took him to the football museum in Ohio, and I fell asleep during the video. All I remember is a display of which computers were popular around the times of significant Superbowl games. I have been reading American Football for dummies.

It's too bad people get fired up about the politics. It seems so good to see the kids play and get exercise, teamwork, individual recognition for plays. I was never into sports at all, but now I appreciate it for the first time.

I don't get this stuff. I'm a nerd, so I don't follow football. But I try to imagine if it turned out some percentage of the cast of the Star Trek had some political belief I disagreed with, e.g. they thought it was wrong to protest the gov't or something like that. I would have no impact on my Star Trek watching. I don't weigh the politics of the actors. Even if they had a 30-second service message in costume where they said it's fundamentally wrong to protest the gov't, I wouldn't say "forget Star Trek, I'm going to find another show based on the actors' politics." Of course I really can't imagine this happening and then President Obama coming out and saying, "no, no, the right to protest is actually in the Constitution." Who cares. I want to argue with other nerds about exceptions to when they can beam through the shields. Isn't it the same for football?

Yes MSM is taking a knee everyday. I can't stand the network fools controlling the brain washed minions. The MSM is controlled by our savior agency theCIA , who's side are they on? The answer is obvious.

Nice to see others finally following albeit for a different reason. Started my strike in '91 when owners refused to use instant replay to review bad calls. That was it for me. They didn't care about fair play claiming it slowed the game. Right.
I watched a game and stopwatch timed the actual action. The 3 hour elapsed time (without any instant review) included 40 minutes of play. Haven't watched a game since.
(Note that I was a fan with mid-field season tickets for years.)
Bread and circuses.