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Why Is This NFL Player Standing For The Mexican National Anthem But Not America?

President Trump took to Twitter Monday morning to harshly condemn NFL player Marshawn Lynch after he stood for the Mexican national anthem, yet took a knee for the U.S. Star Spangled Banner during Sunday Night Football over the weekend. 

Lynch is a running back for the Oakland Raiders and was playing against the New England Patriots when he made the controversial move.

President Trump has regularly criticized individual NFL players for refusing to stand for the U.S. national anthem. He’s also gone after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who refuses to implement an enforced policy that requires players to stand. 

Since protests against the national anthem started last year, NFL ratings have plummeted with fans citing players’ refusal to stand for the American flag as the main reason they’re tuning out of games. The business cost to the NFL is enormous. 

As Roger Goodell, Jerry Jones, and the NFL engage in an ugly internal fight over the future leadership of the NFL, TV partners at CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC are staring at their own internal conflicts — namely a substantial decline in NFL ratings that is on pace to cost the four networks up to $500 million in lost revenue.

Already several hundred million in lost revenue has been booked in 2017 and it has the league’s top executives and television partners scrambling to figure out what went wrong. How did a league that was setting ratings records in 2015 suddenly see its audience fall by nearly 20% just two years later.

(First reported by the TownHall)  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/11/20/trump-why-is-this-nfl-players-standing-for-the-mexican-national-anthem-but-not-america-n2411865  (November 20, 2017)


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