It's a fact: the ONLY thing the NFL will listen to is the bottom line.
After the Ray Rice debacle broke out, hundreds of women wore Ray Rice jerseys to the next game, Baltimore/Pittsburgh.
What kind of message did that send?
This weekend, the stadium seats will be jammed with tens of thousands of women across the country... women who, on one hand, would obviously condemn the actions of Ray Rice or Adrian Petersen... but then who, on the other, will do nothing that makes any difference.
Well, as it is, we weren't planning on going to any NFL games this year, so we did the next best thing: we signed up for DirecTv's "Sunday Ticket," a plan that allows us to watch any game being played, essentially.
Last year, it was $199... this year, it was $239. Over a 17 weeks season, not a bad deal all in all.
And then this Rice/Harder/Petersen thing happened, and the NFL looked like a bunch of democrats at a Klan convention.
Well, my wife put it best:
In the end, our gesture won't mean much. But if 100,000 people cancel their programming... and 500,000 women get rid of their tickets and refuse to go back... and then if 1,000,000 women protest outside these stadiums when these thugs play... then and only then will the NFL make any substantive differences in how they do business on this issue of abuse.
After the Ray Rice debacle broke out, hundreds of women wore Ray Rice jerseys to the next game, Baltimore/Pittsburgh.
What kind of message did that send?
This weekend, the stadium seats will be jammed with tens of thousands of women across the country... women who, on one hand, would obviously condemn the actions of Ray Rice or Adrian Petersen... but then who, on the other, will do nothing that makes any difference.
Well, as it is, we weren't planning on going to any NFL games this year, so we did the next best thing: we signed up for DirecTv's "Sunday Ticket," a plan that allows us to watch any game being played, essentially.
Last year, it was $199... this year, it was $239. Over a 17 weeks season, not a bad deal all in all.
And then this Rice/Harder/Petersen thing happened, and the NFL looked like a bunch of democrats at a Klan convention.
Well, my wife put it best:
I support this 1000%
In the end, our gesture won't mean much. But if 100,000 people cancel their programming... and 500,000 women get rid of their tickets and refuse to go back... and then if 1,000,000 women protest outside these stadiums when these thugs play... then and only then will the NFL make any substantive differences in how they do business on this issue of abuse.
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