And just like that, 63 million Americans said ‘Screw the NFL’.

It’s time for the NFL to clean up their act.

The FIRST step is to get the hell out of the political arena and stay out of the political arena. Fans watch games to get away from things like politics. Avoid taking sides on political issues.

Next fire any players that don’t pay the flag the proper respect. This is an American sport and the players should at least pay lip service to the flag. You’re not taking sides by doing this, you’re simply acting like civilized Americans. It is in your own set of rules and regulations. Make the players obey the rules that have been in place for decades.

The next step is to remember that you people are strictly in the ENTERTAINMENT business and remember that football is nothing more or less than entertainment. Like it or not, you are little more than trained monkeys that are selling yourselves as nothing more or less than entertainers. Get over it and dance for us, Monkeys!

While you are at it, the sport has a responsibility to the public to try and set an example of clean behavior. Make it clear to every single one of the players that a part of his job is to make damned good and well that they know that illegal behavior will not be tolerated.

If you get busted downtown drunk driving then you just blew your career. Same thing happens if you go home and beat your wife or start a fight in a bar. You’re out. It doesn’t matter how good you are, how far you can throw or catch the ball or how many TDs you score. Get busted and you simply don’t play anymore. Adios. Gone. Sayonara. Put an egg in your shoe and beat it. People look up to athletes and it’s your duty to give them something to look up to.

A lot of NFL players might stop and think a moment or two and look at their options. While some of them have useful educations, a lot of them don’t. They managed to get them to stay eligible and keep their sports scholarship by shuffling them through basket weaving or whatever it took to keep them eligible. This football business is their one and only shot to have a decent. Blow this and it’s back on the block.

You might want to realize that you are playing a kid’s game. The game you play for millions of dollars is being played by kids for free. It’s played in one form or another in schoolyards by kids grades 1-12 and in colleges all over the country. College players MIGHT get a scholarship of some sort for playing. The kids in grades 1-12 play because they like the game.

It’s time for the NFL to shape up or fold up and truthfully I do not care which. If you decide to clean up you can start by making a few apologies. Start with one to President Trump. You can apologize for getting frumpy to him when he said that you should have fired those that took a knee. Truth is he was right.

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The best idea on how the NFL can handle this national anthem business just came to me through and old shipmate.

He says any player that takes a knee gets suspended for four games and the money goes to the re-elect Donald Trump for president fund.

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