Kneel Young ...

[OldJourno]

... and your next NFL contract won't be as big.

Reports are that NFL revenues are down $200 million so far this year. A continuation of the trend will without doubt impact every team's salary cap.
For those who don't know, the NFL sets a salary cap of how much teams can spend annually on players. The current cap is $167 million. It seems like only yesterday the figure was half that but that just shows how wildly popular the NFL had been.
Older NFL players who take a knee during the anthem aren't hurting themselves. In this league, I'd say 28 or 29 qualifies as old, since most NFL careers end well before that.
So a slightly above average 25-year-old who takes a knee could also be taking a knee to the nuts when his new contract comes up. If the salary cap slips to $150 million per year (instead of rising to $180), and the QB is already guaranteed $20 million a year and a half-dozen other players are already making half that, the slice of the pie for the 25-year-old is suddenly a few million short of what he had in mind.
Unless he gets cut.
Is taking a knee worth that?

 

[MGurkus]

You're an idiot.

 

[phrodeau]

https://sonicdiet.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/kneel2neil.jpg?w=590
http://quietus_production.s3.amazonaws.com/images/articles/10438/Neil_w_dog-1498-17A_1350891442_crop_550x371.jpg

 

[about_average]

Is taking a knee worth that?

To some people, principle is more important than money. To others it depends on the amount of money. To others, like our president, principle is never more important than any money.

 

[butters]

To some people, principle is more important than money. To others it depends on the amount of money. To others, like our president, principle is never more important than any money.

indeed

 

[OldJourno]

You're an idiot.

I can tell that you put a lot of thought into that comment and really stretched the boundaries of your vocabulary.
In short, I'm flattered that someone of your towering intellect opened my thread and offered the profound insights for which you are so well known. I'm practically walking on air.

 

[Hypoxia]

Good thing this disrespectful millionaire knee-taker didn't play NFL foosball:

https://68.media.tumblr.com/d9e48b18d5663f6acf5d4d0d4356e399/tumblr_nrlne33QPY1uagw40o1_1280.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

To some people, principle is more important than money. To others it depends on the amount of money. To others, like our president, principle is never more important than any money.

The point he made is that they are hurting the up-and-coming players.


Is it okay to take money out of someone else's pocket?





Maybe I'm asking the wrong person...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Do you not understand the history of George Washington?


Jesus fuck, talk about clueless...