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Originally Posted by finnbow

What puzzles me is why people like you choose to get upset over a guy silently taking a knee.

Originally Posted by MrPots

It's about whatever you want it to be about since you don't like it? You're not the one kneeling, so you DON'T get to decide what it's about.

For folks like Finn and Pots who still haven't figured out what this is really all about (and, because they can't figure it our, they resort to their usual rants), looks like the NFL owners are starting to see the light.

NFL Owners Reportedly Taking Serious Notice Of Falling TV Ratings

BOSTON (CBS) — For most of the 2016 season, the NFL largely blamed the U.S. presidential election for a decline in TV ratings. But with the league’s numbers down another 7.5 percent so far in 2017, amid a growing backlash to players’ national anthem protests, the owners are finally taking the ratings decline seriously.

Due to the ratings figures and the owners’ reaction to them, Breer deduced that recent comments made by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones – which threatened to punish players who do not stand during the national anthem – were actually meant to connect with disgruntled TV viewers, those who are deciding to tune out the NFL in response to players’ decisions to kneel or otherwise protest during the anthem.

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Twenty-five of 31 NFL teams (excluding the Chargers) are experiencing local declines in ratings, including an 8 percent drop for the Patriots, 7 percent for the Cowboys, and 6 percent for the Steelers.

The figures presented to the owners on Tuesday and Wednesday are one of the biggest signs yet that the NFL is losing viewers at a rate that goes beyond simple cord-cutting, or even a diminished on-field product. That owners chose to take serious notice of the ratings drop this week, during a meeting that was supposed to be about giving the players a chance to address social issues and their related protests, speaks volumes about how the ongoing controversy is affecting their viewership.

Now, those kind of numbers are significant. And if you think that the folk who - as Finn put it - are "people like me", you're fooling yourselves. You might want to rethink this.