2017 NFL Gameday Thread

[BNC]

Big Cat and PFT should leave Barstool and do what? Be censored to high hell by Disney's conglomerate? No thanks. This ESPN fiasco has only strengthened the Barstool brand. 
 
I don't have to, I lived through it. Schilling was fired for sharing a Facebook post that was in response of the NC bathroom laws, a political cartoon or a meme, if I remember correct. I did forget he was suspended once for a Tweet that compared radical Muslims to Nazis, but ESPN's problem wasn't the message but rather the content and timing of it.  There's nothing wrong with comparing state-controlled genocide but the time tweet about it isn't while covering the Little League World Series.
 
Anything else?

Big Cat and PFT should leave and do their own thing, Barstool is mostly trash outside of them. They would still be able to do their show on ESPN and their podcast the way they want. The association with the barstool brand is hurting them.
 
He was fired for repeat offenses, Jamele has one offense and has been punished comparably to Schilling, and your point is?

 

[A.E]

Big Cat and PFT should leave and do their own thing, Barstool is mostly trash outside of them. They would still be able to do their show on ESPN and their podcast the way they want. The association with the barstool brand is hurting them.
 
He was fired for repeat offenses, Jamele has one offense and has been punished comparably to Schilling, and your point is?

Barstool has a large audience. While I would agree much of their content is frat boy trash, it's merely an opinion. They're good at entertaining the 17-34 demographic, which is something ESPN has lost by the thousands. And if anything, the Barstool brand is keeping PFT and Big Cat from being the headliners. Portnoy won't headline anyone else but himself and that's a problem.
 
Jamele also has more than one offense dude. She wasn't suspended for calling the POTUS a racist, she was suspended after strike 2, the Twitter rant about Jerry Jones. Either way, we can probably agree the politics needs to stay out of the sports talk. It's long gotten to be too much.

 

[BNC]

Barstool has a large audience. While I would agree much of their content is frat boy trash, it's merely an opinion. They're good at entertaining the 17-34 demographic, which is something ESPN has lost by the thousands. And if anything, the Barstool brand is keeping PFT and Big Cat from being the headliners. Portnoy won't headline anyone else but himself and that's a problem.
 
Jamele also has more than one offense dude. She wasn't suspended for calling the POTUS a racist, she was suspended after strike 2, the Twitter rant about Jerry Jones. Either way, we can probably agree the politics needs to stay out of the sports talk. It's long gotten to be too much.

That's my point. It's also no something ESPN can, or should, associate with.
 
She's been suspended once. Also this is her personal twitter page not on an ESPN platform.
 
And no I don't think sports talk should deviate from politics because the two subjects have been so intertwined throughout history and will continue to be

 

[BrewCrewFan]

That's my point. It's also no something ESPN can, or should, associate with.
 
She's been suspended once. Also this is her personal twitter page not on an ESPN platform.
 
And no I don't think sports talk should deviate from politics because the two subjects have been so intertwined throughout history and will continue to be

And Curt Schilling posted from his personal twitter account and got suspended

 

[BrewCrewFan]

Actually Schilling was fired for an meme that he shared on his personal social media page

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/sports/baseball/curt-schilling-is-fired-by-espn.html

Im sure you dont feel ESPN is doing anything wrong because it aligns with your political views

 

[BNC]

And Curt Schilling posted from his personal twitter account and got suspended

Jamele didn't get suspended?
 
Anyone else surprised it took him this long to get here?

 

[BNC]

Actually Schilling was fired for an meme that he shared on his personal social media page

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/sports/baseball/curt-schilling-is-fired-by-espn.html

Im sure you dont feel ESPN is doing anything wrong because it aligns with your political views

And I'm sure you haven't followed any of what I've said, or understand the concept of "repeated offenses" which is odd because it's mentioned in the very article you decided to post here

 

[BrewCrewFan]

And I'm sure you haven't followed any of what I've said, or understand the concept of "repeated offenses" which is odd because it's mentioned in the very article you decided to post here

Again that was Schillings 2nd offense and this is Hills 2nd offense as well. Both should be gone

 

[Steez]

Thursday against the Jets just might be the biggest Bills game in my time as a fan. I've never seen 6-2.

 

[BNC]

Again that was Schillings 2nd offense and this is Hills 2nd offense as well. Both should be gone

http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-jemele-hill-curt-schilling-perceived-liberal-bias-2017-9
 
Read that, or don't, I don't care,  but it explains why you're wrong here

 

[BrewCrewFan]

http://www.businessinsider.com/espn-jemele-hill-curt-schilling-perceived-liberal-bias-2017-9
 
Read that, or don't, I don't care,  but it explains why you're wrong here

That was her first offense

Here was her 2nd

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/sports/football/jemele-hill-suspended-espn.amp.html

Again ESPN are hypocrites

 

[BNC]

That was her first offense

Here was her 2nd

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/sports/football/jemele-hill-suspended-espn.amp.html

Again ESPN are hypocrites

And Curt had more than two, so no

 

[A.E]

And Curt had more than two, so no

 
You have to limit this to what was said via social media, because that's really what the issue is. Curt's political commentary on political radio shows isn't something he was warned by ESPN not to do. I would argue ESPN was still telling it's on air talent to "stick to sports" back then, but something has certainly changed. ESPN flames so far left now it's unbearable. You simply cannot defend them.
 
When they're pulling Robert Lee from a broadcast because his name may be taken offense to, it proves ESPN is no longer in touch with their viewers and snowflake AF.
 
And you're wrong BNC, politics and sports don't have to cross paths. When Kaepernick is too lazy to get his ass off the bench one pre-game and then decides to save face and make it out to be a protest, that's sports looking for the political avenue. When Jamele Hill can't keep her fat mouth shut about any old white man with money on Twitter, that's sports looking for the political avenue. 
 
It's not healthy for the ESPN's of the world to stick with the political commentary, especially when it's extreme left. The proof is in the ratings and profit, both of which or steadily declining. 

 

[BNC]

And you're wrong BNC, politics and sports don't have to cross paths. When Kaepernick is too lazy to get his ass off the bench one pre-game and then decides to save face and make it out to be a protest, that's sports looking for the political avenue. 

Holy shit, you can not possibly believe that, can you?
 
also let’s see I got Miracle on Ice, Jackie Robinson, Tommie Smith and John Carlos in ‘68, Ali dodging the draft, the United States boycotting the 1980 olympics, Hitler promoting Aryan supremacy in ‘36, the Soviet Boycott in 1984 oh and the whole playing of the national anthem before every single sporting event. 
 
Like I said, Sports and politics have always been intertwined, don’t be naive 

 

[Pugz]

bnc are you the bleacher creature

 

[A.E]

Holy shit, you can not possibly believe that, can you?
 
also let’s see I got Miracle on Ice, Jackie Robinson, Tommie Smith and John Carlos in ‘68, Ali dodging the draft, the United States boycotting the 1980 olympics, Hitler promoting Aryan supremacy in ‘36, the Soviet Boycott in 1984 oh and the whole playing of the national anthem before every single sporting event. 
 
Like I said, Sports and politics have always been intertwined, don’t be naive 

I'd dead serious. Kaepernick never uttered a word or made any indication he was disgruntled with anything to do with race, police, or the social climate of the US. He just didn't get off the bench one day and it quickly turned into kneeling as a show of...? I'm not really sure what he was protesting, actually. Facts don't support the country, in large part, has an issue with police brutality. Regardless, Obama and Lynch were already investigating all the unarmed shootings we saw heavily advertised by the MSM.
 
Part 2 of your response is confusing what is going on in the world with athletes making misguided political statements while wearing a uniform. Miracle on Ice was David beating Goliath and Jackie Robinson just wanted to play baseball. You think Jackie put up with it to make a political statement? Don't confuse Jackie Robinson's trying to make a living in the game of baseball with Lebron's, "I don't think that, um, people was educated enough," dumb shit rant about the last election.
 
Other than some random, late-September call up, MLB has done a fine job keeping politics away from the field. Not sure why its so hard for the NFL.

 

[BNC]

I'd dead serious. Kaepernick never uttered a word or made any indication he was disgruntled with anything to do with race, police, or the social climate of the US. He just didn't get off the bench one day and it quickly turned into kneeling as a show of...? I'm not really sure what he was protesting, actually. Facts don't support the country, in large part, has an issue with police brutality. Regardless, Obama and Lynch were already investigating all the unarmed shootings we saw heavily advertised by the MSM.
 
Part 2 of your response is confusing what is going on in the world with athletes making misguided political statements while wearing a uniform. Miracle on Ice was David beating Goliath and Jackie Robinson just wanted to play baseball. You think Jackie put up with it to make a political statement? Don't confuse Jackie Robinson's trying to make a living in the game of baseball with Lebron's, "I don't think that, um, people was educated enough," dumb shit rant about the last election.
 
Other than some random, late-September call up, MLB has done a fine job keeping politics away from the field. Not sure why its so hard for the NFL.

He was kneeling for like 3 games before he was noticed, it’s not cause he was lazy. Don’t be a moron. 
 
Miracle on ice was about American capitalism trumping Soviet commmunism. If you don’t think race/politics have always been linked you’re either naive or extremely dense

 

[BNC]

bnc are you the bleacher creature

And what about what I said was a lie?

 

[jonathanlambert33]

He's so Bleacher Creature lol

 

[bosoxlover12]

hes not even banned idk why he doesnt use his regular username